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A suggestive intelligent recommendation engine enabling customers to discover new travel and entertainment opportunities tied to value enhanced offers from travel service providers through a static or dynamic bid / offer system internal to a travel reservation system. The customer inputs various travel criteria and preferences, and a computer generates travel predictors. A series of master travel itineraries are generated, which include various travel segments for each master itinerary. Each segment includes a number of options for the customer to review, consider, select and delete, and request revisions. The master itineraries are shuffled on an iterative based on the selections of the customer from the segments of the master itinerary. Prices for each selected option are requested form various travel service providers, which are then discounted prior to presentation to the customer. A proposed itinerary payment solution is generated, which may include a monetary portion and a promotional portion.

In one aspect, the invention divides an audio signal into auditory events, each of which tends to be perceived as separate and distinct, by calculating the spectral content of successive time blocks of the audio signal (5-1), calculating the difference in spectral content between successive time blocks of the audio signal (5-2), and identifying an auditory event boundary as the boundary between successive time blocks when the difference in the spectral content between such successive time blocks exceeds a threshold (5-3). In another aspect, the invention generates a reduced-information representation of an audio signal by dividing an audio signal into auditory events, each of which tends to be perceived as separate and distinct, and formatting and storing information relating to the auditory events (5-4). Optionally, the invention may also assign a characteristic to one or more of the auditory events (5-5).

Techniques and systems for channel prediction in wireless networks. A base station receives a succession of channel indicators from each of a plurality of mobile units, each channel indicator being received from each mobile unit once per timeslot. A channel predictor uses the channel indicators to generate a channel condition prediction for each mobile unit, the channel condition prediction being based on a balanced estimate using the most recent channel condition indicator and the mean of the succession of channel indicators. A weight is computed based on a gradient of the succession channel indicator values and used to assign relative emphasis to the most recent channel condition indicator and the mean channel condition indicator in order to give greater emphasis to the most recent indicator during slowly changing conditions and greater emphasis to the mean indicator during rapidly changing conditions.

A system and method for ranking media. Embodiments enable presenting media in a first venue, obtaining feedback from at least one user and providing an indication whether to present the media in a second venue. The media may be audio, video, and / or text or any combination thereof. The first venue for example may be the Internet or an Internet online community. The second venue may for example be television (cable, broadcast or a DVD variant) or radio. The media may be presented in the first venue and feedback is obtained in any manner, for example via the first venue or over any other medium such as by phone, computer or in any other way. The feedback for example may be based solely on the media or in relation to other media presented. The indication may be provided as to whether to present the media in a second venue.

In one embodiment, a method for performing antenna diversity combining for digitally broadcast radio signals includes generating a first signal quality metric for a first signal obtained from an incoming digitally broadcast radio signal received in a first signal path, and similarly generating a second signal quality metric for a second signal obtained from the radio signal received in a second signal path. Then the first and second signals from these paths can be coherently combined based on the signal quality metrics to obtain a combined frequency domain symbol. In some embodiments, this combined frequency domain symbol may be remodulated to a time domain symbol. Also in some embodiments N tuners can be daisy chained to generate a final output that is either a frequency domain symbol of combined sub-carriers, soft bits to a forward error correction (FEC) decoder, or a remodulated time domain symbol. As a further possibility, each of the N tuners can use a different local oscillator (LO) frequency.

A flexible artificial fishing lure comprising a lure body and a pair of legs extending from the lure body, wherein each leg has an upper leg portion attached to the lure body and a lower leg portion extending rearward of the upper leg portion. Each lower leg portion tapers inwardly such that the thickness of each lower leg portion gradually decreases from an outer edge toward an inner edge. According to this design, the lower leg portions have greater weight along the outer edge than along the inner edge. In operation, the lower leg portions move multi-dimensionally as the lure is pulled through the water, thereby creating substantial motion and concomitant vibrations for attracting fish.

In one embodiment, the present invention provide a method for detecting signal quality metrics of a constant modulo (CM) signal received in two different signal paths, and combining the signal from the two signal paths based at least in part on the detected first and second signal quality metrics. Such method may be implemented in a radio receiver such as an automobile receiver.

If zoom magnification falls within an optical-zoom application scaling range of zoom magnifications Z1 to Z2, image data that has been enlarged by a zoom lens is recorded on a recording medium. If zoom magnification falls within an electronic-zoom application scaling range of zoom magnifications Z2 to Z3, the image data is subjected to super-resolution processing, super-resolution image data and image data that has not been subjected to super-resolution processing are combined by weighting processing executed such that the higher the zoom magnification, the greater the weight assigned to the super-resolution image data, and the resultant image data is subjected to electronic zoom processing and then recorded. If zoom magnification exceeds Z3, the super-resolution image data is recorded upon being subjected to electronic zoom processing.

