1234 results about "Two parameter" patented technology

A member of a workforce of a contact center, such as an agent of a call center, can receive performance interventions, such as training, information, tips, or other items intended to enhance workplace performance. The performance interventions can be organized, sequenced, ranked, or prioritized in a lineup, an ordered list, or a queue, that specifies the sequence that the workforce member should receive the performance interventions. The agent might select a training course at the top of the list, for example. Two criteria, parameters, or values can characterize some aspect of each performance intervention. One criterion might characterize time sensitivity, while the other criterion might characterize importance, for example. Processing the two parameters can determine the sequence of performance intervention delivery.

A section of active optical fiber (11) which comprises an active core (1), an inner cladding layer (2) and an outer cladding layer (3). The diameter of said core 1) and the thickness of said inner cladding (2) change gradually along the length of said section of active optical fiber (11). This forms tapered longitudinal profile enabling a continuous mode conversion process along the length of the section of fiber (11). The method for fabricating a section of tapered active optical fiber comprises the steps of fabricating a preform for drawing active optical fiber from said preform, installing said preform into a drawing tower, drawing optical fiber in said drawing tower and altering at least one of the two parameters including the take-off preform speed and the take-up fiber speed during drawing of the optical fiber.

A user device is associated with a dynamic trust score that may be updated as needed, where the trust score and the updates are based on various activities and information associated with the mobile device. The trust score is based on both parameters of the device, such as device type, registered device location, device phone number, device ID, the last time the device has been accessed, etc. and activities the device engages in, such as amount of transactions, dollar amount of transactions, amount of denied requests, amount of approved requests, location of requests, etc. Based on a transaction request from the user device, the trust score and a network reputation score is used to determine an overall trust / fraud score associated with the transaction request.

A patient's dentition is analysed to determine an orthodontic treatment plan by simulating an intervention in advance. 3D imaging techniques and computer technology are used to simulate and predict tooth movement as a function of the chosen treatment, i.e. a specific orthodontic appliance. In this way treatment options can be compared and the most optimal (shortest treatment time, lowest forces . . . ) treatment for each individual patient can be selected. Sub-steps of the tooth movement are not predefined but computed based on a simulation of orthodontic elements and wire as they would be used in the orthodontic treatment of the patient. This means that the sub-steps are calculated based on the relationship between the applied loads and the tooth movement; only one of both parameters can be chosen freely. Thus, either the tooth load is specified and applied in order to calculate the resulting tooth movement or vice versa the tooth movement is specified and applied in order to calculate the tooth load that should be applied. Moreover, the current invention allows predicting the time at which brackets and / or archwire should be changed, and comparing different treatment options with respect to tooth loading and duration.

An ophthalmic surgical control system 10 includes a surgical console 12 for controlling a variety of surgical instruments. A foot controller 18 is connected to the surgical console 12 including a pedal 24 for movement by a user over a pre-determined range in pitch 26 and yaw 28. The system 10 allows the foot controller 18 to independently control two parameters for a single function where a first parameter is controlled by movement of the pedal 24 in pitch 26 and a second parameter is controlled by movement of the pedal 24 in yaw 28.

In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods and devices for assaying single particles in a population of particles, wherein at least two parameters are measured for each particle. One or more parameters can be measured while the particles are in the separate reaction volumes. Alternatively or in addition, one or more parameters can be measured in a later analytic step, e.g., where reactions are carried out in the separate reaction volumes and the reaction products are recovered and analyzed. In particular embodiments, one or more parameter measurements are carried out “in parallel,” i.e., essentially simultaneously in the separate reaction volumes.

The instant invention provides a method for processing converted-wave data into interpretable images using a compact two-parameter model. The method broadly comprises the steps of: collecting both P-wave and converted-wave seismic data; identifying the arrival times of the P-wave and the converted-wave data; computing the vertical velocity ratio from the arrival time data; computing the moveout velocity ratio from the corresponding moveout velocities; computing the effective velocity ratio from the vertical velocity ratio and the moveout velocity ratio; and computing the conversion point from the short-spread P-wave moveout velocity for each reflector, from the effective velocity ratio, the C-wave moveout velocity ratio, and from the arrival time data.

