4457 results about "Natural environment" patented technology

Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

A method of predicting weather-exacerbated threats, said method comprising inputting localized weather measurement data into a weather threat prediction system; predicting future localized weather conditions based on said localized weather measurement data combined with modeling from large scale weather data including National Weather Service Data; inputting natural environment and infrastructure data into said weather threat prediction system; correlating said infrastructure data with said predicted future localized weather conditions; and determining a threat level index over a region, a threat level indicating an area having a certain probabilistic likelihood of being harmed by said future weather conditions.

The invention discloses a completely degraded plant powder modified thermoplastics composite material and preparation method thereof, which consists of the components with the weight portions as follows: 100 portions of degradable thermoplastics resin, 1-400 portions of plant powder, 0.1-40 portions of dispersing agent, 0.5-60 portions of impact modifier, 0-40 portions of inorganic filler as well as 0.1-10 portions of stabilizing agent. The degraded thermoplastics resin has similar physiochemical performances with universal polyethylene and polypropylene, has excellent processing performances, and can be commixed with plant powder to prepare thermoplastics wood plastic composite materials. The obtained thermoplastics wood plastic composite materials can be completely degraded into carbon dioxide and water in natural environment under the effects of broadly existed microbes like germs, actinomycetes, etc. Compared with wood products, the composite material has the characteristics of good durability and dimensional stability, easy forming, small water absorbability, and corrosion resistance; compared with plastic, the composite material has the characteristics of low cost and high rigidity. The completely degraded plant powder modified thermoplastics composite material can be used for producing the shells of electric apparatuses like TV, sound, copier, printer, etc, and can also be applied on other workpieces used for injection.

A robotic architecture for capturing the autonomous performance advantages the animal models enjoy in the natural environment is disclosed. A biomimesis process is employed to allow selective utilization of basic physical components and adaptation of a common control paradigm for each of different vehicle types. The biomimetic architecture involves five functional elements: a basic biomorphic plant for capturing the biomechanical advantages of the model organism; a neural circuit-based controller consisting of a finite state machine; myomorphic actuators producing linear graded force in response to trains of current pulses for mediating movements; labeled line code output by neuromorphic sensors; and a reactive behavioral sequencer executing command sequences defined within a behavioral library.

A method provides a virtual presentation including a virtual character in an environment other than a natural environment of the virtual character. The method includes validating a registration code associated with a toy, providing at least one virtual room representing a natural environment of the toy in the virtual presentation, and displaying the virtual character in the virtual room representing the natural environment of the toy, which represents the toy in the virtual presentation. The method further includes providing at least one additional virtual room representing an unnatural environment of the toy in the virtual presentation, the unnatural environment of the toy being different than the natural environment of the toy, and providing the virtual character with an environment extension tool that enables the virtual character to exist in the room representing the unnatural environment of the toy. The virtual character and the environment extension tool can be displayed in the unnatural environment of the toy.

The present invention relates to an on line 3D visualization method and system of natural resource data. The method mainly includes a step of natural resource data organization and storage and a step of natural resource data processing and 3D visualization. The step of natural resource data organization and storage includes: according to natural resource data characteristics and service characteristics, dividing data types, and making the natural resource data as tile image data formed by a plurality of tiles by adopting a pyramid model, then encoding each tile, and establishing a tile data set based on an embedded database technology, storing the tile data set in database, and establishing a quadtree index of space for each tile. The step of natural resource data processing and 3D visualization includes site and position 3D visualization and natural environment object dynamic 3D visualization. The method achieves real time on line 3D rendering display for all kinds of natural resources and geographic space information data in a high-performance 3D visualization environment.

The present invention provides a biodegradable bag which can be heat-sealed at low temperature, does not develop corrugation, has transparency, and has degradability in the natural environment. Laminates including a biaxially oriented film of which the major component is a polylactic acid-family polymer, and a film of which the major component is an aliphatic polyester having a predetermined structure are heat-sealed so that the biaxially oriented film of which the major component is the polylactic acid-family polymer will be an outer layer.

