289 results about "Mixed approach" patented technology

A drift-free hybrid method of performing video stitching is provided. The method includes decoding a plurality of video bitstreams and storing prediction information. The decoded bitstreams form video images, spatially composed into a combined image. The image comprises frames of ideal stitched video sequence. The method uses prediction information in conjunction with previously generated frames to predict pixel blocks in the next frame. A stitched predicted block in the next frame is subtracted from a corresponding block in a corresponding frame to create a stitched raw residual block. The raw residual block is forward transformed, quantized, entropy encoded and added to the stitched video bitstream along with the prediction information. Also, the stitched raw residual block is inverse transformed and dequantized to create a stitched decoded residual block. The residual block is added to the predicted block to generate the stitched reconstructed block in the next frame of the sequence.

In information retrieval (IR) systems with high-speed access, especially to search engines applied to the Internet and / or corporate intranet domains for retrieving accessible documents automatic text categorization techniques are used to support the presentation of search query results within high-speed network environments. An integrated, automatic and open information retrieval system (100) comprises an hybrid method based on linguistic and mathematical approaches for an automatic text categorization. It solves the problems of conventional systems by combining an automatic content recognition technique with a self-learning hierarchical scheme of indexed categories. In response to a word submitted by a requester, said system (100) retrieves documents containing that word, analyzes the documents to determine their word-pair patterns, matches the document patterns to database patterns that are related to topics, and thereby assigns topics to each document. If the retrieved documents are assigned to more than one topic, a list of the document topics is presented to the requester, and the requester designates the relevant topics. The requester is then granted access only to documents assigned to relevant topics. A knowledge database (1408) linking search terms to documents and documents to topics is established and maintained to speed future searches. Additionally, new strategies are presented to deal with different update frequencies of changed Web sites.

A two-stage structure for performing non-linear echo cancellation is described in which a first echo canceller is used to attenuate linear echo components of a microphone signal and a second echo canceller is used to attenuate non-linear echo components of the output signal generated by the first echo canceller. One or both of the echo cancellers may be implemented using closed-form solutions, including a closed form solution for a hybrid method in the frequency domain.

A method of mixing including providing a flexible container which comprises at least two components, assembling the components from outside the flexible container to form a centrally disposed magnetic driven shaft with at least one impeller, whereby the integrity of the flexible container is maintained, filling the flexible container having the centrally disposed magnetic driven shaft with one or more ingredients of the contents to be mixed; engaging a magnetic element of the centrally disposed magnetic driven shaft with an external magnetic drive element; analyzing the contents of the flexible container using at least one sensor or a sampling line on the flexible container; and draining the contents of the flexible container through a drain port at the bottom of the flexible container.

To mix first and second digital image data at a ratio defined by pixel-unit mixing-ratio information, mixing-ratio information is embedded, in each of pixel data formed from a plurality of bits in the first digital image data, as information of more than one bit in the pixel data. The mixing-ratio information is extracted from the first digital image data. The first and second digital image data are mixed at the ratio defined by the extracted mixing-ratio information. Thus, images can be mixed together with the α blending technique without having to use any special memory such as the α memory.

The invention provides a mixing method of movement authorities during train zone switching. The mixing method comprises mixing of movement authorities of a transfer ZC (Zone Controller) and mixing of movement authorities of a takeover ZC; the movement authority mixing mode is based on a co-administration zone idea, the state of mixed MA (Movement Authority) wayside equipment is determined by combining the MA1 calculated by the transfer ZC and the MA2 calculated by the takeover ZC after the MA mixing destination is determined, so that the state change of the equipment in the co-administration area can be monitored in real time when the transfer ZC and the takeover ZC calculate corresponding mixed MAs, and therefore the response time of a system on equipment fault is prolonged; and the MA of the transfer ZC and the MA of the takeover ZC, which are generated for a train, are consistent, so that the situation that the train is suddenly decelerated, even emergently braked is avoided, and therefore the system safety is ensured.

