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A method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment comprises the following steps: providing at least one virtual object (10) having a global position and orientation with respect to a geographic global coordinate system (200), together with first pose data (PW10) permitting a conclusion to be made on the global position and orientation of the virtual object, in a database (3) of a server (2), taking at least one image (50) of a real environment (40) by means of a mobile device (30) and providing second pose data (PW50) permitting a conclusion to be made as to at which position and with which orientation with respect to the geographic global coordinate system (200) the image was taken, displaying the image (50) on a display (31) of the mobile device, accessing the virtual object (10) in the database (3) of the server (2) and positioning the virtual object (10) in the image (50) shown on the display on the basis of the first and second pose data (PW10, PW50), manipulating the virtual object (10) or adding a further virtual object (11) by corresponding positioning in the image (50) shown on the display, and providing the manipulated virtual object (10) together with modified first pose data (PW10) in accordance with the positioning in the image (50) or the further virtual object (11) together with third pose data in accordance with the positioning in the image (50) in the database (3) of the server (2), the modified first pose data and third pose data each permitting a conclusion to be made on the global position and orientation of the manipulated or further virtual object. Instead of with an image of the real environment, the method can also be performed analogously using a view of an HMD, for example.

An integrative analysis system and method of network vulnerability utilizing multiple heterogeneous vulnerability scanners to enhance the accuracy of the network vulnerability analysis are provided. The method comprises a scanning policy setting-up step of setting-up a common scanning policy able to be adapted to the multiple heterogeneous vulnerability scanners and specifying the policy for the respective vulnerability scanners, a vulnerability scanning and result collecting step of performing for the multiple heterogeneous vulnerability scanners to scan, to collect a result thereof, and to store the same in a database and a scanning result integrative analysis step of performing a relevance analysis and an integrative analysis on the scanning results collected, thereby obtaining a complementary vulnerability scanning utilizing multiple heterogeneous vulnerability scanners, enhancing the accuracy and the comprehension of the scanning results, and obtaining a comprehensive vulnerability analysis on a network.

An intake-air quantity estimation apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including an intake-air quantity estimation device that includes a cylinder pressure estimation device that estimates pressure within a cylinder through calculation using a model of the cylinder obtained based on a law of conservation of energy, the intake-air quantity estimation device estimates a cylinder intake-air quantity based on the estimated pressure within the cylinder, the cylinder intake-air quantity representing the amount of air flowing into the cylinder.

A system to provide enhanced computational efficiency in determining dose in a media of varying density from a high-energy radiation-beam for radiation treatment, program product, and related methods are provided. The system can include a radiation treatment planning computer and radiation treatment planning program product stored in the memory of the radiation treatment planning computer and adapted to enhance optimization of a radiation treatment plan for delivering radiation to a complex medium defining a patient volume. The radiation treatment planning program product provides functions including those for predetermining a delivery machine-dependent representation of radiation dose for a plurality of different electron densities selected over a preselected representative range, predetermining a depth-dependent representation of central axis properties of a pencil beam passing through a complex medium for each of a plurality of pencil beams, and determining with constant time computational complexity radiation dose for each of a plurality of points of interest in a heterogeneous medium having a complex spatial distribution of heterogeneous electron densities by applying the predetermined machine-dependent and depth-dependent representations.

Provided is a device for estimating secondary cell status using multiple models. The device for estimating secondary cell status uses multiple models, model 1, model 2, and model 3, to estimate the status of respective secondary cells. An arithmetic unit compares the estimated voltage values obtained from model 1, model 2, and model 3 with measured voltage values, sets the model having the highest correlation as the optimal model, optimizes the parameters of such model, and estimates secondary cell status.

Systems and methods for identifying a media segment of audio or video content are disclosed. The video segment is identified by deriving data from media content and comparing said data to a reference database in order to identify said video segment. Embodiments of the invention improve the speed and accuracy of the media identification process by advantageously partitioning the indexes in subdivisions where high value reference information is separated from the bulk information, for example.

