92 results about "Night sky" patented technology

A phase change material, including multiple phase change materials of different formulations, is placed in heat transfer association with an electronics enclosure (e.g., a sealed enclosure) deployed in an environment that causes the electronics and the phase change material to experience periods of heating and periods of cooling. During the periods of heating, the phase change material absorbs heat and changes at least partially from a first state to a second state to maintain the temperature of the electronics at a desirable level. During the periods of cooling, the phase change material reverts at least partially back to the first state for future heat absorption. The phase change material is cooled by a thermally cooler body such as the night sky. The electronics enclosure and phase change material may be placed in a second enclosure covered with a paint having a paint additive that reflects solar radiation.

A method and apparatus to control a lighting source such as a streetlight and modulate the output of the lighting source so that artificial illumination is reduced when moonlight is available to illuminate the area. The apparatus includes a sensor assembly for detecting moonlight in the night sky, an electronic circuit for processing the sensor signals in combination with moonrise and moonset data, and modulating the power applied to the lighting source in response to the intensity of the incident moonlight.

In order for the feature extractors to operate with sufficient accuracy, a high degree of training is required. In this situation, a neural network implementing the feature extractor may be trained by providing it with images having known correspondence. A 3D model of a city may be utilized in order to train a neural network for location detection. 3D models are sophisticated and allow manipulation of viewer perspective and ambient features such as day / night sky variations, weather variations, and occlusion placement. Various manipulations may be executed in order to generate vast numbers of image pairs having known correspondence despite having variations. These image pairs with known correspondence may be utilized to train the neural network to be able to generate feature maps from query images and identify correspondence between query image feature maps and reference feature maps. This training can be accomplished without requiring the capture of real images with known correspondence. Capture of real images with known correspondence is cumbersome, time and resource-intensive, and difficult to manage.

Apparatus and methods for finding and identifying objects in a nighttime sky include a lighted map arrangement, an electronic compass, and means to operate and view the apparatus in the dark to either find the objective in the nighttime sky or to identify an object observed in the nighttime sky. The apparatus and methods provide for orientation as to the physical geographical location of the viewer and the current date and time, as well as orientation of the viewing apparatus relative to the viewer and the nighttime sky.

An image obtained when a rare or valuable thing is found is shared between users each wearing an image display apparatus on the head or face.When a man finds a rare or valuable thing, the man feels like telling it to his / her surroundings. For example, when the man finds a planet such as Venus or shooting stars in the night sky, fish or a fresh water crab in a pond or a river, a bird, a cicada, a unicorn beetle, or the like on a tall tree in the woods, the man feels like saying “Look there!” An image display apparatus 100 releases a captured image in a line-of-sight direction of the user to share a user's precious experience with other users.

To enable legal twenty-four hour national flag display, to permit night display of vehicle-mounted school and team flags, and to do either with minimal increase in night sky light pollution, I mount a light source immediately adjacent a flag and direct the light essentially directly toward the flag, rather than upwardly into the sky. Preferably, the light source is provided within a transparent portion of the flag-mounting pole, and is ideally focused directly toward the flag by a reflector which is adapted to shift positions with changes in flag positions due to directional changes of air flow across the flag.

A cooling system that can be used to cool water and to cool an air supply to a building. The system employs a stand alone cooling tower and a night sky cooler. As a result, the water can be cooled below the ambient wet bulb temperature.

The invention provides an illumination system of an icebox, comprising a lamp assembly, a detection device and a control device. The lamp assembly comprises a plurality of LED lamps arranged in a preset mode, the detection device is used for detecting whether an icebox door is opened or closed, and the control device is respectively connected with the lamp assembly and the detection device and controls all the LED lamps in the lamp assembly according to the detection result of the detection device so as to gradually light up the LED lamps when the icebox door is opened and gradually extinguish the LED lamps when the icebox door is closed. In the invention, by controlling the lamp assembly through the control device, the LED lamps in the lamp assembly are gradually lighted up or extinguished so as to generate the effect like night sky stars, bring a user with a night sky star feeling and enhance the user feeling.

