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Sensor arrangement having row and column lines arranged in first and second directions, respectively, sensor arrays arranged in crossover regions of the row and column lines, a detector, and a decoding device. The sensor arrays have a coupling device for electrically coupling respective row and column lines, and a sensor element to influence electric current flow through the coupling device. The detector is electrically coupled to a respective end section of at least a portion of the row and column lines, and detects a respective accumulative current flow from the individual electrical current flows provided by the sensor arrays of the respective lines. The decoding device is coupled to the row and column lines, and evaluates at least a portion of the accumulative electric current flows fed to the decoding device via the row and column lines to determine at which of the sensor elements a sensor signal is present.

A license plate recognition and image review system and processes are described. The system includes grouping of images that are determined to be of the same vehicle, using an image encoded database such that verification of a license plate read is done through comparison of images of the actual vehicle to images from the encoded database and testing of the accuracy of a manual review process by interspersing previously identified images with real images being reviewed in a batch process.

A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel output line, a pixel which outputs a signal to the pixel output line, an amplifier unit which amplifies the signal output to the pixel output line, and a holding capacitor which holds the signal output from the amplifier unit. The photoelectric conversion device outputs a pixel signal based on the signal held by the holding capacitor. The amplifier unit includes a variable amplifier stage which amplifies a signal output to the pixel output line at a gain selected from a plurality of gains, and a buffer stage which amplifies the signal output from the variable amplifier stage, the amplified signal being held by the holding capacitor to hold the signal.

A multispectral imaging array system and method of forming the same. A substrate and a group of antennas can be located with respect to one another on the substrate, such that respective gaps are formed between each antenna group and wherein different antenna sizes may be used for different spectral ranges. Additionally, one or more nanowires can be located within one or more gaps among the respective gaps, such that the nanowires in communication with the antennas and the substrate comprise a multispectral imaging system in which the use of the nanowire(s) decreases the thermal time constant and therefore the read out rate from the antennas while decreasing the ambient gas cooling speed relative to the read out rate to increase the manufacturability of the multispectral imaging array system.

A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel output line, a pixel which outputs a signal to the pixel output line, an amplifier unit which amplifies the signal output to the pixel output line, and a holding capacitor which holds the signal output from the amplifier unit. The photoelectric conversion device outputs a pixel signal based on the signal held by the holding capacitor. The amplifier unit includes a variable amplifier stage which amplifies a signal output to the pixel output line at a gain selected from a plurality of gains, and a buffer stage which amplifies the signal output from the variable amplifier stage, the amplified signal being held by the holding capacitor to hold the signal.

An antenna switching arrangement with a quadrature arrangement of transmission lines through which a desired signal path may be configured via switches selectively grounding junctions of the switching arrangement. The desired path routing a signal from an input port to one or both of first and second output ports to generate a signal with vertical linear polarization, horizontal linear polarization or circular polarization. The selected polarization may be changed as desired and / or multiple antenna switching arrangements applied to enable simultaneous signals with different polarizations.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a method for sending advertisement and a device thereof which relate to the communication field. The method and the device solve problems that a present sent mobile terminal advertisement has low reading rate and poor advertisement effect. The method can confirm a terminal user group matching with the advertisement content according with a corresponding relation between the terminal user characteristic information and the terminal user sign, and send the advertisement to the terminal user group.

The invention discloses a counteracting method and counteracting circuit for carrier wave of an ultrahigh-frequency radio frequency identification device (RFID) reader-writer. The counteracting method comprises the following steps: enabling a counteracting signal to keep at a fixed amplitude to perform angle transverse step by step in a 360-degree range; acquiring an optimal phase angle when signal amplitude formed by adding the counteracting signal and an interference signal is minimum; performing amplitude transverse at the optimal phase angle according to a setting amplitude stepping value; acquiring an optimal counteracting point when the signal amplitude formed by adding the counteracting signal and an interference signal is minimum; performing transverse around the optimal counteracting point by the setting stepping value according to the set range; and acquiring the optimal counteracting point for counteracting when the signal amplitude formed by adding the counteracting signal and an interference signal is minimum. A counteracting circuit is formed by general radio frequency circuit elements, and is low in cost relative to a chip of an integrated reader / writer. By adopting the counteracting method, the counteracting time can be saved, and the reading velocity is improved.

