1072 results about "Locator Parameter" patented technology

The present invention provides a system that creates virtual events within a virtual world. A virtual event may be akin to a real event, but is completely computer generated within a computer-generated world and is based on statistical measures, either real world or created. Numerous characteristics about the competitors and the competition location parameters are available before a competition event. Based on the known parameters about the location of an event and the characteristics of the participants and their historical past performances in similar events enable bettors to make informed wagers on an event that greatly enhances the satisfaction and involvement in a competition event. As such, Histories of virtual events are maintained on actual virtual performance data of competitors in the virtual world. The histories can include all relevant virtual data about a competitor and the past events the competitor competed.

The virtual event may be created by an event engine, scheduled, and broadcast or simulcast in real-time through-out the real-world using existing and conventional video transport media, such as web, TV, satellite, telephone network, and cable. A video delivery system is used that will allow high quality high definition video to be broadcast worldwide with very low bandwidth requirements (<20 kb/s).

Individuals throughout the real-world may place wagers (e.g., bets) on the outcome of either a pari-mutuel event or a fixed odds event, utilizing either pari-mutuel, exchange wagering or fixed odds wagering systems. The virtual event may be any type of sport, or skill based game that is usually between competitors.

A system for virtually planning a size and position of a prosthetic implant for a bone on a patient includes a database containing pre-defined form factor information for a plurality of different implants and a circuit for obtaining surface shape information of the bone. The system further includes a circuit for defining baseline location parameters for an implant location in relation to a virtual representation of the bone based on the surface shape information and a circuit for assessing a fit calculation of each implant in relation to the virtual representation of the bone based on the form factor in formation and a plurality of fit factors at each of a plurality of incremental positions in relation to the bone. Still further, the system includes a circuit for selecting a best fit implant size and position from all of the fit calculations.

Embodiments of the invention enable users with communication devices to access affiliate profiles and perform matches on profiles aggregated from multiple independent computer systems regardless of communications device type or operating system and regardless of affiliate match server computer type, operating system or language. Affiliate profiles may comprise user profiles, advertisement profiles or coupon profiles. In addition, embodiments of the invention allow users to broadcast their location with their permission and join groups based on location parameters and connect to or dial other users by alias without knowledge of a machine address or phone number. Embodiments of the invention utilize information from each user in the form of a profile containing metadata. Examples of the type of metadata that comprises a profile include various categories of information describing a user, group, advertisement or coupon. In addition, the profile may comprise the user's groups and the user's preferences including filters for calculating matches with other user, group, advertisement and coupon profiles. Profiles are typically stored on a community engine server, but may also reside in distributed components configured to interface with the community engine server. A user profile may comprise a flag and other fields for example that signify that a user is interested in receiving advertisements for cars and for the type of car that the user is interested in. When a car dealership accepts delivery of a particular model that the user is interested in, the community engine server finds that affiliate profiles comprising aggregated car dealership advertisements include the same car type that the user is interested in and forward the matching advertisement profile to the user. The user may be paid for the advertisement in cash or coupons for accepting the advertisement. A user profile may also comprise a coupon flag and for example when a store that is an affiliate member provides coupon profiles to the community server engine a user may obtain desired coupons that match the user's profile settings if the user's profile is set to accept coupons. A user may match advertisements and coupons based on a location parameter and may transfer or trade advertisements and coupons with other users. The communication device may be capable of displaying a bar code in it's graphical interface while at a store so as to eliminate the need to physically present coupons.

An uplink power control method and apparatus of a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, by the terminal, a location parameter corresponding to at least one antenna selected among a plurality of antennas distributed in a service area of a base station, each of the plurality of antennas being connected to the base station; and calculating uplink power based on the location parameter.

A method, system and computer program product for providing location-specific content to a personal computing device (PCD) connected to a distributed server network (such as the Internet) without requiring an access control gateway to provide such content. Location-specific (and user-specific) content/services are provided by a client-server architecture utilizing a location database and a location look-up utility of a location identifier and content retrieval (LICR) server. Specifically, a utility executing on the PCD provides PCD location parameters to the LICR server, which is equipped with a location look up engine/functionality and a location content retrieval engine/functionality (both within a LICR utility) that responds by providing location-specific and user-specific content to the PCD.