A series of natural herbal-based ozonated formulations and treatment steps effective in the treatment and prevention of inflammatory skin conditions is described. The formulations provide a novel approach to selection and preparation of medicated formulations where a cocktail approach is appropriate and a logical series of delivery matrices and processes are used to deliver the active components to the affected region or zone of the anatomy.

An image capturing device and a digital zooming method thereof are proposed in the invention. The method includes the following steps. A scene is captured by a primary lens and a secondary lens to generate a primary image and a secondary image. Image rectification is then performed on the primary and the secondary images to obtain two corresponding rectified images. Feature points detected and matched from the two rectified images are used to determine a corresponding overlapping region, respectively. Pixel displacement and depth map in the two overlapping regions could be calculated and estimated. Image zooming and warping techniques are performed on the two rectified images to obtain corresponding warped images using a recalculated homography matrix according to each specific zooming factor. Finally, the two overlapping regions in the warped image are fused by a weighted blending approach to generate a digital zoomed image.

To provide a mixing device which prevents generation of lumps and undissolved powder in mixing the powder and liquid, and can continuously mix them and uniformly at a desired concentration, and to provide a method therefor. The constant quantity of powder 10 is fallen continuously by gravity into the central part of a cylindrical vessel 1 and the falling powder is mixed with the injection-flow liquid by injecting the liquid from an injection opening 12 installed along the peripheral direction of the lower cylindrical part 4 of the cylindrical vessel 1.

The preparation method of load-type photocatalytic cleaning net block includes the following steps: adopting active carbon as adsorbing agent, high-effective composite catalyst as photocatalyst and toumalinite as auxiliary material, mechanically mixing them to prepare multifunctional high-effective photocatalyst, then adopting water soluble latex as adhesive, mixing them, dispersing to obtain the stable suspension slurry, finally, adopting spray-coating or immersion-coating process to make the catalyst coating layer by uniformly adhered on the catalyst load carrier so as to obtain the load type photocatalytic cleaning net block which can degrade the organic pollutants of formaldehyde, benzene and ammonia.

The present invention pertains to a microencapsulated fire retardant and the uses thereof. The inventive micro-encapsulated fire retardant comprises a core containing a fire retardant and a shell of a natural microtubule, wherein the core is encapsulated by the shell. The microencapsulated fire retardant of the present invention can be composited into a certain polymeric substrate by a mixing method so as to form into a corresponding, fire-retardant polymeric composite material.

A fluidic micromixer comprises a plurality of fluid inlets in communication with a mixing chamber, the plurality of fluid inlets being adapted to introduce into the chamber a corresponding plurality of distinct fluid streams. The mixing chamber comprises at least one surface patterned to define hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions spaced apart along a principal direction of fluid flow within the chamber from the fluid inlets to a fluid outlet, the regions being adapted to induce fluid flow in a direction transverse to the principal direction of fluid flow to mix the fluid streams. At least one of the hydrophobic regions may comprise microstructures patterned on the at least one surface. Also disclosed are a method for fabricating the micromixer, a method of mixing a plurality of fluid streams by vortex mixing or instability mixing, and a system comprising the micromixer, fluid reservoirs and a pump for generating flow of fluids from the reservoirs to the micromixer.

The present invention proposes a hybrid methodology and apparatus between photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar panels to lower the photovoltaic solar energy production cost. In particular, the disclosed methodology addresses a simple quasi-parabolic trough PV (QPTPV) low concentration system with greater tolerance to tracker pointing errors. The quasi-parabolic trough (QPT) reflector is defocused to cover the width of a linear solar cells array, which is reduced from a large rectangular solar cells panel. In summary, the QPTPV system consists of low cost quasi-parabolic reflectors, a compact linear PV cells array and a lower cost relaxed pointing 2-axes tracker. The combination of these low cost technologies disclosed can achieve the lowest cost per kilowatt hour of photovoltaic energy production.

