43 results about "Region of support" patented technology

A graphics system configured to perform programmable filtering of samples to generate pixel values. The graphics system comprises a frame buffer, an accelerator unit and a video output processor. The accelerator unit receives graphics primitives, renders samples for the graphics primitives, and stores the rendered samples into a sample area of the frame buffer. The accelerator unit subsequently reads the samples from the sample area of the frame buffer, and filters the samples with a programmable filter having a programmable support region. The resulting pixel values are stored in a pixel area of the frame buffer. The video output processor reads the pixel values from the pixel area and converts the pixel values into a video signal which is provided to a video output port.

According to the present invention, the highly accurate control can be realized in a system for performing the driving control of a vehicle using map data. A car information system 10 for controlling a driving control unit group 50 is located in a vehicle so that the driving control of the vehicle is performed. The car information system includes, a map DB 100 for storing map data, a support area management table 110 in which each kind of attribute data of the map data is associated with information for identifying a field-researched area (support area), and a control unit 200 for estimating an area through which the vehicle travels. The control unit uses a support area management table 110 to judge whether or not attribute data included in the estimated area is associated with the support area. If it is judged that the attribute data is associated with the support area, the control unit performs the driving control of the vehicle by use of the map data, whereas if it is judged that the attribute data is not associated with the support area, not performing the driving control of the vehicle by use of the map data.

The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a multi-level service model operating system environment that may be partitioned into a global zone and one or more non-global zones to isolate processes from processes executing in association with other non-global zones under control of a single kernel instance. In one embodiment, the multi-level service model includes a virtual platform layer and an application layer. The virtual platform layer may include services and resources for supporting the zones, which can be made accessible to the zones in the form of a virtual platform. The application layer may comprise the non-global zones, including an application environment for maintaining a runtime state for the zone's processes and any zone-constructed objects, such as network connections and shared memory segments. In one embodiment, control and management of non-global zones can be provided by a system of states and transitions.

An adaptive pre-processing technique is provided to reduce perceptually unimportant information in a frame (such as some of the high frequency information) so as to optimize compression efficiency and to maximize perceived video quality of a compressed video sequence for a given bit rate. This pre-processing includes a combination of performing pre-filtering of video data to remove high frequency components and to smooth out high frequency texture information within object boundaries, based at least in part on human visual system characteristics. The technique is adaptive in that feedback regarding the current state of the encoder is used to change the filtering strength or region of support for subsequent frames, as needed, in order to maintain the bit budget while still generating visually acceptable video quality.

A digital image capture and processing module for use with an Internet-based shipping, tracking and delivery network. The module includes a housing having a light transmission aperture with an optically transparent imaging window mounted thereover. A digital camera board supports an area-type color image sensing array, sensing array control electronics, and image capture and buffering electronics. An imaging lens assembly supported within said housing and having image forming optics with a field of view (FOV) on the area-type color image sensing array. A plurality of broad-band LEDs are supported within said housing for producing a field of broad-band illumination. A light focusing reflector is operably mounted for focusing the field of broad-band illumination. A digital image-processing subsystem supports image capture, processing and display functions, as well as digital image file transmission functions within the module. A system control subsystem controls and / or orchestrates the operation of components within the module; and a plurality of mode selection buttons are provided on the housing so that, upon depression, control signals are generated and are to the system control subsystem.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a system configured to occlude an ear canal. The system comprises a support structure, an expandable device, a housing, a resilient reservoir, and a threaded device. Resilient reservoir resides within housing and is filled with a medium. The threaded device couples to a threaded region of support structure. Threaded device fits in an opening of housing. Rotating threaded device reduces an interior volume of housing thereby transferring the medium from resilient reservoir to expandable device. Threaded device is rotated to displace sufficient medium within resilient reservoir to expand expandable device to occlude the ear canal. Resilient reservoir is passively filled when expandable device is in an un-expanded state.

