287 results about "Pre screening" patented technology

A portable virtual reality device is disclosed that will facilitate the effective and efficient screening for TBI in military personnel in forward deployed military settings or remote locations using minimally trained staff. This includes the establishment of a protocol that will provide cost effective pre-screening of military personnel prior to deployment to establish a baseline of brain function prior to possible future injury. The efficiency of the device will promote subsequent follow-up screening to assess the effectiveness of prescribed TBI treatment. Further protocols for diagnosis and rehabilitation applications using the same virtual reality portable device will allow more advanced usage for clinicians providing ongoing evaluation and treatment.

A varying magnetic field excites slight vibrations in an object and a radar sensor detects the vibrations at a harmonic of the excitation frequency. The synergy of the magnetic excitation and radar detection provides increased detection range compared to conventional magnetic metal detectors. The radar rejects background clutter by responding only to reflecting objects that are vibrating at a harmonic excitation field, thereby significantly improving detection reliability. As an exemplary arrangement, an ultra-wideband micropower impulse radar (MIR) is capable of being employed to provide superior materials penetration while providing range information. The magneto-radar may be applied to pre-screening magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patients, landmine detection and finding hidden treasures.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system and storage medium for pre-screening customers for a credit card at a point of sale. The method includes receiving the customer data at a point of sale system and, during a check out process: transmitting the customer data to a server; searching a database for the customer data; and based upon results of the searching, performing a credit worthiness check and providing said customer with an invitation to open a charge account. If the customer accepts the invitation, a charge account is opened before a payment method is selected whereby the customer can place the items selected for purchase on the new charge account while at the point of sale system. The system includes at least one point of sale system coupled to a communications link; a server coupled to the point of sale system via the communications link; a data storage device in communication with the server; and a link to a credit information server.

Disclosed are embodiments a system and method for managing an on-line community. Electronic postings are pre-screened based on one or more metrics to determine a risk value indicative of the likelihood that an individual posting contains objectionable content. These metrics are based on the profile of a poster, including various parameters of the poster and / or the poster's record of objectionable content postings. These metrics can also be based on the social network profile of a poster, including the average of various parameters of other users in the poster's social network and / or a compiled record of objectionable content postings of other users in the poster's social network. If the risk value is relatively low, the posting can be displayed to the on-line community immediately. If the risk value is relatively high, display of the posting can be delayed until further content analysis is completed. Finally, if the risk value is above a predetermined high risk threshold value, the posting can be removed automatically.

The invention discloses a method for treating construction waste, comprising the following steps of: performing feeding and dregs pre-screening, primary crushing, secondary crushing and product screening on a material in sequence; performing sorting and impurity removing treatment on the material subjected to the primary crushing; performing material returning screening on the material subjected to the sorting and impurity removing treatment, performing particle shaping on the material screened down after the material returning screening treatment, and returning the oversize material to the secondary crushing; and combining the material subjected to the secondary crushing with the material in the sorting and impurity removing treatment. The system and method treating construction waste, provided by the invention, have high-efficiency and systemic sorting and impurity-removing functions; the generated construction waste recycled aggregate product meets the requirements of national standard 'recycled coarse aggregate for concrete'(GB / T 25177-2010), 'recycled fine aggregate for concrete and mortar' (GB / T 25176-2010) and other recycled aggregate product raw materials.

A method for determining the extent of recovery of materials injected or otherwise introduced into oil wells or subsurface formations is practiced using a portable device. The portable device can also be used to determiner the occurrence of a predetermined condition in an oil well such as water break through in a production zone, or the opening or closing of a sliding sleeve. When, for example, water breakthrough is detected, the zone producing too much water can be plugged, using, for example, a flow-through bridge plug, if there are other producing zones further downhole. The portable device may be use to make quantitative measurements or it may be used to do pre-screening of samples thereby avoiding further testing of negative samples.