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a condition of a patient under anesthesia or sedation, whereupon one, two, three or more signals are acquired, and the signal(s) represent(s) cardiovascular and / or combined electrical biopotential on skull activity of the patient. From said signal or signals are derived or calculated at least two parameter values related to a quantity like waveform amplitude, waveform periodicity, waveform morphology, waveform variability, energy, power, signal complexity and frequency content. A predetermined mathematical index for probability of patient comfort is used, in which function said parameters are variables, and successively changing probability index values of said mathematical index is calculated.

A video compression framework based on parametric object and background compression is proposed. At the encoder, an object is detected and frames are segmented into regions corresponding to the foreground object and the background. The encoder generates object motion and appearance parameters. The motion or warping parameters may include at least two parameters for object translation; two parameters for object scaling in two primary axes and one object orientation parameter indicating a rotation of the object. Particle filtering may be employed to generate the object motion parameters. The proposed methodology is the formalization of the concept and usability for perceptual quality scalability layer for Region(s) of Interest. A coded video sequence format is proposed which aims at “network friendly” video representation supporting appearance and generalized motion of object(s).

Method for forming, by means of an inversion technique, a model of an underground zone, constrained by static data: data obtained by seismic exploration or measured in situ (logs), and by dynamic data: production measurement, well testing, etc. From an a priori selected meshed geologic model and from relations between parameters or physical quantities characteristic of the medium: acoustic impedance and cabsolute permeability for example, a simultaneous inversion of the two parameters is performed by minimizing a global cost function, which has the effect of considerably decreasing the number of possible solutions and of improving characterization of the underground zone. The method can be used notably for modelling hydrocarbon reservoirs, of zones likely to be used as gas, waste storage places, etc.

A computer implemented process is provided for fast and accurate evaluation of the performance characteristics of the periodic-review (s,S) inventory policy with complete back ordering. This policy has an underlying stochastic process that is a renewal process. The method provides a novel computer implementation of a fast and accurate way to compute approximations of the renewal function. In order to overcome the computational problems in evaluating renewal functions numerically, an approximation scheme has been devised whereby the renewal function of the truncated normal distribution can be characterized by two parameters: (1) its coefficient of variation, and (2) the point at which the function needs to be evaluated. This approximation is derived in two stages. In the first stage, a class of rational polynomial approximations are developed to the renewal function, called Pad+E,acu e+EE approximants. In the second stage, polynomial expressions are derived for each coefficient of the Pad+E,acu e+EE approximants in terms of the coefficient of variation of the distribution.

In a multi-channel encoder generating several different parameter sets for reconstructing a multi-channel output signal using at least one transmission channel, the data stream is written such that the two parameter sets are decodable independently of each other. Thus, a multi-channel decoder is enabled to skip a parameter set which is marked as optional and / or has a higher version number when reading the data stream and still to perform a valid multi-channel reconstruction using a data set marked as mandatory or a data set having a sufficiently low version number. This achieves a flexible encoder / decoder concept suitable for future updates characterized by backward compatibility and reliability.

A backlight unit (10) has a hollow cavity (16) instead of employing a light guide. One or more light sources (24a-c), such as LEDs, are arranged to emit light into the cavity, which is formed by a front (12) and a back reflector (14). The backlight is typically of the edge-lit type. The backlight can have a large area, is thin and consists of fewer components than conventional devices. Its design permits light recycling. The unit emits light of a predefined polarisation and can be arranged to have desired horizontal / vertical viewing angle properties. Light is uniformly distributed within the guide and the light output (20b, 2Od) is substantially collimated. Such backlights occupy a specific region in a parameter space defined by two parameters: first, the ratio of the output emission area to the total source emission area should lie in the range 0.0001 to 0.1; and second, the ratio of the SEP to the height of the cavity (H) should be in the range 3 to 10, where the SEP is an average plan view source separation, a special measure of the average spacing of light sources in the plane of the unit. There is also a discussion on the required number of light sources N, their arrangement near the periphery of the cavity, as well as the shape and size of the output emission area. A required minimum brightness uniformity (VESA) value to be maintained, when a subset of Madjacent sources is switched off (where M is at least 0.1 N or M>2 or both), is also disclosed. The backlight can be used for a display or for general lighting purposes.

