91 results about "Independent group" patented technology

A vehicle monitoring apparatus for obtaining a distance image including an image data and three-dimensional distance information and for monitoring surrounding conditions on the basis of the distance image, comprises: means for dividing the distance image into a plurality of blocks composed of picture elements, means for collecting the blocks having a similar distance data and for grouping the blocks into an independent group, means for calculating an area size of the independent group, means for extracting the image data as an object data if the area size of the group is larger than a predetermined value and for discarding the image data as a false data if the area size is smaller than the predetermined value, means for preparing a histogram having a lateral axis representing a deviation amount and a longitudinal axis representing a frequency corresponding to a number of the image data, and means for detecting an object and a distance to the object by deleting the frequency having a smaller number of the image data than a threshold value along the lateral axis on the histogram. Thereby, false data can be removed from the image data and a mismatching can be prevented.

In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by routing a subset of the inquiries to an independent group of experts. The customer service inquiries are optionally routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. Embodiments include an expert system configured to identify clusters of inquiries that can be responded to using predetermined response content. The expert system is optionally trained based on scored responses to prior customer service inquiries.

In a distributed sensor network, one or more devices, for example, forming a collaborative group, are associated with a physical phenomenon based on geographical proximity. The sensor network is capable of detecting new phenomena and changing the membership of the collaborative group as the phenomenon changes. Sensors not associated with a detected phenomenon are available to detect new phenomenon, and one group may exist per phenomenon. Upon detection of a phenomenon, a group of nodes is formed and a leader node is elected. As the phenomenon changes over time, new devices come into proximity of the phenomenon and are prevented from forming independent groups associated with the phenomenon. This accomplished in a decentralized way with communication restricted to local neighbors. In a tracking sensor network using a relatively small number of sensors, the sensors are active and maintain a coherent belief associating their measurements with a single common vehicle.

A system is provided to optimize multiple boiler plant systems having mixed condensing and non-condensing boiler groups. The system advantageously employs the independent groups of boilers depending on preset conditions under control of a system control unit. The preset conditions are checked against operating conditions of the boiler plant, and a system control unit controls which of the groups of boilers is the lead and which is secondary. In some instances, both groups of boilers may be utilized under heavy load. Further, effective switching between groups and within groups is also provided to minimize unnecessary repetitive boiler operation.

In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by routing a subset of the inquiries to an independent group of experts. The customer service inquiries are optionally routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. Embodiments include methods of classifying customer service inquiries, training a machine learning system, and / or processing customer service requests.

One embodiment described relates to an optical displacement sensor for sensing movement of a data input device across a surface by detecting displacement of optical features in a succession of images of the surface. The sensor includes a detector having an array including a number (N) of sets of photosensitive elements, each set having a number (M) of photosensitive elements, where M is greater than two and not equal to four. Signals from each of the photosensitive elements in a set are electrically coupled or combined with corresponding photosensitive elements in other sets to produce a total of M independent group signals from M interlaced groups of photosensitive elements. Other embodiments are also described.

In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by providing the inquiries to an independent group of experts. These experts are typically able to resolve the inquiry before the inquiries are routed to a traditional contact center. The customer service inquiries are routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. In some embodiments, more than one expert can contribute to the resolution of an inquiry.

The invention discloses a sequencing method of node importance in a network, comprising: in a directed network, adding a background node, and building bidirectional link between the background node and each node in the directed network; at initial time, distributing a unit resource for each node; randomly migrating in the directed network containing the background node to distribute resource until stable state; distributing the resource of the background node in the stable state to other nodes; under the stable state, taking the sum of the resource amount of each node and the resource amount obtained from the background node as the node importance fraction; and according to the importance fraction, sequencing the nodes from high to low, wherein the node which ranks in the front is more important or has bigger influence. On the basis of PageRank, the invention introduces the background node in, so that the original sequencing method depending on the parameter is changed into the method which does not depend on parameters. In addition, the method handles the network sequencing problem containing a plurality of independent groups while solving the problem of dangling links in the node sequencing.

A lifting system and method of use thereof for lifting a vehicle. The lifting system includes one or more lifting devices. Each lifting device includes a frame with a carrier configured for carrying the vehicle, a drive for driving the carrier in at least one of the ascent or decent of the carrier, a transmitter / receiver for wireless communication with a central controller that is configured for centrally controlling the one or more lifting devices, and a sensor for measuring at least one of the ascent or descent of the carrier. The central controller includes a transmitter / receiver for communication with individual lifting devices and a processor for determining required control actions for individual lifting devices. The central controller and / or at least one of the lifting devices includes a user input. The central controller controls two or more independent groups of selected lifting devices.