An apparatus for and method of enabling enhanced, selective agitation of liquid containing a solid-phase reagent. The apparatus includes at least one liquid-bearing container, a circular tray, and a motor. The liquid-bearing container(s) includes at least one internal baffle that imparts turbulent agitation to the liquid when flowing from one end of the container to an opposite end. The circular tray is adapted for selective rotation about a vertical axis of rotation. The rotary circular tray assembly includes container-receiving stations that selectively retain a respective liquid-bearing container in an inclined or pitched orientation with respect to a horizontal plane. The motor creates centrifugal force, which causes liquid in the container(s) to travel from the first end of the container to the second end of the container via the internal baffle(s), agitating the liquid and the solid-phase portions of the reagent. When gravitational force exceeds the centrifugal force, liquid in the container(s) travels from the second end of the container to the first end of the container via the internal baffle(s), again agitating the liquid and the solid-phase portions of the reagent.

The present invention provides a reagent mixing device, which comprises a driving device, a transport device and a rotating part, wherein the transport device comprises a conveying mechanism for conveying a reagent kit and a mixing mechanism for mixing a reagent; the conveying mechanism is driven by the driving device to move relative to the mixing mechanism; the rotating part and mixing mechanism are in transmission matching; the conveying mechanism and the mixing mechanism are sleeved with each other to form a bearing structure. The present invention further provides a reagent mixing method. The reagent mixing device is small in size, smart in structure, easy to assemble and low in manufacturing cost. The reagent mixing method provided by the present invention is simple and reliable, high in overall operation reliability, and has very high application values in such analysis and test fields as full-automatic chemiluminescence immunoassay analyzers and biochemical analyzers.

The invention discloses a method and a device for analyzing brain wave signals, which comprises steps of: (1) collecting original brain wave signals; (2) removing artifacts or noises in the original brain wave signals; (3) phase-space reconstructing of the preprocessed brain wave signals for obtaining a recurrence plot; (4) quantitative analyzing of the recurrence plot for calculating assured value DET of the recurrence plot; wherein, the artifacts in the original brain wave signals are removed by a mixed method of wavelet transformation and empirical mode decomposition. The phase-space reconstructing reconstructs phase-space vector by a method of delaying time so as to obtain the recurrence plot and calculate the ratio of recursion points on diagonal structure of the recurrence plot to all recursion points for obtaining the assured value DET. The method and the device provide good quantified indexes for doctors and accurate and real-time changing situation of depth of anesthesia during the process of the anesthesia, or are used for researching and analyzing change of brain functions, situation of sedation and analgesis, change of a cognizing function, etc.

The invention discloses a mixed path planning method applied to motion control of indoor mobile robots and belongs to the technical field of robots. The mixed path planning method is combined with a global path planning method of a static environment and a local path planning method of a dynamic environment. The mixed path planning method is used for supplying external environment information input to a system through an external sensor so as to build a grid model. The invention discloses a mixed path planning method with fusion of a parallel Bi-directional A-star algorithm and an improved artificial potential field algorithm; the parallel Bi-directional A-star algorithm is used for searching global and static paths; the improved artificial potential field (APF) algorithm is used for searching local and dynamic paths; and finally, the path data obtained by the mixed method is used for controlling movement of the robots. The mixed path planning method has higher adaptability to the indoor environment; and the paths obtained by a series of measures and optimization methods have extremely high completeness and higher optimality.

The present invention provides a mixer and a mixing method which enable stable supply of slurry at a high flow rate with foam being uniformly mixed therein, and which enable reduction in consumption of foam to be fed to the slurry. The mixer (10) has a housing (20), a rotary disc (32), a slurry outlet port (45), a slurry delivery conduit (46) and a hollow connector section (47). A foam feeding port (41) is disposed in a predetermined position of an annular wall or the hollow connector section. The foam feeding port feeds the foam to the slurry, immediately before the slurry enters the slurry outlet port, or feeds the foam to the slurry in the hollow connector section. The slurry and the foam mix with each other at the slurry outlet port or on its downstream side. The foam is not substantially subjected to agitation impact of the mixer and a quantity of loss of the foam is reduced. The foam is uniformly mixed with the slurry even when the flow rate of slurry is increased, and therefore, the production rate of gypsum boards can be increased.