In a first aspect, the present invention provides a method of operating a wind turbine having a rotor with a plurality of blades, a nacelle, one or more pitch systems for pitching the blades, a system for determining a speed of the rotor, and a system for determining a fore-aft speed of the nacelle. The method comprises determining the speed of the rotor, determining the fore-aft speed of the nacelle, and calculating a difference between the determined speed of the rotor and a predefined speed of reference of the rotor. After, pitch commands are obtained by performing a PID control of this calculated difference of speeds, said PID control being tuned for adapting the sensitivity of the PID control as a function of the determined fore-aft speed of the nacelle. Then, the one or more pitch systems pitch the blades in accordance with said obtained pitch commands.

The invention provides to thermal management devices constructed from flexible graphite. In one embodiment, the thermal management device includes a wick structure inside a shell. In certain preferred embodiments, the wick structure is composed of a mass of expanded graphite. In a another embodiment, the shell of the device includes flexible graphite and an optional wick structure. In certain preferred embodiments, the flexible graphite shell is fluid impermeable. The invention further includes methods of making the aforementioned thermal management devices.

In a method for tracking an object in video-monitoring scenes, multiple feature vectors are extracted (722) and assembled (724) in point clouds, wherein a point cloud may be assembled for each tracklet, i.e. for each separate part of a track. In order to determine if different tracklets relate to the same or different objects the point clouds of each tracklet is compared (734). Based on the outcome of the comparison it is deduced if the first object and the second object may be considered to be the same object and, if so, the first object is associated (738) with the second object.

An elevation adjustment device in the legs of table includes a rectangular leaf and four legs connected to the underside of four corners of the leaf. The legs each has a first tube and second tube slidably inserted into the first tube having graduation on outer periphery, a tubular sleeve engaged with the lower end of the first tube, a tubular stopper with a circular pad pressed into the lower end of the second tube, a pushing rod connected to a threaded shank inserted into a circular through hole of the first tube and a protrudent radial through hole in a segmental retaining bar, an enlarged retaining ring, a washer and a spring sequentially wrapped on the threaded shank and secured by a internally threaded cap from the inner end of the shank.

An apparatus 2 for processing data includes first execution circuitry 4, such as an out-of-order processor, and second execution circuitry 6, such as an in-order processor. The first execution circuitry 4 is of higher performance but uses more energy than the second execution circuitry 6. Control circuitry 24 switches between the first execution circuitry 4 being active and the second execution circuitry 6 being active. The control circuitry includes prediction circuitry which is configured to predict a predicted identity of a next sequence of program instructions to be executed in dependence upon a most recently executed sequence of program instructions and then in dependence upon this predicted identity to predict a predicted execution target corresponding to whether the next sequence of program instructions should be executed by the first execution circuitry or the second execution circuitry.

A method is described for recognizing fatigue, the method comprising an ascertaining step, a determining step, and a comparing step. In the ascertaining step a first saccade and at least one further saccade of an eye movement of a person are ascertained using a gaze direction signal that models the eye movement. In the determining step, a first data point representing a first amplitude of the first saccade and a first peak velocity of the first saccade, and at least one further data point representing a further amplitude of the further saccade and a further peak velocity of the further saccade, are determined using the gaze direction signal. In the comparing step, the first data point and at least the further data point are compared with a saccade model. The person is recognized as fatigued if the data points have a predetermined relationship to a confidence region of the saccade model.

An image processing method which changes a color image into a gray image, the image processing method including determining a plurality of representative colors, assigning gray values to the representative colors so that range variations between the gray values within a predetermined range are less than a predetermined value, and assigning a gray value to an arbitrary color of the color image according to a degree of similarity between the arbitrary color and the representative colors.

This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing automatic document analysis. For instance, a system may analyze documents to calculate respective coverage scores corresponding to coverage of the documents, where a respective coverage score is based on at least one of breadth of a document, portion count for the document, or differentiation between portions of the document. The system may further analyze the documents to calculate risk scores associated with risks of the documents, where a respective risk score is based on a number of other documents that predate a document. Furthermore, the system may analyze the documents to calculate market scores corresponding to market values of the documents. The system can then calculate comprehensive scores for the documents based on the coverage scores, the risk scores, and the market scores.

In one embodiment, a method for performing antenna diversity combining for digitally broadcast radio signals includes generating a first signal quality metric for a first signal obtained from an incoming digitally broadcast radio signal received in a first signal path, and similarly generating a second signal quality metric for a second signal obtained from the radio signal received in a second signal path. Then the first and second signals from these paths can be coherently combined based on the signal quality metrics to obtain a combined frequency domain symbol. In some embodiments, this combined frequency domain symbol may be remodulated to a time domain symbol. Also in some embodiments N tuners can be daisy chained to generate a final output that is either a frequency domain symbol of combined sub-carriers, soft bits to a forward error correction (FEC) decoder, or a remodulated time domain symbol. As a further possibility, each of the N tuners can use a different local oscillator (LO) frequency.

