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A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated and have their own management entities. An interface between infrastructures allows controlled relaxation of the isolation, using a gateway between virtual nets, or shared virtual storage devices. This can allow businesses to share data or applications, while maintaining control of security.

A video system with a bi-directional transmission function is provided. The video system includes an video transmitter, a transmission interface and a video receiver. The video transmitter is coupled to the video receiver via the transmission interface (coaxial cable). The video transmitter is used for inserting a first control signal into the video signal according a synchronous signal of the video signal. The video transmitter is used for outputting the video signal with the first control signal to the video receiver via the transmission interface. The video receiver receives the video signal with the first control signal, and gets the first control signal from the video signal according to the synchronous signal of the video signal. In addition, the video receiver can insert a second control signal into the video signal and feedback the second control signal to the video transmitter via the transmission interface.

A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated. Each infrastructure has its own infrastructure controller to create and configure the infrastructure. It has a user accessible part (CFC) for configuration of that user's infrastructure, and a user inaccessible part (UFC) able to access the mapping and the physical resources. This increases user control to ease system administration, while maintaining security by limiting access to the mapping.

The invention provides a posting / subscribing system for adding message queue models and a working method of the posting / subscribing system. The system comprises a distributed message-oriented middleware server-side cluster, a client-side cluster and a distributed coordinate server cluster. Service nodes in the message-oriented middleware server-side cluster are composed of corresponding modules of an original posting / subscribing system, and the function of the message-oriented middleware server-side cluster is the same as the information transferring relation; a client side is simultaneously provided with a calling interface of a posting / subscribing model and a calling interface of a message queue model which are used for achieving the purpose that a user can select and use the two different message transferring models directly without transforming the bottom layer middleware, so that a coordinate service module and a message processing module are additionally arranged on the client side based on an original framework. The system supports the posting / subscribing message transferring model and the message queue message transferring model simultaneously and guarantees that the availability, flexibility and other performance of the two models are all within the acceptable range, and the problem that it is difficult to transform the bottom layer message transferring model for the user is better solved.

A method of detecting a rogue access point is disclosed. A message is directed from a supplicant to a network through an access point. A network response message is received by the supplicant from the access point. A step of determining whether the access point is one of a valid network access point and a rogue access point is performed based on whether the received network response message is respectively in conformity or nonconformity with predetermined expectations. If the access point is determined to be a rogue access point, it is reported to the network. If the access point is determined to be a valid network access point, the supplicant is authenticated to the network.

In part, the invention relates to an image data collection system. The system can include an interferometer having a reference arm that includes a first optical fiber of length of L1 and a sample arm that includes a second optical fiber of length of L2 and a first rotary coupler configured to interface with an optical tomography imaging probe, wherein the rotary coupler is in optical communication with the sample arm. In one embodiment, L2 is greater than about 5 meters. The first optical fiber and the second optical fiber can both be disposed in a common protective sheath. In one embodiment, the system further includes an optical element configured to adjust the optical path length of the reference arm, wherein the optical element is in optical communication with the reference arm and wherein the optical element is transmissive or reflective.

A system, apparatus, and method of remote, virtual on screen data input includes a peripheral data input device (PDID) made up of a proximity sensor and data communications means. The proximity sensor is adapted to dynamically recognize the movement of a target in the proximity of the peripheral device. The data connection device is adapted to transmit signals from the proximity sensor to a processor communicatively coupled to the remote display. The processor constructs a representation of input fields on the display, and, when detected, overlays a real-time, virtual representation of the target over the representation of the input fields.

The present invention discloses a method for performing CT imaging on a region of interest of an object under examination, comprising: acquiring the CT projection data of the region of interest; acquiring the CT projection data of region B; selecting a group of PI line segments covering the region of interest, and calculating the reconstruction image value for each PI line segment in the group; and combining the reconstruction image values in all the PI line segments to obtain the image of the region of interest. The present invention further discloses a CT imaging device using this method and a data processor therein. Since the 2D / 3D slice image of the region of interest can be exactly reconstructed and obtained as long as the X-ray beam covers the region of interest and the region B, it is possible to use a small-sized detector to perform CT imaging on the region of interest at any position of a large-sized object, which reduces to a great extent the radiation dose of the X-ray during the CT scanning.