The invention relates to a method for high-density industrial culture of blood-sucking leeches, which belongs to the technical field of artificial culture of the blood-sucking leeches. The culture method cultures commercial leeches artificially by the steps of selecting a place, building a pond, putting leech seeds into the pond, feeding the leech seeds, preparing cocoon producing beds, producing cocoons and hatching the cocoons, culturing young leeches, living through the winter and the like, and achieves recirculation culture by the steps of producing the cocoons and hatching the cocoons. In the culture process, when the reproduction rate of the cultured leeches goes down after three generations of close breeding, the cultured leeches are mated with wild leeches to achieve the aim of the rejuvenescence of parent leeches. The culture method solves the problems that the changes of the natural environment and the increment of pollutant sources make naturally-growing leech sources decrease day by day and the gradually expanded market demand cannot be satisfied. The culture method for culturing the leeches has less investment but high production. The input of 100 kilograms of the leeches can yield 200 kilograms of the commercial leeches. The culture method can culture the leeches not only by building large vinyl tunnels and ponds, but also by using rural homesteads, yards or vacant houses for building the ponds, and has good economic benefits.

The present invention provides a card base which is degradable by microbes in natural environment. The card base is excellent in properties necessary for card bases, such as tensile strength, impact strength, flex temperature, heat resistance, resistance to thermal expansion and contraction, blocking resistance and humidity resistance, and has rigidity, bending resistance and durability. The card base contains, as essential components, a 3-hydroxybutylate/3-hydroxyvalerate copolymer and a lactic acid polymer, and, where necessary, a polycaprolactone or a high-molecular aliphatic polyester. The card base has a single-layer structure, or a sandwich structure further having overlay layers comprising a composition containing, as essential components, a lactic acid polymer and either or both of a polycaprolactone and a high-molecular alphatic polyester.

An animal mounted camera system for remotely monitoring and transmitting data from an animal in its natural habitat. The system comprises a camera, microphone, battery pack, antenna, microprocessor, housing, solar cell/battery blanket, and a data transmission unit. The camera and microphone provide an analog signal output and transmits the signal to the data transmission unit. Via the antenna, the data transmission unit transmits the audio and video analog signal to a UHF antenna array. The transmitted signal is actual footage of an animal in its natural habitat. In one embodiment, the system can monitor temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, location using a global positioning system (GPS) or some other tracking system, and other systems for collecting data relating to a subject animal and how the animal behaves in its natural environment, free of human influences.

The present invention discloses one series of all-component high concentration water soluble composite fertilizers containing macro elements and trace elements essential for crops and its production process. The composite fertilizers are produced through recipe design, addition of Ca, Mg and other elements, addition of chelated trace elements, penetrant, nitrification inhibitor and other effective components. The composite fertilizers are high quality chemical fertilizers with raised nutrient contents, long acting period, capacity of promoting the absorption of crop, low production cost, capacity of improving soil structure and natural environment, and other advantages.

The invention discloses a ful- degradable liquid mulch film, taking renewable and cheap natural macromolecule humic acid, lignin and waste slag as main raw material, containing no artificial macromolecule monomer in burdening. The product is characterized by good thermal insulating, and water retention function, low cost, environment- friendly, and adjustable degradating time about 30-120 days according to different requirement. The invention is characterized in that: it effectively overcomes problem of hard degradation for normal plastic mulch film, and it can fully degrade under natural environment, and the final product is soil humic acid fertilizer and carbon dioxide and there is no harm component residual.

The invention aims to provide a robot tracking method and equipment for robot tracking. The method comprises the following steps: determining a target object to be followed by a robot; identifying the target object from a scene which is captured by the robot in real time; determining a moving path of the robot toward the target object; and controlling the robot to move according to the moving path. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that when the target object is identified, the identification accuracy is improved by simultaneously utilizing the characteristic information of the target object and other objects in the environment, so that the target object can be accurately identified in a natural environment with real-time variation and more interference factors; meanwhile, an optimized path is planned according to the target position and barrier information, and the moving speed and direction of the robot can be accurately controlled to track the target, so that the technical problem of wrong tracking target or missed tracking target often happening in current robot tracking can be effectively solved.