A tire which includes a carcass ply and a band ply for reinforcing the carcass ply, the carcass ply having an inner ply and an outer ply which are provided in a radial direction, the inner ply being wound from an inside toward an outside in the axial direction of a bead core to constitute a fold-back portion and the outer ply being provided to cover the inner ply. A width (JW) of the band ply is set to be 80% to 98% of a tread width (TW) and an overlap dimension (LW) of the fold-back portion and the band ply is set to be 15% to 35% of the width (JW) of the band ply.

A metal anchoring fastener fastens millwork onto walls constructed with wall cladding fastened to steel studs. The load typical of a loaded cabinet is borne by the steel stud anchors owing to the mate between the profile of the steel stud anchor and the layers of millwork and wall cladding and steel stud that said anchor penetrates. The pitch of the thread adorning the profile of the steel stud anchor progresses non-linearly along the length of said shaft, the shaft is generally non-linear in profile, and the thread profile is non-uniform along the length of said shaft. The anchor can also support a secondary screw concentrically penetrating the void at the center of the anchor, in order to hang loads from a wall, with or without millwork. Predrilling of the holes can enable installation of these zinc anchors.

A fuel rail includes a pressure accumulator pipe which is configured to receive fuel under pressure and includes a forged tubular body. Made in one piece with the tubular body is an injector mount. A support arranged on the tubular body extends in alignment with the injector mount, with a screw fastener configured to secure the pressure accumulator pipe via the support to a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine.

The present invention seeks to provide a turbine blade with increased creep capability for both uncooled and cooled turbine blades while generally maintaining operating stress levels at an interface region between the turbine blade and a turbine disk. A turbine blade is disclosed having an attachment, a neck, a platform, and an airfoil. Extending radially outward from the attachment, through the neck, and terminating radially inward of the platform is a plurality of first cavities. The turbine blade in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention is cast from a high density nickel base alloy with high temperature capability and improved creep capability. A plurality of first cavities are placed in the attachment and neck region to reduce excess weight of the turbine blade due to the higher density, greater creep capable alloy. Reducing the weight of the blade in this region provides increased creep capability in the turbine blade airfoil while maintaining operating stress levels.

Provided is an arm-supporting structure, including a front arm connector, a rear arm connector, an adjusting means for an upper support and a lower support, and an elastic supporting means. The front arm connector, the upper support, the rear arm connector and the lower support are articulated sequentially to form a parallelogram structure. The upper end and the lower end of the adjusting means are articulated with the upper support and the lower support, respectively. Two ends of the elastic supporting means are connected with the adjusting means and the upper support, respectively. The elastic supporting means has a length that is elastically stretchable. The adjusting means automatically adjusts its position in accordance with the swinging of the upper support and the lower support, shifts the position of the fulcrum of the elastic supporting means, and automatically reaches a balance of force.

A metal anchoring fastener fastens millwork onto walls constructed with wall cladding fastened to steel studs. The load typical of a loaded cabinet is borne by the steel stud anchors owing to the mate between the profile of the steel stud anchor and the layers of millwork and wall cladding and steel stud that said anchor penetrates. The pitch of the thread adorning the profile of the steel stud anchor progresses non-linearly along the length of said shaft, the shaft is generally non-linear in profile, and the thread profile is non-uniform along the length of said shaft. The anchor can also support a secondary screw concentrically penetrating the void at the center of the anchor, in order to hang loads from a wall, with or without millwork. Predrilling of the holes can enable installation of these zinc anchors.

The present invention discloses a street lamp fixing device, comprising a LED module, a heat dissipation device, a lamp holder, a metal plate and a connector, wherein the heat dissipation device has a lamp holder mounting recess cooperated with the metal plate for locking the lamp holder. Moreover, the present invention further discloses an LED street lamp with natural convection devices, which accelerate the airflow within the street lamp to a faster speed to enhance heat exchange, whereby the lifespan of the LED street lamp is extended and the weight and size of the street lamp are reduced.

Embodiments are directed to a mobile robot control apparatus for compensating an input delay time, which includes: a user input receiving unit configured to receive a user input for moving a mobile robot from an input device; a waypoint map estimating unit configured to generate an estimated waypoint map in which a waypoint vector is defined for each grid, based on the received user input; an area target determining unit configured to calculate a movable path along which the mobile robot is movable from a current position, and to determine a moving path of the mobile robot based on the calculated movable path and the waypoint vector of the estimated waypoint map; and a driving unit configured to move the mobile robot along the determined moving path, and its control method.

A pick mat connection system (10, 40) that enables components to be connectable horizontally, to adapt to varied work site sizes, or vertically, to adapt to varied weight demands. Employing anchor assemblies (10), comprising an anchor (12) and lock (14) structure, to permit multiple standardized mats (1) to be connected horizontally, both end to end, and side to side. Additionally, employing stack anchor assemblies (40), selectively vertically connectable by a lock or bolt assembly (50), which enables the layering of multiple mats (7), thereby increasing the effective mat thickness.