1973 results about "Real time tracking" patented technology

A wireless, mobile point-of-care system is provided including a plurality of mobile point-of-care carts, each capable of transporting a plurality of patient-specific medication or supply drawers or containers. The mobile point-of-care carts provide for both auto-identification of patient containers carried by the cart, as well as real-time tracking of the carts themselves. Using the combination of these two features, each patient-specific drawer can be located throughout the hospital at any given time. A method is further provided for utilizing this location information to generate a medication delivery / removal plan or route, which can be used by delivery personnel to alleviate the burden caused by making medication carts mobile.

A method and system for real-time analytics of sensor-based data is disclosed. Also disclosed is a Cloud-based Paltform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for sensor driven applications with services and features for their complete life-cycle management including prompt development, testing, deployment and so forth. The method of the present disclosure enables real-time tracking of various physical parameters and attributes related to smart-spaces using sensor devices implemented in the premises of the smart-space environment and using crowd-sourced user input data. Further, the parameters obtained are sent to the cloud-computing server, wherein the analytics are performed in real-time based on the obtained parameters.

A commerce visibility network allows for the collection and distribution of real-time location and status information regarding the movement of goods and assets through a supply chain. Items and / or conveyances may be individually tagged using radio frequency identifiers or other tagging technologies, such as global positioning satellite technology. The location of an item or conveyance may be marked and information on the location may be stored at a site server. The site server may then upload location information to a data center. Supply chain users may then be charged a fee per tracked item or fee per transaction to access the data center and view reports compiled using the location information regarding each tracked item. This allows for instantaneous access to location and status information of any item in the supply chain. Additionally, aggregation information is provided to allow for the tracking of items which are stored in conveyances, even in several levels of conveyances. Compensation logic is applied to the asset movement data to provide a continuous knowledge of the asset locations, so as to compensate for deficiencies in the raw location data.

A system for real-time vulnerability assessment of a host / device, said system comprising an agent running on the host / device. The agent includes a a first data structure for storing the status of interfaces and ports on the interfaces of the host / device. An n executable agent module is coupled to the first data structure to track the status of interfaces and ports on the interfaces of the host / device and to store the information, as entries in said first data structure. The executable agent module compares the entries to determine a change in the status of interfaces and / or of ports on the interfaces of the host / device. A remote destination server is provided that includes a second data structure for storing the status of interfaces and the ports on the interfaces of the host / device. An executable server module is coupled to the second data structure to receive the information communicated by the agent executable module of the agent on the host / device. The executable server module stores the received information as entries in the second data structure wherein the entries indicate the state of each of the ports on each of the active interfaces of the host / device as received. The executable server module compares the entries in said data structures to determine the change in the status of interfaces and ports on the interfaces of the host / device. The executable server module runs vulnerability assessment tests on the host / device in the event of a change in the status of interface / ports.

A method and apparatus for deriving an occupancy map reflecting an athlete's coverage of a playing area based on real time tracking of a sporting event. The method according to the present invention includes a step of obtaining a spatio-temporal trajectory corresponding to the motion of an athlete and based on real time tracking of the athlete. The trajectory is then mapped over the geometry of the playing area to determine a playing area occupancy map indicating the frequency with which the athlete occupies certain areas of the playing area, or the time spent by the athlete in certain areas of the playing area. The occupancy map is preferably color coded to indicate different levels of occupancy in different areas of the playing area, and the color coded map is then overlaid onto an image (such as a video image) of the playing area. The apparatus according to the present invention includes a device for obtaining the trajectory of an athlete, a computational device for obtaining the occupancy map based on the obtained trajectory and the geometry of the playing area, and devices for transforming the map the a camera view, generating a color (or other visually differentiable) coded version of the occupancy map, and overlaying the color coded map on a video image of the playing area. In particular, the spatio-temporal trajectory may be obtained by an operation on a video image of the sporting event, in which motion regions in the image are identified, and feature points on the regions are tracked as they move, thereby defining feature paths. The feature paths, in turn, are associated in clusters, which clusters generally correspond to the motion of some portion of the athlete (e.g., arms, legs, etc.). The collective plurality of clusters (i.e., the trajectory) corresponds with the motion of the athlete as a whole.

