915 results about "Time changes" patented technology

The system enables business people to understand the impact of business transactions, changes and events in real-time using advanced rules and analytics to filter, categorize and interpret the significance of streams of real-time information. Most business performance analysis today is done manually and this process is a time consuming and skilled task leading to a time delay in producing the analysis. This time lag between the transaction or event happening and being able to take action on the analysis is measured in weeks or months at many companies. By blending real-time information with historical data and performance goals, this system enables business users to assess business events and collaborate within teams to drive optimal business performance. Using forecasting techniques enables business managers to predict the likelihood of achieving a particular goal without relying on manual analysis by a skilled analyst. The system automatically updates the forecast based on real-time changing data, enabling the business manager to have an up to the minute and statistically valid projection of future business performance.

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an input position detecting unit for detecting a position of an operator positioned on an operation input unit; a direction detecting unit for detecting a moving direction of the operator based on time change of the position of the detected operator; a magnification change unit for changing a magnification of a screen in accordance with a number of the operator detected by the input position detecting unit; and a display content moving unit for moving a content displayed on the screen along the moving direction of the operator detected by the direction detecting unit.

A multipurpose hemofiltration system (10) and method are disclosed for the removal of fluid and/or soluble waste from the blood of a patient. The system (10) continuously monitors the flow rates of drained fluid, blood, and infusate. When necessary, the pumping rates of the infusate, drained fluid and blood are adjusted to remove a preselected amount of fluid from the blood in a preselected time period. A supervisory controller (160) can monitor patient parameters, such as heart rate (120) and blood pressure (130), and adjust the pumping rates accordingly. The supervisory controller (160) uses fuzzy logic to make expert decisions, based upon a set of supervisory rules, to control each pumping rate to achieve a desired flow rate and to respond to fault conditions. An adaptive controller (162) corrects temporal variations in the flow rate based upon an adaptive law and a control law.

A data collection apparatus includes a sensing unit for attaching to a structure or live subject for sensing a parameter of the structure or live subject. The sensing unit includes a sensor, a data storage device, and a transmitting device. The data storage device is for storing data from the sensor. The apparatus also includes a control unit that is separable from the sensing unit. The control unit includes a data receiving device and a second data storage device different from said first storage device. The data receiving device is to receive data transmitted from the data sensing unit. The second data storage device is for storing the data received from the sensing unit. The apparatus also includes a triggering device for modifying the storing of data being stored to the first data storage device or for initiating transmission of data from the sensing unit to the control unit. The triggering device is controlled by a real time change in information about the structure or live subject.

Apparatus, system and method are provided which utilize signals received from a reference and a sample. In particular, a radiation is provided which includes at least one first electromagnetic radiation directed to the sample and at least one second electromagnetic radiation directed to the reference. A frequency of the radiation varies over time. An interference can be detected between at least one third radiation associated with the first radiation and at least one fourth radiation associated with the second radiation. It is possible to obtain a particular signal associated with at least one phase of at least one frequency component of the interference, and compare the particular signal to at least one particular information. Further, it is possible to receive at least one portion of the radiation and provide a further radiation, such that the particular signal can be calibrated based on the further signal.

The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device including a variable output flow sensor. The variable output flow sensor particularly can be a flex/bend sensor wherein output from the sensor varies based upon changes in electrical current flow (e.g., resistance) along an extension of the sensor relative to flexing or bending of the extension resulting from airflow across the extension. The disclosure further provides methods for controlling operation of an aerosol delivery device through utilization of a variable output flow sensor. In particular, control of functional elements (e.g., a heating member, a fluid delivery member, and a sensory feedback member) can allow for real-time changes in the operation of the aerosol delivery device relative to airflow through the device.

