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A system and method of scheduling RFID tag interrogations by a plurality of RFID readers so as to mitigate the effects of interference within an RFID environment in which the readers are deployed, and to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the overall RFID system. The system includes a plurality of RFID receivers for receiving RFID tag data, a plurality of RFID tag interrogators for transmitting RF interrogation signals for interrogating RFID tags, and a controller for providing to at least one interrogator, at least one receiver, and at least one tag, a parameter associated with operational characteristics of the interrogator, the receiver, and the tag, respectively. The interrogator, the receiver, and the tag are operative, in response to receipt of the respective parameter, to modify its operational characteristics in accordance with the respective parameter, thereby avoiding interference at the receivers and the tags.

A portable, integrated physiological monitoring system is described for use in clinical outpatient environments. This systems consists of a plethora of sensors and auxiliary devices, an electronics unit (100) that interfaces to the sensors and devices, and a portable personal computer (102). Electrodes (106) are provided to acquisition electrocardiographic, electroencephalographic, and neuromuscular signals. Electrodes (108) are provided to stimulate neural and muscular tissue. A finger pulse oximeter (110), an M-mode ultrasonic transducer (112), an airflow sensor (114), a temperature probe (120), a patient event switch (116), and an electronic stethoscope (118) are provided. A portable personal computer (102) interfaces to the electronics unit (100) via a standard parallel printer port interface (258) to allow communication of commands and information to/from the electronics unit (100). Control and display of the information gathered from the electronics unit (100) is accomplished via an application program executing on the portable personal computer (102). Sharing of common data acquisition hardware along with preliminary processing of information gathered is accomplished within the electronics unit (100). The entire system is battery operated and portable. This system, because of its architecture, offers significant cost advantages as well as unique modes of operation that cannot be achieved from the individual physiological parameter measurement devices alone. The system allows for the integration of acquisitioned information from the sensors into a patient's database stored on the portable personal computer.

The present invention discloses a complete speech recognition system having a training button and a recognition button, and the whole system uses the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) architecture for the design, and also uses the modular design to divide the speech processing into 4 modules: system control module, autocorrelation and linear predictive coefficient module, cepstrum module, and DTW recognition module. Each module forms an intellectual product (IP) component by itself. Each IP component can work with various products and application requirements for the design reuse to greatly shorten the time to market.

An HVAC system includes a portable controller unit which communicates with an indoor HVAC component and an outdoor HVAC component over a digital communication bus. A multiple of docking stations each in communication with the data bus are located at a multiple of locations throughout the system such that the portable controller unit may be selectively connected to any of the ports and moved therebetween. By moving the portable controller unit, the technician is then physically present at the HVAC component while exercising the system to obtain additional information and measurements directly from the HVAC component.

A system and device is disclosed that employs a global interactive program guide to receive, access, manage, and view digital entertainment services such as live television, television on demand, and pre-recorded video and audio programming from one on more content sources, via an internet-enabled device, anywhere in the world. As disclosed, the global interactive program guide provides a user with metadata that describes available content and enables the user to access desired content on an a la carte basis and arrange the presentation of that content in any way or order desired. The system of the instant invention can alternatively be practiced with any mobile communications device that is accessible via the internet, cell phone communications or other communications mode. Changes made to content availability are instantly synchronized through the entire system and content redundancy is obtained when available.

The invention discloses a multi-camera intelligent control method and a device. The method comprises the following steps: detecting a moving target in a video signal; analyzing the size, position and moving parameters of the moving target in an image; controlling the orientation and the focal length of the camera according to the size, position and moving parameters of the moving target and leading the moving target to be displayed in a video picture of the camera in appropriate position and size so as to realize the tracking of the moving target; predicting the monitoring area to be entered of an adjacent camera by the moving target according to the position and moving direction of the moving target and the monitoring range of the adjacent camera, and controlling the position and focal length of the adjacent camera, so as to lead the viewing field of the adjacent camera to capture the moving target or wait the moving target for entering the viewing field. The invention can carry out full-range cross-camera automatic tracking to the moving target in the monitoring area covered by the multi-camera and can utilize the moving target information of various cameras comprehensively, thus carrying out linked control to the cameras of the whole system.