A method for slicing a three-dimensional model for printing of a corresponding object by a 3D printer, comprises: obtaining the envelope of the object as polygons, then for each region of a predefined work area within the slicing plane:identifying the closest polygon of said envelope that is positioned above said respective pixel; where no polygon is identified, then marking a corresponding region as a no-print region; if the direction vector of said closest above polygon has a positive component in the Z direction, then marking said corresponding region as a model region; and if the direction vector of said polygon has a negative component in the Z direction, then marking the region as a support region, and printing accordingly. An advantage of the above procedure is that the slicing, and in addition texture mapping, can be efficiently carried out on a graphics card or GPU.

A network for a cellular communication system comprises access points (105-109) supporting cells within a region (113). Each access point (105-109) has an individual proxy address of a proxy address space which is a local address space of an address proxy (101) and a common network address of a network address space which is a network wide address space. A gateway access point (103) covers an entry point to the region (113) and detects a remote station entering the region. It then determines an access point (105) in the region to which the remote station is handed over and transmits a binding message to the address proxy (101) with an indication of the access point (105). In response to receiving the binding message, the address proxy (101) establishes a binding between the common network address and the proxy address of the access point (105). Data for the remote station is then forwarded to the access point (105) using the binding.

The present invention provides a method for establishing direct mobile to mobile communication between cellular mobile terminals. The method includes selecting a frequency designated as a mobile communication frequency within a cellular communication system, and transmitting a communication initiation sequence at the selected frequency by a first mobile terminal. A second mobile terminal then monitors the designated mobile communication frequencies, and detects the communication initiation sequence. In at least one embodiment, selecting a frequency includes determining the region in which the first mobile terminal is operating, and selecting a mobile communication frequency for the determined region. In at least a further embodiment, the mobile communication frequency is a mobile transmission frequency for the determined region. In at least a still further embodiment, selecting a frequency includes selecting a frequency that is designated as a mobile transmit frequency in a first supported region and is designated as a mobile receive frequency in a second supported region.

A system and related methods of managing computer-executable applications for a mobile device are provided. The method determines when the mobile device is located within an application support area corresponding to an application provider, and wirelessly downloads a temporary application at the mobile device. The downloaded temporary application is installed at the mobile device, resulting in an installed temporary application. Thereafter, the method detects when the mobile device has left the application support area and, in response to the detecting, the mobile device is configured such that the installed temporary application cannot be executed.

Rebinning methods and arrangements are provided that significantly improve the 3D wavelet compression performance of the image based rendering data, such as, e.g., concentric mosaic image data. Through what is essentially a selective cutting and pasting process the image data is divided into stripes that are then used to form a set of multi-perspective panoramas. The rebinning process greatly improves the performance of the cross shot filtering, and thus improves the transform and coding efficiency of 3D wavelet codecs. While the region of support after rebinning may cease to be rectangular in some cases, a padding scheme and an arbitrary shape wavelet coder can be implemented to encode the result data volume of the smart rebinning. With an arbitrary shape wavelet codec, the rebinning outperforms MPEG-2 by 3.7 dB, outperforms direct 3D wavelet coder by 4.3 dB, and outperforms a reference block coder (RBC) by 3.2 dB on certain tested concentric mosaic image scenes. Hence, the rebinning process nearly quadruples the compression ratio for selected scenes. Additional methods and arrangements are provided that include selectively dividing the image data into slits and rebinning the slits into a huge 2D array, which is then compressed using conventional still image codecs, such as, JPEG.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle vision wire patrol method based on gradient constraint Radon transform. The method comprises the following steps: 1) obtaining a high-voltage line image to be processed by utilizing an unmanned aerial vehicle image acquisition device and converting the obtained degraded image into a grayscale image F; 2) carrying out edge extraction on the grayscale image F to obtain an edge image F'; 3) carrying out gradient calculation on the edge image F' to obtain gradient magnitude Gk; 4) setting eight direction pixel points of the kth pixels in the edge image F' being ki, wherein i=0,1,...,7, and when the gradient magnitudes Gk of the adjacent two pixels ki are same, grouping the pixels to the same line support region; 5) for the line support region obtained in the step 4), carrying out fitting to obtain a straight line according with conditions, and carrying out follow-up processing on the fit straight line through mathematical morphology; and 6) detecting a power transmission line through Radon transform according to the fitting result obtained in the step 5). The method realizes detection accuracy of the power transmission line in the image, removes redundant edge information and improves accuracy of power transmission line identification.