An apparatus for emulating various known night sky illumination conditions. The apparatus comprises a plurality of electrically-powerable LEDs which are disposed in an array and have respective spectral curves centered at different wavelengths in the visible to the short wave infrared wavebands, and means for fixing the temperatures of the LEDs to avoid temperature-induced changes in their spectral curves. Additionally, the apparatus includes means for varying the light intensities of the individual LEDs so that the combination of their spectral curves matches the spectrum of the known night sky illumination condition to be emulated, and means for regulating the total amount of light collected from the array so that the cumulative spectrum has the same intensity as the known night sky illumination condition to be emulated.

The invention relates to an anti-mosquito bat cave comprising a shaft enclosure built on a vertical shaft in a little hill by using stones, an upper shaft wall, a lower shaft wall and a cave, wherein the upper shaft wall, the lower shaft wall and the cave are arranged in the vertical shaft; the shaft enclosure exposes out of the ground, is in a horn shape with a wide top and a narrow bottom, and can prevent snakes and rats from climbing therein; the upper surface of the shaft enclosure is provided with an opening, and the lower surface is provided with the vertical shaft; the upper shaft wall of the vertical shaft is in a horn shape with a narrow top and a wide bottom, and the abdomen part of the vertical shaft is provided with a plurality of caves distributed along the horizontal direction; the caves are provided with floors, side walls, bottom walls and top walls, and waterproof asphaltum layers are coated on the top walls of the caves; the connection position of the upper shaft wall and the lower shaft wall is provided with a water drainage pipe with grates, which can prevent underground water from immersing the caves; and the lower wall is vertically built and can receive water capable of adjusting the temperature and humidity. In the daytime, bats stick to the top walls by using double feet in the dark caves to evade wind and rain as well as the intrusion of the snakes and rats; and in the nighttime, the bats drop into half air by unclenching the feet and fly into the night sky through the cave opening and the shaft opening to capture flying mosquitoes. The anti-mosquito bat cave is arranged in gardens of residential areas or tourist areas, can eliminate mosquitoes, and has no electricity consumption and no pollution.

In order for the feature extractors to operate with sufficient accuracy, a high degree of training is required. In this situation, a neural network implementing the feature extractor may be trained by providing it with images having known correspondence. A 3D model of a city may be utilized in order to train a neural network for location detection. 3D models are sophisticated and allow manipulation of viewer perspective and ambient features such as day / night sky variations, weather variations, and occlusion placement. Various manipulations may be executed in order to generate vast numbers of image pairs having known correspondence despite having variations. These image pairs with known correspondence may be utilized to train the neural network to be able to generate feature maps from query images and identify correspondence between query image feature maps and reference feature maps. This training can be accomplished without requiring the capture of real images with known correspondence. Capture of real images with known correspondence is cumbersome, time and resource-intensive, and difficult to manage.

The present invention offers an improvement to existing canting, slope error, and / or pointing measurement approaches, by using one or more cameras to observe the reflections of points of light in the firmament, such as the reflections of stars and / or planets as visible within the night sky in the heliostat facets. An illustrative heliostat measurement system comprises a plurality of heliostats, and at least one camera that observes at least one heliostat. The heliostats reflect an image of the firmament that can be observed by the at least one camera. The system further comprises (i) at least one captured image of the firmament reflected from at least one of the heliostats; and (ii) a computer comprising programming that determines a heliostat imperfection from the captured image, wherein the heliostat imperfection is selected from at least one of a slope error, a canting error, and a pointing error.

The invention relates to an autonomous positioning method based on observation of a moonlight atmospheric polarization mode, and the method comprises the following steps: firstly obtaining the polarization degree and polarization azimuth angle information of night sky and moonlight through a moonlight atmospheric polarization sensor; secondly, determining a polarization degree threshold value according to the mean value of the moonlight polarization degree of each point in the sky, and screening out sky observation points which can be used for calculation; solving a moon elevation angle at thecurrent moment by utilizing the polarization degree and the polarization azimuth angle of the sky moon at night; and finally, calculating the position of the carrier by using two moon elevation angles at a fixed time interval. The method has night autonomous positioning capability, and enhances the all-time working capability of the polarization positioning technology.