A method and system for Self-calibrated Azimuth and Attitude Accuracy Enhancing are disclosed, wherein SAAAEMS approach is based on fully auto-calibration self-contained INS principles, not depending on magnetometers for azimuth/heading determination, and thus the system outputs and performance are not affected by the environmental magnetic fields. In order to reduce the system size and cost, this new innovative methods and algorithms are used for SAAAEMS system configuration and integration. Compared to a conventional INS for gyrocompassing, AGNC's approach uses a smaller number of high accuracy sensors: SAAAEMS uses only one 2-axis high accuracy gyro (for example, one DTG) instead of 3-axis; the third axis gyro is a MEMS gyro. It uses only 2 high accuracy accelerometers instead of 3, since the two accelerometers are used only for gyrocompassing not for navigation. These two changes to the conventional INS system configuration remarkably reduce the whole system size and cost. SAAAEMS, uses dynamic gyrocompassing processing for isolation of Base motion disturbance/interference and vibration. SAAAEMS provides a method and system for using automatic methods for system calibration.

A system, method, and apparatus are provided for simulating real-world logistical systems in a virtual environment. Sets of objects are provided with various properties and methods for performing various functions, such as pricing, movement, demand, etc. The objects are sheathed in a framework the enables the objects to operate in a semi-autonomous fashion to create a virtual environment. Instances of the objects in the virtual environment are then provided with real-world information, such as commodity or service-type, amount, location, etc as the properties of the object instances. The framework enables the objects to interact, through their attendant methods, within the virtual environment so that the behavior of the overall system emerges. The emergent behavior can then be observed, optimized and corrective action taken, if necessary.

The invention discloses an intelligent interactive multimedia teaching system which provides multimedia teaching data based on a computer executable platform, thus carrying out real-time and interactive teaching. The system comprises an interactive multimedia display screen, a teacher control terminal, a multimedia data exchanger and a plurality of student control display terminals, wherein the teacher control terminal controls the operation of the whole system; and the multimedia data exchanger is used for carrying out point-to-point, point-to-group, group-to-group and point-to-side real-time exchange, transmission and reception on the multimedia data between the teacher control terminal and the student control display terminals. The invention also discloses an interactive teaching method based on the system, which is characterized in that the teacher can formulate individual teaching aiding plans aiming at each student or each group of students and teach the students in accordance with the aptitudes of the students; and the students can request the teacher control terminal for connection. The system can not only implement paperless teaching but also provide diversified, real-time and interactive multimedia teaching information.

The invention discloses a distributed server load balancing method based on the SDN. Through the advantage of the SDN structure where a control face and a forwarding face are separated, a user access request arrives at a certain device on the SDN, then, an SDN controller dynamically dispatches the user access request to an appropriate server according to the network running state, and therefore server load balancing is achieved. By means of the distributed server load balancing method, comprehensive fault tolerance can be achieved from the access process and the forwarding process to the service process, the total load bearing capacity of a server cluster is brought into full play, and running expandability and running reliability of the whole system are improved.

The invention provides a method for controlling a global optimization of energy saving for a central air conditioning system based on a model, comprising a control module, a multichannel data acquisition card and control card, a refrigerating unit data collector and a controller, a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a flow sensor, a watt transducer, a water pump frequency converter, a fan frequency converter, an RS232/RS485 conversion module and a RS485/RS232 conversion module. The whole system can be operated under the condition of most energy saving according to an operating condition of optimized energy saving of each energy consumption device acquired by calculation of a calculation module by taking energy consumption modules of a refrigerating unit, a water pump and a fan and an ARMA air conditioning load forecasting model. The invention thoroughly concerns an influence of the operating condition of each power device in the system to the energy consumption of the whole system, takes a control strategy based on a forecasted air conditioning load, and performs an online update for the energy consumption modules of key energy consumption devices in the system, thereby greatly improving an effect of optimization of energy saving for the central air conditioning system.

A motion assistance device has a biological signal detection means for detecting a biological signal from the wearer of the device; a motion assistance device installation member having a drive source for applying torque acting to the wearer by use of each joint of the wearer as a rotating shaft; a control means for controlling the drive source to generate torque corresponding to the biological signal detected by the biological signal detection mean; a drive torque estimation means for estimating the drive torque generated by the drive source; a joint angle detection means for detecting angular displacement of a joint; and a parameter identification means for substituting the drive torque estimated by the drive torque estimation means and the angular displacement detected by the joint angle detection means into an equation of motion to specify the wearer-specific dynamics parameter, the equation relating to the entire system and including wearer-specific dynamics parameter. The control means controls the drive source according to a predetermined control method, based on the equation of motion into which the dynamics parameter identified by the parameter identification means is substituted.