A market research service is provided with a study creation service that includes a number of functions to support the creation of multi-region market research studies. In one embodiment, the functions include a function in support of implicit country and / or city selection within a region. In another embodiment, the functions include a function in support of providing a real time cost estimate for the study being created. In yet another embodiment, the functions include a function in support of auto notification to translators providing translation services for translating study elements (such as questions, messages, pick lists and concepts) into supported target languages. In yet another embodiment, the functions include a function in support of on-line check in of the translated study elements. In yet another embodiment, the functions include a function in support of on-line monitoring of translation status.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a system configured to occlude an ear canal. The system comprises a support structure, an expandable device, a housing, a resilient reservoir, and a threaded device. Resilient reservoir resides within housing and is filled with a medium. The threaded device couples to a threaded region of support structure. Threaded device fits in an opening of housing. Rotating threaded device reduces an interior volume of housing thereby transferring the medium from resilient reservoir to expandable device. Threaded device is rotated to displace sufficient medium within resilient reservoir to expand expandable device to occlude the ear canal. Resilient reservoir is passively filled when expandable device is in an un-expanded state.

The invention concerns a method (400) and system (100) for bandwidth extension of voice for improving the quality of voice in a communication system. The method can include the steps of receiving (412) an unknown voice signal (105), identifying (414) the voice bandwidth (625) of the received unknown voice signal and establishing (418) a region of support (636) in view of the spectral content of the received voice signal. The method can further include the step of selecting (428) a combination of mapping databases (210, 212, 214) from a plurality of mapping databases. Each mapping database can be associated with a predetermined bandwidth extension range for extending the voice bandwidth.

The invention discloses a k nearest neighbor query method oriented to a support area of an urban road network. The method is embedded in an LBS (Location-based Service) server, is fulfilled through the implementation of an initialization area module, an area inner query module and an area outer query module, and adopts a repeated query collision detection mechanism, a sharing mechanism and a pruning strategy for accelerating a query process, so as to shorten the query time, improve the query efficiency and ensure the accuracy of a query result set.

An image of high-aspect-ratio objects is analyzed to locate linear features within the image. The gradient direction for each pixel is determined, and connected pixels having similar gradient directions are grouped into line support regions. A linear feature is determined for each line support region. The linear features are analyzed to identify those that are co-linear. The linear features are then analyzed to find groups that are parallel and that sufficiently overlap. Additional sets of linear features that intersect the identified group are combined into that group. The line support regions of the grouped linear features are analyzed to determine representative orientation and / or dimensional information, which is analyzed to determine statistical information about a plurality of the objects. This information is used to monitor or control one or more processes associated with the objects, to reject the objects or a structure or device comprising the objects, or the like.

A method for iterative reconstruction of tomographic images of an object of interest includes obtaining data corresponding to a field of view of a detector, processing the data to prepare a reconstruction support region corresponding to a region within the field of view encompassing the object, and reconstructing a tomographic image using the reconstruction support region. Preferably, the data corresponding to the field of view includes at least one of a projection image of the object, an orbit location of a detector relative to a center of rotation of the detector, or an attenuation coefficient map of the object, which data can be used to describe a reconstruction support region corresponding to the object.