A system 1000, and its alternates 1002 through 1022, for automatically tracking and videoing the movements of multiple participants and objects during an event. System 1000 and its alternates comprise a scalable area tracking matrix of overhead tracking cameras 120c, whose individual field-of-views 120v combine to form a contiguous view 504m of the performance area where the event is being held. As participants 110, and all other necessary objects such as 103 (e.g. a puck in ice-hockey) and 104 (e.g. a stick in ice-hockey) move about during the event, computer 160 analyzes the images from contiguous view 504m to create a real-time tracking database at least including participant and object centroid locations respective to the performance area, and preferably including their identities matched to these ongoing locations. System 1000 and its alternates then employ the real-time database to automatically direct, without operator intervention, one or more side-view cameras such as 140-a, 140-b, 140-c and 140-d, to maintain optimal viewing of the event. The participants and objects may additionally be marked with encoded or non-encoded, visible or non-visible markers, either denoting centroid locations visible from their upper surfaces, and / or non-centroid locations visible from perspective views. The encoded markers are preferably placed on upper surfaces and detectable by computer 160 as it analyzes the images from contiguous overhead field-of-view 504m, thus providing participant and object identities to correspond with ongoing locations, further enhancing algorithms for subsequently controlling side-view cameras 140-a through 140-d. The non-encoded markers are preferably placed on multiple non-centroid locations at least on the participants that are then adjustably viewable by system 1000 and its alternates as the system uses the determined locations of each participant from the overhead view to automatically adjust one or more side-view cameras to tightly follow the participant. The resulting images from side-view cameras 140-a through 140-d may then be subsequently processed to determine the non-encoded marker locations, thus forming a three dimensional model of each participant and objects movements.

A system and method to display a four-dimensional (4D) model of an imaged anatomy is provided. The system comprises a controller, and an imaging system including an imaging probe in communication with the controller. The imaging probe can acquire generally real-time, 3D image data relative to a direction of image acquisition along an imaging plane. The system also includes a tracking system in communication with the controller. The tracking system includes at least one tracking element integrated with the imaging probe. The system is operable to process the generally real-time, 3D image data acquired by the imaging probe relative to generally real-time tracking information acquired by the tracking system so as to display the 4D model of the imaged anatomy.

A method and apparatus for deriving performance statistics from real time tracking of a sporting event. The method according to the present invention includes a step of obtaining a spatio-temporal trajectory corresponding to the motion of an athlete and based on real time tracking of the athlete. The trajectory is then broken down so that performance information corresponding to the motion of the athlete (such as speed, distance covered, acceleration, etc.) can be derived with respect to time. The information so obtained can be stored in a database or the like for later retrieval or can be used to graphically supplement a video broadcast of a sporting event. The apparatus includes a device for obtaining the trajectory, a computational device for obtaining the performance information based on the obtained trajectory, and a statistical device for compiling the performance information. In particular, the spatio-temporal trajectory may be obtained by an operation on a video image of the sporting event, in which motion regions in the image are identified, and feature points on the regions are tracked as they move, thereby defining feature paths. The feature paths, in turn, are associated in clusters, which clusters generally correspond to the motion of some portion of the athlete (e.g., arms, legs, etc.). The collective plurality of clusters corresponds with the motion of the athlete as a whole.

The present invention relates to physiological monitoring system, and is especially one kind of wearable low-load physiological monitoring system for multiparameter physiological signal acquisition. The physiological monitoring system consists of a wearable dynamic multiparameter acquisition coat, a patient's hand-held terminal and a remote medical service center. The wearable dynamic multiparameter acquisition coat communicates with the hand-held terminal in short radio communication mode, while the hand-held terminal communicates with the remote medical service center accessed to the Internet in remote radio communication mode. The present invention has the positive effect of realizing the movable monitoring, the remote dynamic monitoring and real-time tracking monitoring on low load physiological parameters of the patient.

The present invention features a system and methods for notifying passengers of an approaching vehicle. Utilizing such a system and methods, passengers can remain in a safe, controlled environment, avoiding harsh environmental conditions and excessive waiting times, instead arriving at their pick-up point closer and prior to a vehicle's arrival. More specifically, the present invention relates to a bus notification system (100a) wherein passengers are able to know the location and estimated arrival time of the bus several minutes before its arrival at a specified location along the bus route. The present invention also features a system and methods for locating an in-transit vehicle and for providing real-time mapping and monitoring of such in-transit vehicles.