An object of the present invention is to provide a hand-held device with built-in fingerprint sensor provided on a control panel, which does not ruins the operability of the movement of a cursor or a pointer of the display screen. A hand-held device with built-in fingerprint sensor comprises a fingerprint sensor for the fingerprint attestation provided on a control panel. A cursor or a pointer displayed on a display unit is moved according to a time change in the position where the pressure is provided or the movement of the finger on the sensor side of the fingerprint sensor. Further, the timing when said time change is detected is decided according to a time change in the position of the finger on said sensor side or the applied pressure.

A method of serving content to multiple clients via a network is provided. Independent sessions with each of a plurality of clients are maintained, wherein the number of clients in the plurality of clients can vary over time, and wherein the start of each session and the end of each session can be independent of the start and end of other sessions. A stream of packet payloads is received, each packet payload of the stream of packet payloads including data generated from the content, wherein each packet payload in at least a subset of the stream of packet payloads includes a different set of data. Each packet payload in the stream of packet payloads is transmitted to each client of the plurality of clients in corresponding packets, wherein the packet payload transmitted to a client at any particular time is independent of the state of the corresponding session.

One or more embodiments provide Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) based time synchronization systems and methods. The CIP Sync solution can be part of Ethernet/IP and can be based on standard UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and/or IEEE 1588 (Time Synchronization) Ethernet technology. According to an embodiment is a system that compensates for step changes in a master clock.

A plasma reactor for processing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a housing defining a process chamber, a workpiece support configured to support a workpiece within the chamber during processing and comprising a plasma bias power electrode. The reactor further includes plural gas sources containing different gas species, plural process gas inlets and an array of valves capable of coupling any of said plural gas sources to any of said plural process gas inlets. The reactor also includes a controller governing said array of valves and is programmed to change the flow rates of gases through said inlets over time. A ceiling plasma source power electrode of the reactor has plural gas injection zones coupled to the respective process gas inlets. In a preferred embodiment, the plural gas sources comprise supplies containing, respectively, fluorocarbon or fluorohydrocarbon species with respectively different ratios of carbon and fluorine chemistries. They further include an oxygen or nitrogen supply and a diluent gas supply. The controller is programmed to produce flow of different process gas species or mixtures thereof through different ones of said plural gas injection zones. The controller is further programmed to change over time the species content of the gases flowing through different ones of said plural gas injection zones.

The present invention provides a system enabling the remote analysis of a fluid, wherein the analysis of the fluid and collection of data relating thereto can be provided at a plurality of remote locations by a plurality of remote devices. Each remote device is connected directly or indirectly to a central controller via one or more communication networks, thereby enabling centralised collection, evaluation and analysis of a plurality of data relating to characteristics of the fluid system being monitored. The system according to the present invention can further provide a means for the collection of strategic samples of fluid, for example, such that these samples can be collected from one or more of the remote locations at a later time for future and more detailed analysis at a laboratory or other facility. The fluid monitoring system provides a means for real time monitoring of a fluid at a plurality of locations together with a global view of the characteristics of a fluid system. In one embodiment of the invention, this fluid monitoring system can provide information and risk factors relating to real time change in the characteristics of a fluid and the fluid system.

A system and method for selecting an appropriate transmit power and data rate at which a communication signal is transmitted over a link between nodes in a wireless ad-hoc communication network based on factors such as variations in path loss in the link, fading conditions, noise level estimation and overall link quality. The system and method perform the operations of computing path loss in the link based on information provided to the source node from the destination node pertaining to characteristics of a message that was transmitted by the source node and received by the destination node, determining a noise factor at the destination node, and calculating the power level and rate at which the data is transmitted over the link from the source node to the destination node based on the path loss and the noise factor. More specifically, the method calculates the power level based on the path loss, the noise factor and signal fading, and determines the rate based on the calculated power level. Furthermore, the path loss is computed dynamically as conditions of said link change over time. Accordingly, the system and method are capable of determining the proper level of transmit power and data rate for assuring that the destination node will receive the data transmitted by the source node at a reliability of at least 90%.

