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In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise information, and the music playback history acquired from the portable music playback apparatus, and transmits it to a service information providing apparatus. In accordance with the service request received from the information processing apparatus, the service information providing apparatus produces service information and returns the produced service information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus provides the received service information to a user of the audio playback apparatus.

The invention discloses an augmented reality-based motion game control method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of receiving background image data shot by an AR (augmented reality) apparatus, and superposing a moving icon with a set moving speed on the background image data; displaying an AR image superposed with the moving icon to a user through the AR apparatus; and judging whether a distance between a real-time position, in motion, of the user located through the AR apparatus and a virtual position of the moving icon meets a predetermined threshold or not, and if yes, judging that the user catches up with or captures the moving icon. According to the method and the apparatus, the game experience of the user and a set virtual competitive object in a real outside environment can be enhanced, and the user is stimulated to catch up with a motion process through real-time acquisition and comparison whether the distance between the real-time position of the user in the motion and the virtual position of the moving icon meets the predetermined threshold or not, so that process supervision and effective stimulation are realized, the interestingness of the motion is enhanced, and the perfect combination of science technology and motion control is realized.

The invention discloses a micro-fluxgate sensor having a porous iron core. A silicon substrate (1) serves as a substrate supporting layer; an excitation coil (2) and an induction coil (3) adopt a three-dimensional solenoid structure, and upper and lower layers are communicated through two-end through holes (4); an iron core (5) adopts a soft magnetic material and a porous structure, and holes in the iron core separate the iron core into a plurality of groups of local variable cross-section structures; polyimide (6) serves as an insulating layer between the layers respectively; the excitation coil and the induction coil are wound alternatively in a manner that the excitation coil is corresponding to the nonporous places, and the induction coil is corresponding to the porous places; and the excitation coil and the induction coil are led out through bonding pads (7,8). The micro-fluxgate sensor can effectively reduce power consumption of a micro-fluxgate, and sensitivity is improved.

A program for rewarding players for gaming at a casino establishment provides a player with real-time incentives while the player is playing at a gaming machine in the casino. Information about the player and / or the player's gaming activity is collected while the player is at a gaming machine in a casino. This information is used by a marketing system to select an incentive to provide to the player. The incentive is then delivered to the player, for example manually by a casino employee or automatically using a printer or other mechanism at the gaming machine. Various types of incentives can be provided to a player, including incentives designed to provide the player with an experience that is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.

Account manager systems and methods are disclosed for managing consumable return refund programs for repaid document processing devices, in which automated or semiautomatic refunds are provided by adding account credits to prepaid customer accounts and / or by directly applying print units to specific document processing devices for customers who return spent consumable products.

In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise information, and the music playback history acquired from the portable music playback apparatus, and transmits it to a service information providing apparatus. In accordance with the service request received from the information processing apparatus, the service information providing apparatus produces service information and returns the produced service information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus provides the received service information to a user of the audio playback apparatus.

The invention belongs to the technical field of antennas, and discloses a low-sidelobe lens array antenna for an ETC system. The antenna is characterized in that 8*18 microstrip loading patches are printed on a first dielectric substrate; and the upper surface of a second dielectric substrate is selectively electroplated with a microstrip line coupled feeding 8*18 slot antenna array. The microstrip line coupled feeding 8*18 slot antenna array comprises 8*18 microstrip slot antennas and 18 groups of one-to-eight unequal T-shaped power division networks; and the slot microstrip antennas generatenew resonance points by loading the microstrip patches above slots, so that the working bandwidth is broadened. A Rotman lens network is provided with seven wave beam ports and eighteen array ports;and by combining a wave beam outline, a receiving outline, phase shift microstrip lines and pi-type attenuators, signal output of equal-amplitude linear phase difference and Taylor amplitude distribution is achieved and the low-sidelobe characteristic of the pitching surface of the array antenna is obtained. The problems that a traditional ETC antenna is complex in feeding structure and large in directional diagram sidelobe interference are solved.

A method of fracturing a downhole formation according to which a plurality of jet nozzles are located in a spaced relation to the wall of the formation to form an annulus between the nozzles and the formation. A non-acid containing stimulation fluid is pumped at a predetermined pressure through the nozzles, into the annulus, and against the wall of the formation, and a gas is introduced into the annulus so that the stimulation fluid mixes with the gas to generate foam before the mixture is jetted towards the formation to form fractures in the formation.

