255 results about "Time map" patented technology

A computer-implemented system and method for home page customization and e-commerce support is disclosed. The present invention relates to avatar home pages and the combination of a home page customization service with an e-commerce marketplace through which users can purchase home page decorations made by third party developers. Various embodiments include a “chat now” online matching system and a real-time map showing the geographical location of users in an online community.

A computer-implemented system and method for home page customization and e-commerce support is disclosed. The present invention relates to avatar home pages and the combination of a home page customization service with an e-commerce marketplace through which users can purchase home page decorations made by third party developers. Various embodiments include a “chat now” online matching system and a real-time map showing the geographical location of users in an online community.

In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages may be delivered to the automobile from a remote server through a communications network, e.g., the Internet. One such message may contain a recall notice to the automobile. Another message may contain just-in-time map information for navigation, depending on the current location of the automobile. Yet another message may contain advertising information concerning selected entities, e.g., restaurants, gas stations, department stores, etc., also depending on the current location of the automobile. The messages transmitted from the automobile to the remote server may contain, e.g., GPS information identifying the location of the automobile, dynamic data furnished by sensors in the automobile for analysis, an odometer reading and a speedometer reading for records, etc.

The invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for generating an image of a data store at a past time by using a map (e.g., a time map) of the locations of data stored in the data store at the specified past time. The map allows the data storage system to quickly determine the locations of data stored in a data store at a past time, without searching the entire index of records concerning the locations of the past data.

The invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for generating an image of a data store at a past time by using a map (e.g., a time map) of the locations of data stored in the data store at the specified past time. The map allows the data storage system to quickly determine the locations of data stored in a data store at a past time, without searching the entire index of records concerning the locations of the past data.

Methods, systems and apparatus for improving Internet search results include monitoring network activity on a communications network, generating a near real-time map of the network activity, and integrating the near real-time map with a search engine.

A system and method for measuring exact effort spent on work related activities within an organization. The system includes at least one desktop agent cooperating with at least one server, the or each said desktop agent includes collecting means for online events including user inputs, active applications, and related application artifacts; a desktop time map unit aggregating said online events into time slots pertaining to applications and artifacts on said desktop; a user remote time map unit assessing an offline duration at said desktop; a rules and pattern matching engine; a user time analyzer mapping said online and offline time utilization to activity and purpose responsive to output of said rules and pattern matching engine; and a private time selector regulated by said user time analyzer. Server aggregates individual effort data, and adapts it into an n-dimensional effort data cube, thereby facilitating views into different aspects of organization effort.

A gastro-electrical activity mapping system and comprises a catheter insertable through a natural orifice into the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract and comprising an array of electrodes for contacting an interior surface of a section of the GI tract to detect electrical potentials at multiple electrodes, and a signal analysis and mapping system arranged to receive and process electrical signals from multiple electrodes of the array and spatially map GI smooth muscle electrical activity as an activation time map, a velocity map, or an amplitude map, which may be in the form of contour plots and may be mapped on an anatomical computer model of at least the section of the GI tract and may be animated. A GI mapping method and catheter are also claimed.

In one aspect, the flight display system comprises a navigation map that includes a time window for a required time of arrival (RTA) waypoint. The time window has a proximal end indicating the aircraft's position at the RTA using a defined lowest speed and a distal end indicating the aircraft's position at the RTA using a defined highest speed. In another aspect, a pop-up time map displays flight plan waypoints mapped out along a time line adjacent to a plurality of time markers. The waypoint scrolls along the time line during flight. In another aspect, the flight display system includes a full format time map for displaying at least one flight plan waypoint mapped out along a time line adjacent to a plurality of time markers. In another broad aspect, a time / bearing map includes a plurality of concentric “range” rings corresponding to selected times in the future; a plurality of radially spaced bearing ticks positioned at selected locations about the concentric rings; and, a relative time ring presentable about a central axis of, and internal to, the concentric rings. The relative time ring represents a fixed increment in time. Selected waypoints are presentable at their relative bearing to the airplane and at their range (in time) from the airplane.

A system that is a central controller for the delivery of content for the purpose of promoting custom imprint / indication services. The system will deliver content on a predetermined, periodic time map to a plurality of users on a multi-tier basis through messaging and other networked delivery means. These users will receive said content via their respective information delivery systems and in turn display said content via their own networked information display platform(s) through multiple paths, all related to the ultimate goal of selling custom imprint / indication services.

