677 results about "Sense organ" patented technology

The present invention is directed to a method and system for predicting the behavior of an audience based on the biologically based responses of the audience to a presentation that provides a sensory stimulating experience and determining a measure of the level and pattern of engagement of that audience to the presentation. In particular, the invention is directed to a method and system for predicting whether an audience is likely to view a presentation in its entirety. In addition, the present invention may be used to determine the point at which an audience is likely to change their attention to an alternative sensory stimulating experience including fast forwarding through recorded content, changing the channel or leaving the room when viewing live content, or otherwise redirecting their engagement from the sensory stimulating experience.

An artificial Central Pattern Generator (CPG) based on the naturally-occuring central pattern generator locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals may be constructed to be self-adaptive, by providing for the artificial CPG, which may be a chip, to tune its behavior based on sensory feedback. It is believed that this is the first instance of an adaptive CPG chip. Such a sensory feedback-using system with an artificial CPG may be used in mechanical applications such as a running robotic leg, in walking, flying and swimming machines, and in miniature and larger robots, and also in biological systems, such as a surrogate neural system for patients with spinal damage.

A touchless sensing unit (110) and method (200) for operating a device via touchless control is provided. The method can include detecting (210) a finger (310) within a touchless sensory space (101), and handling (220) a control of the device (100) in accordance with a movement of the finger. A first finger movement can be recognized for acquiring a control, and a second finger movement for selecting a control. The method can include estimating (230) a location of the finger in the touchless sensory space for acquiring the control, and identifying a finger movement (250) of the finger at the location for selecting the control.

Methods and systems for providing dynamic emoticons during chat sessions across game consoles are disclosed. A dynamic emoticon may include haptic, visual, and / or auditory components. Each component may have an associated intensity level, e.g., based on a pressure with which a user of the game console presses a controller button or actuates a control input. The emoticon's auditory component may include or identify a sound effects filter or a known audio file; the emoticon's visual component may include or identify a visual effects filter or a known video or graphic file; the emoticon's haptic component may cause vibration of or force feedback on the controller. Emoticons may be sent from one voice chat participant's game console to another voice chat participant's game console across a network such as the Internet.

A system and method are described herein for a sensor device which biomechanically detects in real-time a user's movement state and posture and then provides real-time feedback to the user based on the user's real-time posture. The feedback is provided through immediate sensory feedback through the sensor device (e.g., a sound or vibration) as well as through an avatar within an associated application with which the sensor device communicates. The sensor device detects the user's movement state and posture by capturing data from a tri-axial accelerometer in the sensor device. Streamed data from the accelerometer is normalized to correct for sensor errors as well as variations in sensor placement and orientation. Normalization is based on accelerometer data collected while the user is wearing the device and performing specific actions.

An adaptive method and apparatus for forecasting and controlling neurological abnormalities in humans such as seizures or other brain disturbances. The system is based on a multi-level control strategy. Using as inputs one or more types of physiological measures such as brain electrical, chemical or magnetic activity, heart rate, pupil dilation, eye movement, temperature, chemical concentration of certain substances, a feature set is selected off-line from a pre-programmed feature library contained in a high level controller within a supervisory control architecture. This high level controller stores the feature library within a notebook or external PC. The supervisory control also contains a knowledge base that is continuously updated at discrete steps with the feedback information coming from an implantable device where the selected feature set (feature vector) is implemented. This high level controller also establishes the initial system settings (off-line) and subsequent settings (on-line) or tunings through an outer control loop by an intelligent procedure that incorporates knowledge as it arises. The subsequent adaptive settings for the system are determined in conjunction with a low-level controller that resides within the implantable device. The device has the capabilities of forecasting brain disturbances, controlling the disturbances, or both. Forecasting is achieved by indicating the probability of an oncoming seizure within one or more time frames, which is accomplished through an inner-loop control law and a feedback necessary to prevent or control the neurological event by either electrical, chemical, cognitive, sensory, and / or magnetic stimulation.

A hand held instrument for evaluation of cutaneous sensory perception includes a body member, a rotatable head, and a testing element such as a monofilament projecting from the head member wherein the head member and the body are rotatably engaged for positioning the head member with its projecting testing element at a substantially right angle from the body and for alternatively positioning the head member with its projecting testing element in a non-testing position with the testing element extending in a protected position within an elongate channel of the body. The instrument further includes a guard member or sleeve in cooperative engagement with the body and head member to cover the elongate channel in a first non-testing position and to uncover the elongate channel in a second testing position. The guard member may be rotated, pivoted, flipped, or otherwise manipulated from the non-testing position to the testing position.

