940 results about "Micro computer" patented technology

A system and device for and a method of programming and controlling light fixtures is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention includes a stationary controller unit that is electrically coupled to the light fixtures. The stationary controller unit is configured to be remotely programmed with a portable commissioning device to automatically control the lights fixtures. The stationary controller unit and the portable commissioning device include light sensors, micro-computers and transceivers for measuring light levels, running programs, storing data and transmitting data between the stationary controller unit and the portable commissioning device. In operation, target light levels selected with the portable commissioning device and the controller unit is remotely programmed to automatically maintain the target level.

The Field Programmable Instrument Controller (FPIC) is a stand-alone low to high performance, clocked or unclocked multi-processor that operates as a microcontroller with versatile interface and operating options. The FPIC can also be used as a concurrent processor for a microcontroller or other processor. A tightly coupled Multiple Chip Module design incorporates non-volatile memories, a large field programmable gate array (FPGA), field programmable high precision analog to digital converters, field programmable digital to analog signal generators, and multiple ports of external mass data storage and control processors. The FPIC has an inherently open architecture with in-situ reprogrammability and state preservation capability for discontinuous operations. It is designed to operate in multiple roles, including but not limited to, a high speed parallel digital signal processing; co-processor for precision control feedback during analog or hybrid computing; high speed monitoring for condition based maintenance; and distributed real time process control. The FPIC is characterized by low power with small size and weight.

Disclosed are a moving distance sensing apparatus for a robot cleaner and a method therefor capable of determining a precise moving distance with respect to the robot cleaner by setting a long distance sensor and a short distance sensor having respectively different sensing method from each other on the same sensing line in the robot cleaner to sense the long distance and the short distance for the same direction, and then by determining coherency to each moving distance on the basis of information provided by the two different sensors, the moving distance sensing apparatus comprising: a long distance sensor for sensing a moving distance with respect to a long distance; a short distance sensor mounted on the same sensing line in one-to-one correspondence with the long distance sensor, for sensing a moving distance with respect to a short distance; and a micro computer for determining a moving distance error on the basis of moving distance information with respect to the same direction provided by the long distance sensor and the short distance sensor.

An apparatus for adjusting a brightness balance of a stereoscopic camera includes a gain control amplifier and a micro-computer. The gain control amplifier adjusts a brightness balance of a pair of images outputted from the stereoscopic camera by gain. The micro-computer calculates a first evaluation value representing a magnitude of an entire brightness of a first evaluation window established in a reference image outputted from the gain control amplifier and calculates a second evaluation value representing a magnitude of an entire brightness of a second evaluation window established in a comparison image outputted from an adjusting device, and established in an area having a brightness correlation with the first evaluation window. Also, the micro-computer corrects a gain so as to reduce the difference between the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value.

The invention relates to a multifunctional home service robot. The multifunctional home service robot is characterized by comprising an intelligent control system, a mechanical structure and a remote control terminal, wherein the intelligent control system is installed on the mechanical structure, the remote control terminal can regulate and control the intelligent control system, and thus the mechanical structure is driven to execute corresponding commands. The multifunctional home service robot can carry out voice-image feedback and limb feedback according to human voice commands and meanwhile has the functions of dust removing, disinfecting, organic-matter decomposing, gas detecting, air purifying, self-navigation traveling, self-action charging and the like. All-dimensional camera shooting and projection entertainment can be controlled through an intelligent microcomputer. The multifunctional home service robot can be used for information storage and voice, text and image intelligent interaction. The multifunctional home service robot also has the functions of indoor security inspection under remote control, emergency alarming and the like.

An apparatus and a method for aligning a vertical shaft or multiple axially coupled vertical shafts in a hydroelectric turbine generator or a similar vertical-shaft system, and for providing precise plumb inclination alignment of a vertical rotating shaft. Precision inclinometers attached to the vertical shaft measure plumb inclination. Proximity probe displacement devices mounted externally of the vertical shaft measure radial movement, throw, or run out at various shaft elevations as the shaft is rotated relative to a fixed point. Data acquisition devices and communication devices accumulate and transmit alignment data to a micro-computer which receives and processes such data. Methods of defining shaft plumb inclination in a static single rotational position and defining plumb inclination of the virtual centerline of a shaft's rotational throw position. A method of swinging, tilting, or adjusting a vertical shaft to a corrected or different plumb position relative to the earth's gravity.