The invention discloses a robot navigation positioning system and method, which are used for map construction, positioning and path planning of a robot. The method comprises the following steps: S100,positioning is carried out, in the positioning step, the robot detects surrounding environment information through multiple sensors, and later, based on an adaptive particle filtering SLAM algorithmand in match with different odometers, real-time map construction and positioning are completed; and S200, path planning is carried out, in the path planning step, a two-phase hybrid state A*-based path planning algorithm is adopted, after a path length and the number of extended nodes are obtained when path planning is carried out on a rasterized map, a higher rasterized map is obtained through parsing and extension, and the acquired path length and the acquired number of extended nodes are used as input of fuzzy reasoning, a heuristic weight is obtained through fuzzy reasoning and is used asinput of search of a second stage, and path planning is performed on a higher rasterized map. The system and the method disclosed in the invention can not only adapt to different environments but also can perform dynamic path planning.

An all fiber optic laser based scanning system for real time terrain mapping under degraded visual conditions is disclosed. A laser output is modulated to achieve a desired pulse width and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and the modulated signal is amplified. The amplified optical signals are split into N channels that correspond to N elements of an optically phased array that steers light by modulating the phase of light entering and exiting the optical system. By applying a linear phase shift across the beam's wave front, the light propagating along the system's optical axis is steered to an off-axis angle. A real time map of an underlying terrain is accomplished by sweeping the N channel array across the terrain while collecting range information from each scan grid.

The present invention discloses a natural language-based robot deep interacting and reasoning method and device. The method comprises 1) a speech identification step of receiving the user speech input, and processing an input signal to obtain the text information; 2) a case attribute obtaining step of carrying out the participle processing on the text obtained in the step 1), and then carrying out the similarity matching on the text after participle and the cases in a case base to extract the attributes of the cases; 3) a deep dialogue and three dimensional scene interaction step of if the intention of the user obtained according to the case attributes extracted in the step 2) is not complete, repeatedly guiding a user by combining a real-time map file obtained by a Kinect sensor until the complete intention is obtained, and then generating a solution scheme aiming at a working task of the user complete intention; a speech synthesis step of displaying the obtained solution scheme in a text format, synthesizing the speech, and feeding back to the user via a sound device. During an interaction process of the present invention, a robot and the user both use a natural language.

An all fiber optic laser based scanning system for real time terrain mapping under degraded visual conditions is disclosed. A laser output is modulated to achieve a desired pulse width and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and the modulated signal is amplified. The amplified optical signals are split into N channels that correspond to N elements of an optically phased array that steers light by modulating the phase of light entering and exiting the optical system. By applying a linear phase shift across the beam's wave front, the light propagating along the system's optical axis is steered to an off-axis angle. A real time map of an underlying terrain is accomplished by sweeping the N channel array across the terrain while collecting range information from each scan grid.

The invention relates to a map matching method of floating car data. An optimal matching path is guaranteed and an alternative path set of each global positioning system (GPS) point is minimized at the same time by means of multistandard dynamic planning technology, and therefore the matching efficiency is improved. In addition, aiming at the characteristics of map matching, a traditional shortest path analytical method is improved, and the matching speed is further improved by reducing a mark initialization process and a searching method from multiple points to a single point. Compared with other current methods, the map matching method of the floating car data is better in matching accuracy and matching performance, can achieve real-time map matching processing of low sample frequency floating car data in a city traffic network, and has business popularization and application prospects.

The present invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle real-time map reconstruction method. By applying an unmanned aerial vehicle, the three-dimensional maps of the surrounding environment of the unmanned aerial vehicle are obtained, and the own positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle is realized. According to the method, the unmanned aerial vehicle flies in the unknown airspace, and on the condition that the own position of the unmanned aerial vehicle is not clear, the own positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle is obtained and the three-dimensional maps are constructed by detecting and comparing the environmental information, and extracting and matching the feature information of the environment. The unmanned aerial vehicle real-time map reconstruction method also comprises the geographic information fusion and an image mosaic technology. The unmanned aerial vehicle real-time map reconstruction method of the present invention can be applied to the fields, such as the battlefield demands, for example the unmanned aerial vehicle autonomous flight and attack, the disaster emergency rescue, such as fire hazard, earthquake, flood, etc., the unmanned aerial vehicle security administration and monitoring, etc. Compared with the conventional method, and according to the present invention, a position drifting amount, an angle drifting amount or an absolute error is above the average, and more environmental information is obtained. Moreover, compared with a full-density method, an experimental precision of the method still can reach a usage standard, and the method can be operated on a CPU directly and is good in real-time performance.

