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The present invention discloses a method for providing presence information, a watcher, a presence server, a presence system and a presentity. It enables the provisioning of history and future presence information, while the prior arts can provide only presence information corresponding to the current time. The method provided by the present invention includes: setting time elements of presence information; recording relevant time information of presence information in the time elements; providing the watcher with presence information together with relevant time information.

A system and method for real-time multi-view (i.e. not just frontal view) face detection. The system and method uses a sequence of detectors of increasing complexity and face/non-face discriminating thresholds to quickly discard non-faces at the earliest stage possible, thus saving much computation compared to prior art systems. The detector-pyramid architecture for multi-view face detection uses a coarse-to-fine and simple-to-complex scheme. This architecture solves the problem of lengthy processing that precludes real-time face detection effectively and efficiently by discarding most of non-face sub-windows using the simplest possible features at the earliest possible stage. This leads to the first real-time multi-view face detection system which has the accuracy almost as good as the state-of-the-art system yet 270 times faster, allowing real-time performance.

An electrical connector includes a wafer formed with a ground shield made from a non-conductive material made conductive with conductive particles disposed therein, thereby eliminating the necessity of the metal ground shield plate found in prior art connectors while maintaining sufficient performance characteristics and minimizing electrical noise generated in the wafer. The wafer housing is formed with a first, insulative housing at least partially surrounding a pair of signal strips and a second, conductive housing at least partially surrounding the first, insulative housing and the signal strips. The housings provide the wafer with sufficient structural integrity, obviating the need for additional support structures or components for a wafer. Ground strips may be employed in the wafer and may be formed in the same plane as the signal strips. The second, conductive housing may be connected (e.g., molded) to the ground strips and spaced appropriately from the signal strips. The wafer may also include air gaps between the signal strips of one wafer and the conductive housing of an adjacent wafer further reducing electrical noise or other losses (e.g., cross-talk) without sacrificing significant signal strength.

The invention discloses a safe state recognition system for people on the basis of machine vision, aiming to solve the problem that the corresponding intelligent control decision for the vehicle driving behaviour can not be formulated according to the safe state of the people in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: collecting a vehicle-mounted dynamic video image; detecting and recognizing a pedestrian in an interested area in front of a vehicle; tracking a moving pedestrian; detecting and calculating the distance of pedestrian in front of the vehicle; and obtaining vehicle real-time speed; and recognizing the safe state of the pedestrian. The process of recognizing the safe state of the pedestrian comprises the following steps: building a critical conflict area; judging the safe state when the pedestrian is out of the conflict area in the relative moving process; and judging the safe state when the pedestrian is in the conflict area in the relative moving process. Whether the pedestrian enters a dangerous area can be predicted by the relative speed and the relative position of a motor vehicle and the pedestrian, which are obtained by a vision sensor in the above steps. The safe state recognition system can assist drivers in adopting measures to avoid colliding pedestrians.

The present invention relates generally to automatic insurance verification, and more specifically, to a non-invasive method and system for automatically determining, by any person with computer, wireless, or telephone access and in real-time, if an insured object of value is or is not insured irrespective of insurer location, jurisdiction, language, type, time, and also the internal operations, software platform and communications protocols used by insurers and/or governmental entities. It is an insurance verification, not an insurance reporting or tracking system and because it maintains no personal data of any kind, and can modify no record, it can deliver only very limited features regarding reporting or tracking. The present invention can however, provide absolute assurance of current insurance status at all times, provides a unique method of access which resolves all current failures and is non-invasive, providing complete privacy for all parties involved, (the absence of all personal information and the access method used ensures that all access and data is inherently non-invasive). This invention further ensures that any check of status, at insurer or governmental registration, (including “e-registration”, inspection, or any other location and time when and where a jurisdiction or insurer requires such a status check, will result in an instant and totally accurate status response. This system is based upon the assignment of a unique identifier, also known in this present art as a “UC” or “Unique Code” which then provides a method of accurate data, (including status checks), without reliance on “VINs”, (vehicle identification numbers), policy number or other identifiers which are often incorrect. The UC is assigned to any combination of two or more elements that are “gleaned”, (file field extraction and related system and methods), one of which is always current status. The extraction of these selected fields from data streams may be done by a number of prior art techniques, and the three most common have been detailed. First demonstrated to government officials in 1999 as a medical version and later the same year as a vehicle version, it has been demonstrated and documented since to a great many Federal and State governmental entities. This present invention has also been demonstrated to several foreign governments but incorporates no technologies that create any possible security risk for any government, insurer, individual, and especially to the national security of the United States.