The invention discloses a recognition system for multi-point touch and gesture movement capturing in three-dimensional space, and belongs to the technical field of intelligent recognition. The recognition system for multi-point touch and gesture movement capturing in the three-dimensional space comprises a miniature computer host, a laser projector, a first infrared camera, a second infrared camera, an LED (light emitting diode) lamp, a linear laser transmitter and a projection plane, wherein the laser projector projects contents processed by the miniature computer host, so that the projection plane is generated; the illumination plane of the linear laser transmitter is parallel to the projection plane; and the view field of the first infrared camera and the view field of the second infrared camera cover the projection plane and an aerial gesture recognition area. By using the recognition system for multi-point touch and gesture movement capturing in the three-dimensional space, the shortcoming that the present gesture recognition is based on a computer display is overcome. The recognition system for aerial gestures can be conveniently applied to the fields such as speech presentation by projectors, and is high in recognition precision.

Said hand-held thermal mug has an inlet on said top, above which there is a rotating cover, in which there is an outlet and a rotating opening. Said opening can seal said outlet of said rotating cover when it is rotated. After filling said hand-held thermal mug with water, said consumer can cover up said mug using said rotating cover to seal and prevent water in said mug from spilling out, or turn rotating cover till said outlet and said inlet coincide. Said thermal mug has an external low-voltage electric socket, which can be connected to automotive power. Said power supplies to said temperature control device in said front of said hand-held thermal mug. Said device consists of an automatic thermometer that indicates said temperature inside said container, a switch and four temperature indicating lights. Said consumer can freely adjust said temperature of said water inside said mug to preferred level. Said mug can also maintain said temperature of said water inside, and provide proper water temperature for said consumer. Said thermal mug is designed to fit mug trays in automobiles and vessels for said convenience of said driver. Said consumer can put any preferred beverages into said hand-held shatterproof thermal mug, and drink at set temperature at any time. This invention best serves said needs of drivers while driving, and also meets needs of daily life and office usages.

For detecting commutation timing of an inverter when operating a DC brushless motor under a starting thereof or a light load condition, with certainty, a micro-computer generates driving signals so as to drive switching elements of the inverter by PWM signals of those driving signals, in a predetermined order by every turn-on interval, thereby supplying driving current to the DC brushless motor, wherein a timing for exchange between the turn-on intervals (i.e., the commutation timing) is detected by detection of level of magnetic pole position detecting signals upon a basis of the PWM signals. Here, the minimum ON time of the PWM signals is set at a time being detectable in the level of the magnetic pole position detecting signals, however the frequency of the PWM signals is lowered when the DC brushless motor is operated in starting or under a light load condition, so as to make duty ratio of the PWM signals fit to the operation in the starting or under the light load condition, thereby enabling to ensure the minimum ON time of the PWM signals.

The invention discloses a fire scene multi-parameter laser wavelength modulation spectrum detection method and a device thereof, wherein, fire smoke products are treated through a smoke pre-treatment device and then pumped into a white cell through an air extracting pump; a multi-channel laser controller scans and modulates the wavelengths of a plurality of DFB lasers according to the time-sharing and multiplexing working mode, and all waves of laser share an optical fiber and are outputted sequentially through a wave combiner, then are aligned by a fiber collimator and sent to the white cell to detect the fire smoke products; a photoelectric detector converts light intensity signals of laser repeatedly reflected and absorbed by the white cell into electrical signals which are sent to two phase-locking magnifier modules for frequency selecting magnification so as to obtain a fundamental frequency component and a second harmonic component; a multi-channel data acquisition card converts output voltage signals of the phase-locking magnifiers into digital signals which are sent to a micro-computer for real-time data processing, so that the fire scene multi-parameter information containing the oxygen concentration of the fire scene, concentrations of various toxic gases and smoke concentration is obtained. The detection method and device can realize real-time on-line monitoring to fire scene multi-parameters, and have the advantages of being real-time, multi-component and highly sensitive, good selectivity of gas, high reliability and strong environmental disturbance resistance ability.