The present invention provides a method for decreasing program disturb in memory cells, comprising: finding an initial programming condition that ensures programming memory cell normally; selecting two parameters from the initial programming condition as variables for a program disturb test; performing the program disturb test to the memory cell for at least two combined values of the variables; obtaining a programming condition with minimum program disturb based on the result of the program disturb test; and applying the programming condition with minimum program disturb as the programming condition for memory cell. The method according to the present invention can minimize the program disturb in memory cells and can be performed easily.

Methods of predicting bone or joint disease in a subject are presented. The method may include determining one or more micro-structural parameters, one or more macroanatomical parameters or biomechanical parameters of a joint in the subject. At least two of the parameters are combined to predict the risk of bone or articular disease. Additionally, methods of determining the effect of a candidate agent on any subject's risk of developing bone or joint disease are presented.

The invention discloses a passive wireless temperature and humidity integrated sensor. A cantilever beam capacitive temperature sensor and an interdigital capacitive humidity sensor are adopted, and the passive wireless temperature and humidity integrated sensor comprises a semiconductor substrate, a lower dielectric layer, a lower metal layer, an intermediate dielectric layer, an intermediate metal layer, an upper dielectric layer, and an upper metal interconnecting line and humidity-sensitive material positioned on the upper surface of the upper dielectric layer. The cantilever beam capacitive temperature sensor, an inductance loop and interdigital capacitive humidity sensor and an inductance loop work in a frequency division mode, the temperature and humidity are wirelessly measured, and the passive wireless temperature and humidity integrated sensor can be applied to measuring and acquiring two parameters, namely the temperature and humidity, in a closed environment or severe conditions. The sensor is manufactured by a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) process, and has high performance and low cost.

A UNMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) based system comprises a common control point, a number of base stations, K, and a mobile terminal. During a soft handoff involving the K base stations and the mobile terminal, the common control point receives individual user channel transmit powers from each of the K base stations. In addition, the common control point receives two parameters from the mobile terminal—the identity of that base station involved in the soft handoff that has the strongest received signal at the mobile terminal and, on an average, a value representing how much stronger the received SNR was in comparison to the SNR target maintained by the mobile terminal. The common control point then decides on a downlink reference user channel transmit power for each of the base stations as a function of the individual user channel transmit powers reported by each base station involved in the soft handoff and the information provided from the mobile terminal.

Methods and software tools are described for allowing users to navigate through a time schedule quickly and easily. The time schedule interface facilitates a user viewing multiple time periods on an information schedule on a client device quickly without having to completely remake or redraw the entire interface. A user of a computer or similar device is presented with a time schedule interface. This schedule interface may resemble a schedule such as program guide or a train schedule. The schedule typically is composed of a grid or blocks of information defined by two parameters. One parameter is almost always time, while the other parameter depends on the type of schedule. The interface in this invention includes a moveable virtual slider. The slider rests on or is attached to a time scale axis. This time scale axis may be implemented as a horizontal or vertical bar and in addition may contain markings corresponding to time intervals much like a ruler. A user may select and control this slider along the time scale axis. The position of the slider along the time scale axis controls the time periods displayed in the schedule.

