275 results about "Object description" patented technology

A system and method for providing an improved namespace and object description system for enterprise management are disclosed. The system and method employ a hierarchical namespace with objects including prototypes and instances where an instance inherits traits from a prototype, such as attribute values and/or child objects.

A method, system, and program for dynamic grid job distribution from any resource within a grid environment. Multiple resources enabled to handle grid jobs are connected via at least one network within a grid environment. Each of the multiple resources is enabled to distribute an availability and ability to handle grid jobs within the grid environment. Each of the multiple resources is also enabled to access the availability and ability to handle grid jobs of all of the other resources within the grid environment. The distribution of and access to current information may be organized as a hierarchical resource directory system or as a peer-to-peer resource distribution system. Further, resources within the grid environment are also enabled to receive a grid job and a job object, as a receiving resource. The job object received at a receiving resource describes at least one requirement for the grid job submitted to the receiving resource. The receiving resource determines the most suitable resource to handle the job from among the grid resources, wherein the ability to handle grid jobs by the most suitable resource meets the at least one requirement for the grid job and the most suitable resource indicates an availability to receive the grid job. The receiving resource then controls submission of the job to the most suitable resource for handling the job.

A method is provided for use in a computer system to describe and obtain arbitrary data relating to a subject. The method provides a meta-language “Generic Object Oriented Description of Structured Data (GDL)” and a Parser. GDL allows a user to organize, define and describe subjects through the use of a schema known as a Template. Templates can be used to define the semantics for each subject element as well as, to define how each element fits into a larger data framework. Through the concept of Inheritance, Templates can be extended and defined to various levels of nesting, while still having a common core of properties. GDL allows the features and attributes of a subject to be quickly and readily extended or modified by altering a source file. A GDL parser provides a structured and hierarchical representation of the information, validation of text-entry semantics and a means to traverse through information obtained from the source file.

The invention disclosed provides a method, system, and associated tag for detection and tracking of inanimate and animate objects. The novel method broadly comprises the steps of: a) attaching a low radio frequency detection tag to each of the objects, each tag comprising a tag antenna operable at a low radio frequency not exceeding 1 megahertz (preferably not exceeding 300 kilohertz), a transceiver operatively connected to the tag's antenna, the transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data signals at the low radio frequency, a data storage device operable to store data comprising identification data for identifying said detection tag, a programmed data processor operable to process data received from the transceiver and the data storage device and to send data to cause the transceiver to emit an identification signal based upon the identification data stored in said data storage device, and an energy source for activating the tag's transceiver and data processor; b) storing, in the data storage device of each tag, shipping data selected from object description data, address-of-origin data, destination address data, object vulnerability data, and object status data; c) commingling the objects in a repository selected from a warehouse and a truck, the repository being provided with at least one large loop field antenna operable at said low radio frequency; the field antenna being disposed at a distance from each object that permits effective communication therewith at the low radio frequency, d) reading the identification data and shipping data from the transceiver of each tag by interrogating all tags commingled in said repository with data signals, such as specific IP addresses or other identification codes, via said field antenna; and e) transmitting the identification data and shipping data from each tag to a central data processor to provide a tally of the objects in said repository.

The present invention relates to a system for generating a description record from multimedia information including, e.g., video data. A multimedia information input interface is used to receive multimedia information. A computer processor receives the multimedia information, processes the video information by performing video object extraction processing to generate video object descriptions from the video information, processes the generated video object descriptions by object hierarchy construction and extraction processing to generate video object hierarchy descriptions, and processes the generated video object descriptions by entity relation graph descriptions.

The invention disclosed provides a method, system, and associated tag for detection and tracking of inanimate and animate objects. The novel method broadly comprises the steps of: a) attaching a low radio frequency detection tag to each of the objects, each tag comprising a tag antenna operable at a low radio frequency not exceeding 1 megahertz (preferably not exceeding 300 kilohertz), a transceiver operatively connected to the tag's antenna, the transceiver being operable to transmit and receive data signals at the low radio frequency, a data storage device operable to store data comprising identification data for identifying said detection tag, a programmed data processor operable to process data received from the transceiver and the data storage device and to send data to cause the transceiver to emit an identification signal based upon the identification data stored in said data storage device, and an energy source for activating the tag's transceiver and data processor; b) storing, in the data storage device of each tag, shipping data selected from object description data, address-of-origin data, destination address data, object vulnerability data, and object status data; c) commingling the objects in a repository selected from a warehouse and a truck, the repository being provided with at least one large loop field antenna operable at said low radio frequency; the field antenna being disposed at a distance from each object that permits effective communication therewith at the low radio frequency, d) reading the identification data and shipping data from the transceiver of each tag by interrogating all tags commingled in said repository with data signals, such as specific IP addresses or other identification codes, via said field antenna; and e) transmitting the identification data and shipping data from each tag to a central data processor to provide a tally of the objects in said repository.