The present invention is a system, method, and apparatus for determining the impact of crowding on retail performance based on a measurement for behavior patterns of people in a store area. The present invention captures a plurality of input images of the people by at least a means for capturing images, such as cameras, in the store area. In the captured plurality of input images, each person's shopping path is detected by a video analytics-based tracking algorithm. A subset of the people is identified as a crowd in the store area. In relation to the crowd, the behavior patterns of the target person are measured. After aggregating the measurements for the behavior patterns over a predefined window of time, the present invention can calculate a crowd index and a crowd impact index for the store area based on the measurements. A crowd index shows the level of crowd density in the store area caused by a crowd, including traffic count of the crowd in the store area. A crowd impact index comprises a traffic count of the target people who make trips to the store area and a shopping time index, such as average shopping time changes of the target people, in relation to a crowd in the measured store area.

A digital content distribution scheme allows for monitoring of a wide range of data, such as system and behavior events of audiences and playback devices, as well as environmental factors, such as those present at the playback venue. More “static” data may be considered, such as subscriptions, settings, bandwidth, and the like. Based upon the data considered, real or near-real time changes in the content provided to audiences may be made. The changes may be based upon predictions of audience interest made by prediction engine. The techniques may also allow for time-shifting and adaptation of content based upon playback times.

The invention discloses a fire detecting system applied to an unmanned helicopter and a fire detecting method thereof. The system comprises infrared image acquiring equipment and a signal processing flow network, wherein the signal processing flow network comprises an input layer, a middle layer and an output layer; the temperature gradient operator calculation is respectively carried out in the vertical direction, the horizontal direction, the direction of plus 45 degrees and the direction of minus 45 degrees in the center of a suspected area, and a calculation result is a basis of judging fire flame; a differential algorithm adopting interframe time difference as the time change rate is carried out by a method for subtracting absolute values of adjacent interframe pixel gray values, anda calculation result is used as a basis of judging a fire high-risk point. The invention rapidly recognizes the fire flame and the fire high-risk point by a platform with low cost and high efficiencyof the unmanned helicopter through an infrared camera, early warns a fire accurately in time and has the characteristics of manoeuvrability, high efficiency and no dead angle. A fire flame and fire high-risk point detecting algorithm designed by aiming at the detection of an infrared image is efficient, simple, practical and effective.

Light sources of a backlight are configured to customize the shape of light emitted from the clusters. The clusters are activated as a unit and modulated as to brightness, but of the customized shape. All clusters can have a similar customized PSF, or the customization of each cluster may be varied in real time. Real time changes of a clusters PSF may be based, for example, an image or a region of the image to be displayed using the clusters.

A tool configured to emit electromagnetic radiation therefrom such that one or more aspects of the emission of the electromagnetic radiation may be varied as a function of time. By varying the emission of the electromagnetic radiation as a function of time, the tool may enable information related to its position and/or motion to be determined with an enhanced specificity based on detection of the emitted electromagnetic radiation. For example, the varying emission of the electromagnetic radiation may enable a three dimensional position of the tool to be determined, may enable the position of the tool to be determined in three rotational degrees of freedom, and/or may enable time derivatives of these (and other) position information to be determined to quantify motion of the tool. In some implementations, the emission of the electromagnetic radiation may be varied such that position and/or motion information related to a plurality of tools may be determined simultaneously (or substantially simultaneously).

A video data reproduction apparatus displays an animation on a display by receiving and reproducing video data through streaming data communication. A memory stores index image generated from the video data corresponding to a video display time. The index image represents a part of an image created by the video data. A video playing time changing device changes a current video display time to another. A control device chooses an index image from the memory corresponding to the other video play time, and displays the index image on the display.