A method and apparatus for real-time tracking of a non-rigid target. The tracking is based on visual features, such as color and / or texture, where statistical distributions of those features characterize the target. A degree of similarity (rho(y0)) is computed between a given target (at y0) in a first frame and a candidate target (at y1) in a successive frame, the degree being expressed by a metric derived from the Bhattacharyya coefficient. A gradient vector corresponding to a maximization of the Bhattacharyya coefficient is used to derive the most probable location of the candidate target in the successive frame.

The present invention provides a method for real-time tracking of moving flexible surfaces and an image guided surgical robotic system using this tracking method. A vision system acquires an image of the moving flexible surface and identifies and tracks visual features at different times. The method involves computing both rigid and stretching transformations based on the changing positions of the visual features which are then used to track any area of interest on the moving flexible surface as it evolves over time. A robotic surgical system using this real-time tracking is disclosed.

The invention relates to a smart video monitoring system based on a cloud platform, and belongs to the technical field of remote smart monitoring. The system is characterized in that a video monitoring cloud platform is developed on a server cluster established on the basis of a Hadoop cloud computing platform, and video data acquired by front-end equipment are transmitted to a server in a stream way; through adoption of a massive distributed cloud computing technology, real-time tracking, processing, analysis and outputting of video streams are realized; and a service is provided externally, so that a terminal user can perform checking and calling conveniently. In the system, the characteristics of distributed high-concurrence access storage, high availability, rapid response, easiness in management and maintenance and the like are integrated. Video acquisition, video encoding and transcoding, video data storage, a streaming media distributed server and a client are all distributed on a physical host node in an access network. Compared with a conventional video monitoring system, the smart video monitoring system has the advantages that video real-time processing and transcoding efficiency and video data storage capacity are increased greatly; the requirement of people on the video monitoring system in a big data era is met; and a relatively large commercial value is achieved.

The invention relates to a transformer station three-dimensional real scene simulation system and an implementation method. The system comprises a safety region monitoring unit, a three-dimensional visualization display unit, and a system management unit. The safety region monitoring unit comprises a wireless real-time positioning module using a UWB positioning technology, a moving target security monitoring module, a moving target information query module, a target historical data query module, a safety region early warning setting module, an equipment information query module, and an alarm management module. The three-dimensional visualization display unit comprises a roaming module, an operation deduction module, a field operation instruction scheme making module, and a risk management and control module of an electrified dangerous region. The system management unit comprises a user management module, a system setting module, and a log query module. The system realizes functions of daily inspection and maintenance visual management of a transformer station, operating personnel daily inspection and maintenance process real-time tracking and monitoring, security alert alarm and intelligent recording management.

A worn display, such as a head worn display, includes a projector and a periscopic system configured to be wearable. The periscopic system includes at least one diffraction grating member. The member includes an input end for receiving an image from a projector and a combiner end for receiving light from a scene and providing the image received at the input end and the light received from the outside scene to the user. The head worn display can be used in aircraft applications to provide guidance information to a pilot.

Real time tracking and mapping is performed using images of unknown planar object. Multiple images of the planar object are captured. A new image is selected as a new keyframe. Homographies are estimated for the new keyframe and each of a plurality of previous keyframes for the planar object that are spatially distributed. A graph structure is generated using the new keyframe and each of the plurality of previous keyframes and the homographies between the new keyframe and each of the plurality of previous keyframes. The graph structure is used to create a map of the planar object. The planar object is tracked based on the map and subsequently captured images.

The invention discloses a vehicle relay tracking method in multi-camera scene. In the method, multiple cameras cooperate, and real time continuous tracking on vehicle in a multi-camera covering domain is realized in a complex scene. Firstly, image registration is carried out on a traffic pavement image obtained by multiple cameras by applying SIFT characteristic and RANSAC algorithm, and an L-M (Levenberg-Marquardt) algorithm is adopted to optimize an RANSAC transformation matrix, so as to form a pavement panorama image; secondly, a layering vehicle tracking method which is based on Camshift algorithm and a motion predictor is provided, so as to solve the problems of vehicle overlapping, partial obscuring and real time tracking; and finally a multi-camera target handoff method based on overlapped region boundary is provided, and a next camera is triggered when the algorithm detects that the target enters into the overlapped region of two cameras, so as to realize vehicle relay tracking. The invention can be widely applied to intelligent monitoring system in outdoor scene or suspicious vehicle continuous tracking system and has wide market prospect and application value.