A hydrogen generating system regulates its rate of hydrogen generation by monitoring one or more parameters of the hydrogen generation process and then providing relative movement between the fuel tank and the catalyst chamber so as to increase or decrease the rate of hydrogen generation.

In the disclosed embodiments, the catalyst chamber is disposed in a tank containing the fuel. The relative movement provided moves the catalyst chamber toward the fuel solution so as to increase the rate of hydrogen generation and moves the catalyst chamber away from the fuel solution to decrease such generation. Advantageously, such self-regulation can be provided without an external power source and can be varied to meet the requirements of different commercial applications. The overall system can be readily fabricated using commercially available parts.

Communication bands are effectively allocated to each communication station under a communication environment of an autonomous distributed type system such as an ad-hoc communication. Each communication station acquires a priority slot with which each communication station itself performs data transmission preferentially at predetermined time intervals, and releases or allocates its own priority slot to other communication station in response to a permission form upper layer of a communication protocol based on a fact that the transmission data is not in a buffer. Thereby, it is able to effectively utilize the communication bands, and to improve a throughput of the whole system.

A vehicle control device includes a sensor controller which uses the network connection to obtain sensor signals that represent the state quantity of a vehicle and the manipulated variable of a driver, a command controller which generates the control target value according to the sensor signals which are obtained by the sensor controller and an actuator controller which receives the control target value from the command controller to actuate the actuator for controlling the vehicle. The actuator controller is equipped with a control target value generation device which generates the control target value according to the sensor value of the sensor controller that is received by the actuator controller on the internet when the control target value generating from the command controller is abnormal. The actuator is controller through the control target value which is generated from the control target value generation device. The vehicle control device does not improve the prolixity degree of every controller above the required level. Through preventing errors in the whole system, the device can guarantee the reliability, the real-time character and the expansibility with simple ECU composition and low cost.

A novel apparatus for and a method of noise and spurious tones suppression in a digital RF processor (DRP). The invention is well suited for use in highly integrated system on a chip (SoC) radio solutions that incorporate a very large amount of digital logic circuitry. The noise suppression scheme eliminates the noise caused by various on chip interference sources transmitted through electromagnetic, power, ground and substrate paths. The noise suppression scheme permits an all digital PLL (ADPLL) to operate in such a way to avoid generating the spurs that would normally be generated from the injection pulling effect of interfering sources on the chip. The frequency reference clock is retimed to be synchronous to the RF oscillator clock and used to drive the entire digital logic circuitry of the DRP. This ensures that the different clock edges throughout the system will not exhibit mutual drift. A method of improving the resolution quality of a time to digital converter within the ADPLL is also taught. The method dithers the reference clock by passing it through a delay circuit that is controlled by a sigma-delta modulator. The dithered reference clock reduces the affect on the phase noise at the output of the ADPLL due to ill-behaved quantization of the TDC timing estimation.

The invention discloses a small file optimization storage method based on a HDFS, wherein the efficiency for the HDFS to read small files is improved, and the overall performance of the system is improved. The method includes the steps that first, the small files are combined and undergo storage preprocessing, wherein the storage preprocessing on the small files is achieved through filtering of the filers, combination of the small files, generation of metadata and generation of object IDs; second, after the files are stored into the HDFS in a combined mode, the mapping relations between the small files and combined files in the HDFS are stored into the metadata of the small files in a mode of file metadata, a directory structure of the files is stored in a file name, and the metadata are stored in a mode of distributed clusters on the basis of a Chord protocol; third, the directory structure of the files is optimized, and generated key values of the metadata are decomposed into Directory IDs and Small File IDs. The Directory IDs serve as key values for the metadata to skip into nodes in a metadata cluster, and therefore the files under the same directory are stored into the same node. The Small File IDs are generated in metadata nodes, and therefore each of the metadata corresponds to unique ID identification in the whole system.

A system for enterprise information integration is described. The system is based on different layers: the data sources, source ontologies corresponding to the data schema of the data sources, an integration ontology integrating the different source ontologies, a level of query input, preferably in the form of a web service. Between the levels, mapping rules are used. These mapping rules and the entire system are based on predicate logic. The queries are answered with the help of the rules using inference based on predicate logic.

