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A programmable and expandable building automation and control system 10. A system platform supports interchangeable smart card 12, security card 22, power supply card 24, telephone / voice / modem card 26, HVAC relay control 62, auxiliary relay control 66, power 80, telephone interface 30, sensor analog inputs 32, smoke detector interface 54, siren / strobe output 82, tamper loop 52, protected peripheral power supply 72, switched peripheral power supply 74, PLC communication protocol interface 18, RS 232 communication interface 14, RS 485 communication interface 16, touchscreen user interface 28, and “smart” key interface 34 via “smart” key 104. In addition to touchscreen and smart key interface, user-interface with system 10 is accommodated via telephone, personal computer or personal digital assistant, or through infrared or radio frequency transmission.

The present invention relates generally to a building automation system, and, more particularly, to an Internet-centric, open, extensible software and hardware framework supporting all aspects of control and monitoring of a smart building ecosphere. The present invention further relates to an “intelligent,” real-time control system capable of both autonomous process control and interaction with system users and system administrators, which is configured to accommodate functional extensions and a broad array of sensors and control devices. The system allows individuals to communicate, monitor and adjust their personal environmental preferences (temperature, light, humidity, white noise, etc.) much like they would in an automobile, via the Internet. The system is equipped with an occupancy sensor that recognizes the presence and identity of the individual. A built-in expert system can make decisions based on data from multiple sources so that the system can alter its activity to conserve energy while maintaining users' comfort.

The present invention relates generally to a building automation system, and, more particularly, to an Internet-centric, open, extensible software and hardware framework supporting all aspects of control and monitoring of a smart building ecosphere. The present invention further relates to an “intelligent,” real-time control system capable of both autonomous process control and interaction with system users and system administrators, which is configured to accommodate functional extensions and a broad array of sensors and control devices. The system allows individuals to communicate, monitor and adjust their personal environmental preferences (temperature, light, humidity, white noise, etc.) much like they would in an automobile, via the Internet. The system is equipped with an occupancy sensor that recognizes the presence and identity of the individual. A built-in expert system can make decisions based on data from multiple sources so that the system can alter its activity to conserve energy while maintaining users' comfort.

A group-III nitride light-emitting device is provided. An active layer having a quantum well structure is grown on a basal plane of a gallium nitride based semiconductor region. The quantum well structure is formed in such a way as to have an emission peak wavelength of 410 nm or more. The thickness of a well layer is 4 nm or more, and 10 nm or less. The well layer is composed of InXGa1-XN (0.15≦X<1, where X is a strained composition). The basal plane of the gallium nitride based semiconductor region is inclined at an inclination angle within the range of 15 degrees or more, and 85 degrees or less with reference to a {0001} plane or a {000-1} plane of a hexagonal system group III nitride. The basal plane in this range is a semipolar plane.

A system for navigating a medical device through the lumens and cavities in an operating region in a subject, comprising an imaging system for displaying an image of the operating region, including a representation of the distal end of the medical device in the operating region. The system also includes a localization system for determining the position of the medical device in a frame of reference translatable to the displayed image. Finally, the system includes an algorithm for evaluating one or more rotation matrix using a cost function to determine an optimum rotation matrix for performing transformation of a vector in the local frame of the localization system to that of the reference frame of the navigation system. The rotation matrix can then provide a scale invariant transformation or “registration” of the coordinate systems of the localization system and the navigation system. This allows navigation to be performed to a significant extent from the localization system display alone, which avoids the frequent x-ray irradiation that occurs during the use of fluoro imaging for navigation purposes.

A system for delivering an injectable material to a site within a mammal, the system comprising a cannula and a needle. The cannula defining an aperture in a side wall thereof and comprising an angled ramp platform disposed within the cannula proximate to the aperture that extends proximally and inwardly away from proximate the distal end of the aperture. The needle is longitudinally movable within the cannula between a withdrawn position, at which a tip of the needle is stored within the cannula, to an extended position, at which the tip of the needle extends through the aperture of the cannula a predetermined distance from the side wall of the cannula. In one aspect, the system also includes a supply of injectable biocompatible bulking composition for controlling vesicoureteral reflux that is operatively connected to the needle.

