70 results about "Restricted range" patented technology

The interior cabin of a vehicle is provided with a vehicular sound-processing system that comprises an interior rearview mirror assembly, the mirror assembly including a mirror housing and a reflective element. An accessory is located in the interior cabin. The interior rearview mirror assembly comprises a user-interaction site for a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system communicating with the accessory. The user-interaction site comprises at least one microphone for producing an audio output in response to detection of vocal input of a human speaker in the interior cabin with the vehicle cabin noise superimposed thereon. Preferably, the user-interaction site further comprises at least one manually operated control input. The restricted-range wireless communication system preferably comprises one of a radio frequency restricted-range wireless communication system and an infrared restricted-range wireless communication system. Signals indicative of the vocal input detected at the user-interaction site of the interior mirror assembly are wirelessly broadcast to the accessory located in the interior cabin of the vehicle.

A method of adjusting the 2-way communication range of an RFID system to assist a human operator to individually handle and interrogate a plurality of tagged objects, such as suitcases, that each include an RFID tag transceiver. An RFID interrogator transceiver is mounted on the human operator. The 2-way communication range between the interrogator transceiver and the tag transceivers is adjusted to only slightly exceed the closest distance between the interrogator and the tag while the operator is handling the tagged object. Preferably, the 2-way communication range is short enough that other tagged objects will remain outside the communication range and will not respond to messages from the interrogator. Another aspect of the invention is a method of verifying whether an object to be transported has reached its intended destination. In this aspect, an interrogator transceiver at a first destination interrogates an RFID tag transceiver on the object, and in response the tag transmits its intended destination.

A method of erasing a semiconductor nonvolatile memory (NVM) so as to compact the distribution of cell erased threshold voltages within a restricted range around a target erased threshold voltage. Erase pulses are applied to NVM cells until a determination is made by, for example, sensing total column source current that adequate erasure has been realized. An optional soft program signal may be applied subsequent to each erase pulse in order to impede over-erasure. Once erasure has been verified, the distribution of erased threshold voltages is compacted by sustaining, for a predetermined length of time, the simultaneous application of a gate voltage that is equal to the target erased threshold voltage and a highly positive drain voltage.

A movable part 10 of a display orientation adjustment apparatus H is attached to a rear surface of a display, and pivotably supported by a base 20, and its pivotal motion is restricted by a stopper 50 within a permissible range. If the movable part 10 is pivoted beyond the restricted range by a pivoting force of a predetermined magnitude or greater, the stopper 50 is released. Therefore, even if the display is pivoted inadvertently beyond the permissible range of the pivotal motion, breakage of components thereof would never take place, and its normal state of use can easily be restored.

The invention discloses a self-adaptive method for correcting the white balance, which includes the following steps: original image data is blocked and each block is viewed as an original pixel; average of a component R, a component G and a component B in each block is calculated; a G / R ratio , a G / B ratio and a corresponding Grb value in each data block are obtained; whether the G / R ratio, the G / B ratio and the corresponding Grb value are within a restricted range of the color space is judged, and the processing data is determined as the grey pixel data which is required to be selected; the step-selected R, G, and B data is calculated by statistics and the average of R, G, and B data, and gain of each data Rgain, Ggain and Bgain are obtained; and the obtained gain is applied to the interpolated image data to achieve gain control of the R, G and B components of each pixel in the image. The invention can eliminate the color influence of high saturation and low saturation, and achieve the self-adaptive white balance correction fast.

A video gaming system includes a wireless controller that senses linear and angular acceleration to calculate paths of controller movement over a broad range of controller motion. The system also includes an electromagnetic alignment element, such as a set of LEDS. The controller includes an additional sensor to sense light from the LEDs over a relatively restricted range of controller motion, and use this sensed light to dynamically calibrate the controller when the controller passes through the restricted range of motion over which the sensor senses the light.

Various features pertain to digital signatures for use in signing messages. In one aspect, a digital signature is generated based on a nonce derived using a per-message salt value, particularly a salt selected to provide a semi-deterministic nonce (i.e. a nonce that is neither fully deterministic nor completely random.) In one example, the nonce is generated by concatenating the salt value with a long-term private key and then applying the result to a key derivation function along with a hash of the message to be signed. The salt value may be, e.g., a counter, a context-specific message or may be randomly generated within a restricted range of values (relative to a full range of values associated with the particular digital signature generation protocol used to generate a digital signature from the nonce.)