System and methods for cache coherence in a multi-core processing environment having a local / shared cache hierarchy. The system includes multiple processor cores, a main memory, and a local cache memory associated with each core for storing cache lines accessible only by the associated core. Cache lines are classified as either private or shared. A shared cache memory is coupled to the local cache memories and main memory for storing cache lines. The cores follow a write-back to the local memory for private cache lines, and a write-through to the shared memory for shared cache lines. Shared cache lines in local cache memory enter a transient dirty state when written by the core. Shared cache lines transition from a transient dirty to a valid state with a self-initiated write-through to the shared memory. The write-through to shared memory can include only data that was modified in the transient dirty state.

The invention provides an intelligent controller used for a direct current (DC) frequency-conversion air conditioner compressor and a technical proposal of the control method thereof; the hardware proposal comprises a rectifier filter circuit and a power module which are electrically connected sequentially; the rectifier filter circuit (220) is also electrically connected with a single DSP controller used as a core processing unit by a switch power supply (240); the single DSP controller is also respectively and electrically connected with the power module, a communication isolation circuit which is used for communicating with the indoor machine of the air conditioner, a fan driving circuit (280), and a temperature sampling circuit (270); the control method comprises the steps as follows:the control software is embedded in the DSP controller; by a control type of dual close-ring FOC no-sensor magnetic field vector, the current ring at the internal ring realizes the decoupling controlto the driving current of the permanent magnetic synchronous motor of a compressor and indirectly controls the output torque of the motor; the speed ring at the external ring is used for controlling the working frequency of the compressor, thus not only meeting the stable requirement during fixed frequency but also meeting the dynamic response during the frequency conversion; and the control software comprises a primitive recursive function and a main interrupt function.

A system for monitoring plant equipment is provided. Another aspect provides an automated analysis system wherein software instructions operably compare sensor data to predefined valves and determine mechanical problems in multiple machines. In another aspect, a cement manufacturing system includes sensors for sensing movement conditions of cement making machines. A further aspect provides a central computer connected to vibration sensors associated with cement making machines, where software instructions perform real-time comparisons and machine performance determinations, based at least in part on sensed signals.

An IC card system capable of increasing a storage capacity virtually and flexibly while making the best use of characteristics of the IC card, facilitating file layout, and ensuring security among applications. With personal common information (data A) and virtual area management information (access keys, encryption / decryption keys, and information indicating encrypted data file location) stored in the IC card, an application executed by a control unit of a processor loads the data A in a memory, acquires the encryption / decryption key corresponding to the retained access key and the information indicating the encrypted data file location from the IC card, reads encrypted data B′ from the acquired data file location, decrypts the acquired encryption / decryption key, and loads the data B in the memory for using the data.

One or more charger regulation tasks (e.g., one or more of those tasks typically performed by charger regulator circuitry of a separate battery charging apparatus) are integrated within a battery system (e.g., a battery pack of a portable information handling system) by utilizing component / s common to the battery system (e.g., microcontroller and FET components).

The invention provides an operation management method of an electric power system cloud simulation platform. The electric power system cloud simulation platform comprises a cloud simulation resource management system and a cloud simulation application supporting system. The method comprises the following steps that the cloud simulation resource management system is constructed; the cloud simulation application supporting system is constructed; the safety of the electric power system cloud simulation platform is determined; operation management of the electric power system cloud simulation platform is carried out. Cloud simulation analytical calculation application is achieved, multiple users can carry out currents, transient stability, small interference, short-circuit currents and other simulation calculation functions on one or more sets of data according to the permission in the mode of facing network services, and the limitation that services and data of standalone version software cannot be shared in large-scale interconnected power grid analytical calculation is eliminated.

