350 results about "Multi method" patented technology

An outdoor multi-method cooker for preparing a wide variety of different foods at the same time using selective convection, radiant, or conduction cooking operations with or without smoke, or combinations thereof, using a single heat source. The cooker has a horizontal central longitudinal chamber with a firebox at one end and a pair of stacks at the opposed end, a main oven, a pair of lateral smokeless ovens, a warming compartment, and a griddle above the firebox, all disposed transversely on the longitudinal chamber in parallel spaced relation, and a steam table along the upper portion of the longitudinal chamber. The cooker operates on the principle of equalization of natural differential pressures caused by rising warmer air, similar to the draw created by the upper portion of a fireplace, for drafting hot gases or smoke laden hot gases from the combustion source and selectively routing it through passageways into and around the various components.

Methods and apparatus for dynamically determining whether portions of code should be interpreted or compiled in order to optimize a software application during run-time are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, computer-implemented method for run-time processing of a computer program which includes byte-codes arranged as a plurality of methods includes invoking a first method selected from the plurality of methods. Invoking the first selected method involves interpreting the first selected method. An invocation tracker which is arranged to track the number of invocations of the first selected method is updated, and a determination is made regarding when the invocation tracker indicates that the number of invocations of the first selected method exceeds a threshold value. The first selected method is compiled when it is determined that the invocation tracker indicates that the number of invocations of the first selected method exceeds a threshold value. This threshold value is periodically adjusted to keep the compilation and the interpretation overheads within acceptable ranges.

A method, system and apparatus for the object-oriented automated user interface testing of an application under test in a functional testing tool. The functional testing tool can include a configuration for producing multiple methods defining interactions with individual elements in a user interface to an application under test. The functional testing tool further can include one or more defined actions grouping selected ones of the methods which are used repeatedly within screens of the application under test. Preferably, at least one task defining a group of related activities in the user interface can be produced in the functional testing tool. Subsequently, a test case can be generated which implements the task with at least one verification point.

System and method for evaluating and selecting methodologies for software development projects that may be used in selecting an appropriate development process (methodology) for software projects from among various methodologies. A project context for a project may be defined. Attribute values for one or more attributes of one or more components of the project context may be determined. An Agility score for the project context may be generated from the determined attribute values. In one embodiment, a project context may be scored against each candidate methodology. The Agility score may be applied to an Agility curve for the project context to determine a best-fit methodology for the project from a plurality of methodologies. In one embodiment, the plurality of methodologies may include methodologies ranging from lightweight to heavyweight methodologies. In one embodiment, the plurality of methodologies may include one or more Agile methodologies.

A method of determining a measure of a tissue state (e.g., glycation end-product or disease state) in an individual. A portion of the tissue of the individual is illuminated with excitation light, then light emitted by the tissue due to fluorescence of a chemical with the tissue responsive to the excitation light is detected. The detected light can be combined with a model relating fluorescence with a measure of tissue state to determine a tissue state. The invention can comprise single wavelength excitation light, scanning of excitation light (illuminating the tissue at a plurality of wavelengths), detection at a single wavelength, scanning of detection wavelengths (detecting emitted light at a plurality of wavelengths), and combinations thereof. The invention also can comprise correction techniques that reduce determination errors due to detection of light other than that from fluorescence of a chemical in the tissue. For example, the reflectance of the tissue can lead to errors if appropriate correction is not employed. The invention can also comprise a variety of models relating fluorescence to a measure of tissue state, including a variety of methods for generating such models. Other biologic information can be used in combination with the fluorescence properties to aid in the determination of a measure of tissue state. The invention also comprises apparatuses suitable for carrying out the method, including appropriate light sources, detectors, and models (for example, implemented on computers) used to relate detected fluorescence and a measure of tissue state.

Systems and methods for detecting and preventing network security breaches are described. The systems and methods present a gateway-based packet-forwarding network security solution to not only detect security breaches but also prevent them by directly dropping suspicious packets and connections. The systems and methods employ multiple techniques to detect and prevent network security breaches, including stateful signature detection, traffic signature detection, and protocol anomaly detection.

The invention discloses a big data mining based integrated forest fire prevention informatization system. The big data mining based integrated forest fire prevention informatization system comprises a big data platform, and a multi-dimension perception subsystem, an early-warning prediction subsystem and a multi-hierarchy application subsystem, which are connected with the big data platform, respectively; the multi-dimension perception subsystem is used for acquiring various forest data, the big data platform is used for pre-processing and computing the data; the early-warning prediction subsystem can realize fire warning and prediction and forest fire spreading prediction; and the multi-hierarchy application subsystem is used for realizing forest resource planning, forest fire prevention management, and forest fire suppression dispatching and command. The big data mining based integrated forest fire prevention informatization system can realize multi-azimuth comprehensive monitoring on a forest, is used for mining and analyzing historical data and mass forestry data obtained by real-time monitoring to accurately predict forest fire and provide an early-warning function, can analyze the development tendency of the forest fire to provide aid in decision making, can put out the forest fire in an airland and multi-method manner, and can provide high-efficiency and accurate equipment and personnel assignment; and the system is integrated and has high informationization degree.

