65 results about "Spatial response" patented technology

An online traffic volume monitoring system based on a phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry and its monitoring method are related to a field of intelligent transportation and an application of distributed fiber sensing. A vehicle moving temporal-spatial response graph is generated by accumulating differentiated Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry tracks at different moments in one unit monitoring period for traffic volume statistics, and then converted into a vehicle moving trajectory image through binarization and image pre-processing. Parameters of the moving vehicles are detected by utilizing a search-match method. A traffic volume, moving speeds, moving directions and locations are obtained respectively from detected trajectory number, and a tilt angle and pixel positions. The monitoring method is helpful to solve traffic congestion problem and informing drivers of real-time traffic volume, and contributes to realize an intelligent city traffic regulation.

A flat spatial response LIDAR apparatus for detecting particles within a short range is provided. The apparatus includes a light source projecting a light beam which is back-scattered by the particles to be detected. The back-scattered light is received, detected and analyzed. A spatial filter spatially filters the received back-scattered light in order to flatten the spatial response of the apparatus, so that a same concentration of particles at any distance within the short range will generate a signal of substantially the same intensity. This is for example accomplished by a properly profiled mask disposed in front of the detector, or a plurality of spatially distributed waveguides. As a result, the LIDAR apparatus can compensate for the 1/r² dependence, or other dependences of the back-scattered light on the distance r.

The invention provides a sparse planar array optimizing method for energy transducers of a phased array sonar system. The method comprises the steps of 1) initialization, 2) simulated annealing optimization, 3) teaching and learning optimization and 4) termination. According to the method, the minimal number of energy transducers, which need to be exited to satisfy the spatial response performance, of the sparse planar array is solved by utilizing spatial response performances including the main-lobe width and the side-lobe peak value of the array. The feasible solution obtained by the simulated annealing optimization can be further optimized via teaching and learning optimization, so that higher convergence speed and precision are provided, the optimal solution of the whole situation can be obtained, as few as energy transducers work, the required spatial response performance of the planar array of the energy transducers is obtained, and the required hardware cost of the phased array imaging sonar system can be effectively reduced.

The invention belongs to the technical field of digital management, and relates to a road and bridge engineering equipment safety monitoring system and method based on BIM + GIS modeling. The safety monitoring system comprises a BIM server, a geographical information system, an engineering equipment management system and a road and bridge engineering construction information management platform. The BIM server obtains the structure information of the engineering equipment and builds the BIM model. The GIS is connected with the BIM server, and the BIM model data is imported into the GIS by GIStechnology, and is then transmitted to the information management platform of road and bridge engineering construction for display. The engineering equipment management system and the GIS are in remote communication; the information management platform of highway and bridge engineering construction is connected with the equipment management system of the institute. The invention can realize the real-time display of the monitoring state of the engineering equipment, the three-dimensional control of the engineering equipment and the spatial response of the fault maintenance of the engineering equipment, so that the equipment management is ordered and feasible, and the intelligent and efficient safety monitoring management is achieved.

Disclosed herein is an acoustic correction apparatus and method for vehicle audio systems which is capable of providing optimal sound at a reference level to a listener even though the acoustic spatial response characteristics in the room of a vehicle vary due to a change in the material of seat covers or the like. A first acoustic analysis unit obtains target frequency characteristic data at a specific listening location based on generated acoustic signals played from an audio system. A second acoustic analysis unit obtains measured frequency characteristic data at the listening location based on measured acoustic signals collected by the microphone unit. An acoustic correction unit adjusts the equalizer of the audio system based on the target and measured frequency data.

Representative methods and systems are disclosed for reducing image distortion or increasing spatial resolution in echo planar magnetic resonance imaging. In representative embodiments, a targeted field of view (FOV) image is divided into segments, with each segment having a predetermined overlap region with an adjacent segment, such as in a phase-encoding direction. Image data is acquired for each segment, sequentially or simultaneously, using a reduced phase-encoding FOV with a 2D radiofrequency (RF) excitation pulse, and rotated and scaled magnetic field gradients. The 2D RF excitation pulse may also be modulated, such as onto a plurality of different carrier frequencies, for simultaneous acquisition of multiple segments in the same imaging plane. Using the spatial response of the 2D RF excitation pulse, the acquired image data for each segment of the plurality of segments is combined to generate a combined magnetic resonance image having the targeted field of view.

Steered spatial compounding is provided in ultrasound imaging. Component frames of data associated with different spatial response are processed to identify different sources of signals. Matched filtering and/or spatial variance with erosion distinguish between sources of signals, such as distinguishing between (1) anatomical structure and (2) soft tissue and/or noise. The locations in the patient are segmented by the source of signals and different compounding is applied for the different sources.

The invention discloses a camouflage object detection model based on edge collaborative supervision and multi-level constraint, provides a mature and complete camouflage object detection method based on the model, preliminarily searches a target potential area through graph-level and pixel-level search, and strengthens spatial response through cascade constraint and an attention mechanism. Meanwhile, an edge segmentation branch is established to guide the model to predict a more accurate contour, a Frelu activation function is utilized to extract the spatial activity of an image at a basic convolution part, camouflage object detection can be effectively and accurately carried out through the model, and a gap is filled in the field of camouflage object detection in the prior art.