The invention discloses a Non-Equilibrium Capillary Electrophoresis of Equilibrium Mixtures (NECEEM) method and NECEEM-based practical applications. The NECEEM method is a homogeneous technique, which, in contrast to heterogeneous methods, does not require affixing molecules to a solid substrate. The method of the invention facilitates 3 practical applications. In the first application, the method allows the finding of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of complex formation. It advantageously allows for revealing two parameters, the equilibrium dissociation constant, Kd, and the monomolecular rate constant of complex decay, koff, in a single experiment. In the second practical application, the method of this invention provides an approach for quantitative affinity analysis of target molecules. It advantageously allows for the use of affinity probes with relatively high values of koff. In the third practical application, the method of this invention presents a new and powerful approach to select target-binding molecules (ligands) from complex mixtures. Unique capabilities of the method in its third application include but not limited to: (a) the selection of ligands with pre-determined ranges of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of target-ligand interactions, (b) the selection of ligands present in minute amounts in complex mixtures of biological or synthetic compounds such as combinatorial libraries of oligonucleotides, and (c) the selection of ligands for targets available in very low amounts. In particular, the method of this invention provides a novel approach for the selection of oligonucleotide aptamers. The NECEEM-based method can be used for discovery and characterization of drug candidates and the development of new diagnostic methods.

A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine that is capable of producing a higher output and is suitable for high-speed rotation. A pair of nonmagnetic portions are formed in a rotor core at opposite ends of each pole. The waveform of induced voltage and a motor voltage are adjusted based on two parameters, i.e., an angle covering minimum magnetic path portions formed by the nonmagnetic portions and a magnet width. Assuming that a circumferential pitch of teeth cores with respect to a rotor axis is τs (degree) and an opening angle contained by a circumferential width between radial width minimum points of the pair of magnetic path portions with respect to the rotor axis is θ (degree), θ≈(n+Y)×τs (n: integer larger than 0) is met. Y=0.5 is set when the stator windings are wound in a distributed winding way, and Y=0.9-1.2 is set when they are wound in a concentrated winding way. The magnet forming one pole is divided into two parts, and a bridge portion is formed between the two divided magnet parts.

The invention discloses a hierarchical system used for a four-wheel-hub motor-driven electric automobile, and a control method. First of all, yaw moment is calculated as a yaw moment decision-making layer according to a vehicle speed sensor, a steering wheel rotary angle transmitter, an electronic throttle sensor and an inertia measurement unit; then according to automobile longitudinal force constraints, yaw moment constraints, a maximum adhesion force which can be provided by a pavement and restrictions of motor maximum output moment, target torque of each wheel hub motor is calculated as a target optimization analysis layer; and finally, degrees of similarity to six standard pavements are obtained by inputting two parameters, i.e., an adhesion coefficient and a wheel slip rate into a pavement adhesion coefficient estimation fuzzy controller by means of a current pavement, and an adhesion coefficient estimated value of the current pavement is obtained as a pavement adhesion coefficient monitoring layer after weighted averaging is performed. According to the invention, whole-vehicle stability is taken as a control target, motor torque is reasonably distributed according to operation working conditions, and the controllability, the stability and the economic property of vehicles are improved.

The embodiment of the invention provides a direct broadcasting room recommend method and device. The method comprises: a recommend server determines each direct broadcasting room where users have access and interaction parameter values of each direct broadcasting room according to the users' direct broadcasting room watching records in a preset historical time quantum, obtaining the current heat degree parameter values of each accessed direct broadcasting room; and calculating the preference scores of each accessed direct broadcasting room according to the interaction parameter value of each accessed direct broadcasting room and the current heat degree parameter values, and recommending direct broadcasting rooms for the users according to the sequence of the preference scores. Based on the direct broadcasting room push method, the interaction parameter values are employed to recommend direct broadcasting rooms according with user watching demands for users, the heat degree parameter values are employed to recommend current popular direct broadcasting rooms for the users, and the two parameters are combined for usage to realize that each direct broadcasting room recommended to each user has difference and pertinency and accords with user watching demands.