The invention facilitates a loyalty system which is associated with pre-determined geographic locations and/or services and goods offered in a specific geographic area. The system is configured with one product platform with a modularized approach to facilitate the development of market specific rewards and communication materials. The loyalty points may be earned within a specific geographic location, then redeemed in one geographic location, a subset of locations or without restrictions. Similarly, the loyalty points may be earned in one geographic location, a subset of locations or without restrictions, then redeemed only in a specific geographic location. The geographic features of the system may be implemented using existing data that is associated with geographic areas such as, for example, zip codes, retailer identification codes, service establishment codes and/or the like. The geographic area information may be associated with the consumer, merchant, processing system and/or any other part of the overall system.

A method and device for removing ice from overhead conductors of a bundle of conductors or preventing an accumulation of ice on these conductors. The method includes forcing the entire current load of the line in one or a portion of the conductors, the excessive power dissipated in this manner de-ices the conductor by Joule heating. The method is repeated for different conductors of the bundle until they have all been de-iced or for the entire duration of an ice storm. Electric power units are provided on each conductor to control the current circulation as needed, and a command module controls the entire system. Conducting elements are provided at the beginning and at the end of the line to allow a distribution of the current as needed.

The invention relates to a distributed-type database access method and system. The distributed-type database access method comprises: 1. a Web server sends a database access request to a proxy server; 2. the proxy server analyzes the database access request according to a preset analysis rule, and sends the analyzed database access request to a corresponding target database; and 3. the proxy serve sends a result returned by the target database to the Web server. The invention avoids risk of high cost brought by the centralized management of the database and avoids the risks that the whole system fails because of the fault of the single database, the system scale has small possibility of expanding and is limited and the like. The invention effectively realizes the reasonable distribution of physical resources, lowers communication cost, has strong expansibility, can dynamically distribute data flow, and can separate reading from writing; and under the condition of limited resource, performance is maximized.

A system for self-organizing and auto-configuring mesh networks is disclosed. Special nodes (deemed special for their topological significance) are used as a starting point for forming clusters of fully connected nodes. Here, all nodes can communicate directly with one another and links are scheduled to meet the traffic requirements as indicated by their individual configuration and topological positions. Links that do not interfere with each other are scheduled to operate concurrently, thereby increasing the bandwidth offered by the whole system. When there is change to the system, such as leaving or introduction of a node, the system will adjust with minimum impact on its operation. Once all of the clusters are formed in a system, the clusters are now capable of inter-cluster communications with an increase in bandwidth for such communications.

A base station receives a signal transmitted from a mobile station, estimates the state of the radio uplink, and receives state information indicating the state of the radio downlink measured by the mobile station. When the uplink quality and the downlink quality satisfy scheduling grant conditions set up in advance, the base station is allowed to carry out scheduling for the mobile station. In contrast, the base station is not allowed to carry out the scheduling for any terminal in which a link imbalance has occurred. Therefore, the throughput of the whole system increases.

A method and apparatus selects serving scheduling Node B for efficiently controlling and scheduling uplink traffic transmission from user equipments (UEs) located in a soft handover region. The UE selects a serving scheduling cell among cells included in its active set and transmits information on the selected serving scheduling cell to a Node B through uplink signaling. A service scheduling cell and non-serving scheduling cells efficiently control uplink traffic from the UE through independent scheduling. The efficient use of uplink resources contributes to an increase in the entire system performance and system stability.

In a co-generated power supply system for performing dispersed power supply to a load, a wind turbine generator, a solar cell and a fuel cell whose rated voltages are made equal to a rated voltage of a storage battery are used as DC power sources. These DC power sources, a commercial AC power source and the load are connected to each other via a bi-directional electronic transformer. Thus, the co-generated power supply system, in which the electric power of a natural energy system having many fluctuation factors is combined with stable electric power such as a load leveling battery or a fuel cell, allows the stable electric power to be supplied to the load via the electronic transformer commonly, thereby reducing the cost and enhancing the performance of the entire system.