In recovering data originally written on a carrier of magnetic media after a catastrophic failure, data may be read without prior knowledge of the write channel by which the data was originally written and in the presence of intersymbol interference of the readback signal. This is accomplished by forming an image of the spatial response function of the magnetoresistive transducer used to recover the data and by forming an image of the raw data read from the carrier of magnetic media by the magnetoresistive transducer for which the response function has been characterized. An image of the distribution of virtual magnetic charge on the carrier of magnetic media is obtained through deconvolution of the image of the response function of the magnetoresistive transducer and the raw readback signal. The readback signal corresponding to the data originally written on the carrier of magnetic media is then recovered by spatial differentiation of the image of virtual magnetic charge. Further improvement in image quality of the resulting image is accomplished through a noise reduction technique such as by the application of an arctangent function to the data prior to differentiation.

The discloses a synthesis method of a broadband frequency independent thinned array taking mutual coupling effect into account, and relates to array antennae. Iterative weighted first norm is adopted in a plurality of limiting conditions, and the limiting conditions comprise a spatial response change limit, a side lobe level upper boundary limit and an expected direction limit. As the limiting conditions are all convex problems, the problems are optimized through iterative second-order cone programming. In a target working frequency range, low side lobe level can be kept, the quantity of array elements can be effectively reduced under a main lobe frequency independent performance, the hardware complexity and the engineering cost are furthest reduced. In addition, electromagnetic mutual coupling effect met in the practical application is considered, and error, caused by coupling, of an antenna system is effectively avoided.

The invention discloses a near-field linear constrained minimum variance adaptive weighted-frequency-invariant beam forming method. The method is based on linear constrained minimum variance. A balance matrix of an array spatial response bias function is defined based on the spatial response bias function, and the matrix is introduced into a near-field linear constrained minimum variance beam forming method to obtain the near-field linear constrained minimum variance weighted-frequency-invariant beam forming method. Then, the weighting coefficient in the near-field linear constrained minimum variance weighted-frequency-invariant beam forming method is defined as a function of the field spot distance and the signal frequency, and the function is dynamic and is updated adaptively. The method of the invention is widely applied to multi-channel speech enhancement, man-machine voice interaction systems, hearing aids, vehicular hands-free voice communication, remote video conferencing systems, robot hearing, and other fields.

A novel magnetic resonance imaging method is described, wherein undersampled magnetic resonance signals are acquired by a receiver antenna system having spatial sensitivity profiles and the image being reconstructed from the undersampled magnetic resonance signals and the spatial sensitivity profiles. The reconstruction of the image is provided by an optimization of a cost function which accounts for any of noise statistics, signal statistics, and the spatial response function, the latter of which is defined by the spatial signal response from the object to be imaged, separately for each individual pixel.

A method for determining an undersampling error for a magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) pulse sequence includes retrieving a plurality of sets of spatial response functions. Each set of spatial response functions is associated with a tissue type in a reference image and is based on a tissue mask of the reference image for each tissue type. A signal evolution for each tissue type may be generated based on, for example, the MRF pulse sequence, An undersampled image may be generated for each tissue type using the set of spatial response functions and the signal evolutions for the tissue type. At least one quantitative parameter may be determined by comparing an undersampled image series created from the undersampled images to an MRF dictionary. An undersampling error for the MRF pulse sequence may be generated by comparing a quantitative map (or maps) for the quantitative parameter (or parameters) and the reference image.

Method and system for determining the spatial response signature of a x-ray detector comprising a photostimulable phosphor by generating a flat field image of the detector, generating a low-pass filtered version of the flat field image and background demodulating the flat field image by pixel-wise dividing it by means of corresponding pixel values in the low-pass filtered version.

The present disclosure provides a method of identifying an airborne molecular contamination (AMC) leaking source in a fab. The method includes distributing a sensor in the fab, executing a forward computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of an air flow in the fab, setting an inversed modeling of the forward CFD simulation of the air flow in the fab, building up a database of a spatial response probability distribution matrix of the sensor using an AMC measurement data in the fab, and identifying the AMC leaking source using the database of the spatial response probability distribution matrix of the sensor.

The invention discloses a constant width beam forming method based on an FIR filter, wherein a received signal f (t, x) =[f(t, x0), ..., f(t, xm), ..., f(t, xM-1)] T of a microphone array is processedthrough a beam forming method to obtain an output signal which is shown in the description, wherein f (t, x) represents a sampled signal of the microphone array at a t time position of x, () T represents a matrix transpose, m represents a microphone index, wherein m=0,1,... M-1, M represents the number of microphone array elements, xm represents the array element positions corresponding to the mth microphone, and x=[x0, ... ,xm,... ,xM-1); N represents the order of the FIR filter followed by each microphone, the description represents the coefficient of the n-order FIR filter followed by themth microphone, the superscript * represents the conjugate, and Ts represents the delay between adjacent filters. The method can enable the array to have the same spatial response to input signals with different frequencies within the main lobe width, and the beam forming device with approximately constant beam width and low side lobe array response is designed by utilizing the symmetric properties of the FIR filter array and microphone uniform linear array.