The use of optical character recognition (OCR) in mobile devices is becoming prevalent with the increasing use of mobile devices. One important application for OCR in mobile devices is recognizing and translating the text to a language understandable by the user. Techniques are provided for replacing symbols in an image, while reducing the artifacts as a result of re-rendering of the background image.

The present invention provides a mixer and a mixing method which enable stable supply of slurry at a high flow rate with foam being uniformly mixed therein, and which enable reduction in consumption of foam to be fed to the slurry. The mixer (10) has a housing (20), a rotary disc (32), a slurry outlet port (45), a slurry delivery conduit (46) and a hollow connector section (4). A foam feeding port (41) is disposed in a predetermined position of an annular wall or the hollow connector section. The foam feeding port feeds the foam to the slurry, immediately before the slurry enters the slurry outlet port, or feeds the foam to the slurry in the hollow connector section. The slurry and the foam mix with each other at the slurry outlet port or on its downstream side. The foam is not substantially subjected to agitation impact of the mixer and a quantity of loss of the foam is reduced. The foam is uniformly mixed with the slurry even when the flow rate of slurry is increased, and therefore, the production rate of gypsum boards can be increased.

The invention provides a layer mixing method and device based on an open graphics library (OpenGL) and is applied to the technical field of images. According to the method and the device, a main interface view layer is established through a 3D application interface of an Android system and initialized; graphic drawing is performed in an area, which corresponds to a television (TV) frame, of the main interface view layer according to the size of the TV frame of a rear video layer of the main interface view layer, the area of the main interface view layer, which corresponds to the TV frame, is set to be transparent, when item superposition in the TV frame of the video layer is required, items to be superposed are drawn in the main interface view layer, and an area, where the superposed items are drawn, of the main interface view layer is set to be opaque. According to the layer mixing method and device based on the OpenGL, the superposed items in the TV frame are established on the main interface view layer so that superposition and mixing of multiple view layers are not required, and the controlling is further easy.

The present invention relates to a vehicle mountable satellite antenna as defined in the claims which is operable while the vehicle is in motion. The satellite antenna of the present invention can be installed on top of (or embedded into) the roof of a vehicle. The antenna is capable of providing high gain and a narrow antenna beam for aiming at a satellite direction and enabling broadband communication to vehicle. The present invention provides a vehicle mounted satellite antenna which has low axial ratio, high efficiency and has low grating lobes gain. The vehicle mounted satellite antenna of the present invention provides two simultaneous polarization states. In one embodiment, a hybrid mechanic and electronic steering approach provides a more reasonable cost and performance trade-off. The antenna aiming in the elevation direction is achieved via control of an electronic beamforming network. The antenna is mounted on a rotatable platform under mechanical steering and motion control for aiming the antenna in the azimuth direction. Such approach significantly reduces the complexity and increases the reliability of the mechanical design. The antenna height is compatible to the two-dimensional electronic steering phased-array antenna. Additionally, the number of the electronic processing elements required is considerably reduced from that of the conventional two-dimensional electronic steering phased-array antenna, thereby allowing for low cost and large volume commercial production. The present invention provides electronically generated left, right, up, and down beams for focusing the antenna beam toward the satellite while the vehicle is moving. All of the beams are simultaneously available for use in the motion beam tracking. This provides much faster response and less signal degradation.

A temperature stable (color and efficiency) III-nitride based amber (585 nm) light-emitting diode is based on a novel hybrid nanowire-planar structure. The arrays of GaN nanowires enable radial InGaN / GaN quantum well LED structures with high indium content and high material quality. The high efficiency and temperature stable direct yellow and red phosphor-free emitters enable high efficiency white LEDs based on the RGYB color-mixing approach.