A medical device for use by an operator to perform a medical procedure in a body includes a handle to be held by the operator, a shaft attached to the handle and an actuating assembly to control functions associated with the medical procedure. The shaft includes an operative distal portion to perform a medical procedure in the body. The medical device may be part of an ablation catheter system that is programmed to correlate one or more functions with the actuation of the actuating assembly. Multiple actuating assemblies may be provided. Each actuating assembly may be a button. Other types of actuating assemblies may also be used, such as switches or a trackball. The actuating assembly may also be provided on a sleeve that may be selectively attached to the handle of the catheter or the physician operating the catheter, for example.

A video processing system tracks a moving person or other object of interest using a combined audio-video tracking system. The audio-video tracking system comprises an audio locator, a video locator, and a set of rules for determining the manner in which settings of a camera are adjusted based on outputs of the audio locator and video locator. The set of rules may be configured such that only the audio locator output is used to adjust the camera settings if the audio locator and video locator outputs are not sufficiently close and a confidence indicator generated by the audio locator is above a specified threshold. For example, in such a situation, the audio locator output alone may be used to direct the camera to a new speaker in a video conference. If the audio locator and video locator outputs are sufficiently close, the system determines if a confidence indicator generated by the video locator is above a specified level, and if so, the video locator output may be used to adjust the camera settings. For example, the camera may be zoomed in such that the face of a video conference participant is centered in and occupies a designated portion of a video frame generated by the camera.

A system for enabling a user to remotely control a robotic medical device system includes a motion capture apparatus to capture motion of a user in a sensing volume and generate indicative output data. The system includes a control unit configured to execute gesture recognition logic that recognizes a user gesture based on analysis of the indicative output data. The control unit executes interpreter logic that is configured to translate the recognized user gesture into a corresponding robotic medical device control command configured to control an aspect of the operation of the robotic medical device system.

A remotely controlled uplink server system has a remote access interface that allows multiple user groups to individually control their respective media files. The user groups also have individual control over their respective remote receivers. The control over the media files includes file uploading, file management and file distribution and the control over the remote receivers includes the identification and grouping of receivers, managing the play list, scheduling and storage space on the receivers and selecting media channels. Through the remote access interface into the uplink server system, each one of the user groups operates and controls its own fully functioning network operations center, sharing the uplink facility with the other user groups. The uplink server also includes a media manager for storing and managing the media files, a network controller for combining control instructions for the remote receivers with the media files in a broadcast signal, and a transmitter for sending the broadcast signal to the remote receivers over the satellite network.

A light emitting device capable of emitting an excellent mixed color light, and a light emitting device capable of enhancing the concentration of mixed light or the directivity of emission is provided. The light emitting device comprises a light emitting element and a package. The package includes at least two recesses each having a bottom surface for mounting a light emitting element thereon and a side surface extending from the bottom surface, wherein each recess has, in a vertical cross section of the recess, a vertical line passing through the center of the bottom surface of the recess which is different than a vertical line passing through the intersection of a first straight line extending along an inclined edge of the recess and a second straight line extending along an inclined edge on another side of the recess.

A cover for a lace-up football boot has a continuous, elastically expandable sleeve (1). The sleeve is, in use, stretched around the boot so that the latter extends through the sleeve with the toe of the boot protruding from the end of the sleeve, and that the underside of the sleeve engages the portion of the underside of the boot in a region between the heal and the toe (i.e. under the arch of the foot). This engagement between the sleeve and the boot is sufficient to hold the sleeve in position on the boot in use, the sleeve also covering the bootlaces to prevent the latter from untying. At least part of the cover may also be transparent so as to reveal ornamental features or indicia on the boot.

The present invention discloses a toothbrush having a handle and an articulated head coupled to the handle. The articulated head includes two sections and each of the head sections has a bottom surface and a side surface. Each of the head sections includes a plurality of bristles extending from the bottom surface of that head section and at least one of the head sections includes a plurality of elastomeric fingers partially defining the side surface of that head section and partially extending from the bottom surface of the head section. The head section most remote from the handle, in a normal configuration of the articulated head, is angled with respect to the other head section.