A system and process to provide integrated control for the pyrolytic composition of organic (biomass) waste products especially for municipal solid waste systems. The system includes integrated control that monitors biomass waste stream throughout the entire system and the products produced therefrom and includes presorting, controlling the amount of material processed in a continuous manner, shredding, removing moisture in a continuous process that is controlled and providing the waste stream to the distillation unit for pyrolytic action where it is converted into gaseous fuel and a char residue. The gaseous fuel is scrubbed clean and monitored and stored and reused to provide heat to the system. The entire system may be self-sustaining and continuous with very little or no human intervention. An integrated real time computer control system includes sensors and measuring devices with all the major components to ensure integrated efficiency.

The invention pertains to an intelligent home control technical field, a telephone and ZigBee technology based intelligent home control system, which consists of home control center and several ZigBee technology based wireless communication control modules. The home control center and each control modules are connected with one ZigBee wireless communication module, through these wireless communication modules, the data or commands may be transferred between the control center and control module. The home control center is connected with the telephone network, realize the control of the whole system through the home phone or remote phone. Moreover, through wireless branch phones or mobile phone, the user may control all home equipment at any places. Compared with the communication means such as available bluetooth, and infrared ray etc., it is low cost, low power consumption, large coverage etc, especially comply with the IEEE802.15.4 protocol, if interconnect with other relevant products, the system may have an excellent versatility and expansibility.

The invention relates to a supercritical carbon dioxide drive physical analogue device, which belongs to the technical field of petroleum engineering and technology. The device adopts two paratactic simulation core devices to be connected with an injecting system, and each simulation core device is provided with an outlet measuring system; the injecting system injects formation water, crude oil and supercritical carbon dioxide to the simulation core devices, and a temperature and pressure measuring and controlling system is adopted to control the temperature set value and the pressure value of the whole system, and the outlet measuring system is adopted to measure the volumes of the carbon dioxide, the formation water and the crude oil which pass through the simulation core devices. After the CO2 gas is cooled and liquefied, the CO2 gas is pressurized and heated up to the supercriticality, and the difficulty of the accurate measurement of the injected CO2 flow; by adopting a double-tube model, the fingering and cross flow phenomenon during the driving process of the heterogeneous reservoir CO2 can be simulated; the design pressure of the device is 0 to 40 MPa, the design temperature is 0 to 180 DEG C, and the device is mainly applied to the research on supercritical CO2 miscible drive, non-miscible drive, continues gas drive or water and gas alternate drive.

Vacuum pneumatic conveying apparatus and method are described to provide for a simple, economical, convenient (and preferably automatic) system for conveying ice on an as-required basis from a source such as an ice maker to one or more receptors at locations remote from that source. The system can be configured such that dispensing locations can be added or eliminated from the system or temporarily taken "off line" from the system without the need to change the basic system configuration or the central ice providing apparatus. The apparatus in various embodiments includes an ice source, a conveying conduit from the source to the receptor, a vacuum pump for moving the ice through the conduit by vacuum, and the receptor to collect the conveyed ice. The receptor may be an ice/beverage dispenser, an accumulator for retention and discharge to further devices, an intermediate storage dispenser, or an air lock device from where the ice can be projected over significant distances. Ice and vacuum may simultaneously be routed into different branched routes, utilizing a unique diverter/air shifter with the capability of providing routing to up to four different routes. Appropriate sensors and controllers, which may be microprocessor-based, may be used to automate the system. The entire system is easily cleanable. The system is advantageously used by restaurants, groceries, hotels and motels, hospitals, laboratories, and many other establishments where the providing of ice at various locations is desirable or required.

The invention provides a wireless local area network security communication method based on quantum key distribution. The method comprises the following steps that: (1) identity authentication based on quantum keys is carried out; (2) quantum key negotiation is carried out; and (3) encryption is started. With the method of the invention adopted, information exchange between a faked access point and an applicant, the waste of system resources or a caused denial of service attack can be can avoided; bidirectional authentication between the applicant and an authentication server as well as between the applicant and an authenticator can be realized, and therefore, the security of the identity authentication is greatly improved; keys produced in the identity authentication can be adopted to protect message authentication in key negotiation, and therefore, attacks such as the tamper of a intermediary can be prevented; the security of key negotiation based on quantum technology is guaranteed by physical laws, and therefore, the key negotiation based on quantum technology has undecodability, and can withstand the decoding of a quantum computer with strong computational ability, and therefore, the security of a whole system can be enhanced.