219 results about "Paralemmin" patented technology

A method for classifying input to a multi-touch sensitive digitizer that is obtained from a body part as inputs invalid for user interaction and inputs valid for user interaction comprises: identifying a plurality of discrete regions of input to a digitizer sensor; determining spatial relation between at least two of the regions; and classifying one of the at least two regions as either valid input region or invalid input region based on the spatial relation determined between the at least two regions.

A hand pattern switch device capable of easily and reliably detecting a hand pattern or a palm motion of an operator. From a picked-up image of a distal arm, an axis passing through the centroid of a hand is determined as a central axis passing through the center of arm. At least either first scanning lines perpendicular to the central axis or second scanning lines extending along the central axis are set between a fingertip and a palm center. While changing the scanning line to be examined from the fingertip side toward the palm center, a determination is made to determine how many number of scanning lines for each of which a finger width equal to or larger than a predetermined width is detected are present, thereby making a detection of whether or not the finger is extended from the palm.

An improved system and method for personalizing the ride and/or handling characteristics of a motor vehicle are disclosed. An example system for personalizing or individualizing the ride and/or handling characteristics of a motor vehicle is disclosed, which includes a processing unit, a memory unit, an interface unit, and a plurality of electronic control modules coupled to each other by a high speed data rate communications bus. The interface unit is also coupled to a read unit and a wireless input unit. The system can be operated in a centralized mode or a distributed mode. The read unit and wireless input unit can read in or receive, and forward to the interface unit, an individual's personal motor vehicle ride and/or handling characteristics data stored in a memory component of a device in that individual's possession. For example, an individual (e.g., driver, etc.) may carry a palm device (e.g., PDA, Palm Pilot®, etc.) including a memory component that stores that individual's personalized ride and/or handling characteristics data. The read unit can include, for example, a docking station for the palm device, which conveys the individual's personalized data from the memory component in the palm device to the interface unit. As another example, the individual may carry a cellular radiotelephone including a memory component. In this case, the wireless input unit can include, for example, a cellular radiotelephone or similar device that is compatible for operations with the individual's cellular device, and the individual can use the cellular device to transmit the individual's ride and/or handling characteristics data from the memory component to the interface unit via the wireless input unit. Thus, the processing unit and/or control modules can execute suitable algorithms for controlling the ride and/or handing characteristics of a motor vehicle, based on the individual's personalized data. Also, the use of a high speed data rate communications bus enables the system to meet future high speed data rate and processing requirements (e.g., drive-by-wire, etc.).

A system and method for automatically computing desirable palm grasp configurations of an object by a robotic hand is disclosed. A description of the object's surface is obtained. A grasp configuration of a robotic hand comprising a palm and one or more fingers is selected, which specifies a hand configuration and joint variables of the hand, and a plurality of contact points on the object's surface for the palm and fingers. The coefficient of friction at each of the contact points is determined, and a description of one or more external wrenches to which may apply to the object is acquired. The ability of the robotic hand to hold the object against the external wrenches in the selected configuration is then computed. In some embodiments, a plurality of grasp configurations may be compared to determine which are the most desirable. In other embodiments, the space of hand configurations, or the smaller space of palm contact configurations, may be searched to find the most desirable grasp configurations.

An apparatus capable of scanning in documents is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a linear scanner is integrated with a portable computing device and exposed to a scanning document. An image is generated when there is a relative motion between the linear scanner and the scanning document. Texts in the image are reproduced by an OCR engine in the apparatus and can be displayed on a display screen of the portable computing device. The reproduced texts can be then filled in appropriate fields on records maintained in the device or transported to another device.

The invention discloses a non-contact type palm print and palm vein recognition system, which comprises an active light source, an image acquisition device, a data transmission controller and a core processing device. The active light source is used for providing visible light and near infrared light for image acquisition, the image acquisition device is used for acquiring palm print images and palm vein images according to reflecting light, which is illuminated onto a palm of a user, of the visual light and the near infrared light, the data transmission controller is used for transmitting the palm print images and the palm vein images to the core processing device, and the core processing device is connected with the data transmission controller, is used for preprocessing the palm print images and the palm vein images, and then realizes feather comparison of preprocessed images and stored reserved samples so as to realize identification. The non-contact type palm print and palm vein recognition system realizes non-contact type palm image acquisition and recognition, improves palm recognition precision, is safe and sanitary and is convenient in use. Besides, energy consumption is saved, and simultaneously, the service life of the system is prolonged.