Disclosed is a system and method for tracking location of objects (personnel) at a site. The system comprises: a central server, plurality of remote locator tags disposed on the objects, plurality of remote repeater devices capable of transmitting data signals to locate the locator tags, receiving location data signals from the locator tags, and transmitting the location data signals to the central server. A plurality of databases having location information are connected to the central server and a processing unit with a tracking software operably connected to the central server, compiles and assembles the location data signals and location information for tracking the objects at the site, thereby establishes a real time location tracking and communication with the objects. The system also enables setting up ad-hoc networks fully functioning on power and signals independent of the primary systems of the site and enhances decision making in real time environment.

Described embodiments provide for accessing stored data representing real-time tracking information shared among a plurality of users. First, a user request for access to stored data is identified. A device type associated with the user request is determined, and one or more permissions for the user request are also determined. Based on the one or more permissions determined, a portion of the stored data is provided to the user through one of a plurality of specialized data views. The selected one of the plurality of specialized data views is selected based on the device type.

A method for correcting inherent distortions in a CT or MRI imaging process, or distortions arising from excessive patient movement during the scan by means of a registration device inserted into the mouth of the patient at the time the scan is being performed. The registration device incorporates a set of fiducial markers disposed in a predetermined three-dimensional pattern. The exact positions of the fiducial markers are known with respect to each other, thus providing a three-dimensional reference against which the resulting images can be compared. Additionally, a method whereby three-dimensional CT or MRI images taken prior to an operation, are accurately registered and integrated with real-time tracking positional data of the patient's body part and instruments operating thereon. Application is described for the drilling of a patient's jaw for the placement of dental implants.

The invention relates to a pedestrian recognition and tracking method based on an accelerated area Convolutional Neural Network. Firstly, training and testing data set are preprocessed according to the requirements through a robot with an infrared camera to acquire a training dataset and a testing dataset at night, and then, actual target position labeling is conducted on all training and testing photos and is recorded to a sample file; then, the accelerated area Convolutional Neural Network is constructed, the accelerated area Convolutional Neural Network is trained by using the training dataset, and the final probability belonging to a pedestrian area and a bounding box of the area are calculated out from network output by the usage of a non-maximum suppression algorithm; the accuracy of the network is tested by the usage of the testing dataset, and a network model consistent with the requirements is obtained; photos collected by the robot at night are input to an accelerated area Convolutional Neural Network model, and the probability belonging to the pedestrian area and the bounding box of the area are online output by a model in real time. According to the pedestrian detection and tracking method based on the accelerated area Convolutional Neural Network, a pedestrian in an infrared image can be effectively recognized, and real-time tracking for a pedestrian target in an infrared video can be achieved.

A method for correcting inherent distortions in a CT or MRI imaging process, or distortions arising from excessive patient movement during the scan by means of a registration device inserted into the mouth of the patient at the time the scan is being performed. The registration device incorporates a set of fiducial markers disposed in a predetermined three-dimensional pattern. The exact positions of the fiducial markers are known with respect to each other, thus providing a three-dimensional reference against which the resulting images can be compared. Additionally, a method whereby three-dimensional CT or MRI images taken prior to an operation, are accurately registered and integrated with real-time tracking positional data of the patient's body part and instruments operating thereon. Application is described for the drilling of a patient's jaw for the placement of dental implants.

Real-time location systems and methods use small, battery operated sensors and radios. The radios conform to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The radios are attached to objects to form mobile nodes. Fixed nodes are positioned to define a wired or wireless mesh network representing an area in which the objects can be monitored and tracked. The real-time location systems / methods provide robust, flexible and highly scalable systems / methods for remotely, accurately, efficiently, and / or readily tracking and securing objects (e.g., equipment, inventory, people) at a relatively low cost.