The software incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which “thumbnail” or “preview” images are presented. The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results.

The invention discloses a multi-target detection method based on short-time Fourier transform and fractional Fourier transform, which belongs to the technical field of the radar target detection. The method comprises the following steps that the short-time Fourier transform is firstly used for conducting the primary detection on a signal, then a binaryzation method is used for processing a primary detection result, phase position of the signal is kept in the processing, the fractional Fourier transform is used for detecting a signal after being restored by the short-time Fourier transform, by adopting multiple methods for combined processing, advantages of overcoming phenomenon that a strong signal side lobe presses a weak signal main lobe, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to be detected, and solving the problem of the large false alarm possibility which is caused by adopting traditional method to detect the signal at the low signal-to-noise ratio can be realized; and meanwhile, an image contrast method and a gradual elimination method are adopted, multiple strong signals and weak signals with different or identical frequency modulation rates can be detected by utilizing the space and power strength information of the signal, so that the detection probability and the calculation efficiency can be further improved, easiness in project realization is realized, and the method is worth of being adopted and popularized.

One or more embodiments of the program are directed to a plurality of methods for monetizing online personalized beauty product selections utilizing a technology for content-targeted Internet advertising on a virtual makeover website. Methods comprise: (1) categorizing facial features to select product advertisements for co-branding in a product palette; (2) an auction for webpage advertisement placements related to a user's facial features; (3) transforming a makeover “look” to advertise alternative products to produce the new look under different lighting conditions; (4) a gifting system to allow sale and gifting of products used to produce a makeover, where the makeover image may be packaged with the selected products in a gift package; and (5) recapturing users who would cancel a sale with an offer of less expensive comparable products.

The invention relates to a license plate positioning method integrating multiple methods and adopting the steps as follows: pretreatment is carried out to collected license plate images; a self-adapting matching template is obtained by a self-adapting template matching method which is based on data stream correcting and coarse positioning of the license plate images is realized by a template matching algorithm; edge detection is conducted to the license plate images after the coarse positioning by utilizing morphology gradient method so as to highlight the character areas of the license plates; aiming at distorted license plate images, a method for detecting the main direction of the characters in the license plate images is adopted for correcting; a projection method is adopted for precise positioning so as to achieve precise positioning of the character areas of the license plates, thus realizing the precise positioning of the license plate images. The license plate image positioning method designed by the invention has low requirements on the adaptability of environment and high arithmetic speed, can fulfill the requirements of precision and real-time performance for license plate identification and provides high-quality license plate images for subsequent partitioning and identification of license plate characters.

A transparent multilayer structure is disclosed such as a flexible self-supporting container for a flowable food product such as fruit juice. The transparent multilayer structure possesses superior barrier properties to oxygen, water vapor and aromatic gases. The multilayer structure may include an exterior layer having a metal oxide deposition laminated to an interior layer through use of an adhesive. In one embodiment, the metal oxide is SiOx where x has a value between 1.5 and 2.2 thereby allowing for a transparent multilayer structure. The metal oxide may be deposited on the exterior layer through a number of various methods. An exemplary method is plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The exterior layer may be composed of a polymer material integrated with a clay mineral between 0.1% and 10% weight of the polymer material. The polymer material may be selected from the group consisting of polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate, copolymers of polyethylene terephthalate and mixtures thereof.

The present invention performs multiscreen configuration and multiscreen management by using a plurality of screens and a plurality of methods in order to represent a plurality of service contents. In accordance with a multiscreen configuration method of the present invention, by mutually assigning one or more broadcasting services, one or more logical screens, one or more display screens, and one or more output ports, ultimately outputting service contents which are executed on screens assigned by output ports, and setting, changing, and reporting configuration of a multiscreen, the configuration of the multiscreen may be set or reset so as to effectively output various service contents on the multiscreen by using a desired method.

Multiple methods of performing whole body scans using a cost-effective small magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system are disclosed. High magnetic field homogeneity of an open, small MRI is obtained by a combination of passive shimming and high order active shimming. A dynamic shimming while imaging (DSWI) method is provided to dynamically optimize field homogeneity for each scanned slab (slice) during imaging. Also provided is a method that scan a large subject volume only using a limited optimal imaging region of a magnet by continuously adjusting patient position and orientations with a 6 degrees of freedom patient table.

