239 results about "Relative times" patented technology

A temporally scalable video coding method is provided to interleave pictures from all layers of a video sequence including video sub-sequences organized using enhancement layers following a set of rules: (1) pictures in each layer are to be coded sequentially within the layer; (2) a picture from an upper layer should be coded when its temporally closest neighboring pictures among all lower layers (in both forward and backward directions if available) have been already coded; in other words, coding of an upper-layer picture requires the temporally closest neighboring pictures among all lower layers (in both forward and backward directions if available) be coded before hand. To ensure a reasonable coding efficiency, for each picture, its qualified reference pictures may be reordered so that the reference pictures are ordered using their relative temporal distance from the current picture instead of the default picture coding order.

One or more queues store data information such as packets or data flows for later transmission to downstream communication devices. A real-time clock tracks current time and an advancement of a moving time reference, which is displaced with respect to the current time of the clock by an offset value. Thus, as current time advances, the moving time reference also advances in time. Upon servicing a queue, a time stamp associated with the serviced queue is also advanced in time. To monitor a rate of outputting data from the one or more queues, a processor device at least occasionally adjusts the offset value so that the moving time reference and values of the time stamps advance in relation to each other. Consequently, by tracking a relative time difference between current time of the real-time clock and a relative advancement of time stamps, a rate of outputting data information from the queue is monitored over time.

A prognostic cell is used to predict impending failure of a useful circuit or circuits in a host IC. Increasing the stress on the prognostic cell relative to the useful circuit shifts the failure distribution of the cell along the time axis. The relative amount of time between the useful circuit failure and prognostic cell trigger point is the “prognostic distance”. The prognostic distance is controlled by designing in the excess stress applied in test device(s), by setting the threshold for triggering in the comparison circuit or by both. Prediction accuracy is enhanced by using multiple test devices to oversample the underlying failure distribution and triggering the failure indicator when a certain fraction fail.

A method and system for adaptively implementing a disk drive startup sequence for a disk drive array. Prior to a next disk drive spin-up sequence a currently available power supply resource capacity and a startup metric of each of the array disk drives are determined. Each of the disk drives are scheduled into designated startup groups as a function of both the determined currently available power supply resource capacity and the determined startup metric. The scheduling of disk drives into designated startup groups includes determining an activation sequence timing schedule for each of the disk drives. The activation sequence timing schedule determines the relative times at which spindle motors for each of said plurality of disk drives will be activated as a function of the determined startup metric for each of the disk drives and the available power supply resource capacity as reduced by the steady state power requirements of each of the startup groups.

An interface for editing media assets is provided. The interface includes a display for displaying a plurality of tiles, each tile associated with a media asset, and a timeline for displaying relative times of each of the plurality of media assets as edited by a user for an aggregate media asset. The timeline display automatically adjusts in response to edits to the media assets; in one example, the timeline concatenating in response to an edit or change in the media assets selected for the aggregate media asset (e.g., in response to the addition, deletion, or edit of a selected media asset). Additionally, in some examples, the timeline maintains a fixed length when adjusting in response to edits to the media assets. In another example, the interface includes a search interface for searching for media assets from remote or local sources.

In one aspect, the flight display system comprises a navigation map that includes a time window for a required time of arrival (RTA) waypoint. The time window has a proximal end indicating the aircraft's position at the RTA using a defined lowest speed and a distal end indicating the aircraft's position at the RTA using a defined highest speed. In another aspect, a pop-up time map displays flight plan waypoints mapped out along a time line adjacent to a plurality of time markers. The waypoint scrolls along the time line during flight. In another aspect, the flight display system includes a full format time map for displaying at least one flight plan waypoint mapped out along a time line adjacent to a plurality of time markers. In another broad aspect, a time/bearing map includes a plurality of concentric “range” rings corresponding to selected times in the future; a plurality of radially spaced bearing ticks positioned at selected locations about the concentric rings; and, a relative time ring presentable about a central axis of, and internal to, the concentric rings. The relative time ring represents a fixed increment in time. Selected waypoints are presentable at their relative bearing to the airplane and at their range (in time) from the airplane.

