165 results about "Reduction factor" patented technology

This invention relates to intelligent video surveillance fuzzy logic neural networks, camera systems with local and network-shared communications for facial, physical condition and intoxication recognition. The device we reveal helps reduce underage drinking by detecting and refusing entrance or service to subjects under legal drinking age. The device we reveal can estimate attention of viewers of advertising, entertainment, displays and the like. The invention also relates to method, and Vision, Image and related-data, database-systems to reduce the volume of surveillance data through automatically recognizing and recording only occurrences of exceptions and elimination of non-events thereby achieving a reduction factor of up to 60,000. This invention permits members of the LastCall™ Network to share their databases of the facial recognition and identification of subjects recorded in the exception occurrences with participating members' databases: locally, citywide, nationally and internationally, depending upon level of sharing permission.

A method is disclosed for recovering image memory capacity, in relation to an image which has been encoded using a linear transform according to a layer progressive mode into L layers, L being an integer value greater than unity, the L layers being stored in an image memory having a limited capacity. The method comprises defining a Quality Reduction Factor (700), being a positive integer value, identifying at least one of the L layers corresponding to the Quality Reduction Factor, and discarding (702) said at least one of the L layers in progressive order in accordance with the Quality Reduction Factor, thereby recovering said memory capacity.

A method and system for controlling the growth of a features frequency profile of a time-ordered sequence of events, wherein each event has features specific to each event. The events are sequentially processed in an order of processing. The processing includes selecting for each event processed at least one feature comprised by the event. The processing updates a frequency count of each feature selected. The frequency counts are periodically reduced in magnitude by a reduction factor. Frequency counts are selected for deletion upon satisfaction of a condition that favors deletion of those frequency counts having a magnitude less than a threshold value. The selected frequency counts are then deleted. The present invention employs an economical use of memory to store data associated with the features frequency profile and uses a features preference profile that is more responsive to recent information than to older information.

A test point selection method for scan-based built-in self-test (BIST). The method calculates a hybrid cost reduction (HCR) value as an estimated value of the corresponding actual cost reduction for all nodes in a circuit under test. A test point is then selected having a largest HCR. This iterative process continues until the fault coverage of the circuit under test reaches a desired value or the number of test points selected is equal to a maximum number of test points. In an alternative embodiment, the cost reduction factor is calculated for all nodes in the circuit under test, the HCR is calculated for only a selected set of candidates, and the candidate having the largest HCR is selected as the test point. The test point selection method achieves higher fault coverage results and reduces computational processing relative to conventional selection methods.

A hierarchy of bounding volumes for objects is generated for use during ray tracing. The hierarchy of bounding volumes improves image quality and well as processing time during rendering. A memory cost factor is identified that relates to the increase in the amount of memory for a subdivided volume compared to its undivided form. An estimate is made of the average number of surface intersections made with a ray passing through the undivided volume and the divided volume, and a factor is evaluated that measures the reduction in such intersections resulting from the subdivisions. A comparison between the memory cost factor and the intersection reduction factor determines whether or not a bounding volume is further subdivided. These tests are then applied recursively to the newly created bounding volumes.

A method of presenting an image on a display device having color channel dependent light emission comprising receiving an image input signal including a plurality of three-component input pixel signals; selecting a reduction color component; calculating a reduction factor for each input pixel signal dependent upon a distance metric between the input pixel signal and the selected reduction color component; selecting a respective saturation adjustment factor for each color component of each pixel signal; producing an image output signal having four color components from the image input signal using the reduction factors and saturation adjustment factors to adjust the luminance and color saturation, respectively, of the image input signal; providing a four-channel display device having color channel dependent light emission; and applying the image output signal to the display device to cause it to present an image corresponding to the image output signal.