In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by providing the inquiries to an independent group of experts. These experts are typically able to resolve the inquiry before the inquiries are routed to a traditional contact center. The customer service inquiries are routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. In some embodiments, more than one expert can contribute to the resolution of an inquiry.

From input moving picture data, a thumbnail picture representing the moving picture data is generated as first thumbnail data. Form the moving picture data, a thumbnail picture of a picture extracted as being a characteristic picture, or a thumbnail picture of a picture specified by a user, is generated as second thumbnail data, and the first and second thumbnail data are recorded as respective independent groups on the recording medium. So, the user is allowed to select recorded data readily using the recorded picture data.

The invention discloses a jet vane and an air vane linkage mechanism of an aircraft. The linkage mechanism comprises a combustion chamber, an exhaust pipe, an exhaust pipe cover, a ball screw drive mechanism, a jet vane deflection mechanism and an air vane deflection mechanism, a servo motor rotor is connected with a lead screw through a coupling, the lead screw drives a lead screw nut to conduct linear motion in a rotary mode, so that an actuating rod and a piston actuator controls the jet vane and the air vane to conduct linkage deflection, and the deflection angles close to the same; and a motor fixing frame and a screw support frame are overlapped and fixed through the arc surface and the inner surface of the exhaust pipe cover, and the lead screw nut and the air vane are cooperatively transmitted through a cylinder bore piston structure. According to the jet vane and the air vane linkage mechanism of the aircraft, the structure is simple, mechanical transmission is stable, vane pieces are of cross-shaped layout, a steering engine can control the vane pieces to deflect flexibly, the jet vane and the air vane conduct linkage deflection, the efficiency of aircraft handling is improved greatly, four independent groups of the jet vanes and the air vanes are in linkage so that the flight attitude of the aircraft can be adjusted quickly, and the mobility of the aircraft can be improved greatly.

Disclosed are compounds of general formula (I) that function as prodrugs, thereby increasing bioavailabilities of the linked therapeutic agents, wherein the LINKER is (i) substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, (ii) substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, (iii) substituted or unsubstituted alkanoyl, (iv) substituted or unsubstituted alkenoyl wherein the double bond is cis, and (v) (ortho or para) carbonyl-substituted aryl; and wherein the substituent is each an independent group or linked together thereby forming a ring; and wherein X is one or more substituted or unsubstituted group containing one or more O, N, or S atom and wherein the substituent is each an independent group or linked together thereby forming a ring; and wherein the therapeutic agent is an alcohol-containing water-insoluble steroids or another alcohol containing compounds and methods to prepare such compounds.

In a distributed sensor network, one or more devices, for example, forming a collaborative group, are associated with a physical phenomenon based on geographical proximity. The sensor network is capable of detecting new phenomena and changing the membership of the collaborative group as the phenomenon changes. Sensors not associated with a detected phenomenon are available to detect new phenomenon, and one group may exist per phenomenon. Upon detection of a phenomenon, a group of nodes is formed and a leader node is elected. As the phenomenon changes over time, new devices come into proximity of the phenomenon and are prevented from forming independent groups associated with the phenomenon. This accomplished in a decentralized way with communication restricted to local neighbors. In a tracking sensor network using a relatively small number of sensors, the sensors are active and maintain a coherent belief associating their measurements with a single common vehicle.

A lifting system and method of use thereof for lifting a vehicle. The lifting system includes one or more lifting devices. Each lifting device includes a frame with a carrier configured for carrying the vehicle, a drive for driving the carrier in at least one of the ascent or decent of the carrier, a transmitter / receiver for wireless communication with a central controller that is configured for centrally controlling the one or more lifting devices, and a sensor for measuring at least one of the ascent or descent of the carrier. The central controller includes a transmitter / receiver for communication with individual lifting devices and a processor for determining required control actions for individual lifting devices. The central controller and / or at least one of the lifting devices includes a user input. The central controller controls two or more independent groups of selected lifting devices.

The invention relates to a five-particle Brown state-based quantum grouping secret information comparison method. By the method, the secret information of two groups of users can be compared simultaneously by utilizing the Brown state, and the secret information is not leaked to a third party who performs comparison. The third party TP is semi-loyal, and can execute comparison honestly and record the comparison result; meanwhile, the third party TP may try to steal information from the record. The actual requirement is met and universality is achieved. A user can execute interception detection and loyalty detection on the TP after the TP distributes photons. The information is encoded by a participant, so that an eavesdropper, even if the TP, cannot know the respective secret information. Compared with the existing quantum secret comparison method, the method has the advantages that the secret information of the two independent groups of users can be compared simultaneously through one group of Brown state, and the secret information is not leaked to the third party who performs comparison.