Sensor arrangement having row and column lines arranged in first and second directions, respectively, sensor arrays arranged in crossover regions of the row and column lines, a detector, and a decoding device. The sensor arrays have a coupling device for electrically coupling respective row and column lines, and a sensor element to influence electric current flow through the coupling device. The detector is electrically coupled to a respective end section of at least a portion of the row and column lines, and detects a respective accumulative current flow from the individual electrical current flows provided by the sensor arrays of the respective lines. The decoding device is coupled to the row and column lines, and evaluates at least a portion of the accumulative electric current flows fed to the decoding device via the row and column lines to determine at which of the sensor elements a sensor signal is present.

The invention provides a mailing ink, an ink tank for mailing, an ink jet recording method for mailing and an ink jet recording apparatus for mailing that can reconcile preferable tint and visibility as indicia with readability by a 2-D bar code reader. The ink is a mailing ink used in ink jet recording. In the mailing ink, the ink tank for mailing, the ink jet recording method for mailing and the ink jet recording apparatus for mailing, the ink provides an ‘a*’ of from −10 to 15 and a ‘b*’ of from −50 to −15 according to the CIE L*a*b* color system in a printed portion obtained by applying the ink to a recording medium so as to give an application amount of ink of 4.5 mg per square inch, and provides an integrated value of reflection spectrum of 90 or lower in a wavelength region of from 380 nm to 730 nm in the printed portion.

A method for displaying text of an e-book on an electronic media reader is disclosed. The method includes reading a rate setting that may be input by a user via a human input device. The method further includes reading a magnified text size setting input by the user via a human input device. The method further includes displaying on the electronic media reader a page of the e-book at a first text size that may be smaller than the magnified text size. The method further includes sequentially displaying subsequent words or groups of words of the page of the e-book at the magnified text size and at the rate, wherein only one word or one group of words may be displayed at the magnified text size at one time.

The invention relates to a fast reading device of a phase change memory, which comprises a phase change memory cell to be read, a charging circuit, an overshoot recovery rate detecting circuit, a sensitive amplifier circuit and a reference level or a reference memory cell. On one hand, the phase change memory cell (which can be abstracted as a resistor in the circuit) and a parasitic capacitor ona digit line form a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, and on the other hand, a gated metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) pipe instantly enters a linear region from a saturation region when being switched on / of, thereby causing an overshoot phenomenon. For phase change resistors of different states, the corresponding recovery rates after the overshoot are different. By reading the recovery rate of the digit-line level after the overshoot and fast reading the state of the phase change memory cell, the reading rate of the whole memory is accelerated. In addition, fast reading is beneficial to avoiding the damage caused by reading operation to the phase change cell, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing reading interference.

A method and system for reading various codes such as codes imprinted on an item includes a first and a second code reader each scan the code on the item to read the code. The data obtained by the first and the second code reader is merged to reconstruct the code on said item. The position of the one or more of the code readers may be adjusted such that the maximum reading efficiency of said code by each code reader occurs at different points of the scanned code. This helps to facilitate merging the data obtained by the first and the second code reader to reconstruct the code on the item. By adjusting the position of one or more of the code readers, degradation of the reading of the item code due, for example, to beat frequencies occurs at different points in the code for each code reader. The method and system may be employed in various applications such as with sortation systems and other paper handling equipment. The method and system may be employed with different types of codes including various forms of bar codes. The item may have single or plural codes, which may be the same or different type codes.