A method for improving and extending an existing digital road network and generating new networks from statistically relevant amounts of probe data recorded by GPS-enabled navigation devices. New probe data is matched to the existing digital map, then the data merged into the existing network using a time-dependent weight and / or accuracy-dependent weight. A recalculation date is established, and the weight value of a line segment and / or trace is adjusted as a function of the time span relative to the recalculation. The function may include setting a maximal time period divided into bins each having a respective weight reduction factor, or applying decay function. Through this technique, digital maps can be updated and extended without undue influence exerted by old trace data.

A hierarchy of bounding volumes for objects is generated for use during ray tracing. The hierarchy of bounding volumes improves image quality and well as processing time during rendering. A memory cost factor is identified that relates to the increase in the amount of memory for a subdivided volume compared to its undivided form. An estimate is made of the average number of surface intersections made with a ray passing through the undivided volume and the divided volume, and a factor is evaluated that measures the reduction in such intersections resulting from the subdivisions. A comparison between the memory cost factor and the intersection reduction factor determines whether or not a bounding volume is further subdivided. These tests are then applied recursively to the newly created bounding volumes.

Numerous largely unpredictable criticalities of operating parameters arise in electron beam projection lithography systems to maintain throughput comparable to optical projection lithography systems as minimum feature size is reduced below one-half micron and resolution requirements are increased. Using an electron beam projection lithography system having a high emittance electron source, variable axis lenses, curvilinear beam trajectory and constant reticle and / or target motion in a dual scanning mode wherein the target and / or wafer is constantly moved orthogonally to the direction of beam scan, high throughput is obtained consistent with 0.1 mu m feature size ground rules utilizing a column length of greater than 400 mm, a beam current of between about 4 and 35 mu A, a beam energy of between about 75 and 175 kV, a sub-field size between about 0.1 and 0.5 mm at the target at an optical reduction factor between about 3:1 and 5:1, a numerical aperture greater than 2 mrad and preferably between about 3 and 8 mrad and a scan length between about 20 mm and 55 mm. Reticle and target speed preferably differ by about the optical reduction factor.

A method of controlling the duration of irrigation is described, comprising compiling a database that includes information relating to historical evapo-transpiration rates for a plurality of sectors (preferably identified by zip code) located within a geographical area. Period Reduction Factors for each sector are derived. Parameters are entered into the controller including a Maximum Irrigation Duration, a sector identifier; and the current date. The Maximum Irrigation Duration is adjusted by multiplying the Maximum Irrigation Duration by a Period Reduction Factor for the current period associated with the sector that has been identified by the user, to obtain an Actual Irrigation Duration. The irrigation system is caused to irrigate for the Actual Irrigation Duration during the current period.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a mobile station having a SAR backoff function including a SAR signaling receiving unit configured to receive a SAR signaling from a base station, the SAR signaling indicating that a SAR backoff is available, and a maximum transmit power determination unit configured to determine maximum transmit power of the mobile station depending on whether the SAR signaling receiving unit has received the SAR signaling, wherein in response to receiving the SAR signaling at the SAR signaling receiving unit, the maximum transmit power determination unit applies a power reduction factor associated with the SAR backoff to determine the maximum transmit power.

A method, wireless communication device (402) and base station (502) for signal processing and transmission is provided. The method includes detecting (604) simultaneous operation of a radio transmitter of the wireless communication device within a first predefined frequency band and a radio receiver of the wireless communication device within a second predefined frequency band. Further, the method includes reducing (606), based on the detecting, a bandwidth of an operating signal of the radio transmitter from a standard bandwidth value to a reduced bandwidth value. The bandwidth is reduced based on a bandwidth reduction factor. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting (608) the operating signal within the first predefined frequency band from the radio transmitter.

To provide a semiconductor device manufacturing method using double patterning, in which layout patterns are distributed avoiding yield reduction factors. The semiconductor device manufacturing method includes the steps of: preparing a plurality of masks for use in the double patterning; and performing the double patterning using the plurality of masks. The step of preparing the plurality of masks includes a step of distributing a group of layout patterns to the plurality of masks, in accordance with characteristics of exposure steps respectively using the plurality of masks, and in consideration of size of the layout patterns.