A rate control method with region of interesting support, which coding macroblocks in a current picture with different priority. The rate control method calculates a weighted macroblock activity according to the priority and a macroblock activity and a picture activity for the current picture according to the weighted macroblock activity. Then, the method allocates a bit budget for each macroblock according to the priority and calculates an estimated complexity for the current picture according to a complexity of a previously coded picture, an activity of the previously coded picture and the weighted macroblock activity. The method also calculates an estimated quantizer scale according to the estimated complexity and the bit budget, an initial virtual buffer occupancy according to an reaction factor and the estimated quantizer scale and a macroblock quantizer scale according to a virtual buffer occupancy of a previously coded macroblock, the priority and the reaction factor. The method codes each macroblock according to the macroblock quantizer scale and updates a virtual buffer occupancy of the current coded macroblock according to a used bit of the coded macroblock, the virtual buffer occupancy of the previously coded macroblock and the bit budget of current coded macroblock.

A method of performing anisotropic texture mip-mapping. The method includes determining a region of support for a set of target pixels of the image to be textured, and mapping the region of support to an area in texture map that is generally elliptical. For each axis of the ellipse the number of samples is determined and a filter function is performed on those samples to find the final color value. For four texels, the filter function is a weighted sum of the color values of each texel, where the weights are determined based on the fraction of the Level of Detail (LOD) and the fraction of the U or V coordinate.

The present invention provides a bolometric detector including a sensitive part having one or more layers of a sensitive material, the resistivity of which varies with temperature, electrodes isolated from one another, also acting as infrared radiation absorbers, the electrodes being in contact with the sensitive material over at least part of their surface, at least one support region for supporting the sensitive part, acting so as to position the sensitive part, and acting as an electrical conductor, in relation to a read circuit associated with the bolometric detector, and at least one thermal insulation structure electrically and mechanically connecting each support region to the sensitive part. The regions of sensitive material not in contact with the electrodes have at least one corrugation oriented along the direction perpendicular to the plane containing the sensitive part of the bolometric detector.

A cutting tool includes a cutting insert releasably retained therein. The cutting insert has at least a first non-planar side surface, which includes a planar portion that is recessed with respect to other portions of the side surface such as the cutting edges thereof. The planar portion may be spaced apart from the cutting edges associated with that side surface. The planar portion is the only portion of the side surface to engage an abutment region or regions of a supporting wall of the cutting tool. The cutting insert may be double-sided, and include a second, opposing side surface having a respective planar portion formed therein, wherein the two opposing side surfaces interchange positions upon indexing of the cutting insert. The planar portion of the second side surface, which does not engage the abutment region or regions of supporting wall, does not interfere with the functionality of the cutting insert.

An improved survey method is disclosed for evaluating the satisfaction of a client with the services and support provided by a service provider. The survey method includes first surveying at least one representative of a service provider providing a service to a client. A plan is then developed for the client based on survey data from the service provider representative survey to address at least one aspect of the provided service requires changing. The developed plan is then presented to the client. A second survey is then taken of at least representative of the client based on performance of the service provider and the developed plan. The survey method advantageously exploits the knowledge of those service provider representatives that provide a service to the client for identifying advantageous modifications of the service or support areas before presenting the client with a survey. In such manner, such survey results would enable a service provider to more quickly implement a plan for service changes that would likely increase client satisfaction with a single or reduced number of client surveys.

A thin photovoltaic device for solar cell applications. As used herein, the term “thin” generally means less than about 20 microns of silicon crystal material, but can also be other dimensions. The term thin should not be limited and should be construed broadly and consistently as one of ordinary skill in the art. In a specific embodiment, the device has a support substrate having a surface region. The device has a thickness of photovoltaic material overlying the surface region of support substrate and having a predefined surface texture to facilitate trapping of one or more incident photons using at least a refraction process to cause the one or more photons to traverse a longer optical path within an inner region of the thickness of material according to a specific embodiment. In a specific embodiment the longer optical path is provided relative to a shorter optical path characteristic of a surface region without the predefined surface roughness. In a specific embodiment, the device also has a dimension of about one wavelength of visible light to about two microns characterizing the thickness of the photovoltaic material.