The present invention belongs to rapid molding field of technology, which especially relates to a rapid shaping method and a device of metal. Inert gas used by the present invention is bled into a crucible and a vacuum tight chamber that can obtain steady differential pressure by means of pressure control system, which makes mental fusant ejected in the form of laminar jet from a micro-nozzle that is positioned on a bottom of the crucible. Vibration disturbance mental shooting flow produced by a piezoelectric oscillator turns metal shooting flow into uniform droplets. And real-time size parameters of the droplets mentioned-above can be obtained by monitoring system and computer analysis system. Subject to the size parameters of part that are input in advance, micro-computer control system has the real-time control for electrical field parameters of a deflexion polar plate, thus, controlling flight profile of the metal droplets and manufacturing metal parts with good quality in cooperation with a three-dimensional control station. The present invention is able to directly turn liquid metal into close-finished metal parts that are provided with rapid coagulation and delicate structure. The present invention has short technological process and products have good quality, which greatly reduces equipment investments.

The invention discloses a shared bicycle cloud platform hotspot unlocking method, and belongs to the shared bicycle unlocking networking field, and the shared bicycle cloud platform hotspot unlocking method comprises four parts of a cloud platform (a plurality of servers for offering external services), hotspots (comprising a radio frequency transmitter chip, an Ethernet chip, a GPS chip, a micro computer or a microcontroller), electronic locks ( comprising wireless a radio frequency transmitter chip, a microcontroller, a rechargeable battery and a solar panel) and mobile phone APP software. Through the simple electronic lock design, the shared bicycle cost can be reduced, the flexible parking demand of a bicycle around the hotspots can be solved, the problem of high cost can be avoided, real name authentication can be completed by a mobile phone APP, a bicycle and a person can be bound, and after the bicycle is damaged, the person can be traced back. Through the above technical means, the convenience for public travels with the lowest possible cost can be met.

A merchant can extend credit to a customer by establishing an account which allows the account to be paid off, or significantly paid down, on or after the customer's next payday. The payment can be directly extracted from the customer's bank account. The merchant is provided with a merchant system. The merchant system is used to read or recognize a unique customer identifier device, such as a magnetically encoded or bar-coded customer card, or an integrated chip, micro-computer, manually entered PIN etc., which uniquely identifies an account held by the customer. The merchant device communicates the information to a server system which approves the transaction and cooperatively the merchant system and server system generate a transaction instrument that can be signed by the customer.

The panoramic camera according to the invention has a housing having first and second sections, coaxial with a rotation axis. The second section can be driven in rotation about the axis with respect to the first section by a motor connected to a gear. A lens is mounted on the second section of the housing and is both perpendicular and radial to the axis. A linear CCD array is placed at the focal point of the lens in order to capture the images transmitted by the lens. An analog-to-digital converter is connected to the CCD array to convert the analog signal generated by the CCD array into digital information. The digital information is stored on a hard disk drive, and includes data corresponding to the azimuth of the camera. Finally, a micro-computer controls the rotation of the housing, sends a control signal to the analog-to-digital converter to digitize the image and sends a control signal to the hard disk drive to save the digital information generated by the converter.

The invention discloses a food quality detection system and detection method based on an electronic nose. The food quality detection system comprises an electronic nose system, air filtering devices and a micro computer and also comprises a sample container, wherein the air filtering devices comprise a first filtering device and a second air filtering device; the electronic nose system is connected with the micro computer; the first air filtering device is connected with the sample container, and the second air filtering device is connected with the electronic nose system. Upper computer control software used for controlling the electronic nose system to set working parameters, detect samples, clean a sensor and collect, process and analyze experiment data is arranged in the micro computer. The electronic nose system comprises a sensor array, an air supply power device and a plurality of air chambers. The baseline drift problem of a semiconductor gas sensor is solved by the threshold stochastic resonance cross correlation coefficient analysis technology of the system, and the accuracy of food quality analysis is increased.