The invention discloses a phonetic gain factor estimation device and method, which comprises the following parts: prior signal-to-noise ratio estimation unit, pure phonetic gain calculation unit, conditional phonetic existence probability estimation unit and gain factor calculation unit. The method comprises the following steps: calculating the prior signal-to-noise ratio of input signal; calculating the pure phonetic gain value according to the prior signal-to-noise ratio of input signal; calculating the existence phonetic probability of input signal; calculating the phonetic gain factor of input signal in connection with the self-keep noise signal reduction factor. The invention realizes the estimation of phonetic gain factor without integral and differential calculation, which decreases the demand of memory capacity and calculation quantity in the integer DSP chip operation.

The invention provides a vehicle-mounted navigation calculating method based on cascade adaptive robust federal filtering, and belongs to the technical field of vehicle-mounted navigation. The vehicle-mounted navigation calculating method comprises the steps: a navigation calculating equation and an error model are built; a three-stage weight reduction function is constructed by adopting the residual error as the statistical magnitude, and measuring noise containing a measuring abnormal value is reduced through the weight reduction factor; through a cascade mode, when the measuring noise R isstable, a system noise estimator is constructed through an improved adaptive filter, prior information Q is estimated in real time, and the optimal estimated values of the initial states of subsystemsare obtained; and the optimal estimated values of the two navigation subsystems are subjected to global convergence according to an information distribution principle, the final optimal estimated value is obtained, then the feedback process is conducted, and the steps from one to four are repeated. The problems that in a vehicle-mounted navigation system combined with a plurality of sensors, prior information of the system is uncertain, and the measuring value is abnormal, so that filtering is divergent and even loses efficacy are solved, the global optimal value is obtained, and thus the more accurate navigation parametric solution with better robustness is obtained.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method and apparatus for parameter free regularized partially parallel imaging (PPI). Specific embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for high pass GRAPPA (hp-GRAPPA), doubly calibrated GRAPPA (db-GRAPPA), and / or image ratio constrained reconstruction (IRCR). The subject techniques can be applied individually or in combination. In a specific application of an embodiment of the subject method, hp-GRAPPA is used to reconstruct high frequency information, and db-GRAPPA is used reconstruct low frequency information regularized with prior information. In another specific application of an embodiment of the subject method, the result of IRCR a regularization term for db-GRAPPA. Experiments demonstrate that the results obtained by implementing embodiments of the subject method have significantly higher SNR than results obtained utilizing un-regularized techniques and have higher spatial resolution and / or lower error than results obtained using regularized SENSE. The subject double calibration technique lessens the motion problem of the pre-scan even when significant structure change occurs. High quality images generated by a specific embodiment of the subject double calibration technique are demonstrated with a net reduction factor as high as 4.8.

The invention provides a power resource management method for opportunistic array radar multi-target tracking in a clutter environment. The power resource management method comprises the steps of measuring measurement origin uncertainty caused by clutters by means of an information reduction factor, expressing RCS of targets by using random variables, establishing a random chance-constraint processing model, relaxing the random chance-constraint processing model by adopting a conditional value at risk, converting the random chance-constraint processing model into a certainty model which is easy to solve, further solving the certainty model by adopting a Lagrangian multiplier method, regarding a Bayesian Cramer Rao Lower Bound as a measurement standard for power distribution so as to solvethe optimal power distribution at a next moment, and adopting a probability data association filter for tracking the targets in the clutter environment. The power resource management method considersthe target tracking clutter environment, adopts the information reduction factor for measuring magnitude of clutter influence, further considers a target information uncertainty caused by the target RCS, introduces the random chance-constraint processing model, comprehensively considers the relationship between resources and tracking precision, and makes the model closer to reality.