A portable, palm-sized, Data Acquisition System including an apparatus to measure engine thermo-events, a wiring harness having signals for collecting, recording, and transmitting engine performance data and identifying the engine being monitored, and an acquisition server (DAS) for collecting and transmitting data from the thermo-measuring apparatus and wiring harness, is taught. There also is a Web-server, an Ethernet network interface, software, an SPI bus interface requiring only three signals for communication, and a software system that records, stores, processes, transmits, displays, and analyzes data pertaining to any combustion engine performance and other industrial engine applications. The use of fiber optic cable for electronic communication provides for the DAS to be installed a distance from the engine. The DAS is share-able between several engines, is user friendly, is low cost to manufacture, affordable, and has a flexible signaling feature that works with systems that use, and do not use, telemetry.

Disclosed is a capture and identification system for blending images of palm veins and palm prints. The capture and identification system comprises a computer, an instrument case, and a heat mirror, a near-infrared light source, a visible light source, an infrared CCD (charge coupled device) camera, a visible light CCD camera, a communication interface, an image capture card and a rectangular supporting body which are mounted in the instrument case. Near-infrared light emitted from the near-infrared light source and visible light emitted from the visible light source irradiates to the palm of a tasted person respectively. Distributing information of subcutaneous veins is included in a reflected infrared light which penetrates through the heat mirror to form the image in an imaging sensor of the infrared CCD camera with an infrared filter, and the image of the palm veins is acquired. The image of the palm prints is captured by the visible light CCD camera with the infrared filter, the two images are converted into a digital image signal through the image capture card to be transmitted to the computer, and identification is performed by extracting characteristics after the images are registered and blended.

The nailing depth control structure for a palm nailer is mounted at the hammering head of the palm nailer. The control structure includes a control block with several steps, a cylinder base, a flexible pipe fitted internally with an anchoring position, a resilient component and a rotary location component. When the user employs the present invention, it is possible to drive the synchronous rotation of flexible pipe and change the position of anchoring position of flexible pipe in relation to steps of control block, thereby adjusting retracted distance of flexible pipe for easy control of nailing depth. By using scale markers placed externally at the cylinder base, it is feasible to identify the current nailing depth of palm nailer, and relieve the need of removing structural components with improved efficiency and ease-of-operation.

A live print scanner includes a transparent tray platen apparatus and a scanning system. The transparent tray platen apparatus includes a base region attached to two rounded side regions. The base region of the tray platen assembly includes a convex portion. A hand is placed atop the base region adjacent to one of the two rounded side regions such that the hand's palm pocket is atop the convex portion. A sensor assembly within the rotary scanning system generates a complete image of a palm print pattern. Because of the side regions and the convex portion, the image generated includes an image of a print pattern on the palm pocket as well as on the side of the palm. A holographic element may be disposed in a light path between an illumination source and the sensor.

A case configured to enclose a portable electronic device includes a plurality of externally accessible electrical contacts, enabling electrical current to flow to or from the device while enclosed in the case. The invention is applicable to all types of portable devices, including laptop, notebook and palm-top computers, as well as telecommunications devices, video players and music players. Typically the electrical contacts allow a battery in the case or in the device to be recharged while device is enclosed. An adaptor cable may be provided between the device and the electrical contacts so that the same or similar case may be used with different model devices from different manufacturers. For greater ‘universality,’ a voltage-changing adaptor cable may be provided within the case between the device and the electrical contacts. The system may further include a docking bay to receive the case, the docking bay having a set of electrical contacts configured to electrically engage with the contacts on the case. Such a docking bay may take the form of a charging stand, a cart with one or more slots or compartments, or a locker with a door and a storage compartment.

A pen-holding corrective apparatus is formed with at least a plurality of poisitioning parts for positioning the thumb, the middle finger and the index finger of a user, so as to combine points of force exertion for the thumb, the middle finger and the index finger via the positioning parts and enable the ring finger and the little finger to curl behind the middle finger, so that the user can master a correct pen-holding posture with the pen-holding corrective-apparatus, whereby the user's fingers can curl naturally without touching the palm when the user holds a writing tool.