The invention discloses a power equipment current-carrying fault trend prediction method based ona least squares support vector machine. The method provided by the invention comprises the steps of employing historical temperature data to train an LS-SVM regression model, and employing a PSO optimization algorithm to adjust two parameters of the model, namely nucleus width sigma and punishment parameter gamma; employing a PCA algorithm and a K-means clustering algorithm to real-time analyze the temperature of equipment contacts to find contacts with abnormal temperature rising, and using the temperature value asan initial value sequence of prediction;and finally employing the regression model obtained by training to predict the temperature value of the initial value for a long term and for a short term, and analyzing the highest point the contact temperature may reach and the time when the contact temperature reaches the highest point. Through predictive analysis based on PSO-LSSVM, fault development trend of equipment contacts is actively controlled, so the time for timely measures and ensuring the safe operation of power grid is bought. The method provided by the invention can be widely used in the field of power equipment forecast alarm protection.

A computer-based system monitors economic performance within a fleet of carriers comprises components of a communication network that provides information regarding at least individual carriers within the fleet of carriers to a processor. The processor contains a software program that: tabulates at least some of the information to provide a resource of economic performance within the fleet of carriers; enables graphic representation of at least some measures of the economic performance; and enables viewing of metrics including at least two parameters for evaluating the economic performance of a specific carrier. The processor may automatically evaluate individual carrier metrics and automatically alert a designated party of failure to operate within acceptable operating tolerances. The processor may also provide signals to a display unit that receives information from the processor that automatically displays reports that are key performance indicators. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the application. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

The invention discloses a human body fatigue evaluation method based on brain waves. According to the method, a ThinkGearAM electroencephalogram chip is used for acquiring original brain wave signals, an built-in algorithm is used for analyzing and processing the original brain wave signals, and four kinds of parameters are given through calculation according to processed brain wave data; the four kinds of parameters include variable coefficients of five brain wave signals of original delta waves, original theta waves, original alpha waves, original beta waves and original gamma waves, two nonlinear parameters of complexity and power spectral entropy, a fatigue index F worked out through energy of four basic rhythms of the delta waves, the theta waves, the alpha waves and the beta waves in the brain waves, and two parameters of relaxation degree and attention degree extracted through the brain wave signals, and the four kinds of parameters serve as input of a probabilistic neural network (PPN), the output of the PNN serves as a human body fatigue evaluation basis, and therefore the human body fatigue can be judged according to the brain waves of people.

In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods and devices for assaying single particles in a population of particles, wherein at least two parameters are measured for each particle. One or more parameters can be measured while the particles are in the separate reaction volumes. Alternatively or in addition, one or more parameters can be measured in a later analytic step, e.g., where reactions are carried out in the separate reaction volumes and the reaction products are recovered and analyzed. In particular embodiments, one or more parameter measurements are carried out “in parallel,” i.e., essentially simultaneously in the separate reaction volumes.

The invention discloses a lithology identification method. The lithology identification method comprises the steps that firstly, conventional three-porosity (sound waves, density and neutrons) logging measured values of N rock core samples are obtained through the steps of thin section authentication, X-ray diffraction analysis, rock core true depth determination and the like; secondly, the relative distance between two parameters of conventional three-porosity logging is obtained, and the quantitative relation between the relative distance of the two parameters and primary mineral components obtained through X-ray diffraction total rock analysis is obtained according to the relative distance of the two parameters and the mineral components of the N rock core samples; thirdly, rock classification based on the relative distance of the two parameters is established and can be applied to lithology identification of fine grain sedimentary facies area logging, and continuous lithology identification can be carried out on well stratums without core sampled.

An intake pipe of an engine has an injector, while an exhaust pipe has an A / F (air / fuel) sensor that contains a heater. An ECU detects an element impedance of the air / fuel sensor, and computes an emitted heat quantity of the A / F sensor based on the detected element impedance. The ECU further controls energization of the heater of the A / F sensor and computes a heater release quantity associated with the energization of the heater. Furthermore, the ECU estimates exhaust temperature from a balance between the emitted heat quantity of the A / F sensor and the heater heat release quantity by using at least one of an emitted heat quantity-related parameter and a heat release quantity-related parameter. These two parameters can be calibrated.