A method of securing bus architecture from a Trojan attack. A restricted address access detector generates an unauthorized access detection, signal when a master ID signal is within a restricted range. The unauthorized access detection signal disables the requested slave select signal, and the address decoder instead outputs a default slave select signal. A counter determines the duration of a lock signal from a master, and a comparator activates a malicious bus lock signal if the lock signal duration exceeds a threshold. The master mask register forcibly gates the lock signal upon receipt of the malicious bus lock signal. If the duration of a wait request from a slave exceeds a maximum duration register value, a comparator activates a malicious wait detection signal to disable the wait request signal. The method might include storing identifying information about the malicious master and storing a slave ID corresponding to the malicious slave.

The disclosed mobile communication terminal device possesses two operating modes: master mode and guest mode. Under master mode, all information and functions are available to use; and under guest mode, information and functions supported by the terminal device are restricted. The restricted range can be setup. Through mode switch key, the said master mode and guest mode can be switched at any time so as to protect information of mobile communication terminal user and personal privacy. Moreover, under guest mode, some operations are disabled so as to avoid some troubles happening and inconvenience for user caused by error operation.

Provided is an optical module including: an optical assembly incorporating a light emitting or receiving device for converting one of an electrical signal and an optical signal into another of the electrical signal and the optical signal; a circuit board electrically connected to the optical assembly; an optical fiber optically connected to the optical assembly; a tray for winding the optical fiber therein and pulling out the optical fiber therefrom; and a case receiving the optical assembly, the circuit board, the optical fiber, and the tray. In the optical module, the tray is fixed with respect to the case so as to be reciprocatingly movable only within a restricted range, and the tray is moved from a position to another position within the restricted range so as to be moved away from an electrical connection section between the optical assembly and the circuit board.

A liquid cartridge includes a movable member and the movable member includes a detection portion and a float. The liquid cartridge also includes a restriction member and the restriction member includes an operation portion and a restriction portion. When the operation portion is in a first position, the restriction portion is configured to contact the movable member such that the movement of the float is restricted within a restricted range. When the operation portion is in a second position, the restriction portion is configured to release the movable member such that the float is positioned in a free range which is above the restricted range.

A valve opening / closing timing control apparatus includes a phase displacing mechanism for displacing relative phase between a drive-side rotational member and a driven-side rotational member rotatable in unison with a cam shaft, a locking mechanism capable of locking the relative phase to an intermediate locking phase suitable for starting and releasing this lock by a work fluid when needed and an urging mechanism configured to provide an urging function for urging the phase displacing mechanism toward an advancing side in a restricted range between an intermediate restricting phase located more on the retarding side than the intermediate locking phase and a most retarding phase.

The indication circuit includes comparator with double threshold values, counter, oscillator and time delay latch unit. The comparator is in use for restricting range of output voltage VOUT of switching power supply chip. The counter always outputs a pair of opposite signal. The oscillator is in use for the counter to generate periodic signal of square wave. The time delay latch unit provides following functions: detecting time when output voltage is in abnormal condition; if error is corrected within a relaxation time, then recovering the output voltage to normal range; thus, the circuit outputs signal to indicate normal voltage; if error is not corrected within a relaxation time, then the circuit outputs signal to indicate abnormal voltage for chips in subsequent chips to take corresponding protective measures. Advantages are: saving area of chip, reducing power consumption of chip, simple structure, and easy of implementation.

The invention relates to a testing method for red corpuscle blood group antigen. It takes the processes of over pre-dilution, reacting, and testing, respectively testing the reacting system formed by tested red corpuscle and blood group antibody that is already known and the red corpuscle parameter of the comparing system constructed by the tested red corpuscle suspension without blood group antibody, gaining the alteration of the two system red corpuscle parameters, taking comparison analysis to the restricted range to judge whether the agglutination reaction is occurred and indirectly testing whether the tested red corpuscle has the blood type antibody corresponding to that has already been known.