A cutting tool includes a cutting insert releasably retained therein. The cutting insert has at least a first non-planar side surface, which includes a planar portion that is recessed with respect to other portions of the side surface such as the cutting edges thereof. The planar portion may be spaced apart from the cutting edges associated with that side surface. The planar portion is the only portion of the side surface to engage an abutment region or regions of a supporting wall of the cutting tool. The cutting insert may be double-sided, and include a second, opposing side surface having a respective planar portion formed therein, wherein the two opposing side surfaces interchange positions upon indexing of the cutting insert. The planar portion of the second side surface, which does not engage the abutment region or regions of supporting wall, does not interfere with the cutting operation, or the functionality of the cutting insert.

The invention discloses an image counterfeiting detection algorithm based on a multi-support area local brightness sequence, which belongs to the technical field of image counterfeiting detection, andcomprises the following steps: S1, detecting a feature area to determine feature points; s2, converting a feature region; s3, constructing an LIOP descriptor in each feature region; s4, carrying outfeature matching; s5, carrying out feature point classification; s6, carrying out geometric transformation estimation; s7, completing detection. A support region is divided by using an LIOP descriptorand utilizing a global brightness sequence; the division does not need to calculate the main direction of the support area; the calculation amount is saved, it can be theoretically ensured that the constructed descriptor has real rotation invariance and monotonous brightness invariance, and meanwhile, multiple support regions with different scales, different resolutions and different directions are obtained through NSCT to improve the discriminability of the LIOP descriptor. Therefore, the robustness of the image counterfeit area detection algorithm is improved.

Rebinning methods and arrangements are provided that significantly improve the 3D wavelet compression performance of the image based rendering data, such as, e.g., concentric mosaic image data. Through what is essentially a selective cutting and pasting process the image data is divided into stripes that are then used to form a set of multi-perspective panoramas. The rebinning process greatly improves the performance of the cross shot filtering, and thus improves the transform and coding efficiency of 3D wavelet codecs. While the region of support after rebinning may cease to be rectangular in some cases, a padding scheme and an arbitrary shape wavelet coder can be implemented to encode the result data volume of the smart rebinning. With an arbitrary shape wavelet codec, the rebinning outperforms MPEG-2 by 3.7 dB, outperforms direct 3D wavelet coder by 4.3 dB, and outperforms a reference block coder (RBC) by 3.2 dB on certain tested concentric mosaic image scenes. Hence, the rebinning process nearly quadruples the compression ratio for selected scenes. Additional methods and arrangements are provided that include selectively dividing the image data into slits and rebinning the slits into a huge 2D array, which is then compressed using conventional still image codecs, such as, JPEG.

A method is provided for reinforcing concreted plates in the region of support elements with reinforcement elements, which are each composed of a longitudinally stable, bendable, strap-like base body with two loops. A bore is made in the concreted plate for each reinforcement element. The end region of the bore remote from the pressure-side surface of the concreted plate is drilled out and the one loop of the reinforcement element is pressed together and is led through the bore until this loop has reached the drilled-out hole and expands. The bore is filled with a mortar-type mass. The other loop of the reinforcement element is fixed with an anchor head, which supports itself on the pressure-side surface of the concreted plate.

An assembly for supporting an item has a housing (11) has a first surface (23), a second surface (25) opposite to the first surface, and a periphery (27) between the first and second surface. An opening (33) is provided in the first surface of the housing and a cavity (35) extends inwardly from the opening. At least one engagement surface (43) is present in the cavity and positioned toward the second surface, and configured to provide a first region of support. A support component (7) for supporting the item is configured to engage with the engagement surface(s) (43) of the housing with a portion of the support component extending from the opening (33) of the housing and supported by a second region of support at or toward the fkst surface of the housing, to support the item. A base unit and support component are also provided.