In a cloud environment where multiple applications having different performance characteristics are operated in a mixture, in order to specify the cause of performance deterioration and to solve the confliction of requests related to a shared resource, the present invention detects the performance deterioration of resources allocated to multiple instances constituting a logical server configuration, and extracts an instance sharing resources existing performance deterioration, and compares a performance tendency of the extracted instance and a performance pattern showing a characteristics extracted from a performance information of the resource in association with a bottleneck factor, to thereby estimate the bottleneck factor by calculating mutual similarities and determining a performance pattern where the calculated similarity becomes maximum.

An optical transceiver has: an optical subassembly (OSA) having a built-in optical element and a cylindrical receptacle to conduct an optical path from the optical element; a chassis having an entrance that allows insertion of an optical fiber to be connected to the optical path; an OSA holder engaged with the receptacle to hold the OSA and accommodated in contact with an inside portion of the chassis; and an OSA holder-regulating portion formed in the chassis to regulate the OSA holder, the OSA holder-regulating portion being positioned opposite the entrance relative to the OSA holder.

A method for notifying a downlink demodulation pilot control signaling, includes: a base station side notifying a user equipment (UE) side of an index of a virtual signaling group and / or index of port offset signaling group used when generating a downlink pilot sequence and / or mapping the generated downlink pilot sequence through at least one of the following information: UE-specific or common high layer signaling; antenna indication information of DL_Grant; new data indication information in a Disable TB signaling in the DL_Grant; scrambling indication information in the DL_Grant; in a UE-specific or common search space, an aggregation level of the DL_Grant, a relative position of a first control channel element of the DL_Grant in the UE-specific or common search space, a subframe number where the DL_Grant is located and a system frame number where the DL_Grant is located.

A method of estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on the observation that the signal strength of a signal from a transmitter is different at some locations, and, therefore, the location of a wireless terminal can be estimated by comparing the signal strength it currently observes against a map or database that correlates locations to signal strengths. Furthermore, the illustrative embodiment deduces the signal strength of one or more base stations' control channels at the wireless terminal based on the principal of reciprocity, whether or not the wireless terminal can actually receive the base stations' control channels but so long as the base station can receive and measure the uplink signal from the wireless terminal. The deduced signal-strength measurements can then used—alone or in combination with the empirical signal-strength measurements—to estimate the location of the wireless terminal.

A device and method for conditioning media flowing within a conduit enabling sensors placed within short straight run distances to measure media flow with improved accuracy employing a thermal flow instrument. A flow conditioner downstream of a media flow measuring transducer has walls that diverge in the flow direction to optimize readings of the media flow from the transducer.

A gear shift control system for vehicles is provided which mathematically calculates a rate of deceleration of the vehicle equipped an automatic transmission upon start of deceleration of the vehicle and inhibits the automatic transmission from upshifting or changes a permissible gear shift range of the automatic transmission as a function of the rate of deceleration of the vehicle, thereby ensuring a desired degree of braking force including an engine braking force while the vehicle is decelerating.

The present invention discloses a spectral measurement method via continuous light source and discrete light source, and a measurement instrument for non-invasive detection of human body tissue components. Said instrument includes an incident unit, a probe, a receiving unit and a data processing unit. Said composite spectral measurement method improves or strengthens the output light intensity at the wavelength that carries information of the target component within human body. It enables the spectral detection in the whole wavelength range, and thus significantly enhances the SNR of the detecting system. In the non-invasive detection instrument, light from both the continuous light source and discrete light source can be firstly selectively light-split by AOTF, or AOTF conducts light-splitting for the continuous light source, while the discrete light source LD is controlled by a spatial chopper. When data of the spectral curves achieved from said continuous light source and discrete light source are processed, data acquired under different measuring modes can be compared.

A system and method applicable to a vehicle for detecting a surrounding environment are provided. The system and method include installing primary and secondary display units in a vehicle; installing a plurality of detectors of various types around the vehicle; detecting obstacles around the vehicle using the plurality of different detectors; generating and outputting first detector data to be received by a primary control module; generating second detector data by integrating data to generate and transmit a primary warning message including vehicle positional information relative to the obstacle and a secondary warning message comprising obstacle positional information to the primary and secondary display units respectively for display. The system and method enable accurate detection of an obstacle via the warning messages and improved driving safety, using detectors with functions different from and complementary to one another.