A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and / or speed of access, such as in condensed form and / or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, low cardinality fields (attributes) may be combined into a single field (referred to as a “combined field”) having values representing the various combinations of the original fields. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the data values for several fields may be stored in a single value list (referred to as a “union column”). Still another aspect of the invention is to apply redundancy elimination techniques, utilizing in some cases union columns, possibly together with combined fields, in order to reduce the space needed to store the database.

The invention relates to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle control and computer vision combination, and discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of identifying a gesture. The unmanned aerial vehicle specifically comprises an image acquisition device, an image processing module, a gesture identifying module and a gesture translator which are arranged on the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the image acquisition device is used for acquiring an image in a visual angle range; the image processing module judges the existence of a person in the image according to the acquired image, and starts the gesture identifying module when the person exists in the image; the gesture identifying module identifies the gesture of the person in the image according to the gesture of the person in the image and a pre-established gesture motion model of the person; the gesture translator translates the gesture of the person in the image into a control command of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and transmits the control command to the unmanned aerial vehicle. Gesture identification is introduced into the control of an unmanned aerial vehicle, so that the hardware cost of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be reduced; the operating enjoyment of the unmanned aerial vehicle can also be increased; the interaction between the person and the unmanned aerial vehicle is enhanced.

The invention provides an intelligent household electric appliance system based on ZigBee and page generation and an implementation method thereof, wherein the system comprises a computer, an embedded Web gateway and a plurality of terminal devices. The embedded Web gateway comprises an ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) microprocessor, a Flash SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory), a time circuit, a power circuit, a network card interface and a ZigBee coordinator module, wherein the automatic generation of the household electric appliance control page is achieved based on the embedded Web server. The ZigBee coordinator module is wirelessly connected with the terminal devices via a ZigBee protocol for transmitting operation instructions and uploading the date of the terminal devices. The terminal devices receive the gateway instructions, execute the control instructions and unload the operation state of the devices and the environment parameter data. The computer remotely accesses the embedded Web gateway via the internet so as to obtain the household electric appliance control page, to manage the names of the terminal devices and to check and control the operation state of the devices and the environment parameter.

A channel scan architecture for detecting touch events on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. The channel scan architecture can combine drive logic, sense channels and channel scan logic on a single monolithic chip. The channel scan logic can be configured to implement a sequence of scanning processes in a panel subsystem without intervention from a panel processor. The channel scan architecture can provide scan sequence control to enable the panel processor to control the sequence in which individual scans are implemented in the panel subsystem. Type of scans that can be implemented in the panel subsystem can include a spectral analysis scan, touch scan, phantom touch scan, ambient light level scan, proximity scan and temperature scan.

The invention relates to a method for achieving control of wirelessly shared and displayed pages between electronic devices. In the method, a page processing electronic device is connected with a page displaying electronic device through a wireless signal, the page displaying electronic device sends a display content request to the page processing electronic device. The page processing electronic device processes corresponding contents into page data suitable for being displayed by the page displaying electronic device according to the display content request and sends the page data to the page displaying electronic device in a wireless mode to be displayed. By utilizing the method, the page processing electronic device with strong data processing capability and the page displaying electronic device with good displaying effect are combined for use, the pages are generated by utilizing the page processing electronic device and shared to the page displaying electronic device to be displayed, thereby saving the hardware cost of the page displaying electronic device and providing best reading experience for users. In addition, the method for achieving the control of the wirelessly shared and displayed pages between the electronic devices is simple in achieving mode and wide in application range.