A magnetic ink character reading apparatus, magnetic ink character reading method and program, and a POS terminal apparatus reduce recognition errors and thereby improve the read rate. The magnetic ink character reading apparatus reads a text string of magnetic ink characters using both a magnetic reading mechanism and optical reading mechanism to obtain magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) results and optical character recognition (OCR) results, which are compared. The OCR process is repeated if the results differ. The positions of the read character blocks are compared to find character blocks that are offset perpendicularly to the base line of the magnetic ink characters, and the OCR process is repeated. The area to which the OCR process is applied again is near the position of the offset character block corrected in the direction perpendicular to the line of magnetic ink characters to be in line with the character blocks for which the MICR result and OCR result were the same.

The present invention provides a radio frequency identification (RFID) package structure for improving a low data reading rate of the conventional RFID transponder structure to overcome the disadvantage of the prior art, and packages a RFID die by an adhesive according to a package technology. The RFID package structure provides different ways of improving the data reading capability, such as adding a capacitor. The capacitance of the capacity can be adjusted to provide a RFID package structure applicable for different frequencies, or the RFID package structure formed by the structure of a single substrate together with the use of an adhesive can be used for producing the RFID package structure to lower the manufacturing cost.

An optical disk drive which increases a read rate when a read command from a host system is input. Data read from the optical disk drive are buffered in cache memory, and requested data are subsequently transferred to a host system. The cache memory is divided into cache A and cache B. Directory data are chiefly buffered in the cache A, and file data are chiefly buffered in the cache B. A cache hit rate achieved when the directory data and the file data are alternately read is improved.

A method and system are disclosed for ejecting ink drops from a plurality of ink jet nozzles in order to print on an envelope in a mail piece production process. The envelope has been stuffed and is therefore not flat, especially near the edges. Mail piece composition data is obtained and stored for the mail piece, and based upon that composition data a nozzle delay pattern is determined. For each ink jet nozzle, ink is ejected in accordance with the delay pattern so as to contact a point of the envelope's surface at the same time as drops from other ink jet nozzles.

An information reproducing method includes the steps o of reading information from an information medium that is rotated, and determining a rotation velocity of the information medium on the basis of a data transfer rate based on a specification of a read request.

The invention provides a monitoring data acquisition method, device and system. The method comprises: receiving the interaction data acquisition signal of a user by a browser, determining the monitoring data needed to be acquired, if the monitoring data is in the preset local storage space, directly acquiring from the local storage space, or sending a data acquisition instruction to a server at appointed time intervals within appointed time, receiving the monitoring data obtained from a monitoring device every time after the server receives the data acquisition instruction, storing the real time monitoring data to the preset local storage space, and obtaining the monitoring data from the preset local storage space. The problems that the data cannot be returned to the browser by the server because of database problem and a great deal of repeated data are stored in the database are solved; the data collection frequency of the server is controlled by the browser, the data are obtained through a plurality of requests, data transmission is more reliable, the monitoring data needed to be obtained are directly read from the local storage space, and the data reading speed is improved.

The invention relates to a multi-threading parallel-based rapid loading method for an SQLite database. The multi-threading parallel-based rapid loading method aims at solving the problem that data loading consumes a large amount of time in the prior art. The multi-threading parallel-based rapid loading method for the SQLite database specifically comprises the following steps: step one, in the process that the SQLite database needs to be loaded, creating a rapid loading main thread of the SQLite database, and starting the main thread to enter a working state; step two, establishing a loading completion identification array of N sub-threads; step three, creating rapid loading sub-threads for the SQLite database of the N sub-threads; step four, synchronously carrying out data loading; step five, starting the sub-threads from Load1 to LoadN; step six, when each thread is TRUE, ending the main thread. The multi-threading parallel-based rapid loading method is applied to the field of network communication.