The invention discloses a prediction method of driving risk based on a hidden Markov model. The method comprises the steps of (1) classifying driving risk states through a cluster analysis method based on vehicle operating characteristics, (2) estimating the influences of a driver behavior and surrounding traffic environment characteristics on a transition probability between driving risk states through multiple logistical models for different driving risk states, (3) with a risk state as a hidden state, with an actual observed vehicle movement variable as a state output value, with multiple logistic model parameters as parameter initial values of a state transition probability matrix, establishing a hidden Markov chain model that reflects the evolution rule of driving states, and (4) obtaining the vehicle operating characteristics in real time and predicting a future risk state based on the hidden Markov chain model. According to the method, the hidden Markov model which can reflect the above characteristic real-time change and has a variable state transition probability is established, the accuracy and prediction accuracy of a driving risk model are improved, and the real-time requirements of anti-collision warning can be satisfied.

This invention relates to procedures for the calibration of systems for continuously measuring the concentration of substances in a body fluid. The system comprises first and second sensors adapted for subcutaneous insertion and an electronic calculator unit adapted for measuring signals from the two sensors. The system is calibrated following the steps of: a) introducing the first sensor subcutaneously, b) calibrating the first sensor, c) obtaining sensor data S₁(t) provided by the first sensor, d) introducing the second sensor subcutaneously, e) obtaining sensor data S₂(t) provided by the second sensor, f) determining the rate of change over time δR(t)/δt, R(t) being a signal which correlates to sensor data S₂(t) over time, and g) performing a calibration of the second sensor when δR(t)/δt is less than a predetermined value, said calibration of the second sensor being performed using sensor data S₁(t) obtained by the first sensor.

A method for providing a background of a locked screen, an electronic device and a computer program product using the method are provided. The method for providing the background of the locked screen includes the following steps. A selection of a background setting style is received. When the electronic device enters a screen lock state, one or more display data are obtained from a storage device according to the selected background setting style. A background of the electronic device in the screen lock state is generated by using a template corresponding to the selected background setting style and the display data, and the display data on the screen lock background changes as time changes. Accordingly, the purpose of providing a variety of screen lock backgrounds for user selection is achieved.

In a method for monitoring power consumption by a system within an integrated circuit, one or more software programs are executed on the system on a chip (SOC). While the program executes, power control settings of a plurality of functional units within the SOC may be adjusted in response to executing the one or more software programs, whereby power consumption within the SOC varies over time. The power control settings may be changed in response to explicit directions from the executing software, or may occur autonomously in response to load monitoring control modules within the SOC. A sequence of power states is reported for the plurality of functional units within the SOC. Each of the sequence of power states may include clock frequencies from multiple clock domains, voltage levels for multiple voltage domains, initiator activity, target activity, memory module power enablement, or power enablement of each of the plurality of functional units.

The invention belongs to a detection method based on a group environment abnormal behavior in the technical field of computer motion image identification and monitoring, comprising the following steps of: dividing video unit subsequences in the establishment of a detection model, extracting characteristics, establishing a sample database and establishing an Multi-HMM model; extracting the sequence of each observed value from a video sequence of the current monitoring scene in abnormal behavior detection, confirming the optimal hidden Markov chains corresponding to the sequences of the observed values, and judging and warming abnormal behaviors. By accurately and rapidly extracting the dynamic changing characteristic of a video sequence on the frequency domain along with the change of time based on the whole angle and automatically detecting abnormal behaviors under group environments in real time according to the established model, the invention achieves the accuracy rate of about 90 percent, thereby having the characteristics of accurately and rapidly extracting the behavior characteristic of the current monitored scene, being widely used for detecting the abnormal behaviors happened under the group environments, having high detection efficiency, accuracy and reliability, and the like.

An improved method for reducing the accuracy requirements on the starting model when performing multi-scale inversion of seismic data (65) by local objective function optimization (64). The different scales of inversion are brought about by incorporating a low-pass filter into the objective function (61), and then decreasing the amount of high-frequency data that is filtered out from one scale to the next. Moreover, the filter is designed to be time varying, wherein the filter's low-pass cutoff frequency decreases with increasing traveltime of the seismic data being filtered (62). The filter may be designed using Pratt's criterion for eliminating local minima, and performing averages (or other statistical measure) of the period and the traveltime error only with respect to source and receiver location but not traveltime (63).