The invention discloses a star gazing-realizing method, comprising following steps: a step of storing in advance star information available of multiple galaxies; a step of taking pictures of any galaxy in the night sky; a step of calculating a location and luminance of each star in the galaxy picture and comparing the location and the luminance with the star information of multiple galaxies stored in advance, wherein when the star information of a galaxy stored in advance matches with the location and luminance of each star in the galaxy picture, the galaxy in the picture is the galaxy in the star information stored in advance; and a step of getting all the star information of the galaxy in the picture and informing users in a real-time way. In addition, the invention also discloses a star gazing-realizing device. The star gazing-realizing method and the device thereof disclosed in the invention can provide people with a star gazing function, and inform people of detailed information of each star in the starry sky, therefore enriching constellation knowledge of people, improving enjoyment of outdoor activities, and promoting life quality of people.

The invention relates to a water unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform adopting lithium-ion electric to supply power and provided with laser transmitters and belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle application. Unmanned aerial vehicles will be applied to many industries of national economy, and the water unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform made of multiple buoyancy materials such as a PE plastic buoyancy tank, a PIN core material and a wood-plastic foam board will appear on water in some cities. An unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform communicating device on the water unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform interconnects and intercommunicates with an unmanned aerial vehicle communicating device through wireless radio waves. The first laser transmitter and the second laser transmitter adopting the lithium-ion electric to supply power are installed on the upper portion of the middle of the wood-plastic foam board of the water unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform and transmit light beams of different colors to the night sky, and people can know the position of the water unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform on the water by observing the light beams of the different colors.

The invention discloses a night skin repairing skincare mask, which comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 1 to 10% of white lotus flower extract, 0.5 to 5% of jania rubens extract, 0.1 to 2% of rockrose extract, 0.1 to 2% of eggshell membrane extracted from eggs, 1 to 6% of glycerin, 0.5 to 10% of 1,3-propylene glycol, 1 to 6% of hydroxyethyl urea, 0.5 to 4% of trehalose, 0.05 to 0.5% of arginine, 0.5 to 3% of serine, 0.5 to 3% of common auxiliary components, and the balance being deionized water. The provided mask can repair skin damaged by various reasons such as spiritual pressure, fatigue, air pollution, UV rays, unhealthy dietary, unhealthy habits, and the like. The damaged skin is dry, rough, non-elastic, and dark, and people look weary, the mask can solve the abovementioned problems. The mask has a unique night skin repairing function, can recover the moisture and elasticity of the skin, regenerates and activates the skin, prevents aging and oxidation, and brightens the skin.

An apparatus for emulating various known night sky illumination conditions. The apparatus comprises a plurality of electrically-powerable LEDs which are disposed in an array and have respective spectral curves centered at different wavelengths in the visible to the short wave infrared wavebands, and means for fixing the temperatures of the LEDs to avoid temperature-induced changes in their spectral curves. Additionally, the apparatus includes means for varying the light intensities of the individual LEDs so that the combination of their spectral curves matches the spectrum of the known night sky illumination condition to be emulated, and means for regulating the total amount of light collected from the array so that the cumulative spectrum has the same intensity as the known night sky illumination condition to be emulated.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for recording and evaluating of the accuracy of predictions of random or unpredictable future events. The invention may be used for educational purposes and in games of chance. In one embodiment, it discloses a method and apparatus whereby a particular astronomical object or region of the natural sky is identified. The section of the sky so identified could be the surface of the sun or the night sky. This identification can be considered an “observation field” or “playing field” upon which gaming or study will take place. Superimposed upon this field is a geometric pattern, such as a grid, dividing the sky into pre-determined regions. The invention then compares actual events to predicted events and notifies the user if the user was or was not successful at predicting the event.