An apparatus for controlling the movements of an avatar in a virtual environment includes a user input means, such as a gamepad with a plurality of joystick-controlled and button-controlled outputs, a tracker, and optional sliding foot pedals; a processor for running virtual environment (VE) software that includes an avatar moving through the VE; and a control mapping algorithm. The algorithm maps the gamepad, tracker, and optional sliding foot pedal outputs to the avatar's course, heading, displacement, and view, with the joysticks mapped to provide open loop directional control over the course and heading of the avatar, the tracker providing open loop control over the view, and the optional sliding foot pedals providing open loop control over displacement. The operator-controlled movement of the avatar in the virtual environment is displayed to the operator on a computer desktop display or a head mounted display.

The invention discloses an intelligent gesture and voice control system of a curtain and a control method thereof. The control system comprises a gesture collection unit, a voice collection unit, an identifying unit and an external equipment unit, wherein the gesture collection unit is used for obtaining a gesture movement of a user through a camera; the voice collection unit is used for obtaining a user instruction through a microphone; and after the identifying unit is used for respectively identifying and judging a gesture and a voice, information of two channels is integrated according to a time sequence relation of an identified information flow. The curtain can be operated according to an integrated result. According to the intelligent gesture and voice control system of the curtain and the control method thereof, gesture control and voice control can be independently used and also can be used in a combined manner, so that a user has more natural and harmonious experiences in intelligent home furnishing. The gesture and the voice are combined to control the curtain at the same time so that the problem caused by manually opening and closing the curtain in the existing family is reduced and the quantity of remote controllers in the family is reduced; and meanwhile, elderly people and children in the family, and disabilities can conveniently use the curtain.

An exercise machine that varies a resistive load based on sensed changes in intensity of exercise. In one example, an electronic control system of a stationary bicycle adjusts a flywheel resistive load based on changes in the user's pedal cadence. During the exercise routine, subsequent increases or decreases in the pedal cadence cause, respectively, increases or decreases in the flywheel resistive load. In addition, the control system may execute the exercise routine after actuation of a single input key. In another embodiment, the user may simply start to exercise. The electronic control system may calculate a default flywheel resistive load based on initialization parameters, such as demographic data and / or exercise preferences.

A motor vehicle lamp assembly having a light source for emitting light and a source enclosure having a light transmissive portion for transmitting light from the light source to an illumination zone. The enclosure is affixed with a material which covers a selected region of the light transmissive portion of the enclosure. The material is electrically energized to alter an amount of light transmitted from the light source to the illumination zone. A drive circuit electrically coupled to the material energizes the material to control a light output from the lamp assembly.

The present invention includes an electric distributed propulsion for anti-torque modules for a helicopter and methods of use comprising: two or more generators connected to a main gearbox transmission; at least a first and a second plurality of variable speed motors connected to one or more fixed pitch blades to provide anti-torque thrust connected to the two or more generators, and at least a first and a second yaw control computer independently connected to each of the at least first and second plurality of variable speed motors, wherein each of the first and second yaw control computer serves as a primary and a backup yaw control computer to provide redundant control to both the first and second plurality of variable speed motors.

A system is provided to allow a computer to control one or more devices using the remote control codes that are normally used by remote control units associated with these devices. The system has one or more remote control units for transmitting commands, one or more devices to be controlled, and a computer. The computer is coupled to an input device, and has a memory, a receiver which receives codes from the remote control units, and a knowledge base for storing the codes received from the remote control units and command identifiers provided from the input device. The knowledge base associates each command identifier with a particular code. The computer also includes a transmitter which transmits codes to the device to be controlled based on selected command identifiers. During configuration, the computer executes a program that prompts the user to enter a command identifier and code to be associated with that command identifier. The received code and its associated command identifier are stored in the knowledge base. During operation, a user enters a command identifier, and the program searches the knowledge base for the command identifier so as to locate the code corresponding to the command identifier. The program then transmits the code to the device to be controlled.

A new method of process control for fusion welding maintains a controlled weld pool size or volume, for example in some applications a substantially constant weld pool size or volume. The invention comprises a method of linking machine and process variables to the weld pool size or volume in real time, thereby enabling constant weld pool volume control. The invention further comprises a method of using thermal inverse models to rapidly process real-time data and enable models-based control of welding processes so as to implement constant weld pool volume control.

