1118 results about "Virtual control" patented technology

A method to generate technical information about a device or process by recognizing the identity of a device or process, retrieving a stored image dependent on the device, combining the stored virtual image together with an image of a real device object displaying the combination on a display and providing a virtual control HMI means to the user for monitoring and/or controlling the device or process. A graphical user interface, computer program and a system are also described.

Gestures for converting from a position control mode to a motion continuation mode are disclosed. A position control mode can be invoked when the user simultaneously places two or more fingers upon a sensor panel. The fingers can then be moved around to effect position control. A motion continuation mode can be invoked when one or more fingers are lifted off (but at least one finger remains in contact with the sensor panel). If the motion continuation mode is invoked, a virtual control ring can be generated, and scrolling of the viewable area or dragging of the cursor or object can continue in a particular direction specified by a velocity vector pointed in the direction of finger movement at the time the motion continuation mode is invoked, and having a magnitude proportional to the velocity of the finger at the time the motion continuation mode was invoked.

A system that enables a user to interact with a virtual control panel using a user controlled pointing object. The system includes a portable identification element, a tracking unit adapted to capture data representing the position of the pointing object and the position of the identification element, a storage unit, storing at least one pre-defined graphical interface representing a control panel of a device, a graphics unit, generating a graphical representation of the control panel, a registering unit, registering the graphical representation of the control panel in a fixed relation to the portable identification element to produce a virtual control panel and a display unit, showing the user a view including the real world and the virtual control panel.

A virtual control system for an operating room establishes virtual control devices to control surgical equipment and patient monitoring equipment and to display control, status and functionality information concerning the surgical equipment and condition information of the patient. The virtual control devices permit direct interaction by the surgeon while maintaining a sterile field, and avoid the use of actual physical devices and electrical cables connecting them to the surgical equipment.

The invention relates to a wrist gesture control system and a wrist gesture control method, particularly relates to a wrist watch type gesture identifying system for controlling electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, and the system can further be used for the remote control and the virtual control of various electromechanical devices such as household appliances, vehicles, industrial machines, game and entertainment devices, teaching and scientific research devices, medical apparatus and instruments, and voice control devices. Each set of the system comprises a left hand system and a right hand system or a system only used by one hand, the wrist gesture control system comprises a wrist watch part 1 which cooperatively works with an upper computer part 2 to control an upper computer as well as a selectively-worn ring part 3, wherein the wrist watch part 1 comprises a control main module 4, a gesture photographing part 5, a backlight LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamp module 6, a power supply module 7 and a waistband feedback module 8; and the upper computer part 2 comprises the upper computer 9 and a first wireless communication module 10; the ring part 3 comprises a ring feedback module 11; the control main module 4 further comprises a control board clamp 12, a second wireless communication module 13, a three-shaft acceleration module 14, a dip angle module 15 and a control button 16.

The invention discloses a myoelectricity feedback based upper limb training method and system. The myoelectricity feedback based upper limb training system orderly combines signal acquisition, mode identification, biological feedback and real-time fatigue evaluation, thereby being capable of helping a user train the movement function of the upper limb. The upper limb training method includes steps of acquiring movement signals and myoelectric signals of the upper limb joint of the user when the user acts correspondingly such as forearm rotation and wrist bending/stretching as completing virtual game tasks, adjusting movement parameters of virtual control targets on the basis of the movement signals acquired by the users, identifying several muscle contraction modes of the user according to the characteristic parameters of the myoelectric signals, and utilizing the identified modes as selection basis for a myoelectric feedback control method. In addition, the upper limb training system is capable of extracting fatigue characteristics in real time according to the acquired myoelectric signals, analyzing fatigue states of muscles so as to judge muscle fatigue and send an alarm during the whole interaction system.

The invention discloses a calibration method of correlation between a single line laser radar and a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera, which is based on the condition that the CCD camera can carry out weak imaging on an infrared light source used by the single line laser radar. The calibration method comprises the steps of: firstly, extracting a virtual control point in a scanning plane under the assistance of a cubic calibration key; and then filtering visible light by using an infrared filter to image infrared light only, carrying out enhancement, binarization treatment and Hough transformation on an infrared image with scanning line information, and extracting two laser scanning lines, wherein the intersection point of the two scanning lines is the image coordinate of the virtual control point in the image. After acquiring multiple groups of corresponding points through the steps, a correlation parameter between the laser radar and the camera can be solved by adopting an optimization method for minimizing a reprojection error. Because the invention acquires the information of the corresponding points directly, the calibration process becomes simpler and the precision is greatly improved with a calibrated angle error smaller than 0.3 degree and a position error smaller than 0.5cm.

A modular AC power supply system with fault bypass and the method of switching output modes is provided. The system architecture allows a plurality of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) modules connected in parallel to share the loads and tripped for fail independently. A virtual control center is automatically installed in one of the UPS modules at system initialization, used for controlling all UPS modules connected over the UPS network. When a disorder is detected in any UPS module, the virtual control center first collects the operation data from other parallel UPS modules through a high speed communication line, and then decides to send a command to the failing module to trip and shutdown, or to send a command to all parallel UPS modules to switch to the bypass mode through a high speed communication line. The system also employs a low priority interrupt with the falling edge of sync clocks to enhance the overall system reliability and the usage of system resources.