The invention relates to a navigation system receiver comprising at least two antennas, one of which is a "reference" antenna. A multiplexer multiplexes the signals from the antennas, and a first processor situated downstream from the multiplexer delivers at least one navigation parameter on the basis of the signals from the multiplexer. The receiver includes a second processor having an input receiving in continuous manner signals from the reference antenna to deliver at least one reference signal representative of a position parameter of the reference antenna. Processor means process the signals from the multiplexer while taking account of at least one said reference signal.

In a wireless communication network, base station antenna positions and time offsets are stored in a base station almanac data base along with other information used for obtaining the most reliable mobile station position fixes under a variety of conditions. The system uses the position fixes of mobile stations and terrestrial ranging information to determine base station antenna positions and base station timing offsets. The base station antenna positions are determined during normal mobile station position determinations, in order to maintain and improve the antenna location data, and to correct for change or relocation of the base station antennas. It is possible to recover quickly from a loss of cell sector identity during relocation of a base station antenna, and to ensure accuracy of mobile station position determination based on ranging from the base stations, and rapid acquisition of position data from mobile stations having global satellite receivers.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of performing a simulation of a medical procedure. A physical model of an anatomical structure and of a medical tool may be provided. 3D digital models of the anatomical structure and medical tool may be provided. A location parameter related to a location of the physical medical tool with respect to the physical model of the anatomical structure may be received. The 3D models of the anatomical structure and medical tool may be manipulated according to the location parameter.

Mobile device (3) and method for receiving and processing program-accompanying digital data, which are transmitted by a radio transmitter (1), for example a DAB transmitter, and of which at least certain comprise location parameters. The mobile device (3) includes a radio receiver (38), which can receive radio programs with program-accompanying digital data, and a position locating module (39) for establishing the current position, for example a GPS receiver. The mobile device (3) further comprises a filter module (37), by means of which, on the basis of the current position, determined by the said position locating module (39), location-specific information can be filtered from the received program-accompanying data, which contain, for example, order numbers, URL addresses or executable program data files. The received program-accompanying data can be filtered moreover by the said filter module (37) on the basis of a user profile (35) stored in the mobile device (3). Location-specific data can be shown on a display (31) of the mobile device (3), can be selected by the user by means of operating elements (32) of the mobile device (3), can be edited and can be further processed through the mobile device (3).

Apparatus performs a method that includes the steps of: receiving (210) a location parameter request for a mobile entity; determining (220) a set of location parameters corresponding to the mobile entity, the set of location parameters comprising at least an identification of a current point of attachment of the mobile entity; and communicating (230) a response comprising at least a portion of the determined set of location parameters. Another method includes the steps of: receiving (310) a message comprising a set of location parameters corresponding to the mobile entity, wherein the set of location parameters is based on an identification of a current point of attachment of the mobile entity; and setting (320) a network access configuration for the mobile entity based on the set of location parameters.

Embodiments are provided for tracking physical transfers of tokenized physical assets. A transferor request to transfer a digital token from a first address associated with the first computing device to a second address associated with a second computing device may be received by a first computing device, where the digital token corresponds to a unique identifier associated with a physical asset. The first computing device communicates the received transferor request including at least a first location parameter, determined by the first computing device based on signals received at a physical location thereof, to at least one node of a distributed ledger network. The first computing device receives a confirmation that the transfer of the digital token is approved based on a determination that a transferee request from the second computing device includes at least a second location parameter corresponding to the physical location of the first computing device.

A mobile deposit application including a remotely accessible bank administrative interface module for setting a plurality of geographic-based security rules, a rules module communicative coupled to the bank administrative interface module, the rules module comprising bank-definable location parameters for enabling mobile deposit based on the geographic location of a mobile device, a geolocation module communicatively coupled to the rules module, the geolocation module receives coordinates of the mobile device and applies said coordinates to the rules module to determine if mobile deposit features are enabled or disabled and an exception presentation module communicatively coupled to the rules module, the exception presentation module displaying notifications to the mobile device responsive to a disabling of the mobile deposit features responsive to the geolocation module reporting the mobile device falls outside the bank-definable location parameters.

