1422 results about "Shape object" patented technology

A broadband video layer is integrated with a separately encoded highlight layer configured for presentation in a first window of a video display. One or more visible objects in the video layer are associated with corresponding fitted highlight shapes in the highlight layer. Appearance of the shape object in the video layer is synchronized to appearance of an associated highlight shape to define highlight events. A context may be defined for each highlight event. Occurrence of highlight events may be represented by icons or markers in a video progress bar. Contextual information may be presented in a second window synchronized with the highlight events.

An electromagnetic heater for heating an irregularly shaped object, including:

• • a cavity within which an object is to be placed;
  • at least one feed which feeds UHF or microwave energy into the cavity; and
  • a controller that controls one or more characteristics of the cavity or energy to assure that the UHF or microwave energy is deposited uniformly in the object within ±30% over at least 80% of the volume of the object.

A system and method are provided for visually distinguishing a plurality of numerical elements from a plurality of non-numeric elements in source data, in which the plurality of non-numeric elements providing context for the numerical elements. The system and method comprise the modules and corresponding functionality for selecting a portion of the source data and for identifying the plurality of numerical elements from the plurality of non-numeric elements in the selected portion of the source data according to a recognized format of the numerical elements. The system and method also assign a first shape object to an identified first numerical element of the plurality of numerical elements such that a visual property of the first shape object represents the numerical value of the first numerical element according to a scale, as well as assign a second shape object to an identified second numerical element of the plurality of numerical elements such that the visual property of the second shape object represents the numerical value of the second numerical element according to the scale. The system and method also position the first and second shape objects with respect to a reference surface and assign non-numeric objects to each of the plurality of identified non-numeric elements in the selected portion of the source data. Further, the system and method also position the non-numeric objects with respect to the reference surface for facilitating maintaining the context of the numerical elements for the numerical objects, such that the objects and reference surface are configurable for subsequent display as transformed data or storage in a storage for later retrieval.

A truck bed mounted surfboard storage rack is provided which aids in the storage and transportation of surfboards via pickup trucks and vans. Two fold up arms have three slots in each one, with each slot being padded with a weatherproof foam material. When extended in the up position, the slots allow up to three surfboards to be stored in a horizontal position on their long edge. When in the lowered position, the invention folds flat against the floor of the truck or van, to provide the maximum storage space for other items. When secured to the frame of the pickup truck or van with mechanical hardware such as stainless steel nuts and bolts, the carrier can also be used for snow boards or other similarly shaped objects.

An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.

The invention relates to a rod-shaped object regular three-dimensional modeling method and rod-shaped object regular three-dimensional modeling system based on density peak clustering. The rod-shaped object regular three-dimensional modeling method comprises the steps of performing voxel resampling on original point cloud data which are acquired by an on-vehicle laser radar, eliminating outliers, performing mesh segmentation on a scene point cloud, performing ground point elimination and high-rise point elimination on each grid through elevation straight-through filtering, and respectively performing projection on three coordinate planes of a three-dimensional coordinate system; respectively clustering in three projection planes on each grid in a clustering manner based on a density peak and a distance attribute; limiting the spatial range of the point clouds in a same kind by a regular spatial cubic bounding box, extracting the rod-shaped object in the spatial cubic bounding box according to priori knowledge, and obtaining a rod-shaped member characteristic parameter; and performing modeling for restoring the rod-shaped object. The rod-shaped object regular three-dimensional modeling method and the rod-shaped object regular three-dimensional modeling system can perform quick, efficient and accurate extraction on rod-shaped objects in a majority of environments and integrate with a digital city, thereby realizing fine and true modeling on the rod-shaped objects in the digital city.

The invention provides a cleaning method and a cleaning apparatus in which the quantity of cleaning solvent used may be reduced, and high cleaning property is achieved. The cleaning method of the invention includes a first step of transporting a plate-shaped object to be processed on a support stand by a transporting unit and making hydrophiling preparation on at least one surface thereof, a second step of forming a liquid film on a surface of the object to be processed, on which hydrophiling preparation has made, and a third step of irradiating ultrasonic energy from an ultrasonically oscillating surface provided in the vicinity of the liquid film formed on the surface of the object to be processed so as to be capable of coming into contact therewith onto the object to be processed for cleaning.

A three-dimensional shaping method includes forming a combination to be each level of a three-dimensional shaped object and also forming a combination to be each level of a shaped object support member in each of a plurality of powder material layers having an uncured powder material in accordance with hierarchical shape data corresponding to each of the powder material layers.

An algorithm diagnoses the noise source strength distribution on an arbitrarily shaped object based on acoustic pressures measured in the far field, known as FANS. FANS enable one to acquire a quick estimate of the acoustic pressure at locations that are off limit to traditional measurement microphones. Generally, in the method of the present invention, the noise source is modeled in terms a plurality of virtual spherical wave sources distributed on an auxiliary surface conformal to a source boundary from the inside, but not on the source boundary itself. Sound is then measured at a plurality of measurement points external to the source boundary. The sound field is reconstructed on the source boundary surface itself.