An intelligent treadmill is described with modifications to existing treadmills, and associated methodology. The invention allows the conveyor belt automatically keeps track of and fixes the user's position dynamically with respect to a stationery reference point of the treadmill by adjusting its own speed free hands. Two position measurement techniques and their corresponding belt speed control algorithms are described. Other features of the invention allow users to perceive in real time how their surroundings would be changing by means of video, incline of platform, fan speed, sound and illumination as if they were in fact running in the natural environment. Real time positions of the runner and his partners on other treadmills with respect to a chosen track are displayed. The invention also utilizes a vectored controlled 2/3-phase AC induction motor or a BLDC motor to drive the conveyor belt for energy efficiency and fast response.

The invention provides effective technology for extracting active ingredients of Entermorpha and a method for preparing an Entermorpha alga fertilizer. The method is characterized by comprising: taking the Entermorpha as a raw material, effectively extracting the active ingredients of the Entermorpha through technical processes such as pretreatment of raw materials, leaching, neutralization, concentration and combination, taking an extracting solution as a base fluid, combining the extracting solution with at least one composition of humic acid, urea, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, potassiumsulfate, monoammonium phosphate and microelement, and preparing the high-activity Entermorpha alga fertilizer. The Entermorpha alga fertilizer is rich in active substances of algae, not only can strengthen photosynthesis of crops, increase the yield of the crops and improve the product quality but also can strengthen the cold resistance, the drought resistance, the stress resistance and the disease resistance of the crops, promote earliness of the crops and increase the fertile flower percentage and the fertile fruit percentage, has lower production cost, good solubility and safe use, is friendly and harmless to human beings, domestic animals and the natural environment, and is a novel environment-friendly fertilizer suitable for modern agriculture.

The invention provides a composite plate material of foam microcrystalline glass and pure microcrystalline glass. The composite plate material comprises a base body and a decoration surface, wherein the base body is made of a foam microcrystalline glass mixed material; the thickness of the base body is 50mm to 500mm; the decoration surface covers the surface of the base body and is made of pure microcrystalline glass granules; the thickness of the decoration surface is 3mm to 30mm. The invention also provides a manufacturing method of the composite plate material. The composite plate material of the foam microcrystalline glass and the pure microcrystalline glass, provided by the invention, can simultaneously replace a building material and a decoration material, and is small in specific gravity, high in strength, fireproof and corrosion-resistant; environment products which are difficultly handled in a natural environment and industrial wastes which are difficultly treated currently can be consumed; the environment stress is reduced.

The invention discloses a whole-body polished porcelain tile having three-dimensional stone texture and a production method of the tile. The tile comprises a whole-body colored blank layer, a ground coat layer, a pattern decoration layer, a three-dimensional stone texture layer and a surface decoration layer. The production method comprises steps as follows: 1) a whole-body colored blank is prepared; 2) the ground coat layer on the blank surface is formed; 3) the pattern decoration layer is formed; 4) ink or glaze having a dent effect is applied to the pattern decoration layer, a pattern corresponds to pattern texture of the decoration layer, and the three-dimensional stone texture layer is formed; 5) the surface decoration layer is formed; 6) a roller kiln is formed through sintering; 7) a finished product is obtained through polishing, edging and packaging. The surface color of the product produced with the scheme is integrated with the color of the blank, the stone texture changes naturally with the pattern texture of the product, the texture layer is protected by the surface decoration layer, and the tile has the decoration effect of natural stone. Properties of the product are superior to those of the natural stone, mining of the natural stone can be effectively reduced, and the natural environment is protected.

A method and apparatus of displaying an electronic video image using a head-worn near-to-eye display in a non-immersive fashion, such that the wearer can choose, through simple adjustments of their neck and eye angles, to either look at the displayed video image or their natural environment. The invention also relates to the incorporation of prescription lenses into the optical chain of the near-to-eye display. The invention also relates to the use of motion and position sensors incorporated into the head-worn device to enable automatic stabilization of the video image. The invention also relates to the use of motion and position sensors incorporated into the head-worn device to automatically adjust the vertical angle of either the camera or the electronic display or both, by sensing the vertical angular position of the user's head.