An image processing apparatus which estimates a point spread function (PSF) of at least one input image, and the image processing apparatus includes: an S / N ratio estimation unit which estimates an S / N ratio of the input image at each spatial frequency; a restricted range calculation unit which calculates a restricted range that is a range of the spatial frequency in which the frequency component of the input images are restricted and that more likely includes a spatial frequency in which the S / N ratio is lower; a frequency restriction unit which generates a restricted image by restricting a frequency component of the input image within the restricted range; and a PSF estimation unit which estimates the PSF of the input image, using the restricted image

A method and apparatus for adding audible noise with time varying volume to audio devices are disclosed which makes the time varying volume envelope of the added audible noise proportional to the time varying volume envelope of sound for frequencies where an individual has a restricted range of perception. The method and apparatus are used to improve the audibility, speech intelligibility, and word recognition characteristics in audio devices.

A checkout system includes a clerk-operated bi-optical workstation through which products having target data are passed to a bagging area, and a customer-operated accessory reader having an accessory window facing the bagging area and a data capture assembly for capturing additional target data of additional targets associated with transaction-related items, particularly over a restricted range of working distances that terminates short of the bagging area, and for preventing the accessory reader from capturing the target data of the products in the bagging area.

The support 10 of the present invention resembles a conventional Acrow prop which may be used for temporarily supporting a load. In particular, the present invention is arranged to support a surface at a static position. For example, the surface may comprise a ceiling / beam / lintel within a structure wherein the usual permanent supports for the ceiling / beam / lintel are being replaced or deemed temporarily insufficient. However, the present invention can be used in numerous situations where a support 10 is required and for which the support 10 can be quickly and easily installed. The present invention provides (hydraulic) movement means to move the upper end relative to the lower end. In addition, the present invention provides retraction prevention means to prevent the upper end moving towards the lower end whilst supporting the load and prevents the inner core member 14 being forcibly retracted back into the outer sleeve member 12 due to the compressive force of the load. A hydraulic ram 22 has a maximum extension limit and the present invention uses an adjustable mounting / abutment mechanism which means that a relatively small hydraulic ram 22 can be installed in the outer sleeve member 12. This size of hydraulic ram 22 will then be suitable for all heights and the support is not limited to simply being moveable within a restricted range.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an intelligent claim settlement processing method, and is used for further improving claim settlement processing efficiency on the basis of an automatic claimsettlement system. The method of the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps that: determining a claim settlement case, which is from the automatic claim settlement system and is not approved, as a target case; adopting a preset intelligent checking condition to check the target case, wherein the intelligent checking condition is wider than the checking condition of the automatic claim settlement system in a restricted range that the case is approved; carrying out automatic adjustment processing on the target case which is approved to obtain the claim settlement result of the target case; according to a preset intelligent pushing mechanism, pushing the target case and the corresponding claim settlement result to a sampling inspection post to be subjected to sampling inspection processing; and if the target case passes the sampling inspection processing, outputting the target case and the corresponding claim settlement result. The embodiment of the invention also provides an intelligent claim settlement processing device.

A computerized method for determining an objective tumor response to an anti-cancer therapy using one or more cross-sectional images can comprise receiving one or more cross-sectional images that comprise one or more cross-sectional slices of digital medical image data and identifying one or more target lesions within the one or more cross-sectional images. The method can also comprise analyzing at least one of the target lesions with an image-processing module configured to identify a total range of pixel intensities and restrict the total range of pixel intensities to a first restricted range that corresponds to pixel intensities representative of vascularized tumor. Further still, the method can comprise deriving a vascular tumor burden for the at least one of the one or more target lesions and determining the objective tumor response for the at least one of the one or more target lesions based on the vascular tumor burden.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for, and method of, reading an RFID tag to obtain data in both handheld and hands-free modes of operation, include all RFID module supported by the reader and including an antenna for propagating an electromagnetic field over a range, and a controller for varying the range of the antenna to be different in each mode. The antenna has a full range, preferably by default, in the handheld mode, and the controller is operative, preferably automatically, for decreasing the full range to a restricted range in the hands-free mode.