A data processing system enables a network of interconnected public access computers (250) to act as a continuous transactional exchange for electronic advertising. The system customizes paid advertising, enabling dynamic pricing and price discovery. The system provides extensive real-time tracking which supports a hybrid pay for performance model as well as a process for multi-stage optimization.

The invention belongs to the technical field of computer application, and provides a method and a system for tracking, three-dimensionally superposing and interacting a target object without a special mark. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, segmenting the target object from an image shot by a camera, and creating a characteristic template of the target object automatically; next, directly identifying the target object by utilizing the characteristics of the target object, and calculating three-dimensional information (relative to the camera) of the target object; and finally, superposing a virtual object or an animated picture in a three-dimensional coordinate system in a realistic space through a graphics engine in real time. According to the method disclosed by the invention, video images and template images are subjected to characteristic matching via a surf algorithm so as to finish the calibration on the camera, so that real-time tracking and real-time three-dimensional superposing of the target object without the special mark are realized; for each frame of video image, three-dimensional coordinate information of the target is calculated in real time, so that interaction of a person or an object in reality with a virtual person or a virtual object is realized; and therefore, the method and the system disclosed by the invention are relatively high in degree of automation and have relatively popularization and application values.

A monitoring system for a refrigerated container carrying temperature-sensitive cargo. The system includes sensors disposed throughout the container and / or an associated vehicle for measuring parameters of the container or vehicle, including temperature, motion, and fuel efficiency, among many others. The system optionally includes a global positioning system receiver to monitor geographic location. The system communicates with a command center to allow real-time tracking and monitoring of the container. To reduce false positive alerts, the system buffers alerts by at least 30 minutes and blocks signal transmission when the container is located within specified geofences such as loading and unloading sites.

The invention provides a microphone array voice enhancement device with a sound source direction tracking function and a method for the microphone array voice enhancement device. The microphone array voice enhancement device relates to voice signal processing. A microphone array, an adjustable parallel beam former group module, a fixed parameter FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter module, a fixed parameter signal blocking module, an adaptive noise canceller module and a sound source direction update module are aranged in the devide. The method comprises the following steps of: initializing, forming an adjustable beam, fixing parameter filtering, blocking a signal, carrying out adaptive noise cancelling, and updating a sound source direction. The invention provides an adjustable parallel beam former group combined with a sidelobe canceller structure to achieve real-time tracking of a target sound source direction, embeds the sound source direction tracking function directly to a generalized sidelobe canceller structure, can achieve sound source direction tracking and voice enhancement, thereby overcoming sensibility of an algorithm performance on a DOA (Direction of Arrival) estimation error.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing diet and exercise plans and for providing real time tracking and notifications of the user's conformance with a plan. The plan can be dynamically updated in real time based on the user's compliance with the plan. In some embodiments, the present invention can be implemented using a user's mobile phone that communicates with one or more other computing devices that are incorporated into exercise devices.

The invention discloses a system for planning and controlling train travelling speed. The system comprises ground equipment which is approached during travelling of a train, and vehicle-carried equipment arranged on the train. The vehicle-carried equipment comprises a speed meter, a human-computer interface, a ground equipment answering unit, a train automatic protecting unit, a speed control unit and a traction / brake unit, wherein the train automatic protecting unit is respectively connected with the speed meter, the human-computer interface, the ground equipment answering unit and the speed control unit; the ground equipment answering unit is respectively connected with the ground equipment and the train automatic protecting unit; and the speed control unit is respectively connected with the train automatic protecting unit and the traction / brake unit. The system receives information including railway condition, line limit speed, travelling authority and the like, through a ground answerer; the comfort of passengers, the time accuracy and the energy conservation of train travelling are considered at the same time to plan the optimal distance-speed-based target speed running curve; and real-time tracking on the target speed is realized by outputting a proper traction / brake instruction.

Portable handheld real-time tracking and communications devices include; a controller module, communications module including global positioning and mesh network radio module, data transfer and storage module, and a user interface module enclosed in a water-resistant enclosure. Real-time tracking and communications devices can be used by protective force, security and first responder personnel to provide situational awareness allowing for enhance coordination and effectiveness in rapid response situations. Such devices communicate to other authorized devices via mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, and do not require fixed infrastructure for their operation.