The invention provides a method for processing map data based on a mobile terminal, a system and the mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: carrying out format conversion processing for the map data and generating map vector data; encoding the generated map vector data and generating the map vector data with a compressed format; constructing a dynamic vector database in the mobile terminal; downloading the map vector data with the compressed format into the dynamic vector database; reading the map vector data with the compressed format from the dynamic vector database and decoding the map vector data with the compressed format to obtain the map vector data; and mapping a map which is corresponding to the map vector data on a display of the mobile terminal according to the map vector data and mobile terminal display pixel data. The method, the system and the mobile terminal are used to solve the problem that map data storage is matched with display and real time map scanning, voice navigation, real time geographic information and interest point searching and the like on the mobile terminal are realized in deed.

In content recorded in a playback only information storage medium, a video object for playing back a video in a method different from the conventional playback sequence and its playback order are controlled. To achieve the control, the data area stores a primary object set which is a group of at least one primary object for managing a relationship between a playback time and a recording position in accordance with at least one time map, and includes a main picture stream, and a secondary object in which a relationship between the playback time and the recording position is managed in accordance with an individual time map, and includes another picture stream to be played back simultaneously with the main picture stream.

The present invention relates to a real-time map data updating system and method, comprising: collecting operating environment information of a terminal device, which is basic information for update condition determination; checking an update condition of the terminal device which includes one or more of a state of travel, a travel speed, and a network state by comparing the collected operating environment information to preset criteria; and partially updating map data, which is stored in the terminal device, in a combination of one or more of level, tile, and layer units corresponding to the checked update condition.

An image management method and apparatus for retrieving images stored in a storage medium by using a plurality of time maps and displaying the retrieved images are provided to allow a user to conveniently and quickly retrieve images. An upper map is displayed with time intervals that are expressed on the upper map and divided into first time units, images corresponding to a point in time in which a key is positioned on the map is retrieved, and the retrieved images are displayed. A lower map is displayed with time intervals that are expressed on the lower map and divided into second time units, images corresponding to a point in time in which a key is positioned on the map are retrieved, and the retrieved images are displayed. If a user input for any one of the time intervals expressed on the upper map or lower map is received, candidate images corresponding to the input time interval are retrieved and the retrieved images are displayed.

The invention discloses a method for identifying the quality of edible oil with low-field NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), suitable for identifying and measuring genuine edible oil and inferior drainage oil. The method rapidly and accurately identifies the genuine edible oil and the inferior drainage oil by using the difference between the relaxation time map data of the genuine edible oil and the inferior drainage oil as a main identification reference, using NMR signals of the genuine edible oil and the inferior drainage oil as main observation objects and using the comparison and the analysis of the transversal relaxation time map data of the genuine edible oil and the inferior drainage oil as main measures. The method of the invention has high measuring result accuracy, good repetition and stability, short duration, and the like, is beneficial to the realization of the one-site identification of the qualities of various kinds of edible oil and provides reliable oil quality information for detecting the qualities of various kinds of edible oil.

Apparatus for detecting hazardous materials is mounted on an aircraft and has a sensor, a heading unit, a transceiver and a GPS unit. The sensor has an airfoil shaped probe and an electronics module. The probe has a positive airflow, enclosed sensing chamber with a hazardous material sensing element. The system for detecting hazardous materials includes aircraft with the hazardous material detecting apparatus and a ground network. The method for detecting hazardous materials includes the steps of providing aircraft with hazardous material sensing apparatus and a ground network, collecting hazardous material and atmospheric data with the sensing apparatus, transmitting the position, wind velocity and hazardous material data to the ground network, calculating distribution of hazardous materials in the atmosphere, generating a real-time map of distribution of hazardous materials and predicting dispersion of the hazardous materials in the atmosphere.

The invention relates to a mobile phone information based section speed calculation method. The method is used for calculating the average speed information of a vehicle at each section through the analysis and the treatment of mobile phone information and the combination of traffic road position and direction. The key points of calculating the section average speed lies in massive data processing and precise positioning of a mobile phone user in a movement process. The problems are solved through two-stage three-time map matching in the invention. The map matching at the first stage comprises the following step of: matching Cell with sections, and the map matching at the second stage comprises the following steps of: establishing a subordination relationship of mobile phone data points and the sections through matching user data points with the sections two times, finally calculating the traffic speed of each user on the sections by using the Cell position in which continuous data points are located and the time, removing part of abnormal speeds in the traffic speeds, summing the traffic speeds and averaging the sum to obtain the average speed of each road. In the invention, the large amount of calculation caused by directly matching each data point with the sections is avoided, and the calculation efficiency is improved. The accuracy of the mobile phone data and the sections is improved through a proximity principle and a direction consistency principle.