A broadcast program processing device is provided. The device includes a recording unit configured to record content including an advertising video and a recorded data analysis unit configured to obtain an attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content. The device further includes a CM replacing unit configured to obtain an attribute of each of a plurality of advertising videos to be inserted and select one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, based on the attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content and the attribute of each of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, and a reproduction unit configured to insert the selected one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted into the recoded content.

The invention provides a resource pushing method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of determining a target region of a to-be-pushed resource; judging whether a current user is a new user or not, and if the current user is the new user, obtaining a preset index value of each service provider in the target region; calculating the preset index values by using current values of preset parameters to obtain preset index calculated values; according to a first preset rule and each preset index calculated value, obtaining resource data supposed to be obtained by each service provider; and pushing the corresponding resource data to each service provider, thereby displaying a page after the corresponding resource data is applied, to the current user when the current user accesses the page of the service provider in the target region. According to the method and the apparatus, finite resources can be pushed to the valuable service provider, so that platform resources can be better transmitted to the new user, the new user can be stimulated more effectively, and the retention rate of the new user is increased.

The invention relates to a magnetically coupled non-resonant rotary piezoelectric generator, and belongs to the technical field of power generating. A rotating shaft is installed on a bottom shell, arotating disc is installed at the end part of the magnetically coupled non-resonant rotary piezoelectric generator, and an exciting magnet is welded on the end surface of the rotating disc; the rightside of the shell body is installed on the bottom shell, and an end cover is installed on the left side of the shell body; a threaded hole is formed in the top end of the shell body, and a raised table is arranged on the inner side of the shell body; an adjusting bolt extends out of the inner part of the shell body through the threaded hole, and a lockage nut is arranged outside the shell body ina spiraling mode; a circular raised table arranged on the bottom of the adjusting bolt extends into an opening of a loading block; the two ends of ferromagnetic substrate are correspondingly installedon the loading block and the raised table, lateral displacement of the ferromagnetic substrate is limited through a guiding block arranged on the middle of the ferromagnetic substrate, and thus the ferromagnetic substrate is divided into an upper piezoelectric oscillator and a lower piezoelectric oscillator; the guiding block is installed on the end cover; the upper piezoelectric oscillator and the lower piezoelectric oscillator are formed by bonding of the ferromagnetic substrate and a piezoelectric crystal plate, and the piezoelectric crystal plate is arranged on the left side of the ferromagnetic substrate; when the adjusting bolt is adjusted to an upper limit position, the upper piezoelectric oscillator and the lower piezoelectric oscillator are in elastic deformation, and when the adjusting bolt is adjusted to a lower limit position, the upper piezoelectric oscillator and the lower piezoelectric oscillator are in the largest allowable compressive stress range.

The invention provides a capacity subsidy calculation method and device for a compressed air energy storage system. The method comprises steps that a first target function is constructed through taking the maximum revenue of a compressed air energy storage power station as a first optimization goal, and operation constraints of the compressed air energy storage power station are determined according to energy storage operation characteristics; a second target function is constructed through taking the maximum revenue of a power grid as a second optimization goal, and power grid side constraints are determined according to operation characteristics of a conventional unit and a wind turbine generator; based on the first target function, the operation constraints of the compressed air energystorage power station, the second target function and the power grid side constraints, taking the compressed air energy storage power station as a lower-level main body and the power grid as an upper-level main body, a two-level game model is constructed; the two-level game model is transformed into a single-level model for solution through utilizing the KKT condition method, and the optimal capacity subsidy of a compressed air energy storage system is obtained. The method is advantaged in that the theoretical basis can be provided for power grid enterprises to develop capacity subsidy strategies.

The invention discloses an antisymmetric-mode effective motivation device based on an artificial surface plasmon microcavity. The antisymmetric-mode effective motivation device is based on a paralleldouble-line waveguiding structure, and comprises a dielectric substrate, two metal grooved stripes which cover the dielectric substrate and are arranged in parallel in a mirror symmetry manner in theextension direction, and a metal strip with symmetrical grooves in two sides, and also comprises a V-shaped structure unit serving as an embedded resonance unit; and the V-shaped structure unit is arranged between the parallel grooved metal strips.