A cloud manager is utilized in the patching of physical machines and virtual machines that are used within an online service, such as an online content management service. The cloud manager assists in the scheduling of the application of software patches to the machines (physical and virtual) within the network such that the availability of the online service is maintained while machines are being patched. The machines to be patched are partitioned into groups that are patched at different times. Generally, the groups are partitioned into a highly available independent groups of machines such that one or more of the groups that are not currently being patched continue to provide the service(s) of the group that is being patched. The machines (physical and virtual) within each of the groups may be patched in parallel.

A method and apparatus for buffering data units in a communication switch that allows for configurable monitoring of the buffer contents is presented. Such an apparatus includes a context table that stores a plurality of independent group identifiers for each connection. Although the group identifiers may include a partition group identifier and a loss group identifier that is dependent on the partition group identifier, additional group identifiers are included in the context table for each connection that are independent of other group identifiers in the context table. Such a context table may be dynamically reconfigured in order to group connections for buffer monitoring operations related to congestion detection, traffic shaping, and data admission with respect to buffering. When a data unit is received corresponding to a particular connection, the context table is referenced to retrieve the set of group identifiers corresponding to that connection. As a cell is stored in the buffer, count values corresponding to at least some of the group identifiers included in the set of group identifiers for that connection are incremented. Similarly, when data is dequeued from the buffer for forwarding, the set of group identifiers for that particular data unit is determined and the counters corresponding to at least some of those groups are decremented. As such, the count value corresponding to each of the groups can be referenced to determine the number of data units corresponding to that group that are currently stored within the buffer.

The invention discloses an autonomous navigation observation platform control system based on wave energy propelling. The autonomous navigation observation platform control system comprises an online monitoring device, two sets of control systems, and three independent groups of solar power generation devices, wherein the two sets of control systems respectively comprise an embedded controller, a navigation device, a positioning device, a communication device, a steering device, a platform internal state monitoring device and a measuring device. Under normal conditions, one set of system serves as a master for working, while the other set of system is in a hot spare state; the online monitoring device is used for monitoring and coordinating the work of the two sets of control systems and regularly acquiring the state information of the two sets of control systems; after finding the abnormal work of one system, the online monitoring device can re-power on the system to recover the normal work of the system; if the master system works abnormally and can not be recovered, the online monitoring device can switch to the spare system from the master system. By virtue of the observation platform control system, the state information of an observation platform is regularly transmitted to a shore-based monitoring system, so that persons on shore can perform remote control and management, and timely deal with problems once the problems are found.

The invention discloses an unmanned automatic gas extraction system. A multi-pipeline acquisition module mounting area is divided into a plurality of groups, and each group comprises a plurality of gas extraction pipelines which are adjacently arranged; an extraction pipe of each gas extraction pipeline extends into a gas extraction drill hole of a coal bed; each gas extraction pipeline in each group is connected in parallel to a corresponding multi-way connecting disc; the multi-way connecting discs in each group are connected to an extraction negative pressure main pipe through the extraction negative pressure branch pipes arranged in parallel. Through the design of the multi-pipeline collection module, distributed collection can be carried out on the interior of a mining area, independent grouping control can be carried out, the extraction efficiency is improved, and energy is reduced; due to the design of a gas filtering module, impurities in extracted gas can be filtered and removed, and the purity degree of the gas content is guaranteed; a gas leakage monitoring module and an alarm module are used in cooperation, monitoring can be conducted in the gas collection process, serious safety accidents caused by the fact that leakage is not known by people are avoided, and the safety in the working process is improved.

A plurality of magnetic pole bodies, provided on a stator of a steering motor, are divided into two electrically independent groups. Each group includes i) six magnetic pole bodies that are arranged in succession and ii) a corresponding number of magnetic pole bodies arranged opposing those six magnetic pole bodies. The two groups vibrate only slightly when operating normally. However, if one of the groups fails, vibration of the stator from elastic deformation in an undulating manner in the circumferential direction will increase, thereby alerting the driver of an abnormality in the steering motor. This increases the likelihood of measures being taken promptly to fix the abnormality in the steering motor, thus improving fail-safe performance.

The invention discloses an aerospace-application-based integration time adjustable linear array charge coupled device (CCD) camera system, which relates to the technical field of CCD application in aerospace and solves the problem that the conventional linear array CCD image sensor does not have any electronic shutter or imaging quality is lowered after the electronic shutter is used at exposure control time in aerospace application. The system divides each line period into a blank scanning stage before exposure, an exposure stage and a linear array CCD image sensor useful charge reading stage. Relatively lower horizontal transfer signals are adopted in the blank scanning stage and the linear array CCD image sensor useful charge reading stage, and relatively higher horizontal transfer signals are adopted in the exposure stage. Two independent groups of horizontal drive circuits are adopted and alternately work in the line period to optimize the performance of the linear array CCD camera system at the frequency of the two kinds of horizontal transfer signals. The system is flexibly controlled and applied to various application requirements.