A testing device and method for a digital video processing system is coupleable to an input and output of the processing system, and inserts video and audio marking information into the input to test system operation. The test device inserts a video marker and an audio marker data code for a single audio channel, preferably in the same digital input frame. The device then monitors the same audio channel and also all the other audio channels at the output, while monitoring for the video marker. The device indicates the occurrence and timing of results that appear at the outputs, the relative timing of the output audio mark(s) versus the video mark, an alarm in the event that an output mark is not found or found on an unexpected channel, etc. The test device successively exercises the audio and video portions of the processing system while also providing numeric timing measurements that are useful for proper setup and operation.

A navigation apparatus includes a communications interface for communicating data via a communications network and a processing resource coupled to the interface and arranged to receive a request for point of interest information, and to communicate via the communications interface a message constituting a point of interest data request for receipt by a remote server. In at least one embodiment, the processing resource is capable of receiving via the communications interface POI data identifying a first POI and a second POI, the POI data being in response to the message and arranged to provide an indication of relative temporal proximity of the first and second POIs. The processing resource is also arranged to respond to the request for POI information by identifying the first POI and the second POI and relative temporal proximity information relating thereto, the relative temporal proximity information being based upon the indication of relative temporal proximity received.

This invention relates to one code message get method and device based on means prediction, which comprises the following steps: unit cutting step to divide the input requires into meanings prepare units set; unit codes knowledge database establishing to expend the prepare units in original common dictionary and to form unit code knowledge database; meaning prediction based on the prediction method to get relative times of the inquire meanings; effective page getting step to get the relative inquire items set by use of the combination times and to get effective page through index; prepare evaluating to get effective page to get prepare file list on codes.

The invention discloses a method and a system for the synchronous acquisition of a wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring. The method comprises the following steps: when a time synchronization packet sent by a gateway is received, adjusting local time by nodes according to sending timestamp and receiving timestamp to complete time synchronization; when the nodes receive pre-synchronous acquisition instructions broadcasted and sent by the gateway and reach the preset start time of the synchronous acquisition, taking the preset start time of the synchronous acquisition as the physical time of the starting of the synchronous acquisition by the gateway, performing zero clearing on the local time by each node to start acquiring data, marking the relative timestamp and the serial number of data packets in the acquired data packet, and sending the data packet to the gateway; and performing flexible optimization on the relative time of each node by the gateway according to relative timestamp and the serial number of the data packets, and adding the relative time to the physical time as synchronous acquisition time information of each data packet. The method can realize time synchronization and the synchronous acquisition in the process of acquisition, ensure that the time of sampling points is accurate, avoid packet loss and ensure the reliability of global diagnosisin the process of the structural health monitoring. The invention simultaneously discloses a system for the synchronous acquisition of the wireless sensor network for the structural health monitoring.

A system, method and device are provided for obtaining, from each endpoint device, meter reading data where the meter reading data are recorded and managed based on a relative time clock in each endpoint device. The relative time clock may be a simple inexpensive clock that tracks minutes and triggers recording of meter reading data for a particular hour at the end of that hour. In that embodiment, a collection system sends an endpoint device a request that includes a requested time that is converted into a relative time so that the endpoint device can understand the request. Since each recorded interval is generated based on a relative time maintained by the clock in the endpoint device rather than an absolute (real) time, the endpoint device does not need to maintain accurate date/time or to read meter reading data from the utility meter based on a real date/time.

An energy-efficient method and system for processing target material such as microstructures in a microscopic region without causing undesirable changes in electrical and/or physical characteristics of material surrounding the target material is provided. The system includes a controller for generating a processing control signal and a signal generator for generating a modulated drive waveform based on the processing control signal. The waveform has a sub-nanosecond rise time. The system also includes a gain-switched, pulsed semiconductor seed laser for generating a laser pulse train at a repetition rate. The drive waveform pumps the laser so that each pulse of the pulse train has a predetermined shape. Further, the system includes a laser amplifier for optically amplifying the pulse train to obtain an amplified pulse train without significantly changing the predetermined shape of the pulses. The amplified pulses have little distortion and have substantially the same relative temporal power distribution as the original pulse train from the laser. Each of the amplified pulses has a substantially square temporal power density distribution, a sharp rise time, a pulse duration and a fall time. The system further includes a beam delivery and focusing subsystem for delivering and focusing at least a portion of the amplified pulse train onto the target material. The rise time (less than about 1 ns) is fast enough to efficiently couple laser energy to the target material, the pulse duration (typically 2-10 ns) is sufficient to process the target material, and the fall time (a few ns) is rapid enough to prevent the undesirable changes to the material surrounding the target material.