A portable structure, simply constructed with inexpensive and generally lightweight materials, for displaying a selected portion of the night sky and selected planets, satellites, comets and other astronomically observable objects that are visually perceptible within that portion of the night sky. The structure includes a computer having stored signals representing the observable objects, an image projector that converts and projects the stored signals as visually perceptible images, a first curvilinear light-reflecting surface to receive and reflect the visually perceptible images, and a second curvilinear surface to receive and display the visually perceptible images reflected from the first surface. The images may be motionless or may move with passage of time. In one embodiment, the structure includes an inflatable screen surface that receives gas in an enclosed volume, supports itself without further mechanical support, and optionally self-regulates pressure of the received gas within the enclosed volume.

A lowest rate on a multi-night lodging stay is achieved by obtaining lodging rate information for a first lodging location from a plurality of lodging rate sources. The information is correlated with each night of a window during which a consumer is available to travel. A block of nights within the window having the lowest lodging rate is identified. Then, a plurality of lodging reservations corresponding to the identified block are generated, wherein at least two of the lodging reservations correspond to different nights of the multi-night lodging stay and are placed through different lodging reservation systems. A block having the lowest total cost of travel can also be identified by considering the cost of other travel related expenses in conjunction with the lodging rate for the block.

The invention discloses a stationary transparent vacuum ger tent. The stationary transparent vacuum ger tent comprises a main tent and an attached tent, wherein the main tent comprises an annular wall and a taper head cover; the attached tent is a cylindrical body, the taper head cover is arranged at the top of the annular wall, the attached tent is arranged on the side of the annular wall, the three parts are made of the double-layer organic glass or double-layer glass, and a vacuum layer is formed between each of the double-layer organic glass or double-layer glass; the connecting parts among the annular wall, the taper head cover and attached tent are connected and sealed via the colloid, liquid holes are respectively formed in the annular wall and the bottom of the attached tent, and a liquid pipe is connected with the liquid holes. The stationary transparent vacuum ger tent adopts the vacuum design, the heat preservation performance of the tent is relatively good in winter, the tent is non-transparent in summer for reflecting the sunshine which cannot directly irradiate the tent, and the tent transparent degree can be adjusted at any moment, the tent can be adjusted into the transparent state for seeing sunrise / fall; the lower part of the tent for 2 / 3 can be adjusted in the non-transparent state for seeing night sky while the upper part of the tent for 1 / 3 can be adjusted in the transparent state for meeting the private space requirement for people.

The invention provides a rotary festoon lamp acoustooptical device on a model airplane, belonging to a sport entertainment model aircraft. Color light-emitting tubes and acoustic equipment are arranged on the positions which are seen easily on the body and wings of the model aircraft and propellers, therefore, when in flight, favorite songs and analog sounds can be heard in the air, and when in night flight, the light-emitting tubes arranged on the propellers rotate to form color light rings with different sizes, thus adding a beautiful and splendid view for night sky. In addition, operators can judge the flight direction and high-low orientation of the model airplane through the fixed festoon lamps and rotary festoon lamps on the model airplane in night flight. The rotary festoon lamp acoustooptical device on the model airplane has the advantages of enabling the model airplane to adapt to the flight environments in day and at night, greatly attracting and increasing the interests of people in the model airplane, and playing a promoting role in wide development of model airplane activities and promotion and popularization of model airplane equipment.

A light emitting key is disclosed. A through hole is made through piezoresistive layer; a light source is arranged under the bottom of the light emitting key. When the light source is turned on, light beams shall emit out of the top substrate. The light emitting effect of the key facilitates it to be used in a dark area such as an aircraft flying in the night sky.

The invention relates to a display shell and a manufacturing method thereof, particularly a display shell for entertainment in festival celebration. According to the display shell, compressed air is used as power for driving an air cylinder (1) to lift off and a sound amplification cylinder (21) to explode and jet a flash piece (11); a parachute (19) is utilized to reduce the falling speed; and a broad light (9) is utilized to illuminate the night sky. The method of generating new technical effects under a certain action in the form of an operation mode and a technical process is utilized to represent the technical scheme. The invention has outstanding features and marked progresses. The display shell provided by the invention can implement continuous explosions and colorful fireworks after lift-off, does not generate discharge pollution of smoke, Pm2.5 dust or carbon, is safe in the aspects of production, storage, transportation and application, and can be used repeatedly, thereby becoming an upgraded new-generation safe environment-friendly display shell.