An accelerated learning and rehabilitation system for teaching the performance of a musical instrument, a remotely operated system, a sport, a weapon, and for brain rehabilitation and other uses includes generating sensory cues including auditory, haptic and visual sensory cues capable of being perceived by a user. The generated sensory cues are applied to the user and are dependent on a position of at least one body member of a performer relative to a performance element of a performance object with which an event is performed. The sensory cues are effective for stimulating a various processing center of a brain of the user so that user learns how to position his body member corresponding to the position of the performer of the event. The sensory cues can include visual sensory cues effective for stimulating the visual processing center of the brain of the user. The visual sensory cues are synchronized with the other applied sensory cues so that the position of the body member of the performer is virtually visually indicated in synchronization with the other sensory cues so that the visual processing center is stimulated with a visual sensory cue in synchronization with the stimulation of other processing centers corresponding to the other sensory cues for teaching the user to perform a version of the event.

Methods and systems for providing dynamic emoticons during chat sessions across game consoles are disclosed. A dynamic emoticon may include haptic, visual, and / or auditory components. Each component may have an associated intensity level, e.g., based on a pressure with which a user of the game console presses a controller button or actuates a control input. The emoticon's auditory component may include or identify a sound effects filter or a known audio file; the emoticon's visual component may include or identify a visual effects filter or a known video or graphic file; the emoticon's haptic component may cause vibration of or force feedback on the controller. Emoticons may be sent from one voice chat participant's game console to another voice chat participant's game console across a network such as the Internet.

Systems and processes that incorporate teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a system including a processor, physical states of multiple anatomical locations of a body. Each of the physical states includes one of a position, an orientation, and motion, such as velocity or acceleration, or combinations thereof. A relationship between mental states and body configurations is accessed. A mental state, such as mood or emotion, is determined as the mental state corresponding to a body configuration matching the configuration of a portion of the body corresponding to the physical states of a group of the multiple anatomical locations. Data indicative of the mental state is provided, for example, to adjust another system or application, such as a contextual computer or entertainment system. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The invention relates to a fast human face recognition method based on geometric proportion characteristic of five sense organs, an object to be recognized and searched is a human front face image, two-dimensional coordinates of the characteristics of eyes, noses, mouths and the like are got according to different gray values of all parts of a human face, and coordinate points are connected appropriately so as to be combined into angle, length and other information. By performing matching analysis on two human faces, the matching rate of the eyes and the nose, the eyes and the mouth, and the nose and the mouth and the comprehensive matching rate can be further got. Simultaneously, the obtained two-dimensional coordinates and the human face image, as well as the information of an individual to which the human face belongs, are saved in a database together. The human face to be recognized is contrasted and matched with the human faces in the database one by one, and the human face with the highest comprehensive matching rate is further extracted, thereby realizing fast search of the human face.

A method of converting electrical signals into mechanical vibration by means of a transducer in the human ear, an ear canal transducer and a headset wherein a sensation of hearing is achieved by exciting the tissue of the ear canal directly with said transducer, whereby the vibrations propagate to the tympanic membrane and into the human sound sensing organs.

The invention discloses a method for carrying out engineering progress supervision by use of three-dimensional panoramic technology by combining BIM technology. The method comprise following steps of S1: constructing a BIM model for an engineering project; S2: carrying out three-dimensional data acquisition on a construction field of the engineering project and making a three-dimensional panoramic image of the engineering field; S3: associating and integrating the BIM model in the S1 and the three-dimensional panoramic image of the engineering field in the S2: and S4: carrying out synchronous comparison according to positions and carrying out switching comparison according to different time schedules on the associated and integrated data of the three-dimensional panoramic image and the BIM model. According to the invention, sense organ recognition between actual construction conditions and designing models is effectively improved; effective reference basis is provided for construction schedule conditions and onsite construction conditions; and schedule management and quality management of the whole designing and construction stage are effectively improved.

A device for volitional swallowing with a substitute sensory system comprises a band 101 wrapped around the neck with a vibrator 102 positioned over the larynx. Upon activation by a button 103 on a spoon 104 held by an operator, such as the subject 105, the vibrator 102 moves and vibrates the larynx. The patient 105 initiates the sensory stimulation immediately prior to the patient's own initiation of a swallow by viewing on a display screen 106 a movement feedback signal 107, possibly from a piezo-electric sensor 108 also contained in the band 101 which will also be displayed on the display screen 106. The signal 109 from the switch device initiating sensory stimulation will be presented on the same display screen 106 for the patient 105 and trainer to observe when the button or switch 103 is activated for sensory stimulation in relation to the onset of the swallow.