A method of encoding a multi-channel 3-dimensional (3D) audio signal mixed with a multi-channel 3D object signal is provided. The method includes: obtaining a location parameter indicating a virtual location of the multi-channel 3D object signal on a multi-channel speaker layout based on a gain value of the multi-channel 3D object signal for each channel; and encoding the multi-channel 3D audio signal and the location parameter.

This invention discloses an infrared touching screen and the multi-spot touching localization method, in an examination direction, the ray of light send out by the infrared emission part on the infrared emission sweep circuit not only can be received at least by one infrared sweep circuit's infrared receive part which is vertical to the part's position, but may also be received by another inclined relative infrared receive sweep circuit's infrared receive part at least which is deviated vertical to the part's position. Thus, in a scanning period, the ray of light send out by an infrared emission part may be received by two different position infrared receive parts in the different time, through a checking calculation between touching possible coordinate figure and location parameter, then may determine each touching position data, this invention realizes the multi-spot localization scanning examination method to be simple, the touching position data computation convenient, accurate, reliable, the circuit wafer type is few, the shape is rule, easy to realize the large scale production, does not have the complex succession corresponding relationships, easy to realize.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a detection method and device for objects in images. The detection method and device are used for improving real timeliness of object detection. The method comprises the steps of inputting an image to be detected into a convolutional neural network which is previously trained, wherein the convolutional neural network is used for determining feature vectors corresponding to all candidate areas in the image; for the feature vectors corresponding to all the candidate areas, determining types of the objects contained in the candidate areas when the maximum values of type parameters in the feature vectors are larger than a set threshold value; determining position information of the objects contained in the candidate areas according to position parameters in the feature vectors. According to the detection method disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the convolutional neutral network is utilized to determine the candidate areas in detection and calculate the feature vectors corresponding to all the candidate areas; thus, the type and the position of each object can be recognized, repeated operation is avoided, and real timeliness of detection is improved.

A system for safe disablement of a mobile piece of equipment (MPE) in which an onboard processor (CPU) includes a component control unit (CCU) coupled to a critical operational component of the MPE. The CCU is operable to effect immobilization of the MPE in a first mode of operation and to enable the critical operational component in second more of operation. Using an integral communications interface, the CPU can be accessed by a cellular telephone network, pager signal, RF transmission, or via a satellite network. A software algorithm initiates a Disable Procedure which continuously queries the binary status of the key power circuit at preset intervals to determine if it is on or off. If the status of the key power circuit remains off for a predetermined interval, the critical component is then disabled by actuating the CCU. A disable command can originate remotely using wireless transmission means. The disablement can also be automatic based on calendar and geographic location parameters. Disablement is also effected when system tampering is detected.

The invention discloses a fault positioning method for a power distribution network by combining simulation calculation and real-time monitoring, and belongs to the technical field of fault detection of the power distribution network. The method comprises the following steps of: extracting information of a target power distribution network from the conventional power distribution network geographic information system and a power distribution network energy management system through an organizational data analysis interface to automatically generate a real-time simulation calculation model of the target network; putting forward a virtual node-based fault positioning algorithm according to the simulation calculation model so as to solve functional relation between voltage amplitude of any node and a fault position parameter when a symmetric and asymmetric fault occurs at any point in the target network; and finally calculating an accurate position of the actual fault of the power distribution network by using a small amount of real-time data of voltage drop amplitude in a fault process. By using the fault positioning method for the power distribution network by combining the simulation calculation and the real-time monitoring, the state and the parameter of the network are accurately and effectively reflected when the fault occurs, the accuracy of the fault positioning is improved, and the method is suitable for various network structures and fault types.

The present invention provides a method of allocating a frequency parameter for random access preamble transmission. The method includes determining a fixed location, in an operating bandwidth, of a frequency region for random access transmission wherein a relative location parameter defines the fixed location of the frequency region according to a bandwidth parameter, the relative location parameter being common to a plurality of cells. The present invention further provides a method of allocating a frequency parameter for random access transmission. The method comprises allocating a fixed location, in an operating bandwidth, of a frequency region for random access transmission, wherein the fixed location is configurable per cell.