A shaping system that fabricates a shaping object by stacking a material layer formed based on slice data, the shaping system comprises a control section which controls operations of respective sections of the shaping system. The control section controls the respective sections so that, at a prescribed timing, a marker is formed and stacked on a top surface of a marker support body, image distortion information is acquired from a position of the marker as detected by a marker position detecting section, and a correction process for correcting the slice data is executed.

The invention provides a pressure-adjustable heating cooker, which comprises a cooking space, a steam overflowing cavity and a first pressure regulating valve, wherein the steam overflow cavity is communicated with the cooking space through a first vent hole, and the first pressure regulating valve is arranged in the steam overflow cavity. The first pressure regulating valve comprises a ball-shaped object and a stabilizing rod, the ball-shaped object covers above the first vent hole, the stabilizing rod is provided with a position limiting part capable of horizontally moving, the ball-shaped object can be driven by the position limiting part to forwards and backwards roll to open or close the first vent hole, and the moving space of the ball-shaped object is limited in an inside space limited by the position limiting part. In the first pressure regulating valve, through the combination of the stabilizing rod, the spring and the position limiting part, the position of the ball-shaped object can be relatively fixed, so that the steam cannot generate the escape phenomenon even when the heating cooker shakes under the involuntary conditions, and the occurrence of people injury accidents due to steam is avoided.

The invention relates to a multiple target tracking-based passenger flow statistics method which comprises the following steps: a deformable part model is used for subjecting a marked human shape sample to off line training operation, and a human shape part model can be obtained; the human shape part model comprises a root filter, a part filter and a space model for positions of parts relative to a root; the human shape part model is used for subjecting each image frame in a video to human shape object detection operation, a two stage track association method is adopted for tracking pedestrian objects in image scenes, movement tracks of pedestrians being detected are obtained, and the pedestrian objects can be counted in real time according to the movement tracks and movement directions in a camera-covered zone. Front end cameras adopted in the multiple target tracking-based passenger flow statistics method are deployed above entries and exits of indoor environments such as supermarkets, supermarkets and the like; vertical or overlooking sampling operation can be performed; tilting sampling scenes can be optimized in a specific manner, the objects can be detected in the camera-covered zone, the number of people going in and out can be counted in real time while the pedestrians are detected and tracked, and correct rates of pedestrian object statistics exceed 90%.

The invention discloses an automatic extraction technology of street lamp poles based on vehicle laser scanning point clouds. The technology comprises the following steps: carrying out pre-processing including filtering ground points and dividing non-ground points into super-voxel sets; positioning all pole-shaped objects in the scene which might be street lamp poles; carrying out position-oriented segmentation and obtaining the pole-shaped objects; using extracted pole features and global features to describe the pole-shaped objects obtained through segmentation; training random forests and classifier SVMs with manually-labeled training samples, and using the trained random forests and classifier SVMs to classify the pole-shaped objects segmented through the step S3 to identify the street lamp poles. The algorithm of the invention has good robustness under complex environment such as incomplete or obscured street light, and the time complexity of the algorithm is very low, and thus the algorithm can be quickly applied to point clouds of large-scale scenes.

Apparatus and methods are described for generating geometries for stripe-shaped objects. An image is identified that includes a roadway having one or more stripe-shaped objects. The stripe-shaped objects may include lane lines for road edges or lanes of the roadway. The stripe-shaped objects may include a barrier. At least one targeted region within the image is determined. The at least one targeted region is shaped to intersect the one or more stripe-shaped objects and includes a plurality of pixels. An image analysis is performed on the image to determine when the at least one target region includes a pixel in common with the one or more stripe-shaped objects. A geometry is constructed using the pixel in common. The geometry may be used to update a map or subsequently perform localization.

A polishing machine uses a polishing head having a movable pad to press a polishing tape for polishing beveled and edge parts of a disk-shaped object. A rotary shaft is connected to the polishing head in a direction of contact surface between the polishing tape and the object. A rotary-and-reciprocating motion device rotates the polishing head around the axial line of the rotary shaft and moves it reciprocatingly along its axial line. A moving device undergoes a reciprocating motion perpendicularly to the object surface while supporting the object. When in use, the polishing head is rotated while the pad causes the polishing tape to protrude from it while the object is rotated.

A pneumatic system for transporting irregular objects such as bags filled with recycled cans through a duct in which the object is first accelerated by pneumatic pressure and subsequently decelerated after a sensor triggers the closure of the air outlets as the object approaches the output point of the system.

A method of manipulating spectral content of a block of pixels for compression includes the step of classifying each pixel within a selected block of pixels as relevant or irrelevant. A forward transform is applied to the selected block to generate a coefficient block. The coefficient values are modified to generate a modified coefficient block subject to a set of pre-determined constraints including a constraint that the relevant pixels have a same value in an inverse transformation of the modified coefficient block as in the selected block. Proceeding in a reverse zig zag coefficient order the method is repeated for other coefficients having non-zero quantized values.