A method for face recognition scene adaptation based on a convolutional neural network comprises the steps of: 1) collecting face data and making classification tags, performing preprocessing and enhancement of the data, and dividing the data into a training set and a verification set; 2) sending the data in the training set into a designed convolutional neural network for training, and obtaininga pre-training model; 3) testing the pre-training model by employing the data in the verification set, and regulating training parameters to perform retraining according to a test result; 4) repeatedly performing the step 3) to obtain an optimum pre-training model; 5) collecting face image data according to different application scenes, performing fine tuning of the pre-training model on the newlycollected data, and obtaining a new adaption scene model; 6) extracting features of a face image to be tested by employing the adaption scene model, performing weighting operation of the five sense organs of the face in the features, and obtaining final feature vectors; and 7) measuring the final feature vectors by employing a cosine distance, determining whether the face is a target face or not,and outputting a result. The method for face recognition scene adaptation based on the convolutional neural network ensures accuracy of face recognition and scene adaptability of the model.

The invention relates to a face image synthesis method and device based on adversarial learning. The method provides a novel generative adversarial network (FC-GAN), and aims to synthesize a front face image under the standard illumination from an occluded face image. The FC-GAN uses a convolutional neural network structure an encoder-decoder as a generator, and two discriminators are introduced at the same time, one is a global discriminator used for distinguishing the authenticity of a whole face image, and meanwhile, the identity information of a person is kept unchanged; and the other oneis a local discriminator which is used for distinguishing the authenticity of the shielding area in the human face. In addition, a human face semantic segmentation network is introduced to strengthenthe consistency of five sense organs of a human face in the generated image. And by comparing the semantic tags of the synthesized face image and the real face image, the gradient is transmitted backto the generator to adjust the five sense organs of the synthesized face image. Experimental results on the reference data set Multi-PIE show that the FC-GAN performance is superior to that of most existing methods.

The invention relates to a flexographic printing water-based ink for food packaging, which comprises an acrylic resin binder, an addition agent, a colorant and deionized water. The flexographic printing water-based ink is good in moving resistance after solidified crosslinking is adopted and is prepared by premixing, sanding and dispersing water-based polyacrylic acid resin having no toxic effect on the human body, food-grade colorants, addition agents and the like according to a fixed proportion. The obtained ink utilizes flexographic printing to form pictures, and after high-temperature drying treatment is performed to a sample, the ink is high in adhesion, resists hot water of 80 DEG C and has a certain acidproof and alkaliproof performance. The water-based ink can replace traditional solvent ink, is applied to various plastics and paper printing, and is particularly used for the printing surface (such as the surface of a paper plate) directly contacted with food or the printing surface of a toy possibly closely contacted with sense organs of infants, thereby greatly improving safety performance.

A garment with prepositioned, definite sensory stimulating devices attached. These sensory stimulating devices include, but are not limited to, electrical stimulation, audio and physical stimulation such as localised force generation, compression, constriction, vibration, and surround sound. Predetermined and defined actuators allow the wearer to receive tissue, nerve and / or muscle stimulation and / or contraction so that the stimulation is precise as determined by its ability to conform to the scientific methodology of repeatability, reproducibility and reliability; this being due to consistency of actuator positioning in one or multiple locals on the human body. A personal surround sound can also be integrated to the garment to ensure the wearer is always in the optimal position relative the speakers. These actuators can be force generators within the garment for the wearer to feel impact or apparatus or electrodes included in the garment to locally constrict and increase pressure on the wearer.

The invention relates to an automatic lip gloss image enhancement method based on the color space. The method comprises the following steps that 1, face identification and five sense organ locating are carried out on an image, and a lip contour area is determined; 2, fuzzy processing is carried out on the lip contour area, and a lip contour fuzzy graph is generated; 3, according to a probability graph of the color space, the probability that each pixel in the lip contour area is the lip is calculated, a lip probability graph is generated and is combined with the lip contour fuzzy graph generated in the step 2, and then a final probability graph is obtained by calculation; 4, according to the final probability graph and the lip gloss color selected by a filter, each pixel in the lip contour area is automatically coated with lip gloss, and finally a result graph after being automatically coated with the lip gloss is obtained. Compared with a lip gloss processing method in the prior art, the method has the advantages of being easier to implement, higher in speed, better in identification precision and more applicable to mobile intelligent equipment.

Active foodware comprises at least a plate unit that provides visual stimuli by having a power source and a visual sensory stimulating component to provide light emanating from the plate. Other devices can provide auditory and haptic stimuli. The plate unit can be a single component where the device and circuitry are all contained in the unit and protected from water or can be two components an upper translucent plate and an underplate comprising the devices and circuitry for directing light through the upper plate.