The disclosure provides an OSD (object-based storage device) selection method, a data writing method and device and a storage system. The OSD selection method comprises: in PG (placement group) addressing mapping phase in Ceph, determining from a first available OSD list, an OSD group corresponding to the current PG according to CRUSH algorithm; setting an OSD, having highest reading-writing speed, in the OSD group as a master OSD, and determining the other OSDs in the OSD group expect for the master OSD as slave OSDs; determining from a second available OSD list, a temporary OSD correspondingto the current PG according to the CRUSH algorithm, wherein the temporary OSD is one OSD having highest reading-writing speed in the second available OSD list and is different from those in the OSD group, and the first available OSD list is a subset to the second available OSD list. By using the OSD (object-based storage device) selection method, the data writing method and device and the storagesystem, data reading-writing rate can be increased.

The present invention discloses a data storage method, a data reading method and an electronic device to solve the technical problem that a data storage method is not flexible, to increase the rate of obtaining metadata, and to improve data processing efficiency. The data storage method comprises generating first metadata according to a first command sent by the electronic device, wherein the first metadata are data for describing attributes of data stored in a flash memory of the electronic device; determining whether a first-stage cache region for storing the first metadata satisfies a predetermined condition; and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, storing the first metadata in the first-stage cache region, or if the predetermined condition is not satisfied, storing the first metadata in a second-stage cache region, wherein the first-stage cache region and the second-stage cache region are different cache regions.

An RFID system of the present invention has a plurality of antennas for reading data from an RFID tag; an antenna configuration storage unit for prestoring a position of each of the plurality of antennas; a position detection unit for detecting a position of the RFID tag; and an antenna control unit for selecting one or more of the antennas that read the RFID tag, based on the position of the RFID tag detected by the position detection unit and on the position of each of the plurality of antennas stored in the antenna configuration storage unit, and for preferentially activating the selected one or more of the antennas.

A laser method of printing a pattern on works which is read at a high read rate by optical readers and a system for implementing the laser processing method are described. Print pattern data is generated based on printing conditions including at least an original print pattern such as a character string that are specified by users and then converted into data representing an actual print pattern to be actually printed on works according to a three dimensional profile of the works so that an orthogonal projection of that actual print pattern is identical with the original print pattern.

Apparatus for reading an RFID tag includes an RF-blocking enclosure having a port and adapted to receive through the port a non-RFID-active object having an RFID tag affixed thereto. An RFID reader has a reader antenna located outside the enclosure. The antenna transmits an RF downlink signal in a particular direction. An RF grating is arranged between the reader antenna and the port so that, after the enclosure receives the object having the tag, the port is located in the transmit direction from the reader antenna, and RF energy transmitted from the reader antenna has a selected linear polarization after passing through the grating.

A method and system for reading and identifying RFID tags of the invention is disclosed. The invention is capable of registering and storing information of a plurality of RFID tags attached to objects of the same group into a memory block of at least a specified RFID reader or RFID tag. The invention is also capable of enabling at least a specified RFID reader / tag in response to a first inquiry of an interrogator by transmitting each identification code of the plurality of RFID tags to the interrogator for acknowledgement. The method is capable of achieving the objective of reducing the overall communication time as the reader does not have to inquire one by one to the RFID tags to save the number of times of communication between the inquiry of the reader and the response of the RFID tags. In addition, the reading rate of the RFID system can be improved effectively since at least one of the RFID tags can function as a spokesman for those RFID tags hidden deeply inside a pile of the objects of the group.

The quick flash storage unit comprises mainly: a first conductive substrate with formed second conductive shallow-well zone, a grid stack structure, a first conductive source / drain zone, a metal silicide layer arranged on the drain zone, a dielectric layer between layers, and a contact plug in dielectric layer connected to metal silicide layer to reduce the resistance value between plug and drain zone and shallow-well zone. This invention can increase the read-write speed.

Translocation control for sensing by a nanopore, as well as methods and products related to the same, are provided. Such methods optimize duplex stability to provide high fill rate (of the hybridization sites) but do not prevent rapid dissociation required for high read rates, as well as controlling the translocation of a target molecule for sensing by a nanopore by use of a selective pulsed voltage. Products related to the same include a reporter construct comprising two or more phosphoramidites.