The invention relates to a coal mine underground mobile gas beam tube sampling and monitoring device which mainly structurally comprises a gas-water separator, a vacuum pump, a gas sampling and monitoring control cabinet, an oxygen sensor, a methane sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, a circuit board, a sampling beam tube, a dust precipitator, a dehumidifier, a gas control valve, a gas flow meter, a pressure gauge and a negative pressure gauge; beam tube sampling, dust precipitation and dehumidification, gas-water separation, flow control, sensor information capturing, control cabinet monitoring and control and micro-computer information processing are adopted for pre-warning, forecasting, analyzing and displaying fire gas concentration, and working out the gas change law; the device has the advantages of advanced and reasonable design, compact structure, easy operation and convenient operation, can move in a long distance in coal mine underground to acquire and monitor the fire gas in different coal bed gob areas or closed spaces, the monitoring distance can reach 5000m, the measurement data is accurate and reliable, and the accuracy can reach 96 percent; and the device can also be used on the ground or other ores.

The invention discloses a unipolar current-voltage integration sensor, relating to an electronic sensor in the field of intelligent power grids. The sensor comprises a current sensor, a voltage measurement sensor, a voltage correction sensor, a signal modulation circuit, an A/D (Analog to Digital) conversion circuit, an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) unit, a wireless transmission extension unit and a high-voltage electricity getting device. A current signal of a power transmission line is collected by the three sensors and the signal is processed. After a voltage value of tested current is calculated, detection information is transmitted through a wireless communication network. The high-voltage electricity getting device can be used for supplying electric energy to online monitoring equipment for a long time by getting energy through a current transformer and cooperatively supplying power with a lithium cell. According to the unipolar current-voltage integration sensor disclosed by the invention, current and voltage information can be transmitted to the computer to be subjected to data processing rapidly, integrally and accurately; high voltage, large current and ferromagnetic resonance cannot be generated; the sensor can be conveniently connected with an electronic instrument and micro-computer measurement and control protection equipment; the system structure is simplified; the space is saved; the energy consumption is very low; and the stability and the accuracy of the whole system are improved.

The present invention provides a motor control device and an electric power steering device. Under any one phase generating the current-carrying failure, a micro computer 17 selects other two phases as electrifying phases except the phase generating the current-carrying failure, in order to generate phase current changing like a secant curve or a cosecant curve at making a predetermined rotational angle according to the phase generated the current-carrying failure as an asymptote at the generation of the current-carrying failure and continue an output of a motor control signal to execute a current control. In addition, the micro computer 17 comprises a rotational angle correcting section 40 correcting (offsetting) an input rotational angle (theta). Furthermore, when the two phases as electrifying phases of diphasic drive except the phase generating the current-carrying failure in order to compensating a phase offset between a phase current command value Ix* as a current command value and an actual phase current value Ix as an actual current value in the current control, and correct the rotational angle (theta) becoming the basis of the current control.

The invention discloses an intelligent service robot for the hotel and ward. The intelligent service robot is composed of a micro computer module, a communication module, a motion component module, an internal sensor module, a display and operation module, an object storage and transport module and an audio-video input-output module, wherein the communication module, the motion component module, the internal sensor module, the display and operation module, the object storage and transport module and the audio-video input-output module are connected respectively with the micro computer module. In addition, the intelligent service robot also includes a power supply module and an external sensor group module. And the external sensor group module and the internal sensor group module form a wireless position sensing network jointly; and the wireless position sensing network is used for guiding the intelligent service robot to identify a position of an external fixed object to find out an object distribution target and realizing indoor positioning of the intelligent service robot itself to plan an operation route. According to the invention, the provided intelligent service robot not only can be applied to dish delivering in a hotel and medicine distribution for wards but also can be used for file delivering in large office space, non-fixed route maneuvering transmission of manufacturing shop components, and book delivery for readers by book stores or book organizing, returning and delivering and the like. Therefore, the intelligent service robot has the broad application prospects.

A voltage detecting apparatus for detecting a voltage of a direct current power source by using a capacitor, which can act processes for an abnormal voltage without elongation of measuring time, is provided. When a voltage between both terminals of the capacitor is over a maximum voltage in normal condition, a micro-computer discharges the capacitor through a third switch and a fourth switch to earth until the voltage between both terminals of the capacitor reduces to be not larger than a voltage corresponding to a maximum rated current of a reset switch. When the voltage between both terminals reaches to be not larger than the voltage corresponding to the maximum rated current, the capacitor is rapidly discharged through the reset switch by controlling the reset switch to be close.