A signal source identification system and associated method are disclosed that utilize wavelet-based signal processing to facilitate signal source identification. In particular, the wavelet-based signal processing enables the extraction of fingerprint type signatures for signal sources using wavelet packet processing, and supplementary signal processing can be used to further enhance the accuracy of the system. This signal source identification system can be used for identifying signal sources within a received data signal, used for providing security features by verifying the identify of a transmitting device, and / or used in other environments where it is desirable to identify or differentiate among signal sources. Other features and variations can be implemented, if desired.

A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device having an organic functional layer formed between facing electrodes, the method includes forming separators which separate either of the electrodes into a strip, forming an electrode film between the separators with a vapor deposition method, and placing a further electrode material on the electrode film which is formed between the separators with the vapor deposition method.

A method of motion trajectory reconstruction is described as follows: obtaining angular velocity time-domain data and linear acceleration time-domain data from a traveling inertial sensor; performing a spectrum analysis to transform the angular velocity time-domain data into angular velocity frequency-domain data; choosing a main frequency wave of the spectrum from the angular velocity frequency-domain data; transforming the angular velocity frequency-domain data only having the main frequency wave into angular displacement time-domain data; obtaining linear displacement time-domain data by calculating the linear acceleration time-domain data and the angular displacement time-domain data; and reconstructing and displaying the motion trajectory of the inertial sensor according to the linear displacement time-domain data and the angular displacement time-domain data.

A semi-enclosed pouring chute attachment for a wheelbarrow. The attachment sits on the front of the wheelbarrow and is secured by upper side channels and either rope of shock / bungee cords from the sides of the attachment to the handles of the wheelbarrow. In an alternate embodiment, the wheelbarrow container may have a funnel end as an integral part thereof.

A stapling unit 5 includes a stapler 10 for stapling an edge part of a stack of sheets of paper P and a carriage 11 on which the stapler 10 is mounted, and the carriage 11 is formed in such a way that it can move along a guide axis 13 that is fitted in a frame 12 in a direction (X-X′ direction) perpendicular to the paper transport direction. On the carriage 11, a pair of first stoppers 16a and 16b that abut and thereby align the edge of the stack of sheets of paper P are fixed one at each side of the stapler 10 so as to be capable of shuttling in the directions indicated by arrows X and X′ together with the stapler 10. Outward of the first stoppers 16a and 16b, a pair of second stoppers 17a and 17b are further provided.

A method and an apparatus for automatically computing work accuracy of a battery management system (BMS) includes the steps of controlling an automobile component simulation module to work, sending a work command to the BMS at the test moment t, and reading a prediction parameter, stopping working when the work command is completed, reading a work parameter and computing state of power (SOP) test accuracy of the BMS, determining whether a temperature of the battery pack exceeds a temperature threshold, if so, controlling a thermal management module to start working, and returning to the determination step, and otherwise, reading a stabilized parameter and performing computation to obtain state of charge (SOC) test accuracy of the BMS.

There is provided a refrigeration apparatus in which a refrigerant accumulating in non-operating outdoor units is supplied to an outdoor unit being operated in which a shortage of refrigerant occurs without starting the compressors of the non-operating outdoor units. In the control method for the refrigeration apparatus in which to refrigerant piping 10 installed between the indoor side and the outdoor side, a plurality of outdoor units 30A, 30B each including a compressor 31, a directional control valve 34, an outdoor heat exchanger 35, an outdoor expansion valve 36, and an accumulator 37 are connected in parallel on the outdoor side, and each of the outdoor units is provided with a hot gas bypass circuit 38 that includes a solenoid valve 38a and an expansion mechanism 38b arranged in series, and is connected between high-pressure side piping 33a on the discharge side of the compressor and low-pressure side piping 33b on the accumulator side, if a shortage of refrigerant occurs when air cooling operation is performed in a state in which only the outdoor unit 30A is operated and other outdoor units 30B are not operated, the solenoid valves 38a of the non-operating outdoor units 30B are opened so that the refrigerant accumulating in the non-operating outdoor units 30B is supplied to the outdoor unit 30A via the hot gas bypass circuit 38 and the low-pressure piping 33b.