A filter capacitor comprising a substrate of at least one layer of a low temperature co-fires ceramic (LTCC) tape supporting alternating active and ground electrode layers segregated by a dielectric layer is described. The substrate is preferably a laminate of three LTCC tapes pieces that are heated under pressure and at a relatively low temperature to become a laminate that maintains its shape and structure dimensions even after undergoing numerous sintering steps. Consequently, relatively thin active and ground electrode layers along with the intermediate dielectric layer can be laid down or deposited on the LTCC substrate by a screen-printing technique. A second laminate of LTCC tapes is positioned on top of the active/dielectric/ground layers to finish the capacitor. Consequently, a significant amount of space is saved in comparison to a comparably rated capacitor or, a capacitor of a higher rating can be provided in the same size as a conventional prior art capacitor.

A surface mounting structure and a packaging method thereof comprises a chip, a first conducting wire and a second conducting wire. The two conducting wires instead of lead frame architecture of the prior art is that the lead frame and a bridge jumper connected with N junction and P junction instead of the two conducting wires. The two conducting wires are drawn out from a bottom of a package, and are pressed and bent to original surface of the surface mounting pins so as to increase space utilization rate. Thereby it is to improve a complicated lead frame architecture of the prior art, increase use space and simplify system design.

The invention relates to a composite material for a wind power generator blade. The composite material comprises the following components in parts by weight: 40-75 parts of thermoplastic resin component, 25-60 parts of reinforced fiber component and 0-5 parts of additive. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages of meeting high strength, high modulus, ageing resistance, and the like required by a wind power generator blade.

A laser producing high energy ultrashort laser pulses comprises a normal dispersion segment, a gain segment, an anomalous dispersion segment with negligible nonlinearity and an effective saturable absorber arranged to form a laser cavity. Each segment is optically interconnected so that a laser pulse will propagate self-similarly therein. (A pulse that propagates in a self-similar manner is sometimes referred to as a “similariton.”) With this laser the limitations of prior art laser oscillators are avoided. Also provided are means for pumping the gain medium in the laser cavity, and means for extracting laser pulses from the laser cavity. The laser cavity is preferably a ring cavity. Preferably the laser is configured to achieve unidirectional circulation of laser pulses therein. This configuration is scalable to much higher pulse energy than lasers based on soliton-like pulse shaping.

The present invention relates to a fabrication method of LEDs incorporating a step of surface-treating a substrate by a laser and an LED fabricated by such a fabrication method. The present invention can use a laser in order to implement finer surface treatment to an LED substrate over the prior art. As a result, the invention can improve the light extraction efficiency of an LED while protecting the substrate from chronic problems of the prior art such as stress or defects induced from chemical etching and/or physical polishing.

Sintering die-attach materials provide a lead-free solution for semiconductor packages with superior electrical, thermal and mechanical performance to prior art alternatives. Wafer-applied sintering materials form a metallurgical bond to both semiconductor die and adherends as well as throughout the die-attach joint and do not remelt at the original process temperature. Application to either one or both sides of the wafer, as well as paste a film application are disclosed.

The claimed invention provides a single generic solution by treating live video capture as any other running application on the end-user screen. This allows the technique of capturing consecutive snapshots of a running application window to be applicable to live video capture as well. Specifically, the invention captures and generates video streams for the different content types as follows: (1) live video. Unlike prior art approaches where the capturing software interacts directly with an on-board camera, the invention interacts with and streams the camera playback window; (2) Static video. Rather than streaming directly off the video file, the invention enables the video file to be played on the screen and the playback window to be captured and streamed; and (3) View of running application and view of user desktop. The invention takes consecutive snapshots of an application window or desktop, generates video out of the snapshots, and streams it.

An electromagnet having a conical bore. The conical bore is created by wrapping a conductor around a conically-offset helix. The cross sectional area of the conductor can be varied in order to maintain a desired current carrying capacity along the helix. A single element can be used as the conductor. The conductor can also be created by stacking a series of specially-shaped plates analogous to prior art Bitter-disks.

The method comprises: reading out the pre-configured test solution; according to the function type in said test solution, calling the relevant functional test script; said functional test script calls a browser to open the relevant webpage window of the Web application system under test, and records the identifier of the webpage window; said functional test script calls the browser interface to input the data and operation of current test solution into said webpage window to get test result.