A system 100 includes a plurality of devices 150, 160, 162, 164, 166 that can communicate via a network (110). The server device 150 includes a content directory service (hereinafter “CDS”) with a dynamic, hierarchical structure of containers, each capable of storing objects; each object including an object description and an object content or object content locator, such as a URL. The CDS includes a predetermined upload container. The other devices in the system can make an object available via the CDS to devices in the system by uploading the object to the predetermined container. The server determines for an uploaded object a container in the CDS based on the object description and/or object content, and moves the uploaded object to the determined container.

An automatic card-based presentation generation system programmatically creates card-based presentation documents from source documents by transforming a card layout style specification into presentation specifications which at run-time, are used to generate formatting object descriptions. The formatting object descriptions are then used to actually create card-based presentation documents. The invention includes a presentation style transformer and a card-based presentation generator. The presentation style transformer takes a card layout style specification (CLSS) and a card display schema (CDS) and transforms them into card-based presentation specifications (CPS). The card-based presentation generator takes the card-based presentation specifications and a card-based document content to create formatting object descriptions.

A method for describing objects in a virtual space. In one embodiment, each object is a URL, which has been assigned to a system of hierarchical categories. The objects have been mapped to a map region, each object having been given a location within the map region. Each category within the map region is defined as a polygon area covering all of the category's objects as well as all of the category's subcategories. A client computer can request a portion of the map to be visualized. A host computer receives the request and retrieves the appropriate objects and categories from a database. The host computer forms the response to the request using a protocol which describes facts, location, and metadata about the objects and categories. The encoded response is delivered to the client. The client decodes the response and renders the objects and categories for the user. Different types of clients can concurrently request object descriptions from the server.

The invention relates to an object file organization method based on an object storage device, comprising the following steps of: establishing the layout of an object file system in a disk, loading information including object description, object bitmap and the like in a memory; detecting the size of the object file by a space allocator before allocating the space; if the size of the object file is acquired, adopting a pre-allocating method to allocate space for the object file on the disk; if the size of the object file can not be acquired, firstly writing part data of the object file into a buffer zone; detecting whether the buffer zone is fully filled or whether the client needs to release the caching data, allocating space for the data in the buffer zone on the disk, and writing the data into the disk; and when the data in the buffer zone is far larger than size of the logic data sub-block, allocating storage space for the data by the space allocator. The invention adopts the method of continuously allocating a plurality of data blocks, thus reducing the time for searching and allocating free blocks, and making up the limitation and disadvantage of object file system disk space allocation in the current distribution-type file system.

For generating a low-frequency channel for a low-frequency loudspeaker arranged at a predetermined low-frequency loudspeaker position, a plurality of audio objects are initially provided, each audio object having an object position and an object description associated with it. Hereafter, a calculation of an audio object scaling value is performed for each audio object on the basis of the object description, so that an actual amplitude state at least comes close to a target amplitude state at a reference playback position. Thereafter, each object signal is scaled with an associated audio object scaling value so as to then sum the scaled object signals. From the composite signal obtained there, a low-frequency channel is subsequently derived for the low-frequency loudspeaker, and is provided to the respective low-frequency loudspeaker. Due to the scaling of the individual object signals of the audio objects, this approach is independent of an actual situation of a multichannel playback system with regard to the number and density of the loudspeakers as well as with regard to the size of the presentation area actually present.

A method of controlling a terminal of the MPEG-4 system to enable to faster reproduce the selected contents through a caching mechanism includes, if the contents to be reproduced is selected, the terminal of the MPEG-4 system receives an initial object descriptor of the selected contents from a server, and then determines an object of stream and the priority based on the initial object descriptor, object descriptor, and a scene description. A random object is stored in the cache at the point of reproducing the random object constituting the contents. If a final update time of the object stored in the cache is identical with that of the object existing in the server, the object requested to be reproduced from the cache is reproduced. Accordingly, the method makes it possible to more promptly reproduce the contents requested by a user and to provide more stable contents to the user.