A method of genotyping women experiencing infertility for non-physical reasons in order to identify the presence of the rs4238001 and / or rs10846744 mutation of the SCARB1 gene and, upon identifying the presence of one or both genetic mutations, administering a tailored therapeutic regimen to restore fertility by either one or a combination of 1) mediating the flux of cholesterol resulting from the mutation by therapeutic use of the cholesterol medication probucol and / or other cholesterol altering medications, and / or 2) amplifying the presence of hormone progesterone by therapeutic use of progestational and progestin medications.

The invention relates to a 2D code positioning method and system. Data of an input image is pre-screened by utilizing edge information of a 2D code data area, and candidate areas which may include an 2D code image area are determined; for each candidate area, the approximate position of the outer boundary of a 2D code is determined by utilizing a positioning graph of the 2D code to be positioned, and the 2D code is positioned roughly; and an accurate boundary of the 2D code is determined according to the approximate position of the outer boundary of the 2D code, and the 2D code is positioned accurately. The 2D code in the image can be positioned automatically, interference, caused by a complex background, in the image can be eliminated needless of manual intervention when the 2D code is positioned, and the data processing amount in the automatic positioning process is reduced by pre-screening and rough positioning.

The invention discloses a fast high-resolution SAR (synthetic aperture radar) image ship detection method based on feature fusion and clustering. The fast high-resolution SAR image ship detection method comprises the following steps: on the basis of the back scattering characteristics of each ground object and the prior information of a ship target in an SAR image, positioning a target potential position index map by an Otsu algorithm and range constraint; on the index map, pre-screening to obtain a detection binary segmentation map by a CFAR (constant false alarm rate) algorithm based on a local contrast; carrying out morphological processing to a detection result, and extracting a potential target slice from the SAR image and a detected binary segmentation map according to a processing result; and carrying out K-means clustering to the extracted slice by a designed identification feature to obtain a final identification result. According to the fast high-resolution SAR image ship detection method based on feature fusion and clustering, the data volume of a detection stage is effectively reduced by pre-processing, and point-to-point detection is not needed / the time of point-to-point detection is saved. Meanwhile, a target identification problem under the condition of insufficient training samples at present can be solved by the designed characteristic and a non-supervision clustering method, the target can be effectively positioned, and the size of the target can be estimated.

A compact scanning apparatus has an infrared laser adapted to emit light. The light is delivered as a beam by an optical system to illuminate an interrogation area on the surface of an object being scanned to cause selective desorption of molecules of the contraband substance, which are present on the surface, without substantially damaging the surface. A collection system collects at least a portion of the desorbed molecules. At least a portion of the collected molecules is thermally decomposed to form NO2 and transferred to a reaction cell containing an aqueous, alkaline, luminol-containing solution. The NO2 reacts with the luminol to produce light by chemiluminescence. A light detector registers the presence of this light to carry out a rapid screening of the object for the possible presence of the contraband substance. The apparatus further includes a supplemental detector such as a GC / IMS detector that is activated in response to the detection of the chemiluminescent light. The supplemental detector provides confirmation of the detection of contraband substance and activates a signaling device to provide an audible or visible alarm. The rapid pre-screening permits the apparatus to identify suspicious items, while the supplemental detection system can be optimized for more intense, but time-consuming scrutiny of just the suspicious items. Both effective detection and high throughput are thereby achieved in an accurate, reliable manner.

The invention relates to a call controlling. In a method for controlling targeting calls, a targeting call is detected, which targeting call is pre-screened according to a set of rules, and whether a caller of said targeting call is not otherwise allowed, an importance of said targeting call is determined, by means of which importance call diverting is decided. The invention relates also to a device, to a calling device, to a system and to a computer program product.

A system for operating a hybrid vehicle includes a computer programmed to identify a location of a hybrid vehicle, access a map and identify a plurality of links therein, pre-screen the plurality of links to identify if any of the plurality of links is within a given bounds of the current location, and if one or more possible links are identified, then match the current location of the hybrid vehicle to one of the identified links, and upload power data for the hybrid vehicle corresponding to the matched location into a database.