The invention provides a device for displaying information, comprising display means adapted to graphically display information as a function of time for a given period of time, and input means for changing the time from a first time setting to a second time setting, thereby generating an end of time value for the first setting and a start of time value for the second time setting. The display means is controlled to display a first and a second view, the first view displaying, for the given period of time, information corresponding to the first time setting until the end of time value, the second view displaying, for the given period of time, information corresponding to the second time setting from the start of time value. In the first view the period between the end of time value and the end of the given period is indicated as not comprising information as a function of time, and in the second view the period between the beginning of the given period and the start of time value is indicated as not comprising information as a function of time. By this arrangement a user interface is provided reducing the likelihood that graphically displayed information is misinterpreted in case of a time change event.

The invention discloses a simulator for transport of soil pollutant. The simulator comprises a solution injection system, a testing column, a measuring system, and an outlet collecting system, wherein the solution injection system comprises solution injection bottles and guide pipes; valves are arranged at two ends of the testing column, conductivity electrode mounting holes are formed in a side face of the testing column, and an air outlet hole is formed in the top of the testing column; the measuring system comprises conductivity electrodes, a conductivity meter, a pressure sensor, a date collector and a computer; the outlet collecting system comprises a water outlet pipe and an outlet collecting container. According to the simulator, the transfer behavior of pollutants in soil body can be simulated indoors; distribution condition of concentration of pollutant in time and space and the real-time changing of the outlet volume can be acquired in a real-time manner during the simulation; the automation degree is high and the precision is high; therefore, the simulator obviously keeps ahead of relative instruments at home and abroad.

A bandwidth control apparatus in an IP network such as the Internet eliminates a packet discard for each user, and equally assigns bandwidths to the user. A bandwidth measuring portion measures a total bandwidth of a single or a plurality of TCP sessions for each user, and a window size changing portion reduces a window size of a TCP session ACK packet of a user whose total bandwidth value exceeds a maximum bandwidth preset. Alternatively, an ACK time changing portion delays a TCP session ACK packet of a user whose total bandwidth exceeds the maximum bandwidth value preset.

Apparatus and method for monitoring a prostate in a human body in which a fluid flows and which is characterized by a change in the prostate with time in space for the purpose of diagnosing a prostate condition, particularly cancer. A preselected place in the prostate is monitored to collect data at two or more time points correlated to a prostate event. The data is indicative of a prostate parameter that varies with time as a function of at least two variables related to prostate wash-in and wash-out behavior. A calibration map is made on a calculated basis with each pixel or voxel representative of a color hue indicative of wash-out behavior and a color intensity indicative of wash-in behavior. When a satisfactory map is obtained, the collected data is processed on the basis of the map to obtain an image of the preselected place with each spatial unit thereof correlated with a color hue and a color intensity. Software and a data processing system are provided to develop the calibration map. The calibration map and image of the preselected place are also novel implementations.

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device configure to store cheer level information which indicate a time change of a cheer level included in video content data and applause level information which indicate a time change of applause level included in the video content data, and video content information displaying module configure to display two types of graphs of a cheer graph showing a time change of the cheer level in accordance with the cheer level information and an applause graph showing a time change of the applause level in accordance with the applause level information in a volume level indication area in a two-dimensional display area.

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for dynamically monitoring and visualizing metrics within a system that has values which change over time. The values associated with these metrics can be specific to entities within the system or they can be common system-wide metrics. Various attributes can be defined for the metrics to be visualized. The values can then be determined in conformance with these defined data attributes. The values can be mapped to appropriate unique indicators which can be used to represent a visual indication of the determined value. The graphical representation of the entities within the system can be displayed along with unique indicator used to represent the value associated with the metric to be displayed. The metrics to be displayed can be selected from a list. Additionally, the measurements can be periodically made and the display accordingly updated.