The invention provides a multi-user backup data organization chart and a backup data centralized storage management method based on same; the method comprises the following steps: receiving data object description information of the backup data, backuping the data block corresponded by digital fingerprints in the data object description information which have different digital fingerprints with those of the multi-user backup data organization chart, storing the index information corresponded by the data block and the data object description information in the multi-user backup data organization chart in corresponding format and increasing the reference counts of the data block. The multi-user backup data organization chart comprises a user table, a task table, a backup point index table, a data block index table and a data warehouse. The invention can eliminate the repeated contents in each backup data of users in the backup stage, saves the transmission bandwidth and the cost of storage space and effectively reduces the occupied storage space of repeated data.

The invention discloses an Internet of things system which comprises a sensing layer, a network layer, an application layer and an Internet of things general architecture platform layer. The Internet of things general architecture platform layer comprises an object description model and description language unit, an object identify unifying and parsing platform, an object access and management platform, an object service platform and an object interaction platform. Top-layer design of Internet of things architecture platform is carried out for Internet of things architecture platforms, so that technology development of Internet of things can be planned from the top layer, a standard system is led to be established, and construction of an application system of the Internet of things is promoted; unified guidance can be established for development of the Internet of things, reconstruction is avoided, construction cost is lowered, and deployment speed is increased.

The invention is a process to compare two digital images (and usually more) and to identify objects in each image. After object identification, object descriptors are formed. The object descriptors of the objects in one frame are compared to those of objects in the second frame, allowing the tracking of an object in the two frames. The movement of each tracked object within the two frames is quantified, and the second frame is corrected to account for the object's movement.

A method of providing Java application layer access to hardware peripheral memory mapped registers is provided together with a processor adapted to implement such a method. A fixed memory address space for a hardware peripheral's memory mapped registers is identified, and a Java object is constructed having elements which occupy this fixed memory address space. This allows a Java application to be provided with access to the hardware peripheral's memory mapped registers directly through the Java object. A new Java class is defined having base address and length parameters and in some cases also having a type parameter. This is used in constructing the Java object. When a Java object has an object descriptor which is effectively an object header and a pointer to where the object data is located, constructing the Java object may be done by creating an object descriptor, and then creating an object handle for the Java object which points to the object descriptor. Alternatively, a level of indirection may be removed, and the object handle created to point directly to the object created so as to exist in memory mapped register space.

An object description language and a system in which the language is utilized is provided. The language describes the elements and structure of another programming language. It allows more information to be expressed by a developer than can be expressed in other programming languages. In addition to describing how objects interface with each other, the object description language of the present invention captures thc structure of objects. The object description language can also contain information pertaining to memory management and scheduling. A system in which the language is utilized is also provided. The system assists the developer with code development. The system includes a compiler for the object description language, a compiler for the programming language being described, a separator, and a combiner. The components of the system work together to produce object code that is then executed on an applications platform.

A device and method for receiving and transmitting digital multimedia broadcasting is disclosed. The transmitting device includes an MPEG4 system including at least one of an ES_Descriptor of an audio object and an ES_Descriptor of a visual object at a set position of an Initial Object Descriptor (IOD) syntax, and encoding data indicated by the IOD using MPEG4 compression algorithms, and an MPEG2 system including the IOD in a Program Specific Information (PSI) table, and encoding the PSI table and data received from the MPEG4 system into an MPEG2 mode and transmitting the encoded data.

The invention discloses a method and a device for describing and capturing a video object, a video sequence is generated by capturing a video image, a video object tracking sequence is generated according to the video sequence; and a video object descriptor is generated according to the video object tracking sequence and the video sequence. The video object is replayed, and the capture and the tracking are carried out on the video object according to information contained in the obtained video object tracking sequence. The application of the invention does not need the frame-by-frame establishment of the video object descriptor for each video object in that the video object is captured and tracked in the constituted video object tracking sequence according to a tracking serial number of a video object region, thereby reducing the number of the video object descriptors, being well adapted to the application needs of intelligent video interaction and also accelerating the retrieval speed of video information.