A method and apparatus for screening samples to determine which samples include a target material. Generally, the samples are pre-screened to determine which of the samples have a piezoelectric resonance when irradiated with an electric field, to thereby indicate the presence of the target material. The samples that have the piezoelectric resonance are then further screened by a different process to confirm the presence of the target material. For example, samples that have the piezoelectric resonance are further screened for a specific nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), a specific nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or a specific visual characteristic, to confirm the presence of the target material in the sample. The apparatus and method can be used, for example, to search luggage at ports of entry for the presence of cocaine hydrochloride or heroin hydrochloride.

The present invention relates to a method for analyzing and rapidly determining the quality of a test RNA of unknown quality utilizing a novel quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based method. The present invention is based on normalizing the 3′ end of the house-keeping gene glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) to the relative abundance of the 5′ end of GAPDH MRNA in the test RNA. The present invention is particularly useful in pre-screening postmortem tissue samples for microarray experiments and for evaluating large quantities of samples which would be time consuming and expensive to analyze by methods currently in use.

A manufacturing method makes memory modules from partially-good DRAM chips soldered to its substrate. The partially-good DRAM chips have a number of defective memory cells that is below a test threshold, such as 10%. Packaged DRAM chips are optionally pre-screened and considered to pass when the number of defects found is less than the test threshold. A defect table is created during testing and written to a serial-presence-detect electrically-erasable read-only memory (SPD-EEPROM) on the memory module. The memory module is finally tested on a target-system tester that reads the defect table during booting, and redirects memory access to defective memory locations identified by the defect table. The memory modules may be burned in or tested at various temperatures and voltages to increase reliability.

A vibratory screening machine includes a primary screening area and a pre-screening assembly including a frame and screen assemblies. The screen assemblies are secured to the frame and form a pre-screening surface. The frame is attached to the vibratory screening machine such that the concave pre-screening surface is above the primary screening area.

The invention discloses a method and apparatus for predicting user friend invitation behaviors of an online financing platform. The method comprises the following steps: based on identity and behavior information of users, obtaining input variables of a prediction model; determining that variables used for determining whether the users invite friends to finish registration are output variables of the prediction model; obtaining a training set and a verification set; pre-screening the input variables; training the prediction mode; based on the prediction model, predicting a probability that users of the verification set invite their friends to finish the registration, and based on user actual performance, optimizing the model; and based on the optimized prediction model, predicting a probability that users of a test set invite their friends to finish the registration. By use of the method and apparatus provided by the invention, the financing platform can predict in advance the probability that the users invite their friends to finish the registration so as to relevantly encourage the friend invitation behaviors of the users, the response rate of encouragement activities is improved, while a user registration amount is increased, the marketing cost is reduced, and accurate marketing is realized.

A portable VOG device is disclosed that will facilitate the effective and efficient screening for TBI in military personnel in forward deployed military settings or remote locations using minimally trained staff. This includes the establishment of a protocol that will provide cost effective pre-screening of military personnel prior to deployment to establish a baseline of brain function prior to possible future injury. The efficiency of the device will promote subsequent follow-up screening to assess the effectiveness of prescribed TBI treatment. Further protocols for diagnosis and rehabilitation applications using the same virtual reality portable device will allow more advanced usage for clinicians providing ongoing evaluation and treatment.

The invention discloses a production method of recycled aggregates of building wastes. The method comprises the following steps: (a) pre-screening; (b) impurity removal; (c) primary crushing; (d) primary screening; (e) secondary crushing; (f) secondary screening; (g) material division; (h) mixing of the recycled aggregates; (I) homogenization and entrance into warehouse. According to the production method of the recycled aggregates of the building wastes, based on a series of treatment processes, the building wastes are manufactured into engineering dinas (also named as aggregates), so that the problems of land occupation and environment pollution caused by stacking the building wastes are solved, a large quantity of dinas for building engineering can also be provided, and the method is energy-saving and environmentally friendly; meanwhile, the problems of energy sources and environment caused in a manual dinas exploitation process also can be solved. The recycled aggregates produced by using the production method is stable in performance, and can be widely applied to construction of various kinds of building engineering and road engineering.

A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes.