The invention relates to the technical field of stability checking of main strength-bearing thin-walled members of aerospace and architectural structures, and discloses a method for determining a reduction factor of a bearing capacity of an axial load cylindrical shell structure, which is different from an experiment experience-based conventional defect sensitivity evaluating method with NASASP-8007 as a representative. Pit defect is introduced in a mode of applying a radial concentrated force (disturbance load). The method comprises the steps of: firstly, carrying out numerical analysis on an influence law of pit defect amplitude of a single point to the axial load bearing capacity of the axial load cylindrical shell shaft, and determining a reasonable load amplitude range; secondly, carrying out defect sensitivity analysis on pit defects of multiple points; thirdly, carrying out experiment design sampling by using load amplitude values and loading position distribution as design variables; and finally, based on optimizing technologies such as an enumeration method, a genetic algorithm and a surrogate model, searching the most disadvantageous disturbance loads limiting the defect amplitude in multiple points, and determining the reduction factor of the bearing capacity of the axial load cylindrical shell structure, so as to establish the more actual and reliable method for evaluating the defect sensitivity and the bearing performance of the axial load cylindrical shell structure, wherein the method has great physical significance.

The invention discloses a slop instability mechanism judgement method, wherein according to the three-dimensional numerical model of the slope, based on the strength reduction method and the slope progressive failure theory, dividing arbitrary points of the slope into four stages of stability, basic stability, under-stability and instability according to the slope failure theory and the slope macroscopic deformation characteristics; and the slope instability mechanism is obtained by comparing and analyzing the evolution characteristics of the stability of each segment of the sliding body underdifferent reduction factor conditions. The method can be used for scientific analysis of landslide hazards and provide a theoretical basis for slope reinforcement.

This invention provides durable, low-ice-adhesion coatings with excellent performance in terms of ice-adhesion reduction. Some variations provide a low-ice-adhesion coating comprising a microstructure with a first-material phase and a second-material phase that are microphase-separated on an average length scale of phase inhomogeneity from 1 micron to 100 microns. Some variations provide a low-ice-adhesion material comprising a continuous matrix containing a first component; and a plurality of discrete inclusions containing a second component, wherein the inclusions are dispersed within the matrix to form a phase-separated microstructure that is inhomogeneous on an average length scale from 1 micron to 100 microns, wherein one of the first component or the second component is a low-surface-energy polymer, and the other is a hygroscopic material. The coatings are characterized by an AMIL Centrifuge Ice Adhesion Reduction Factor up to 100 or more. These coatings are useful for aerospace surfaces and other applications.

A method and apparatus for employing a light shield to modulate pixel color responsivity. The improved pixel includes a substrate having a photodiode with a light receiving area. A color filter array material of a first color is disposed above the substrate. The pixel has a first relative responsivity. A light shield is disposed above the substrate to modulate the pixel color responsivity. The light shield forms an aperture whose area is substantially equal to the light receiving area adjusted by a reduction factor. The reduction factor is the result of an arithmetic operation between the first relative responsivity and a second relative responsivity, associated with a second pixel of a second color.

The invention belongs to a composite material technology and relates to a measurement method of residual compression strength of a composite material laminated board containing impact damages. The measurement method comprises the following steps of: carrying out ultrasonic C scanning nondestructive testing on the impacted surface of the composite material laminated board containing the impact damages; then, establishing a finite element model which is the same as the composite material laminated board in shape and is the same as a compression destructive test in boundary conditions; inputting nondestructive testing information into the finite element model and multiplying one reduction factor R(j) by an elastic constant of a material containing a damage paved layer, so as to reach functions of softening materials and reducing the bearing capability; and finally, calculating the finite element model to obtain the residual compression strength value. The measurement method disclosed by the invention can really reflect damage distribution conditions of each layer, can conveniently establish a model and has a fast calculation speed, so that the measurement method has a great actual application value.

In a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus, sensitivity encoding (SENSE) with radial sampling trajectories combines the gridding principle with conjugate-gradient least-squares (CGLS) iterative reconstruction. Radial k-space is mapped to a larger matrix by a resealing factor to eliminate the computational complexity of conventional gridding and density compensation. To improve convergence rate of high spatial frequency signals in CGLS iteration, a spatially invariant de-blurring k-space filter uses the impulse response of the system. This filter is incorporated into the SENSE reconstruction as preconditioning. The optimal number of iterations represents a tradeoff between image accuracy and noise over several reduction factors.

