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A method for correlating tracking data associated with an activity occurring in a three-dimensional space with images captured within the space comprises the steps of: (a) locating a camera with respect to the three-dimensional space, wherein the camera at a given location has a determinable orientation and field of view that encompasses at least a portion of the space; (b) capturing a plurality of images with the camera and storing data corresponding to the images, including a capture time for each image; (c) capturing tracking data from identification tags attached to the people and / or objects within the space and storing the tracking data, including a tag capture time for each time that a tag is remotely accessed; (d) correlating each image and the tracking data by interrelating tracking data having a tag capture time in substantial correspondence with the capture time of each image, thereby generating track data corresponding to each image; (e) utilizing the track data to determine positions of the people and / or objects within the three dimensional space at the capture time of each image; and (f) utilizing the location and orientation of the camera to determine the portion of the space captured in each image and thereby reduce the track data to a track data subset corresponding to people and / or objects positioned within the portion of space captured in each image.

A heat-expandable microcapsule comprising a polymer shell formed by polymerizing (I) acrylonitrile, a main monomer component, (II) a monomer having carboxyl and (III) a monomer having groups reactive with the carboxyl of the monomer (II) and of a liquid having a boiling point lower than the softening point of the polymer and being encapsulated in the polymer shell. The heat-expandable microcapsules expand within high temperature range, 240° C. or above, and have heat-resistance.

An operator telerobotically controls tools to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the work site on a display. Tool information is provided in the operator's current gaze area on the display by rendering the tool information over the tool so as not to obscure objects being worked on at the time by the tool nor to require eyes of the user to refocus when looking at the tool information and the image of the tool on a stereo viewer.

A system, method, computer program product and propagated signal for an automatic parking system. The system includes a sensing subsystem for detecting an occupancy status of a vehicle parking space, said sensing subsystem providing a real-time occupancy status signal for said vehicle parking space wherein said occupancy status signal includes an occupied mode and an unoccupied mode; a communications subsystem, coupled to said sensing subsystem, for transmitting said occupancy status signal; and a management subsystem for receiving said occupancy status signal, said management subsystem processing a parking transaction for said vehicle parking space automatically upon a mode change of said occupancy status signal. A method includes automatically opening a parking transaction upon detecting an occupation of a parking space or area and automatically closing a parking transaction upon detecting a vacation of a parking space or area. Additional elements may include an authorization system and a notification system. The methods include identified parking methods for detecting automatically changes in an occupancy status of one or more parking spaces or areas and automatically initiating / closing, as appropriate, parking transactions responsive to appropriate detected changes in occupancy status signals associated with each of the one or more parking spaces, as well as methods of making and using the disclosed systems. Computer program products and propagated signals include computer-executable instructions for implementing the systems and methods.

A dynamic system and method for efficiently measuring organizational compliance with multiple, overlapping, selected sources of compliance requirements by making associations of individual source controls and survey questions with a limited set of discrete compliance objectives, and by enabling creation of compliance surveys and analysis of survey answer sets based on user-selected criteria that may include selection of a specific source or sources; one or more discrete compliance objectives, and / or a choice of questions from a master question pool. Custom surveys with weighted questions and dynamic reporting enables responses to compliance audits to be analyzed against a pre-determined benchmark result, against responder's own prior results, or against other responders.

A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Improved techniques for using connectors in a system for collaborative work for users unskilled in data processing techniques, including UI techniques. Data may be augmented by associating a connector query to obtain additional data and the data viewed in a “drill down” fashion, or by associating an additional resource for entering additional data by clicking on a link: the additional resource is created as needed and is a full-fledged resource of the system. A number of other connector queries may be combined into a single query that composes them, and information from different information sources may be combined easily, such as to make the form consistent; the information may also be transformed in a complex fashion. An alternative source for an information result may be used by a connector query to optimize performance, such as a cached result. A connector may be used to obtain information from resources created by other users within the system, and a connector may be used to obtain information from the resource in which it is used.

Image frames are displayed on a display panel, in order to output image data of the image frame selectively. In an image displaying method, image data of plural image frames related to a user are read from a storage DVD. Birthdate information of the user is input. Developmental period information of plural developmental periods is preset, which are consecutive in a sequence in a personal history manner. A date of photography of the image data is evaluated according to the birthdate information and the plural developmental periods, so association of the plural developmental periods with the image frames is determined in relation to the user, to sort the image frames. One of the plural developmental periods is selected. Sorted image frames are displayed on the display panel, which are sorted with the selected developmental period among the image frames.