The invention discloses a charging adapter, a terminal and a charging control method, and aims to solve the problem that the charging current is difficult to increase in the prior art. The charging adapter comprises an alternating-current transformer, a direct-current transformer, an external charging chip and a micro controller. The output end of the alternating-current transformer is connected with the direct-current transformer and the external charging chip. The micro controller is used for causing the alternating-current transformer to provide direct-current output and causing the direct-current transformer to carry out direct current transformation and output after the charging adapter and the terminal are effectively connected, and used for causing the external charging chip to charge the terminal after handshake connection between the charging adapter and the terminal is established. By adopting the charging adapter provided by the embodiment of the invention, the charging current can be increased, and the charging efficiency can be improved.

The invention discloses a composite hard carbon cathode material of a lithium ion battery and a preparation method thereof, aiming at improving the first coulombic efficiency. In the composite hard carbon cathode material, a coating object is coated outside a hard carbon matrix, a precursor of the hard carbon matrix comprises a thermoplastic resin which forms the hard carbon matrix by pyrolysis, and a precursor of the coating object is an organic matter. The preparation method comprises the steps of curing, pyrolyzing, pulverizing and coating. Compared with the prior art, a curing agent and adopant are added to the resin for curing, the cured mixture is taken as a carbon source, and then the carbon source is pyrolyzed and coated to finally obtain the composite hard carbon cathode material; and the first reversible capacity of the obtained composite hard carbon cathode material is more than 455.2mAh/g and the first coulombic efficiency thereof is more than 79.4% in the case of 0.2C, thus the obtained composite hard carbon cathode material has high capacity and high first coulombic efficiency, meets the requirement of the lithium ion battery with high capacity, high multiplying power and excellent high and low temperature cycle performance on the charge-discharge performances of the cathode material, has low production cost and is suitable for industrial production.

The invention discloses a system and a method for improving warehousing transaction security and operation efficiency based on a block chain, and aims to solve the problem of low warehousing transaction efficiency due to high difficulty in integrating operation information in warehousing information in the prior art. The whole system combines warehousing with a transaction chain and the internet, and comprises modules including a warehousing service module, a platform management module, a security reinforcement module, a related block chain interface and the like; the security reinforcement module performs bio-feature-based user identity authentication and ensures security of a goods property related interface; and a financial settlement module can manage asset conditions of all users. According to the system and the method, the warehousing is combined with the transaction chain and the internet; two characteristics of "decentralization" and "non-tampering" of the block chain are applied to business operations of warehousing, transaction and the like, so that the security in the complex warehousing and transaction processes is ensured, the manual operation is reduced, and the efficiency is improved; and the system and the method are suitable for the technical field of warehousing supervision information management systems.

A programmable food storage container and behavior modification assistant, having an automatically closing and locking lid/door, and a programmable lock mechanism able to accept and store multiple defined sequential periods of inaccessibility of variable duration and frequency, and multiple defined periods of accessibility of variable duration and frequency. Use of the device mandates compliance with, and reinforcement of behavior consistent with, the user's desire to develop and adhere to a pattern of controlled and limited consumption of any products stored within the container. Addressing the problem left unsolved in the prior art (i.e., the inability of some consumers to resist impulses to consume, and the finite and consumable capacity of people to resist temptation), the device eliminates temptations regarding its contents, and thus eliminates wasteful consumption of the consumer's finite supply of willpower, or capacity to successfully resist an impulse to consume.

Provided are a display including a nano-scale LED and a method for manufacturing the same. In detail, nano-scale LED devices, each of which has a nano unit, are connected to nano-scale electrodes without electrical short-circuit to overcome a limitation in which it is difficult to allow nano-scale LED devices according to the related art to stand up and be coupled to electrodes and a limitation in which it is difficult to allow the nano-scale LED devices to be one-to-one coupled to the nano-scale electrodes different from each other, thereby realizing a display including the nano-scale LEDs. Also, the display may have superior light extraction efficiency and prevent defective pixels and the defect of the whole display due to the defects of the nano-scale LED devices, which may rarely occur, from occurring to minimize the defects of the display including the nano-scale LEDs and maintain its original function.

A hearing aid instrument of the in-the-ear type (and preferably CIC) provides a plate member with electronic hearing aid components mounted thereto. The plate member is preferably of a harder material such as hard plastic. A soft polymeric body is bonded to the plate member and encapsulates preferably a plurality of the electronic hearing aid components. The body is soft and is shaped to conform to the ear canal of the user. The soft polymeric body and encapsulated electronic hearing aid components define a soft structure compliant to the ear canal during use and that is substantially solid and free of void spaces between at least some of the components and the ear canal. This combination of soft compliant structure and encapsulated electronic hearing aid components addresses problems of peripheral leakage, poor fit, pivotal displacement that occurs with jaw motion and internal cross talk of components housed in prior art hollow type hearing aids.