A method and system for compact representation of interactive data and transmitting the data via a computer network is disclosed. The system and method provide for logically separating the data into a graphical and multimedia data sections. The multimedia data section is further divided into at least three sequencing schemes in order to facilitate data transfer between a server and a user. The three sequencing schemes include a hierarchical structure of bounding boxes facilitating data compression and interaction between the user and the displayed interactive content, a sequencing map comprising one or more tracks for mapping paths through the bounding boxes, and a time map for synchronizing the sequence map with an audio or video recording. Providing interactive printable sheet music is described as one of the embodiments of the system and method of the present invention.

The invention discloses a page shifting and duplicating method based on operation system reverse page table, the reverse page table data structure of the operation system is applied to page shifting and page duplicating arithmetic, realizes the conversion from physical address to virtual address quickly, localizes the process page items needed to be updated in the page shift and page duplication arithmetic accurately and quickly, supports the flexible operation of these page items, thus solves the problem that the whole process address space must be traversed when several processes share the shifted page, thus it upgrades the efficiency of the page shift and duplication arithmetic, reduces the maintaining expenditure of data consistency caused by the arithmetic. At the same time, creates the mapping relation from the physical address to virtual address, it only needs to amends the page times mapped to the physical page, so it simplifies the realization of arithmetic.

The invention discloses a control method of an unmanned tower crane and an intelligent system of the unmanned tower crane. The control method of the unmanned tower crane comprises following steps: S1,constructing a real-time map of the position where the tower crane is located; S2, generating a transportation track of goods and materials according to the starting point and end point of transported goods and materials in the real-time map; and S3, transporting the goods and materials by the tower crane according to the transportation track. The control method of the unmanned tower crane is applied to the intelligent system of the unmanned tower crane, the real-time map of the position where the tower crane is located is constructed, the transportation track of goods and materials is generated according to the starting point and end point of the transported goods and materials in the real-time map, the goods and materials are transported by the tower crane according to the transportation track, so that intelligentization of transportation of the goods and materials by the tower crane can be realized, manual operation is reduced, human errors possibly caused by the manual operation are avoided, and safety and efficiency of transportation of the goods and materials are improved.

The invention provides an automatic cleaning equipment control system, which comprises a control module, a matching module and a main control module, wherein the control module is used for acquiring data from a sensor and a key switch; the matching module and the control module are connected for determining on or off of a motor and a cleaning action switch under control of the control module; and the main control module and the control module are connected for carrying out mapping or navigation of the automatic cleaning equipment on the basis of data acquired by the control module. The invention also provides an automatic cleaning equipment control method. Thus, the automatic degree of the automatic cleaning equipment is improved, mapping and navigation are separated in a one-time mapping multiple-time navigation mode, and the overall work efficiency of the automatic cleaning equipment is improved.

An optical disc including: a data area storing one or more video objects; and a time map area storing time map information. Each video object includes a plurality of video object units. The time map information includes a first time table and a second time table for each video object. Each first time table includes: addresses of video object units in a corresponding video object; and indicators. The addresses are arranged in order and indicate storage positions of the video object units that correspond to reproduction points that differ by a predetermined time unit. The predetermined time unit is longer than a maximum reproduction period of a video object unit. The indicators specify the video object units which respectively correspond to the addresses. Each second time table includes an entry for each video object unit in the corresponding video object. The entries are arranged in order. Each second time table includes a reproduction period and a data size of each video object. unit.

The invention relates to a system and a method with which a real-time map is capable of being displayed and shared in a mobile terminal, and particularly relates to a system and a method with which real-time geographical location information is mutually shared, wherein the system and the method with which the real-time geographical location information is mutually shared are embedded in a mobile terminal. The system and the method with which the real-time geographical location information is mutually shared have the advantages that the system and the method with which the real-time map is capable of being displayed and shared in the mobile terminal are provided, and real-time geographical location information share can be achieved among a plurality of users. The system and the method with which the real-time map is capable of being displayed and shared in the mobile terminal comprise a service terminal and at least one mobile intelligent terminal , wherein the service terminal is connected with the mobile intelligent terminal through a network, the service terminal comprises a transceiver module, a map module and a cutting module, and the mobile intelligent terminal comprises a global position system (GPS) positioning module, a map control module, a map display module and a transceiver module. According to the system and the method with which the real-time map is capable of being displayed and shared in the mobile terminal, the vector map of location can be displayed in the customer mobile intelligent terminal, the vector map of location can be shared with sharers, and the system and the method with which the real-time map is capable of being displayed and shared in the mobile terminal are not affected by phone models and functions as long as the mobile phone has GPS function.