A defogged image denoising method based on transmissivity comprises the steps: (1) obtaining a defogged image containing noise and a transmissivity image, (2) roughly estimating an overall noise variance, (3) according to the noise variance confirmed in the step (2), confirming and calculating several parameters, (4) according to the parameters, searching similar pixels, using the transmissivity as a criterion, pre-screening the pixels in the searching range, and removing points dissimilar to pixels to be denoised, (5) constructing a correction factor based on the transmissivity and weakening pixel weight polluted by the noise, (6) calculating a gradient mean value difference of a whole image and a searching window, inputting a built parameter optimization model, and conducting adaptive correction on denoising parameters in different areas, (7) calculating a similarity weighted mean value of all the pixels in the searching range to replace the pixels to be denoised, and (8) outputting a denoising result after all the pixels are processed. The defogged image denoising method has the advantages of being high in detail protection degree, good in denoising effect, low in complexity and the like.

A system and method of selecting qualified job applicants from a source hosting or advertising job openings, the system and method comprising a pre-screening / qualifying stage, wherein a job applicant is evaluated on responses given to a questionnaire electronically forwarded by the employer, based on an advertised job position; and an interview stage, wherein the job applicant is selected for employment based the quality, performance, and completion of at least one task pertaining to the advertised job position.

Techniques are described for targeting customers with offers for pre-approved credit. The techniques can be employed while the customer is engaged in a business transaction at a merchant's point-of-sale by pre-screening for creditworthiness using basic customer information known to the merchant. The pre-screening can be performed on behalf of a single lender or in a cascading fashion on behalf of multiple lenders should the customer fail initial pre-screens. Additionally, techniques are described for using a cascading approach on customer-initiated credit applications, such that an applicant declined credit from one lender is automatically considered for credit from another lender via an arrangement between the lenders.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for predicting the radar echoes. According to one specific embodiments of the invention, the method comprises the steps: responding to receive a radar echo chart sequence, carrying out the pre-screening operation of the radar echo chart sequence, and determining the radar echo chart sequence after pre-screening operation as a first radar echo chart sequence; inputting the first radar echo chart sequence into a pre-trained radar echo prediction model to obtain a first prediction result, wherein the first prediction result comprises aradar echo chart sequence in a set time period in future, and the radar echo prediction model employs an end-to-end neural network structure. According to the embodiment of the invention, the methodand system can improve the accuracy of the predicted radar echo chart sequence through the radar echo prediction model employing the end-to-end neural network structure.

A method and apparatus for calibrating a glide head and detector system performs a pre-screening to ensure the quality of the glide head and the piezoelectric sensor in the detection system. The glide head and the piezoelectric sensor detect a signal when the glide head makes contact with the disk, such as a magnetic recording disk. Calibration of the detection system utilizes a specially made bump disk that has asperities of desired height and size that protrude out of a flat disk surface. The glide head is flown over the bump disk, and by gradually reducing the disk spinning velocity, the head is brought closer to the disk and eventually into contact with the asperity. The onset of contact, as detected by the piezoelectric sensor, defines a disk spinning velocity for the head to fly at the desired height. In order to decouple the glide head flying characteristics and the piezoelectric quality and transfer function from other factors that affect the calibration of the detection system, laser pulses are directed at the glide head. Head vibrations are introduced in the glide head and detected by the piezoelectric sensor. The head excitations are recorded as a spectrogram in which the resonance frequencies are observed. From the amplitude and frequency readings, head resonance frequencies are identified and the piezoelectric sensor response is characterized. This allows the pre-screening of the head / sensor system and the decoupling of the glide head flying characteristics and the piezoelectric sensor quality from the asperity integrity effects on the calibration of the detection system.

A coated implantable medical device and a method of coating an implantable medical device is disclosed, the method includes applying a composition onto the device and drying the composition at elevated temperature in an environment having increased relative humidity. A pre-screening method for a manufacturing lot of coated stents to determine the number of drug coating layers for a desired drug release rate is disclosed. The method including coating and testing small groups of stents, and applying the results of the tests to determine the number of drug coating layers to apply to the manufacturing lot of stents.