A device for acquiring images of a print of at least a portion of a user's hand, the device comprising a stand defining an acquisition zone extending substantially in a plane, an optical acquisition member that is fastened to the stand to have a field of view covering the acquisition zone, and a processor unit connected to the acquisition member to process an image signal coming therefrom, wherein:

• • the stand is arranged to provide an empty space zone containing the acquisition zone and forming a passage for said portion of the hand while moving parallel to the plane;
  • the device includes at least one projector member for projecting a light test pattern of at least two colors into the acquisition zone;
  • the optical acquisition member has a depth of field extending on either side of the acquisition zone and it possesses a color sensor having an acquisition speed that is sufficient to capture at least one color image of said portion of the hand moving at a predetermined maximum speed of movement; and
  • the processor unit is arranged to extract from the color image signal a monochrome image in each of the projected colors, to reconstitute a texture of said portion of the hand from at least one of the monochrome images, and to reconstitute a shape from at least one of the monochromic images.

The present invention provides a palm positioning and central area extraction method for three-dimensional palmprint identity authentication system. First of all, well-defined three-dimensional palmprint cloud data is acquired, and the data is mapped onto a matrix of the same length and width as a dual-dimensional image for point-to-point alignment of the three-dimensional and two-dimensional images. On the two-dimensional palm image to be attended, two characteristics between the fingers and the palm are found. By utilizing the two-dimensional palmprint identification center area positioning algorithm, four pixel coordinates in a center area are found and the three-dimensional palmprint cloud data is obtained. Based on the way cloud data is arranged, the three-dimensional palmprint data is mapped onto the corresponding two-dimensional matrix to come up with the three-dimensional cloud coordinate. Through changing coordinate, rotating and interpolation method, the central area is extracted out of the three-dimensional cloud. The invention can effectively save storage space and speed up calculation by locating the three-dimensional palmprint cloud coordinate, extracting the central points from plentiful three-dimensional palmprint cloud data, and eliminating redundant data points.

The invention relates to a network multimedia television and mobile equipment, in particular to a projection menu-based television remote control method, a projection menu-based television remote control device and a television. The method comprises the following steps of: projecting an entity menu of a game or interactive software to a desktop or the palm of a user to form a projection menu by a projector; identifying a body position and a finger position of the user and recording a finger image by a camera, and recording the movement position of the finger image when a finger moves; and when the movement position of the finger image is overlapped with a key of the projection menu, feeding back the key information, and responding the key information. According to the method, the aim of realizing accurate and fine control by utilizing gesture control is fulfilled finally by projecting the entity menu of the game and the interactive software by the projector and identifying the gesture of the user by utilizing an image identification technology, so that the interactivity between the user and an application program is enhanced, and the entertainment and the interactivity of the television are more humanized and intelligent.

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal antenna control method and a system. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the target information currently detected by the detection equipment on a mobile terminal, identifying whether a user holds the mobile terminal with a left hand or right hand according to the target information, and adjusting the radiation direction of a mobile terminal antenna according to the result of identification. By using the scheme of the present embodiment, the influence on antenna performance by palm blocking can be weakened or avoided, and the antenna performance is optimized.

The invention relates to beta-mannase mRmMan5A and an encoding gene and application thereof .Compared with original beta-mannase mRmMan5A, the beta-mannase mRmMan5A has the advantages that the optimal pH is low and is 4.5, and the optimal temperature is high and is 65 DEG C .Compared with beta-mannase reported in the past, the beta-mannase mRmMan5A has higher application value in the industries of food, feed and the like .The enzyme activity of beta-mannase of engineering bacteria fermentation liquor prepared by introducing the encoding gene of the protein into pichia pastoris can reach 72626 U/mL (protein content is 9.1 mg/mL), and efficient expression is achieved .The beta-mannase is used for hydrolyzing palm meal subjected to steam explosion, hydrolysate mainly contains mannan oligosaccharide with polymerization degree of 2 to 4, the mannan oligosaccharide yield is 19.6%, and the mannan oligosaccharide conversion rate is about 60%.

An ergonomic mouse has a sliding cap matching the curvature of a normal human palm. The sliding cap may be slid on the top of a hollow body to reach a desired operation position, then fine-tuned and anchored. Thus when the mouse is moved during operation, it can absorb reaction forces to avoid hurting the user's wrist and better meet ergonomic requirements.