A method for correlating asynchronously captured event data associated with a timed activity and images associated with the events comprises the steps of: (a) capturing a plurality of images and storing the images and data corresponding to the images, including a time of image capture for each image, in an image database; (b) gathering data from one or more events associated with the timed activity and storing event data, including a time of occurrence of each event, in an event database; and (c) correlating the images and the event data in the databases by generating a time-based window that interrelates event data in the event database having a time of occurrence within the window with images in the image database having a time of capture within the window.

The invention relates to a robot positioning method based on a wireless sensor network and a geomagnetic map. wireless sensor network nodes, during the movement of the robot, by activating A wireless sensor network node, use RSSI to obtain the observation model of wireless sensor network nodes and robots; then use PSO and multi-sensor information fusion to obtain the particle likelihood; at the same time obtain the weight of particles in the particle swarm optimization method; Resampling and fitness function judgment are used to obtain the position of the optimal particle, obtain a local geomagnetic map, and use the geomagnetic matching method to achieve precise positioning, and finally obtain the absolute position. The present invention is easy to associate data, no wrong association occurs during observation, and the robustness and accuracy of the network are improved; at the same time, a more realistic system state distribution prediction is obtained, which makes the positioning of the robot more accurate and reduces the calculation amount of geomagnetic matching. The real-time performance of the method is increased.

A MEMS and / or NEMS pressure measurement device comprising a deformable membrane suspended on a substrate, one of the faces of the membrane being intended to be subjected to the pressure to be measured, detection means with strain gauges for the deformation of the membrane, said detection means being formed on a substrate and a non-deformable arm, transmitting the deformation in an amplified manner of the membrane to the detection means, the arm being rotatably hinged to the substrate about an axis (Y) substantially parallel to the plane of the membrane and which is integral with the membrane so that it transmits a deformation of the membrane to the detection means in an amplified manner.

A method for coordinating operation of motor vehicles with a coordination device having a sensor, a computing device and a communication device includes determining from sensor data location and movement information of the motor vehicles, calculating an expected trajectory for each motor vehicle from the location and movement information, checking whether trajectories of different motor vehicles spatially and temporally overlap so as to create a conflict, in the event of a conflict transmitting a driving instruction to at least one motor vehicle, and executing the driving instruction or displaying the driving instruction on a display device of the at least one motor vehicle.

A method for separating different emission wavelengths in a scanning microscope includes scanning a specimen with an illuminating light beam by passing the illuminating light beam over the specimen using a beam deflector, and selectively applying each of a plurality of excitation wavelengths to the illuminating light beam during the scanning according to a predefinable illumination scheme. Emission light coming from the specimen is detected using a detector, the emission light including emission wavelengths corresponding to the excitation wavelengths. The detector is read out when an excitation wavelength is applied so as to provide detected signals. The detected signals are associated with the respective excitation wavelengths using the illumination scheme.

Heterogeneous catalyst systems, methods of making these systems, and methods of using these systems, wherein catalytically active gold is deposited onto composite support media. The composite support media is formed by providing nanoporous material on at least a portion of the surfaces of carbonaceous host material. In representative embodiments, relatively fine, nanoporous guest particles are coated or otherwise provided on surfaces of relatively coarser activated carbon particles. Catalytically active gold may be deposited onto one or both of the guest or host materials either before or after the guest and host materials are combined to from the composite host material. PVD is the preferred catalyst system of depositing gold.

The system has a single pulse spectrum capability for sensing the presence of contamination on a surface to be interrogated. The system includes a narrow frequency bandwidth visible pulse and broadband infrared pulse that are directed to the surface. An output wavelength discriminator receives the reflected sum-frequency that is generated. The output wavelength discriminator is substantially non-transmissive at the frequencies of the visible pulse and the infrared pulse, but is substantially transmissive at the sum-frequency of the visible pulse and the infrared pulse. The output of the wavelength discriminator is a broadband output. A frequency disperser receives the output of the wavelength discriminator and provides a physical separation of output wavelengths of the broadband output. A multi-channel analyzer analyzes the intensity of the physically separated output wavelengths as a function of their physical positions. Thus, a wavelength dependent intensity measurement is provided that is indicative of the presence of contamination.

A programmable user interaction control interface for household appliances such as ovens. The user interface comprises a display for displaying text and icons. The user interface further comprises control and selection buttons for navigation in a two dimensional menu structure. LED technology is used in order to lit up buttons as well as indicators.

A method of screening a sample for the presence of one or more known compounds of interest is disclosed. A fragmentation device is repeatedly switched between a fragmentation mode of operation and a non-fragmentation mode of operation. A determination is made whether a candidate parent ion of interest is present in a non-fragmentation data set and whether one or more corresponding fragment ions of interest are present in a fragmentation data set. A further determination is made to check if the candidate parent ion of interest and the one or more corresponding fragment ions of interest have substantially similar elution or retention times and / or ion mobility drift times.