The E-Grid Sub-Network Load Manager operates to regulate the demands presented by vehicles to the associated Sub-Network thereby to spread the load presented to the service disconnect over time to enable controllable charging of a large number of vehicles. Load management can be implemented by a number of methodologies, including: queuing requests and serving each request in sequence until satisfaction; queuing requests and cycling through the requests, partially serving each one, then proceeding to the next until the cyclic partial charging service has satisfied all of the requests; ordering requests pursuant to a percentage of recharge required measurement; ordering requests on an estimated connection time metric; ordering requests on a predetermined level of service basis; and the like. It is evident that a number of these methods can be concurrently employed thereby to serve all of the vehicles in the most efficient manner that can be determined.

The invention discloses a method and an automatic instrument device for enriching and extracting target cells and separating single cells by using a positive magnetic bead method and performing immunity and molecular biology identification and analysis on single cells. By the method and the instrument device, the on/off of a capture magnet and a release magnet is controlled by various methods to complete target cell searching, capturing, cleaning and releasing operation once or for multiple times, so that the target cell detection sensitivity and stability are improved. When the capture magnet searches and captures the target cells, the search line is circular, square, comb-shaped, S-shaped or U-shaped. In addition, the captured substances are filtered, most free micro magnetic beads are removed, the purity of the product is further improved and the product can be used as a good experimental material. By combining a special filter and the adsorption of the capture magnet, more than 95 percent of free micro magnetic beads can be effectively removed. Meanwhile, the types of the single cells are identified and biological characteristics of the single cells are analyzed by an immunofluorescence staining method and a method in molecular biology, and effective biological indexes are provided for clinical diagnosis and treatment of cancers.

A system and method is disclosed for a distributed out-of-band (OOB) management controller system enabling efficient usage of power while providing multiple methods and levels of communication between intelligent devices. Two or more management controllers collaboratively operate in a predetermined manner including, but not limited to, peer-to-peer, master/slave, or independently. Management information consistency is maintained across a system's power states by implementing distributed intelligent devices that directly interact as communication devices to local or remote management consoles. A management protocol is implemented such that management information is communicated between managed elements and management controllers over physical interfaces or via a network connection. A first management controller is implemented to communicate with managed elements via a bus that is available only when the system is under full power and a second controller is implemented to communicate with the same managed elements for most power states, including low power. The second management controller remains operable to generate simple management information packets or use packets stored in communications devices to generate primitive or higher-level alert functions.

Techniques for capturing images of business cards, uploading the images to a designated computing device for processing and recognition are disclosed. A mechanism is provided to update extracted data from the images when there are any changes. Depending on implementation, there are a number of ways to capture images of business cards (e.g., via a phone camera, a PC camera, or a scanning device). A transmission means is provided to transport the images to the designated computing device for centralized management of integrated contact information for individual users. As a result, a user may access his/her updatable integrated contact information database anywhere anytime from a chosen device.

A method and apparatus to overcome fundamental shortcomings in narrow band as well as wide band RFID solutions through offering a hybrid solution that utilizes benefits of narrow band in the downlink direction with the benefits of ultra wide band in the uplink. The invention encompasses a multitude of methods, including an approach to increase the ability to capture electromagnetic energy from the reader.

The invention discloses a fluid simulation method based on the Eulerian-Lagrangian coupling method. According to the aim of achieving efficient fluid simulation and the core idea of solving the N-S equation through the Eulerian method and the Lagrangian method to carry out fluid simulation, research is conducted through the multi-method coupling calculation method on the basis of SPH and LBM fluid simulation. Firstly, large-scale fluid field modeling is carried out through the LBM method based on Eulerian grids to build the main part of fluid simulation; then, simulation is carried out on fluid details such as spindrifts and water drops through the SPH method based on the Lagrangian particle idea, LBM fluid and SPH fluid are integrated by designing a coupling algorithm, and lifelike and rapid large-scale fluid simulation with details involved is achieved.

The invention discloses a reservoir fracture determining method, which comprises the steps of conducting fracture prediction analysis to actual seismic data through various methods according to types of the actual seismic data to obtain reservoir fracture attribute and distribution; conducting forward modeling by using actual geologic parameters and comparing reservoir fracture distribution by using FMI (Formation MicroScanner Image) data to obtain matching degree and goodness of fit; and according to the matching degree and the goodness of fit, preferably selecting an optimum fracture analysis method from various fracture prediction and analysis methods, and according to the preferably selected fracture analysis method, explaining the actual seismic data to determine reservoir fractures. The reservoir fracture determining method has the advantages that the problem in accurately obtaining reservoir fracture development parameters is solved; the fracture direction and density of fractured reservoirs can be effectively predicted and reliable bases are provided for researches on the fractured reservoirs; and bases are provided and directions are pointed out for work such as oilfield and gas field development plan design of fractured reservoirs, and the exploitation and development risks and costs are decreased.

A web-based information management system allows a group of users to collect, validate, and share data of unknown types and volume in real time over the Internet. The project work environment for a group can be created, modified, and reset instantly during any project life and between project life cycles by a plurality of methods without effecting system integrity and core functions such as data validation, searches and sorting, data preservation, data display feature, and productive data entry methods.