A method and system for dynamically altering the transmission settings of one or more computing devices engaged in a real-time communication session is presented. The devices exchange meaningful and dummy control packets according to a standard control protocol. The approximate bandwidth available on the network is then calculated based on the difference in arrival times between at least one of the dummy control packets and at least one of the meaningful control packets. Once the approximate bandwidth available on the network is computed, the one or more devices adjust outgoing audio and video data streams using a quality control mechanism. The quality control mechanism enables the one or more devices to transmit data in a way that maximizes the user experience during the real-time communication session.

An interactive control module communicates with one or more portable electronic devices to control the portable electronic devices. The interactive control module includes a touch screen display that displays a virtual image of the portable electronic device. A user enters a command into the touch screen display by touching a virtual control feature corresponding to an actual control feature of the portable electronic device. The interactive control module then executes the command by either transmitting the command to the portable electronic device or by executing files downloaded from the portable electronic device.

A non-transitory computer readable medium may comprise instructions configured to display a virtual joystick, a virtual control pad, or a combination thereof and to derive control data based on a manipulation of the virtual joystick, the virtual control pad, or the combination thereof. The instructions may be further configured to communicate the control data to control a component of a non-destructive testing (NDT) device.

The invention relates to the field of touch virtual control, in particular to a touch screen virtual unit control method and mobile terminal. A center control area, an inner control area and an outer control area are arranged on a touch screen. The method includes the steps of detecting touch positions and/or touch gestures on the touch screen; triggering corresponding operating instructions according to the control area where the touch positions is located and/or moving paths of the touch gestures on the control area. According to the touch screen virtual unit control method and mobile terminal, the center control area, the inner control area and the outer control area are arranged and a virtual joystick is integrated in the center control area and is moved to different areas to complete a single or combined operation, so that the complexity of the virtual joystick is greatly simplified, the convenience and quickness of the control of virtual characters in a game of a mobile intelligent device, the technical problem is solved, and convenient, efficient, fast, smooth and easy operation control effects are met for a user.

A method for protecting an HVAC system of an air handling unit from low temperature outdoor ventilation air. The air handling unit may include an outdoor fresh air region, a return air region, a supply air region, and a damper situated in or adjacent to the fresh air region to regulate the flow of outdoor air into the air handling unit. The air handling unit mixes the outdoor fresh air and the return air to provide a mixed air stream to the HVAC system. In one illustrative embodiment, one or more sensors are used to measure the temperature and flow rate of the air entering or passing through the outdoor fresh air region, the temperature of the air entering or passing through the return air region and the flow rate of the air passing through the supply air region. The temperature of the mixed air stream, which is provided to the HVAC system, is then calculated using a controller or the like. In some cases, when the temperature of the mixed air stream falls below a threshold value, the controller may instruct the damper to close and reduce the fresh outdoor air that is brought into the air handler unit. Various other embodiments and algorithms are disclosed.

The invention discloses a non-cooperative spacecraft attitude estimation method based on virtual sliding mode control, and belongs to the technical field of non-cooperative spacecraft navigation. The non-cooperative spacecraft attitude estimation method comprises the following steps: utilizing a virtual control sliding mode controller based on the Lyapunov principle; using target satellite absolute attitude obtained by a stereoscopic vision system as a control objective; according to motion characteristics of the target satellite, establishing a virtual satellite motion model of the target satellite; using a kinetic model of the virtual satellite as a controlled member to obtain attitude parameters of the virtual satellite; using attitude parameters estimated by the virtual satellite and the target satellite absolute attitude obtained by the stereoscopic vision system as controlled input, and calculating the virtual revolving moment on the motion model of the virtual satellite through the virtual sliding mode controller, so as to realize the estimation of the target satellite attitude parameters by the virtual control sliding mode controller. The non-cooperative spacecraft attitude estimation method disclosed by the invention is low in calculated amount, and can still achieve higher convergence rate and higher precision when the initial error of the state variables is high or the system error emerges, so as to meet the requirements of the high performance navigation system.

Disclosed is a device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The present invention utilizes a dynamic virtual control point to represent an IMS device on the UPnP network, which allows communication between the IMS device and one or more devices located on the UPnP network. In one embodiment, the method for communication includes receiving a request for information from an associated electronic equipment communicatively coupled to a wide area network for access to one or more associated devices and/or services communicatively coupled on a local area network; authenticating the request for information on the local area network; and establishing a virtual control point between the associated electronic equipment and the one or more associated devices.

A method and apparatus for performing a mission. Information for a mission is received at a control station. The control station comprises a display system, a motion capture system, a number of user input devices, a seat associated with the number of user input devices, and a processor unit. The display system is configured to be worn on the head of an operator and to present a display to the operator. The motion capture system is configured to track movement of the head. The processor unit is configured to execute program code to generate the display and adjust the display presented to the operator in response to detecting movement of the head of the operator. The mission is performed using the information and the control station.