Disclosed is a system for a 3-dimensional display that includes at least one eyepiece having first and second eyepiece sockets, having a first display contained in said first eyepiece socket associated with a first eye, two eye cameras mounted such that a first eye camera tracks eye reference points of said first eye and a second eye camera tracks reference points of a second eye, a processor for providing overall control of said at least one eyepiece; a second display; and a main processor; signals are transmitted between said main processor and said at least one eyepiece, wherein said two eye cameras track said reference points, said eyepiece transceiver transmits said reference points to said main processor via said main transceiver, said main processor generates image data based on said reference points and transmits said image data to said displays to produce a 3-dimensional image.

The invention provides a bill automatic identification and processing system based on OCR, which includes an image collection module, a quick image binary module, a text block detection and positioning module, a single column text block accurate positioning module, a multi-column text block accurate positioning and segmentation module, a text identification module, and a bill image retrieval module. The bill automatic identification and processing system based on the OCR can finish the high definition collection and compression storage of invoice bill images, and performs robust and high accurate positioning and identification on literal characters such as information of buying-and-selling sides, goods information, and billing date in each bill. The bill image identification can be conveniently retrieved. The system has the characteristics of high processing and identification precision, low cost, good robustness, and high automation degree, and can be widely used in the computer automatic management of the bills such as the bill authentication and the bill filing and query.

A portable end device, such as a bar code scanner, may be equipped with auxiliary interfaces. The auxiliary interfaces may be easily added to the end device as a replaceable cover, such as a replaceable battery door. A signal path conducts signals to and from the replaceable cover. One auxiliary interface is a Bluetooth radio. Data integrity protocols may be selected to guarantee delivery and guarantee no duplicate deliveries. Host pairing algorithms may provide standard or strong pairing with a host computer. Ergonomic interface features allow a user to control and monitor the operation of the end device and the data link with minimal hardware cost and battery life impact. Host software programs provide data routing, automatic reestablishment of the data link, and other functions. The system is adaptable to a wide array of use environments through the selection of timer parameters in the end device.

The invention discloses a management and operation platform applied to temporary accommodation management places such as hotels, serviced apartments, family hotels and short-term accommodations and an operation and management method running on the platform. By the utilization of the platform and the operation and management method, commercial tenants can realize fully automated management of the hotels without using high-cost computers, network or professional software, even unattended operation of the hotels can be achieved, and therefore hardware cost and management cost of the hotels are effectively reduced. Through the platform, clients can know the real-time states of the hotels by the utilization of the internet, a mobile communication network and the like, reservation, payment, check-in, service, check-out and the like of the hotels can be completed in a self-help mode, complicated procedures when the clients check in are avoided, and the privacy of the clients are protected effectively. The platform and the operation and management method can effectively meet the need of modern hotel management, improve the efficiency of the hotels, lower the cost of the hotels, and meet the requirements for simple and rapid check-in of modern persons.

The invention discloses a method for fast constructing Hadoop cluster based on container cloud technology. The method comprises the following steps: (1) determining selected physical server number according to actual demand, regarding the entire selected physical server as a cluster, and assigning a master node of the cluster, and distributing actual deployment nodes, namely as the slave node; (2) installing a CentOS7 operation system for each physical server in the cluster; (3) installing and starting a container orchestration service Kubernetes and the network service Flannel on each master node of the cluster by use of a yuminstall command; (4) installing MySQL database, a mirror image warehouse service and management portal; (5) logging a management portal interface by use of an administrator account, establishing a user; and logging the management user by use of the established user, creating the cluster environment of the user, and constructing a Hadoop cluster.

The invention discloses an industrial robot capturing method based on a monocular camera and a three-dimensional force sensor. The method comprises the steps that the monocular camera and the industrial robot are calibrated, and the three-dimensional force sensor is initialized; the monocular camera acquires an object image, an upper computer conducts image processing and calculates the position information of an object, the robot is controlled to move to a position above the object according to the position information, and then the robot moves downwards vertically till making contact with the object to be captured; the three-dimensional force sensor senses the contact force information between the tail end of the robot and the surface of the object, the upper computer controls the industrial robot to stop moving according to contact force information and calculates the pose increment of the tail end of the robot, the posture of the robot is adjusted according to the pose increment till a pneumatic sucker at the tail end of the robot is attached to the plane of the object to be captured, and the pneumatic sucker acts to achieve capturing. By the adoption of the method, objects placed obliquely in a messy mode can be captured, and complexity of camera calibration and object space pose estimation is reduced.