An apparatus and method of controlling instruction execution in the apparatus with a precise temporal execution arrangement. The apparatus may be a processor or microprocessor capable of executing a function specific wait state that is dependant upon a type specified by an instruction field. The processor includes a reference clock counter that maintains the wait count, an instruction parser that strips the wait type and count from instructions and passes the stripped information to a comparator. The comparator compares the stripped information against the wait count. The wait types include: a relative timestamp type indicating execution at some time subsequent to the present cycle; a direct timestamp type indicating an absolute time for execution; and a timestamp range indicating a time period when execution is valid.

The invention relates to a nano-femtosecond dual-laser composite machining system. The system comprises a femtosecond laser, a nanosecond laser, a synchronous control circuit, an illuminating light source, a semi-transparent semi-reflecting mirror, a first dichroscope, a second dichroscope, a focusing lens and a charge coupled device (CCD) image detector, wherein the synchronous control circuit controls laser pulse output of the femtosecond laser and the nanosecond laser, and accurately adjusts relative time of nanosecond pulse and femtosecond pulse in the aspect of time to synchronize leading edges of the two pulses; the illuminating light source is positioned on one side of the semi-transparent semi-reflecting mirror, and the second dichroscope, the first dichroscope and the focusing lens are coaxially arranged on the other side of the semi-transparent semi-reflecting mirror in turn and are positioned on a straight line together with the illuminating light source; and the CCD image detector is positioned at the tail end of a reflecting light path of the semi-transparent semi-reflecting mirror. Through the system, the advantages of high femtosecond laser machining accuracy and high nanosecond laser machining efficiency are simultaneously integrated, and high-accuracy and high-efficiency micro-nano machining is realized; and the system can be widely applied to the fields such as high-accuracy machining of aviation and aerospace key parts, microstructure machining of a laser fusion ignition target, microstructure machining of a microsensor and the like.

The method for multiple TDD systems coexistence comprising steps of: a newly deployed system calculating a relative time offset Δt for a corresponding frame; the newly deployed system transmitting uplink and downlink signals based on a time reference information obtained by a summation of the relative time offset Δt and a time reference of an existing system. With the method proposed in present invention, uplink and downlink interference from adjacent frequency bands and from adjacent carriers in the same frequency band can be greatly reduced and a transmission time utility can be guaranteed for a newly deployed system.

A method and system for visualization of electrophysiology information sensed by electrodes on a catheter, includes recording times of electrode signal acquisition, designating a reference electrode signal acquisition, assigning a relative time to each recorded time of electrode signal acquisition relative to the reference electrode signal acquisition, identifying the electrodes with signal acquisition, correlating assigned relative times to identified electrodes to generate a sequence of electrode signal acquisitions, and generating a visual representation of the sequence of electrode signal acquisitions generating a visual representation with a graphical image of the electrodes, wherein individual electrodes are visually marked to represent the sequence of electrode signal acquisitions.

An interferometric method and system enabling light echoes-to-spectrum mapping, applicable for laser rangefinder, biomedical imaging including surface 3D mapping and tomography, vehicle position identification, and spectrum analysis. The direct mapping into spectrum allows a time-of-flight detection without using any timing pulse modulation. The sensitivity of the detection can be as high as that of the conventional low coherence interferometry, thereby an eye-safe and low-cost solution not compromising performance. In a practical implementation, high accurate range detection can be easily achievable with the level of accuracy equivalent to the laser rangefinder using a 20 ps Full-Width-at-Half-Maximum (FWHM) timing pulse. The system and method comprise applying dispersion-unbalanced interference (referred to as ‘cross-chirp interference’) and gating a phase matched spectral component. The dispersion unbalance used to induce linear one-to-one correspondence between the relative time delay and the spectral component, the performances in terms of range and resolution of the system and method increase with the increase in dispersion unbalance