A method of adjusting the 2-way communication range of an RFID system to assist a human operator to individually handle and interrogate a plurality of tagged objects, such as suitcases, that each include an RFID tag transceiver. An RFID interrogator transceiver is mounted on the human operator. The 2-way communication range between the interrogator transceiver and the tag transceivers is adjusted to only slightly exceed the closest distance between the interrogator and the tag while the operator is handling the tagged object. Preferably, the 2-way communication range is short enough that other tagged objects will remain outside the communication range and will not respond to messages from the interrogator. Another aspect of the invention is a method of verifying whether an object to be transported has reached its intended destination. In this aspect, an interrogator transceiver at a first destination interrogates an RFID tag transceiver on the object, and in response the tag transmits its intended destination.

An athletic training device for enabling and teaching proper athletic movements while executing various athletic exercises. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an athletic training device that enhances neuromuscular control in connection with keeping an athlete's hands close to each other, and also close to his / her torso by providing a restricted range of motion while being easily wearable and removable. Generally, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to adjustable, comfortable, cuff-based training devices that securely encircle a user's wrists with cuff-based members flexibly bound together for use in connection with swing-based movements. A central connecting sub-section typically comprises attachments, which affix a resilient, flexible medium to either of the cuff-based members providing a limited-but not unduly rigid-range of motion during utilization. Moreover, the cuff-based training device provides rigidity while contorting as the wearer performs various athletic actions confirming correct and proper techniques.

A liquid cartridge includes a movable member and the movable member includes a detection portion and an anchor. The liquid cartridge also includes a restriction member and the restriction member includes an operation portion and a restriction portion. When the operation portion is in a first position, the restriction portion is configured to contact the movable member such that the movement of the anchor is restricted within a restricted range. When the operation portion is in a second position, the restriction portion is configured to release the movable member such that the anchor is positioned in a free range which is below the restricted range.

A method of adjusting the 2-way communication range of an RFID system to assist a human operator to individually handle and interrogate a plurality of tagged objects, such as suitcases, that each include an RFID tag transceiver. An RFID interrogator transceiver is mounted on the human operator. The 2-way communication range between the interrogator transceiver and the tag transceivers is adjusted to only slightly exceed the closest distance between the interrogator and the tag while the operator is handling the tagged object. Preferably, the 2-way communication range is short enough that other tagged objects will remain outside the communication range and will not respond to messages from the interrogator. Another aspect of the invention is a method of verifying whether an object to be transported has reached its intended destination. In this aspect, an interrogator transceiver at a first destination interrogates an RFID tag transceiver on the object, and in response the tag transmits its intended destination.

A VVT has a movable restriction member and a restriction slot. When the restriction member is in a projected position, the VVT is variable in a restricted range to which the restriction member can be rotatable within the restriction slot. When the restriction member is in a retracted position, the VVT is variable in a range wider than the restricted range. When a condition where the restriction member shall be projected is satisfied, if the variable range of the VVT reaches beyond the restricted range, the device determines that the restriction member is stuck at the retracted position. When a condition where the restriction member shall be retracted is satisfied, if the variable range of the VVT is restricted in the restricted range, the device determines that the restriction member is stuck at the projected position.

A display assembly for a point-of-sale terminal is provided. The display assembly has a liquid crystal display and a touch screen disposed overlying the liquid crystal display. The display assembly also has a viewing angle-controlled device disposed proximate to the touch screen. The viewing angle-controlled device is configured to limit the viewing angles at which said liquid crystal display may be viewed to a restricted range of viewing angles.

A method of adjusting the 2-way communication range of an RFID system to assist a human operator to individually handle and interrogate a plurality of tagged objects, such as suitcases, that each include an RFID tag transceiver. An RFID interrogator transceiver is mounted on the human operator. The 2-way communication range between the interrogator transceiver and the tag transceivers is adjusted to only slightly exceed the closest distance between the interrogator and the tag while the operator is handling the tagged object. Preferably, the 2-way communication range is short enough that other tagged objects will remain outside the communication range and will not respond to messages from the interrogator. Another aspect of the invention is a method of verifying whether an object to be transported has reached its intended destination. In this aspect, an interrogator transceiver at a first destination interrogates an RFID tag transceiver on the object, and in response the tag transmits its intended destination.