The invention discloses an urban control management system based on smart street lamps, and relates to the technical field of smart cities. The smart city is constructed on the basis of the smart street lamps, interconnection and intercommunication of multiple platforms in the smart city are achieved, and repeated investment is reduced. The intelligent street lamp is a composite public infrastructure integrating multiple functions of intelligent lighting, video acquisition, mobile communication, traffic management, environment monitoring, meteorological monitoring, radio monitoring, emergencyhelp seeking, information interaction and the like, and is an important carrier for constructing a comprehensive perception network of an intelligent city.

A microsurgery simulator simulates various microsurgical procedures (e.g., nerve reapproximation, ear drain deployment) that utilize a surgical microscope. A surrogate surgical microscope includes a mobile device and an eye piece. A physical surrogate surgical interface represents an interface between a user and a simulated surgical scenario. Sensors sense the user's manipulation of the surrogate surgical interface. A surgical simulation generator generates a real time 3D surgical simulation based on the sensed manipulation. The generator renders the real time surgical simulation into a real time computer graphics generated video representation that is displayed on a screen of the mobile device. A processor of the mobile device is configured to perform at least a portion of a computational analysis that is used to generate the real time computer graphics generated video representation.

The present invention relates to an image enhancement apparatus for enhancing an input image of a sequence of input images. To provide the ability to increase the resolution of an input image and / or to temporally reduce artefacts and / or noise in an input image, the apparatus comprises a motion compensation unit, a weighted selection unit, a feature analysis unit, an image model unit configured to generate a modelled image by applying an image model on said input image and / or said weighted selection image, a spatio-temporal detail signal generation unit configured to generate a detail signal from said input image and said weighted selection image, and a combination unit configured to generate said enhanced output image from said input image, said detail signal and said modelled image.

The invention requests to protect a micro-embedded type real-time task scheduler and a scheduling method, relating to the industrial control and intelligent instrument related field. When the scheduling method of the invention is used in scheduling process, the status of a task is marked through the set of a task status word in a task control block; the scheduler determines the scheduling of the task and drives the scheduling through a clock and an event; real-time request is realized by adopting a mode of combining a simplified kernel code, a deprivable kernel and interrupt; a multipurpose mode of adopting a status word to realize ready, suspension and time delay counting reduces task execution codes, simplifies scheduling algorithm and reduces kernel codes; a scheduling lock mark is added to the task control block, and users can lock or unlock in the task according to specific needs. The scheduler solves the problems existing in the prior programming mode of middle-low grade intelligent instruments and meters, meets the requirements on real-time performance, low power consumption and small kernel, and improves programming efficiency as well as code portability.

The present invention relates to a method for the operation of an antenna group (1) having M≧2 transmitters and N≧2 receivers (3) for the digital beamforming. In the method, a coherent transmit signal is transmitted in a transmit-receive-cycle via each of the M transmitters (2) into an area to be monitored, and a coherent receive signal from the area is recorded by each of the N receivers (3) for each transmit signal so that M·N receive signals are obtained. To each receive signal, a combination of the respective transmitting transmitter (2) and the respective receiving receiver (3) is allocated. The M·N receive signals are processed by means of digital beamforming to obtain spatial information about objects in the area to be monitored. In the method, each of the M·N receive signals is multiplied during processing by an amplitude factor which is individually allocated to the respective combination of transmitter (2) and receiver (3), wherein the amplitude factors are selected such that an increase of the signal dynamic range at the digital beamforming is achieved. The method and the apparatus formed for the execution of the method allow a high angle resolution and, at the same time, a high signal dynamic range.