A system and method allows a user to view server side code results on a computer system by storing source code for a web page on the server, retrieving the web page from the server, associating the server side code results with the server side code that caused the server to produce them, and displaying the server side code results, for example in place of the server side code. The operation of the method and system may be periodically repeated to incorporate updates to the server side code results. The user may graphically adjust characteristics of the server side code results, and if the user so adjusts them, the system and method adjusts the source code for the web page consistent with the adjustments made by the user.

The present disclosure provides human renal stem cells. Also described are human renal stem cells isolated from the papillary region of the human kidney and methods of isolating the same. Also described are methods for culturing, characterizing, and differentiating the same, including methods for identifying human renal stem cells that are positive for Nestin and CD133, and methods for allowing the cells to differentiate into neurons.

There is provided a technique for determining cell allocation in a network supporting different communication standards.

The invention discloses a product supply chain optimization-based network community group buying system and an implementation method thereof. The system comprises a community management unit, a supply chain management unit and a network shopping unit, wherein the community management unit is used for establishing and maintaining common consumer groups and initiating the establishment and the maintenance of product supply chains, group buying calling and on-line consulting related to the maintained product supply chains; the supply chain management unit is used for fuzzily matching the supply chains, optimizing the nodes of the supply chains, metering and inquiring; and the network shopping unit is used for buying all complete supply chains on line and establishing visual order process management for the nodes of the supply chains, which include buyers. By the system and the method, marketing channels can be established for more network products by the product supply chains, and the supply side and the demand side of the products can be quickly, directly and efficiently connected by a consumer intermediary, namely the community, so that the circulation cost of product providers is saved, and reliable and substantial product service can be provided for terminal consumers.

Systems and methods for using information, provided in association with a shipping parcel containing or associated with the goods, by a shipping service provider and a recipient of the goods are shown. According to one embodiment, coded data, such as provided in a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or barcode, is used to identify the parcel and the goods, either directly or through correlation with other information, such as shipping information and / or inventory information. The coded data is preferably in a format readable by both the shipping service provider and the recipient of the parcel.

An information processing apparatus according to the invention comprises: an image input unit to which an image is input; a face detecting unit which detects a face area of a person from the image input to the image input unit; a face-for-recording selecting unit which selects a desired face area with which a desired voice note is to be associated from among face areas detected by the face detecting unit; a recording unit which records a desired voice note associating the voice note with the face area selected by the face-for-recording selecting unit; a face-for-reproduction selecting unit which selects a desired face area from among face areas with which voice notes area associated by the recording unit; and a reproducing unit which reproduces a voice note associated with the face area selected by the face-for-reproduction selecting unit.

An in-vehicle control device includes a recording unit that sequentially records first data transferred through an in-vehicle local network; a data acquisition unit that acquires second data relating to an event from a portion of the first data generated within a first time before occurrence of the event and from another portion of the first data recorded within a second time after occurrence of the event; a generation unit that generates third data when a specified operation or change in state of an occupant occurs by elapse of a third time after occurrence of the event; a first holding unit that holds the second data; a second holding unit that holds the third data; a nonvolatile memory having a first and a second recording regions; and a data control unit that records the second data on the first recording region and the third data on the second recording region.

A laser scanner, comprising a mirror rotatably provided, a driving unit for rotating the mirror, a distance measuring unit for projecting a distance measuring light for scanning to a measurement range via the mirror and for obtaining a position data by receiving the reflected distance measuring light via the mirror, a measuring direction observing means for indicating a projecting direction of the distance measuring light, and an operation unit for setting the measurement range by designating at least two measuring directions based on the result of observation of the measuring direction obtained by the measuring direction observing means.

A system and method for dispensing beverage from a container, such as wine from a wine bottle. An identification element may be secured to a beverage container and include a tag and optically readable code that uniquely identify the container. A dispenser may dispense beverage from a container, and be able to read the tag of the identification element. Information regarding characteristics of beverage in the beverage container may be associated with a corresponding identification element and include a brand, type, vintage or volume of beverage in the container.

A method and a valve arrangement are disclosed for pressure-sensor diagnosis of an operating state of a valve arrangement for controlling a process medium flow, in which a valve element, which is arranged such that it can move axially within a valve housing, is moved by application of control pressure, with the control pressure being determined in the starting and / or stopped phase of the valve element in order to determine static friction. A pressure rise value of control pressure required to start movement of the valve element is measured repeatedly and successively after the movement of the valve element has been stopped. The measured pressure rise values are temporarily stored in a memory unit. A diagnosis unit accesses the pressure rise values in order to determine a probable influence of the static friction on the movement of the valve element, by statistical analysis.