The invention discloses an image processing device, which comprises: a data providing node, used for receiving line data scanned in the main scanning direction of an image; an image amplifying unit coupled to the data providing node, used for applying an upscaling process to produce amplified data at an output node, the upscaling process for enlarging the image with an upscaling factor equal to an integer; and an image downscaling unit coupled to the output node of the image upscaling unit for applying A downscaling process is used to downscale the upscaled image by a desired downscaling factor to produce downscaled data at the output node.

A method for determining a reduction factor of a bearing capacity of an axial load cylindrical shell structure relates to stability checking of main bearing strength thin-walled members of aerospace and architectural structures. Different from experiment experience-based conventional defect sensitivity evaluating method represented by NASA SP-8007, a depression defect is introduced in a manner of applying a radial disturbance load. First, an influence rule of a depression defect amplitude of a single point to an axial load bearing capacity is analyzed by using numerical values, so as to determine a load amplitude range; then, defect sensitivity analysis is performed on depression defects of multiple points; then, experiment design sampling is performed by using load amplitude values and load position distribution as design variables; and finally, based on optimizing technologies such as an enumeration method, a genetic algorithm and a surrogate model, the most disadvantageous disturbance load of the multiple points that limits the defect amplitude is searched for, and a reduction factor of the bearing capacity of the axial load cylindrical shell structure is determined, so as to establish a more physical method for evaluating the defect sensitivity and the bearing performance of the axial load cylindrical shell structure.

The invention discloses a voice volume automatic adjustment method based on energy statistics. The voice volume automatic adjustment method based on the energy statistics includes the following steps: (1) counting the energy average value energy of the sample point of each point and the maximum peak value peak of the absolute values of the energy values of all the sample points in the frame; (2) calculating the average value energy_avg of the energy average value energy of the sample point of each frame from 0 to frame_index and the average value peak_avg of the maximum peak value peak; (3) calculating the amplification factor factor_max' and the reduction factor factor_min' in the next time quantum time; (4) judging the voice data of each frame in the next time quantum time, and amplifying or reducing through the reduction factor when amplification and reduction are needed; and (5) outputting the processed voice data frame and ending. The voice volume automatic adjustment method based on the energy statistics can predict the amplification factor and the reduction factor needed in the next time quantum by utilization of the similarity and the continuity of the voice data according to the voice data statistic information of the previous period, and meets the requirement of the practicability while reduces the complexity of the algorithm.

The invention relates to the technical field of computers, and provides a model training and image processing method and device, a computer readable medium and electronic equipment, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a plurality of original images with the first definition; processing the original image according to the random reduction factor and the random noise intensity generated bythe random number generator to obtain a training image corresponding to the original image, the training image having a second definition which is lower than the first definition; and training a definition recovery model according to the original image and the corresponding training image. The image processing method is used for processing the to-be-processed image based on the model trained by the training method to generate a target image. On one hand, images with different definition and resolutions can be processed through one model, and the definition and the resolution are improved; onthe other hand, the user experience can be further improved.

The invention discloses an improved double strength reduction method of slope stability evaluation. The method has the following steps: analyzing the mapping relationship between the double reduction factor rate and the safety factor, combining the calculation of the examples, fitting the mapping relational expression, giving the concept of minimum safety factor, and finally providing the improved double strength reduction method and general steps for analyzing the slope stability through the method to provide new analytic method to the slope stability evaluation.

An interactive display system and method of operating the same including a remote pointing device for controlling items displayed at a display, in which movement of the device is adjusted according to distance from the display. Distance of the device from the display is determined, and a sensitivity reduction factor corresponding to that distance is calculated. Physical movement of the device is interpreted as movement of a cursor position at the display, with the extent of that movement adjusted according to the sensitivity reduction factor. An additional sensitivity reduction factor corresponding to the speed of movement of the device may also be incorporated into the adjustment of the cursor position.