A digital mixing system is provided in which a console section and an engine section that executes signal processing can operate consistently in accordance with control signals input to the console section and the engine section. The digital mixing system has a plurality of input signal systems and a plurality of output signal systems. Input signals from the input signal systems are subjected to a mixing process and the mixed signals are output to the output signal systems. In a console section, panel operating elements are used to input parameters relating to the mixing process, and a first control device generates a mixing control signal in response to operation of the panel operating elements or to a first control signal input via a first input terminal or a first communication interface, and outputs the mixing control signal to the first communication interface. In an engine section, a mixing processing device executes the above mixing process, and a second control device controls the mixing process executed by the mixing processing device in response to the mixing control signal input via a second communication interface and outputs a second control signal input via a second input terminal to the second communication interface. Communication lines connect between the first communication interface and the second communication interface.

The invention relates to a mixing method of iron-based powder metallurgy bonding powder. The mixing method comprises: (1) pre-mixing: according to a formulation of powder metallurgy, feeding powder materials into a powder mixing machine, vacuuming the inner cavity of the powder mixing machine after feeding, wherein the inner pressure of the powder mixing machine is at least less than 30000 Pa, and then mixing for 10-60 minutes under a negative pressure state; (2) heating for dissolving: based on the pre-mixed powder material serving as a base powder, adding 2wt% of copper powder, 0.8wt% of graphite powder and 0.8wt% of a lubricant, while standing and heating, gradually rising the heating temperature to 10 DEG C above the melting point of the lubricant so as to reach a predetermined temperature, and then insulating; and (3) cooling and re-mixing: when the temperature of the power is lower than 50 DEG C, controlling the time of re-mixing to be within 2-30 minutes. The mixing method has the beneficial effects that the visual dusting conditions of the mixed powder subjected to bonding treatment are obviously reduced, which indicates that the bonding effect of the graphite and lubricant is good; and simultaneously, the apparent density, mobility and compressibility of the mixed powder are well maintained.

The invention discloses a spectrum optimization technical method for a high-performance four-chip LED, which comprises: step 1: executing a four-chip LED spectrum light color mixing method; step 2: carrying out spectrum synthesis chromaticity selection of the four-chip LED; step 3: optimizing the lighting effect of the four-chip LED; step 4: optimizing the color rendering of the four-chip LED; step 5: optimizing the radioluminescence efficiency of the four-chip LED; step 6: optimizing the mesopic vision radiant efficiency of the four-chip LED; step 7: optimizing the photobiomodulation of the four-chip LED; and step 8: carrying out comprehensive performance optimization on the radioluminescence efficiency, mesopic vision radiant efficiency and photobiomodulation of the four-chip LED. According to the spectrum optimization technical method for the high-performance four-chip LED, not only can performance on a certain aspect of a four-chip LED light source be optimized, but also the integral performance can be optimized; and meanwhile, a plurality of single-chip LEDs can be optimized to select chips applicable to synthesis of the four-chip LED.

This application discloses a centrifugal chip capable of achieving sequential reactions and a mixing method thereof. The chip comprises a chip body, and at least one microchannel unit formed on the chip body, wherein the microchannel unit comprises a first liquid storage tank, a second liquid storage tank, a third liquid storage tank, a mixing channel, a quantitative tank and a detection tank; the mixing channel, the quantitative tank and the detection tank communicated with one another in sequence along a direction far from a centrifugal axis; the first liquid storage tank and the second liquid storage tank communicate with the mixing channel respectively, and are positioned between the mixing channel and the centrifugal axis; the detection tank communicates with the third liquid storage tank; a first micro valve is arranged between the detection tank and the third liquid storage tank; the third liquid storage tank, relative to the detection tank, is closer to the centrifugal axis; and a second micro valve is arranged between the detection tank and the quantitative tank. The centrifugal chip disclosed by the invention can achieve sequential reactions, and is low in cost and convenient in control.