The invention relates to a natural scene text detection method based on an attention mechanism convolutional neural network. Firstly, image data with text under natural scene is labeled and divided into training set and test set. Then the text image is processed as training data by data enhancement method. Based on the attention mechanism module and Inception network, a feature extraction networkis constructed, and the features of different fonts are learned by multi-scale feature fusion. The network is pre-trained using course learning strategies. The network is trained again by using the text image data of the natural scene. The fused features are adopted to regress to get the coordinates of the text in the image, and the text detection results are obtained. Finally, the validity of thetrained neural network is verified in the test set and other open data sets. The method can solve the problems of low character recall rate and low recognition accuracy under complex natural environment in the current technology, and has advantages in running speed.

The invention provides a pier column pre-casting splicing construction technique working method, which is characterized in that: on a land construction site, a pier body of the whole bridge pier is pre-cast by segments, pier body end heads of each segment are buried with outwardly-extending reinforcement bars, and all segments are transferred to the pier construction site for pier assembly. The working method has the advantages of having light bridge piers, reducing the number of projects, saving manpower, lowering construction costs, having good construction quality and quick construction, solving the problems of reliability, safety, anti-crack property and durability between pier columns pre-cast by segments and between the pier columns and a bearing platform connecting structure, reducing the influence of natural conditions on construction period, reducing construction cost and construction risk, reducing the number of cast-in-situ concrete and equipment such as a hoisting machine and the like and effectively saving cost. Due to the advantages of the splicing type bridge pier and the development of various high strength concrete materials in recent years, the working method is applied to water bridges with large scale, multiple bridge spans, adverse natural environment, and difficult construction due to the influence of wind, wave, current, rain and fog.

The invention relates to a degradation disposable syringe and a method of preparing the syringe. The syringe includes an outer cover, a core pin, a needle seat and a needle cap, which can be degraded in the natural environment. The basic material for degradation is prepared with degradable polymer main material, plasticizer, stabilizer, stabilizing additive and filling compound, etc. The detailed injection molding process for all parts of the syringe is: the injection temperature for a feeding opening is 20 to 60 DEG C; the injection temperature for a compression section is 100 to 200 DEG C; the injection temperature for a measurement section is 130 to 240 DEG C; the injection temperature for a spray nozzle is 130 to 220 DEG C; the mold temperature is 20 to 50 DEG C; the injection pressure is 40 to 200MPa; the injection time is 8 to 90 seconds; the pressure holding time is 0 to 5 seconds; the screw speed is 20 to 180 r/m; all performances of the degradation syringe totally meet the national standard (GB15810-2001). After being abandoned, the syringe does not pollute the environment, prevents illegal recycling, and can totally replace the disposable polyolefin syringes.

The invention belongs to the technical field of microalga biology, and particularly relates to a microalga strain with high CO2 tolerance and high fixation rate and a breeding method thereof. The microalga is named Chlorella sp.Y-1, and is collected into Common Microorganism Center of China General Microbiological Culture Collection Committee; and collection number is CGMCC No.5429. The invention has the following characteristics: the initial strain is separated from natural environment; after high-CO2-concentration enrichment culture, gene cloning, induced mutation breeding and other operations, the carbon content of the target strain is increased to 56.981%, the optimal fixation concentration is up to 20% (v/v), the fixation rate is up to 5.762g/(L.d), and the maximum tolerance concentration is 100% (v/v); and the target strain has high adaptability to a series of physical and chemical culture conditions, has high culture transfer stability, and high better overall properties than the like research findings at present. The invention aims to solve the bottleneck problem in high concentration CO2 biological fixation technology, cultures an efficient organism capable of efficiently fixing high concentration CO2, implements effective fixation of CO2 in high concentration flue gas and other complex environments, and meanwhile, generates beneficial biological substances.

A fully compostable container is provided having an enclosed body with an opening through an interior surface and an exterior surface. The enclosed body having a plant fiber structural layer configured to biodegrade in ambient conditions into nontoxic residue and a fluid barrier layer formed on a first side of the structural layer to form the interior surface of the enclosed body, the fluid barrier layer configured to biodegrade in ambient conditions into nontoxic residue. The container is gradually biodegradable when exposed to a set of factors in a natural environment and has a shelf life of six months when stored under standard commercial conditions.