The invention discloses a method for monitoring overlay network performance based on probe prediction, and relates to the field of network communication. The method comprises the following steps: A. determining a probe set; B. randomly selecting part of probes from the probe set, and sending the probes corresponding to a maximal linearly independent group; C. calculating the packet loss rate of the unsent probes in the part of probes, and representing the congestion situation of all the probes by use of a truth-value matrix; D. predicting the current truth-value matrix to obtain a current prediction matrix and a current reference matrix; E. judging whether the previous reference matrix exists or not; if the previous reference matrix exists, comparing the current reference matrix with the previous reference matrix to judge whether the number of changed elements exceeds a first threshold or not; if yes, executing a step F, otherwise, outputting a suspected congestion link set; and if the previous reference matrix does not exist, executing the step F; and F. selecting and sending the probes with high uncertainty, updating the current truth-value matrix, and executing the step D. By adopting the method, network load resulting from network monitoring can be reduced.

A system is provided to optimize multiple boiler plant systems having mixed condensing and non-condensing boiler groups. The system advantageously employs the independent groups of boilers depending on preset conditions under control of a system control unit. The preset conditions are checked against operating conditions of the boiler plant, and a system control unit controls which of the groups of boilers is the lead and which is secondary. In some instances, both groups of boilers may be utilized under heavy load. Further, effective switching between groups and within groups is also provided to minimize unnecessary repetitive boiler operation.

The invention relates to a novel breaker arc extinguishing structure which is installed at the upper part of an independent group of contact system in a breaker body, and mainly comprises an arc extinguish chamber, a flash barrier and a filtering top cover which are assembled and then connected by screws. The novel breaker arc extinguishing structure is convenient and reliable in self assembly and the assembly of a low-voltage circuit breaker, is provided with a combined-type filtering device, is rapid and thorough in arc extinguishing and full in filtering and cooling, improves the breaking performance of the low-voltage circuit breaker, and eliminates the harmful influence for the circuit breaker and human body when electric arc escapes.

The invention provides a high-efficiency condom pinhole electronic detector, which comprises a support, a fixed-volume water storage barrel, a solenoid valve, a water drain pipe, fixing plates, test heads, a detection electrode, a condom, an electrolytic cell, a computer and a solenoid valve connection wire. The detector is characterized in that the fixing plates and the test heads fixed on the fixing plates are divided into two or more independent groups; cylinders are disposed on the support; each fixing plate is fixedly connected with each cylinder; the cylinders are used for controlling the lifting and positioning of the fixing plates; the computer is used for controlling the operation of the cylinders; and each group of the test heads intermittently and alternately operate along with the lifting and lowering sequence of the fixing plates. The invention has the advantages that more condoms can be detected by using identical operators and identical test heads and in identical time, thus greatly improving the detection efficiency.

The invention discloses a finger vein and fingerprint hybrid identity authentication device and method. In a same structure, two independent groups of infrared spot lights are utilized to extract vein information and fingerprint information of a finger respectively, the structure is simple, and the operation is convenient; the complementation of the two types of biological identification modes of finger vein and fingerprint is realized, so that the authentication accuracy is higher, and scope of application is wider; due to the arrangement of an isolation board and two rows of infrared spot light groups, light irradiated to a verifying finger can be adequate and irradiated accurately; moreover, image interference to vein information and fingerprint images is reduced, so that the acquisition accuracy and success rate are improved, and a guarantee is provided for follow-up certification; comparison authentication is carried out in an intelligent terminal, so that equipment does not need to store feature information or perform comparison authentication, the function is simpler, and the component is smaller; and due to the adoption of low-energy design, the finger vein and fingerprint hybrid identity authentication device is connected with other intelligent equipment via a USB for information exchange, and is powered by the USB directly, so that no external power supply is needed.

The object of the present invention is to provide an IP multicast service system which can design an independent multicast group system in each network on the center side and the subscriber-side. In an IP multicast service system according to the present invention including: a center-side network configured by a plurality of multicast servers; and a subscriber-side network configured by a plurality of IP-STBs (Internet Protocol-Set Top Boxes) for receiving a multicast packet transmitted from the multicast servers and reproducing the multicast packet as an image, a group design on the basis of an independent group address system on the center-side network and on the subscriber-side network can be made by converting a group address of the multicast packet transmitted and received between the center-side network and the subscriber-side network.

In a crowd sourcing approach, responses to customer service inquiries are provided by routing a subset of the inquiries to an independent group of experts. The customer service inquiries are optionally routed to specific experts based on matches between identified subject matter of the inquiries and expertise of the experts. Embodiments include methods of classifying customer service inquiries, training a machine learning system, and / or processing customer service inquiries. Multiple experts may provide responses to a particular customer service inquiry, optionally within a single chat window.