The embodiment of the invention provides a safe region recognition method and device, and a user terminal. The method includes the steps of firstly, obtaining first position parameter information of the user terminal, and setting the safe region threshold value condition of the user terminal according to the first position parameter information; secondly, obtaining second position parameter information of the user terminal, and when the second position parameter information of the user terminal meets the safe region threshold value condition, determining that the user terminal is located in a safe region, wherein the first position parameter information and the second position parameter information respectively include at least one of position coordinate information, access base station information, access wireless hot point information, Bluetooth beacon information and RFID information of the user terminal. According to the safe region recognition method and device, and the user terminal, the safe region can be set for the user terminal, and the user terminal can rapidly and conveniently execute mobile application services in the safe region.

The invention adopts the between-class square error and the gray scale information to realize the rapid positioning of the inside and outside boundaries of the iris. Firstly, the interested pupil region is extracted through blocking; the between-class square error is adopted to obtain the pupil binary threshold for the extracted pupil region; then the inside boundary of the iris is positioned accurately through the searching of the boundary points and the curve fitting; the interested region of the iris outside boundary is extracted according to the prior knowledge and the pupil position parameter; the selected region is processed with median filtering and first-order gradient conversion; the iris outside boundary is determined through the local gradient integration method; finally, the iris outside boundary parameter is determined through the circle fitting. The method avoids the image binary from depending on the histogram; the image positioning time is greatly improved because only the interested region is processed; the whole image is not processed; the experiment indicates that the robustness and the positioning efficiency of the algorithm can satisfy the real-time processing requirement of the image.

The invention provides an initial alignment method of two positions of a strapdown inertial navigation system of an optical fiber gyro which is based on filtering and comprises the following steps: initial position parameters of a carrier is determined by external equipment; data output by the optical fiber gyro and a quartz accelerometer is collected; the collected data of the optical fiber gyro and the quartz accelerometer is processed; a course angle K1 of the carrier, optical fiber gyro drift Xix1 in the east direction on the b system of a carrier coordinate system, and optical fiber gyro drift Xiy1 in the north direction on the carrier coordinate system are estimated; the carrier is rotated from a first position to a second position around an azimuth axis; a course angle K2 of the carrier, optical fiber gyro drift Xiy1 in the east direction on the b system of the carrier coordinate system, and optical fiber gyro drift Xiy2 in the north direction on the carrier coordinate system are estimated; gyro drift Xix and Xiy of the optical fiber gyro on the carrier coordinate system are computed; successive starting error of the gyro is calibrated; a platform alignment falloff angle is estimated. The initial alignment method of two positions of the strapdown inertial navigation system of the optical fiber gyro can overcome the influence of the equivalent gyro drift in a geographical coordinate system on the estimation precision of the azimuth alignment falloff angle and improve the alignment precision.

A cache memory controller in a computer system, such as a multicore processing system, provides compression for writes to memory, such as an off-chip memory, and decompression after reads from memory. Application accelerator processors in the system generate application data and requests to read/write the data from/to memory. The cache memory controller uses information relating location parameters of buffers allocated for application data and sets parameters to configure compression and decompression operations. The cache memory controller monitors memory addresses specified in read requests and write requests from/to the first memory. The requested memory address is compared to the location parameters for the allocated buffers to select the set of parameters for the particular application data. Compression or decompression is applied to the application data in accordance with the selected set of parameters. The data size of the data transferred to/from memory is reduced.

The invention relates to a document automatic access device and a control method, which belong to the technical field of automation. The device comprises a support frame, a control panel, a bottom board, a document holder, a guide rail, a driving belt A, a document box, an x-axis movable mechanism, a y-axis movable mechanism and a z-axis movable mechanism. The control method of the device comprises the following steps: (1) determining an initialization parameter; (2) determining whether to debug or run according to a parameter of the position at which the document is; (3) if running, determining picking and placing; (4) if debugging, performing X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis inching movements of a mechanical arm respectively; (5) determining the moving mode of the document holder; and (6) returning the mechanical arm to an original point. The device and the method have the advantages that the document intelligent intensive access can be achieved through a document storage intensive mechanism, an access mechanical arm and an automatic control system, more storages and error-free high-efficiency access of documents are not needed to be set according to categories, and the technique can be widely applied in similar industries, supermarkets and other public places.