A process for producing single-walled carbon nanotubes in a continuous manner includes carbon plasma generation, plasma stabilization, and product deposition. The plasma is generated by electrical resistance heating or electron beam vaporization of feedstock. The plasma is stabilized with radio frequency energy from inductance coils and with electrical resistance heaters in the reactor. Stabilization homogenizes the plasma energy density and concentration, leading to a more efficient reactor. Finally, a transition metal catalyst and associated catalyst support are used to form the end product. The formation region may have variations of geometry and supporting equipment that will affect the rate and purity of the swcnt production. The formation region is immediately downstream from the plasma stabilization region. In addition, the entire apparatus is designed so that it can be mounted vertically such that continuous deposition of product can be applied with precision using an overhead robotic arm.

A group-III nitride light-emitting device is provided. An active layer having a quantum well structure is grown on a basal plane of a gallium nitride based semiconductor region. The quantum well structure is formed in such a way as to have an emission peak wavelength of 410 nm or more. The thickness of a well layer is 4 nm or more, and 10 nm or less. The well layer is composed of InXGa1-XN (0.15≦X<1, where X is a strained composition). The basal plane of the gallium nitride based semiconductor region is inclined at an inclination angle within the range of 15 degrees or more, and 85 degrees or less with reference to a {0001} plane or a {000-1} plane of a hexagonal system group III nitride. The basal plane in this range is a semipolar plane.

A manifold for a horn loudspeaker has an input end having at least one input port for receiving acoustic power from at least one acoustic driver, and an output end for delivering acoustic power to the throat end of the horn. The output end of the manifold has at least two and suitably multiple output ports. An acoustic power waveguide is provided for each output port and connects each of the output ports to the input port of the manifold. Acoustic power received by the input port is divided between the acoustic waveguides such that it is delivered to the aligned output ports to simulate a line array of acoustic power sources.

A steering tool has a controller configured to provide closed-loop control of blade pressure and position. In one embodiment, the controller is configured to execute a directional control methodology in which the drilling direction is controlled via control of the blade position. The pressure in each blade is further controlled within a predetermined range of pressures. This embodiment tends to prevent excessive borehole friction while at the same time reducing undesirable rotation of the blade housing. In another embodiment, the controller is configured to correlate blade pressure measurements and blade position measurements during drilling. The correlation is utilized as part of a secondary directional control scheme in the event of a downhole failure of a blade position and / or pressure sensor. This embodiment tends to provide a stable and reliable backup directional control mechanism in the event a sensor failure and therefore may save considerable rig time.

The invention puts forward a software defined networking-based air and space information network business forwarding method. Different types of businesses of an air and space information network are different in service quality requirement for bandwidth, time delay and packet loss rates; a software defined networking concept is introduced, a centralized control mode is adopted, a control plane is separated from a data plane, and a business type-based tunnel control mechanism is built in a core network of an air and space information network topology; flow paths for different types of businesses are calculated in a plurality of tunnels according to reserved bandwidth, priority and tunnel business types Based on uploaded message flow tuple matching information transmitted via a south interface, whether business are forwarded based on grouping or labels can be determined. Based on data plane node stream state feedback information, label paths are re-planned based on priority when network resources are not enough. The forwarding mechanism designed in the invention is flexible and takes a whole picture into consideration, and air and space information network businesses can be delivered efficiently.

A urinary directional device for improving the directional urination and health of a male user is provided, in which the device comprises a conduit for the passage of urine and having a proximal end adapted for engagement with the penis of the user and a distal end having a distal aperture to enable the passage of urine from the conduit, the device having an interior surface providing one or more of a cleansing, an anti-bacterial or antiseptic or an anti-fungal function whereby the penis of the user can be cleansed by wiping on the interior surface of the device after urination and the device optionally further comprising a health detection indicator capable of indicating abnormalities in urine indicative of disease or health-related conditions.

A method of manufacturing an electronic device in which a substrate with a pair of electrodes is provided and a carbon nanotube is formed or arranged to electrically connect the electrodes.

Systems and methods for measuring saliva sodium concentration using a chromatographic reaction enable rapid-results, low-cost diagnosis of various medical conditions in an outpatient setting. In one embodiment, measured patient saliva sodium concentration is used by the patient or the patient's healthcare provider to guide medical decision making. In another embodiment, measured patient saliva sodium concentration is processed to mechanically adjust the concentration of sodium in an aqueous solution to be delivered to the patient for oral administration. In yet another embodiment, a closed loop system measures saliva sodium concentration and uses any of a number of different types of feedback control systems to monitor and control the fluid and / or electrolyte state of the patient.