In a detection element for the current which flows from a power source to a disk apparatus internal circuit, a plurality of resistors are incorporated such that the detection resistance for consumption current can be selected. Based on apparatus identification information from an apparatus identification unit 31 such as a current identification signal outputting circuit or an apparatus identification structure provided in a disk apparatus unit, the detection element switching circuit switches the detection resistance value of the detection element. A voltage detection circuit detects the potential difference between both terminals of the detection element. When a current control circuit detects an excessive current based on the potential difference, the current control circuit turns off a transistor (FET).

Disclosed is a test apparatus including: test target sections each having a connector to connect a Device Under the Test (DUT); measuring sections that include measuring devices that have same measuring item respectively; a switch section that switches connection between the test target section and the measuring section under direction of a controller; wherein the controller selects one of the algorithms of connection, 1) searching vacancy of the measuring sections and directs the switch section to make a path between the test target section and the measuring section of vacancy, 2) holding the path that former selected.

Provided is a step up / down converter, in which the inductor current can be easily detected by a simple configuration in any connecting mode of the switches. This comprises a first switch, one end of which is connected to an input power source, and the other end of which is connected to one end of the inductor, a second switch, one end of which is connected to the one end of the inductor, and the other end of which is connected to a reference potential applying unit, a third switch and a fourth switch, one end of which is connected to the other end of the inductor; a capacitor circuit element, connected between the other end of the third switch and the other end of the fourth switch, and configured to generate an output voltage for applying to a load, a detecting resistor, connected between the other end of the second switch and the other end of the third switch, and configured to detect an inductor current flowing through the inductor, and a control circuit configured to perform control from the first switch to the fourth switch based on the inductor current detected by the detecting resistor.

When each signal line contact terminal (10ai) is installed in a base member (30), an upper housing (28), and a lower housing (26), the upper housing (28) is installed together in such a way as to be sandwiched between the base member (30) and the lower housing (26). Here, collars (16) are fitted on outer peripheral portions of a first extending portion (52A) and a second extending portion (52C) of the signal line contact terminal (10ai), respectively. Moreover, air layers are formed between an outer peripheral portion of a drum portion (52B) of the signal line contact terminal (10ai) and an inner peripheral surface forming a hole (28b), between an outer peripheral portion of the first extending portion (52A) and an inner peripheral surface forming a hole (30b), between an outer peripheral portion of the second extending portion (52C) and an inner peripheral surface forming a hole (26b), and between an outer peripheral portion of a plunger (56) and an inner peripheral surface forming a hole (26e).

A gas sensor device for determining a molar concentration of a gas to be detected, that absorbs light of a measurement wavelength that is characteristic of the gas in the infrared light region, includes a light emission device emitting measurement light of measurement wavelength into a solid angle region of a light absorption path extending through the gas, and a light detector measuring an intensity of at least one component of the measurement light that has propagated through the light absorption path, the light absorption path extending from the light emission device to an object outside the gas sensor device that at least partially reflects the measurement light to the light detector, and being essentially disposed outside of the gas sensor device, and means for determining the length of the light absorption path. A method for determining a concentration of a gas to be detected is also described.

A method and apparatus for simultaneously coating and measuring a part. The apparatus includes a part support, a sprayer and a part measurer positioned adjacent to the part support and a display device positioned adjacent to the part support. The sprayer applies a coating to a section of the part while the part measurer continuously measures a dimension of the section of the part being coated. In one embodiment, an initial amount of coating and a final amount of coating are applied to the section of the part based on the dimension measurements and desired dimension of the part. In another embodiment, the amount of coating applied to the part is based on the desired coating thickness. As a result, the apparatus and method of the present invention significantly reduces the margin of error related to the application of coatings to parts.

An examined image is segmented, where a segment thereof may correspond to an area scan image or a line scan image of which the size is defined by considering the performance of the servo mechanism. In the segment, vectors between feature points of the examined image and a standard image are compared, and based on the required tolerance, a Fibonacci search having a predetermined number of iterations is used for matching an optimal corresponding relationship between the examined image and the standard image.