To assess the sensitivity of a subject's pharynx, an open mouthpiece (1) fitted with a thin guide tube (2), having an articulated end (4), is inserted into the subject's mouth. A pipe (9) is inserted into the guide tube, under visual observation through the mouthpiece, until it touches the subject's palate. The position on a measurement scale (11) provided on the pipe facing a second end of the guide tube is noted, and the pipe is withdrawn over a preset distance, for example 1 cm, and fixed in this position onto the guide tube. A variable gas flow is injected into the pipe and reaches the pharyngeal mucous situated facing the pipe. The sensitivity of the subject's pharynx, measured by the threshold of sense perception, is determined by the lowest flow value perceived by the subject.

The invention provides an emulsion composition which comprises heat sensitizers, film-forming agents, moisturizing type grease and a proper amount of water, wherein the mass ratio of the heat sensitizers, the film-forming agents and the moisturizing type grease is (0.001-5):(0.01-20):(0.1-5). The invention further provides a wet tissue utilizing the emulsion composition. The film-forming agents and the moisturizing type grease contained in the emulsion composition can mitigate cold simulation caused by continuous volatilization of moisture, and the heat sensitizers contained in the emulsion composition can perform physiological reaction with hot sense organs of the human body and generate continuous hot feeling. Therefore, the wet tissue utilizing the emulsion composition is especially suitable for being used in the low-temperature environment, and solves the problem of skin simulation caused by coldness when used in the low-temperature environment.

The invention discloses a cap integrated with 3D identifying and a 3D identifying method of the cap. The head portion where the cap is placed has the best balance anti-shock advantages of a human body and great seeing and hearing sense organ collection. The cap integrates infrared 3D identifying and combines environment modeling and gesture identifying with a head-wearing computer, a wireless network and a displayer, environment 3D modeling enhancing in reality, map marking on Internet of Things and bare-hand operation are perfected, the purposes that a network is where things are in Internet of Things, free marking is carried out on the things, and bare-hand operation which accords with human engineering is carried out on the things are achieved, man-machine interaction which enhances visual images in reality is achieved, and the cap is a developing trend in the future.

A chemical sensor having a transducer element and a layer of composite material including a polymer matrix and a solid particulate filler disposed in the polymer matrix provides chemical sensors exhibiting improved properties. In particular, the device allows polymer matrix materials to be selected based primarily on diffusion properties, strength, stability and other physical characteristics substantially independent of limitations and compromises that arise when attempting to synthesize polymers having specific types of sensory groups chemically bound to the polymer. The invention also allows greater ability to modify sensor response characteristics by appropriate modification of the particulate filler, whereby a diverse sensor array may be fabricated more easily and at a lower cost.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a generation method and device of a cartoon face image and a computer storage medium. In the method, a to-be-processed face image is acquired; face feature information is recognized from the to-be-processed face image, and includes five-sense-organ features information; cartoon materials corresponding to all face feature parts in the to-be-processed face image are respectively acquired according to the face feature information to obtain cartoon face materials, and the cartoon face materials include cartoon five-sense-organ materials and other cartoon materials other than the cartoon five-sense-organ materials; adjustment parameters are utilized to respectively adjust each of the cartoon five-sense-organ materials; and the other cartoon materials and the adjusted cartoon five-sense-organ materials are combined to generate the cartoon face image. Through the above manner, operability of the cartoon face image and similarity with the to-be-processed face image can be improved.

The invention relates to a method for using full face photos and using a computer to analyze the shape features and the positions of five sense organs and then overlapping the make-up effect onto the original full face photos so that the self make-up effect can be virtually observed on the computer without a practical make-up process. The method comprises the following steps including (1) full face human face detection; (2) human face feature point detection; (3) human face five-sense-organ division; and (4) virtual make-up effect synthesis.

Apparatus and methods are provided for contemporaneously displaying video images, delivering audio signals and emitting a scent to an individual. A visual sensory portion includes a video screen for displaying the video images to the user. An auditory sensory portion includes a speaker for delivering the audio signals to the user. An olfactory sensory portion includes a renewable scent element impregnated with an aroma for emitting the scent to the user. A remote controller may be provided for controlling the video images displayed to the user and for controlling the audio signals delivered to the user. A disposable shield may be provided for attachment to eyewear worn by the user for shielding the eyes of the user from extraneous visual distractions. The apparatus may be used in relaxation therapy to produce a comprehensive state of relaxation in the patient prior to a medical, dental or psychological procedure.

The invention discloses a method for detecting face turning and a facial form optimizing method with the method for detecting face turning. Face detection is carried out on an image, five-sense-organ positioning is carried out on a face area in the image, then the face turning angle and the face turning direction are calculated, and optimized processing is further carried out on the portions, on the left side and the right side, of the facial form according to the face turning angle and the face turning direction obtained through calculation when the facial form is optimized. The face turning direction and the face turning angle are accurately detected, and therefore facial form optimization is natural and good in effect.