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An apparatus for light intensity adjustment mountable on an automotive camera includes at least one first linear polarizing filter, at least one second linear polarizing filter, the first linear polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter are arrangeable in front of a lens unit of an automotive camera such that incident light passes through the at least one first linear polarizing filter and the at least one second linear polarizing filter before entering the lens unit of the automotive camera, and at least one actuator for moving the at least one first linear polarizing filter and / or the at least one second linear polarizing filter with respect to each other such that the intensity of the emergent light is adjustable. The apparatus is characterized in enabling adjustment of the emergent light intensity by moving the first linear polarizing filter and / or the second linear polarizing filter with respect to each other.

In base station side equipment, a control channel for transmitting control information and a communication channel for transmitting information to each mobile station are spread with different synchronizing codes before being superposed by operating a switch to switch the output of an adder over to the output of a synchronizing code generator. Further, a synchronizing code is periodically inserted in a signal by one symbol length and the signal is transmitted over the superposed channel. In a plurality of base station side equipment, moreover, the synchronizing code and its transmission period are equal and the transmission timing is asynchronous and independent. A synchronizing correlator in mobile station side equipment obtains the correlation value of the whole chip phase in a synchronizing code transmission period using the synchronizing code and decides a base station which is transmitting the synchronizing code at the greatest correlating peak position to the closest one and further extracts symbol timing from the peak position.

A method and device for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed, where the structured-light image is captured using a shorter frame period than the regular image. In order to achieve a shorter frame period for the structured-light image, the structured-light image may correspond to an image captured with reduced dynamic range, reduced spatial resolution, or a combination of them. The capturing process comprises applying reset signals to a pixel array to reset rows of pixels of the pixel array, reading-out analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array and converting the analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array into digital outputs for the image using one or more analog-to-digital converters.

The tilted relationship between the reference and test mirrors of a Fizeau interferometer is used to spatially separate the reflections from the two surfaces. The separate beams are filtered through a spatial polarization element that provides different states of polarization to the beams. The beams are subsequently recombined to form a substantially collinear beam that is processed using a spatial-phase-shift interferometer that permits quantitative phase measurement in a single video frame. Alternatively, two beams with orthogonal polarization are injected into the Fizeau cavity at different angles, such that after reflection from the reference and test optics they are substantially collinear. Unwanted reflections are blocked at the focal plane through the use of a circular aperture. Short coherence length light and a delay line may be used to mitigate stray reflections, reduce measurement integration times, and implement temporal phase averaging.

The invention discloses a medicinal porous titanium implant and a method for preparing the same. The porous titanium implant is prepared by a powder coinjection molding method; and a nano HA and TGF loaded sustained-release gelatin microsphere compound coating is deposited on the porous outer layer of the product. The outer layer of the implant has a communicated porous structure, the thickness of the porous layer is 0.4 to 1.1 millimeters, the porosity of the porous layer is 50 to 70 percent, and the aperture of the porous layer is 50 to 400 mum; the surface of the porous layer is deposited; and the binding strength of the outer layer and an inner core is 150 to 300MPa. Compared with the prior medicinal titanium implant material, the material of the medicinal porous titanium implant has higher mechanical strength, is in accordance with the mechanical performance of osseous tissue, avoids stress concentration and stress shielding, promotes stress transmission and growth of new bones, reduces time for osseointegration, and ensures the long-term stability of the implant. The method adopts once-for-all molding without post machining, thereby considerably reducing the cost.

A method and apparatus for optical damage assessment using an existing imaging focal plane array and a fixed or moving set of optics and filters. Advantages include cost reductions and improved reliability due to fewer components arid therefore fewer points of failure.

In base station side equipment, a control channel for transmitting control information and a communication channel for transmitting information to each mobile station are spread with different synchronizing codes before being superposed by operating a switch to switch the output of an adder over to the output of a synchronizing code generator. Further, a synchronizing code is periodically inserted in a signal by one symbol length and the signal is transmitted over the superposed channel. In a plurality of base station side equipment, moreover, the synchronizing code and its transmission period are equal and the transmission timing is asynchronous and independent. A synchronizing correlator in mobile station side equipment obtains the correlation value of the whole chip phase in a synchronizing code transmission period using the synchronizing code and decides a base station which is transmitting the synchronizing code at the greatest correlating peak position to the closest one and further extracts symbol timing from the peak position.

A system and method adaptively control sensitivity, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, of a digital imager. An illumination intensity level mapping controller determines a number of pixels of image data having illumination intensity levels within a first defined range of illumination intensity levels and determines an illumination intensity level mapping function based upon the determined number of pixels within the first defined range of illumination intensity levels. An exposure controller determines a number of pixels having illumination intensity levels within a second defined range of illumination intensity levels and determines an integration time based upon the determined number of pixels having illumination intensity levels within the second defined range of illumination intensity levels. A transfer control function generation circuit determines a composite transfer control function based on the determined integration time and determined illumination intensity level mapping function; determines each transition point between a plurality of discrete transfer control functions from the determined integration time and the determined illumination intensity level mapping function; and imposes the determined transfer control function upon a pixel of the digital imager.

The present invention provides a method to optimize the configuration of a symbology reader without the need for user intervention. Following a predetermined number of successful decodes, the reader automatically determines the symbology of interest and disables the decoding algorithms not being used. For example, if after four or five successful decodes have occurred and the unit determines that all of the successful decodes were of a single symbology type such as a PDF417 barcode, all other decoding algorithms, with the exception of the PDF417 decoder, will be disabled. Other embodiments may be included which adjust the scan window size and the image capture parameters of the reader based on the symbology of interest.

A video camera includes a light collection array including a plurality of light collection cells configured to collect light from a scene and a processor coupled to the light collection array. The processor is configured determine a brightness of the scene based on the light collected by the light collection array from the scene. Based on the determined brightness, the processor is configured to determine if the brightness of the scene requires a light collection time of each cell to be less than a flicker on time of a light source lighting the scene so that the light collection array collects a sufficient amount of light so that a brightness of a video stream or a still image is substantially at a predetermined level. If the light collection time is determined to be less than the flicker on time to maintain brightness of the video stream or the still image at the predetermined level and if the brightness of the scene is less than a predetermined brightness, the processor is configured to set the light collection time at the flicker on time of the light source. If the light collection time is determined to be less than the flicker on time to maintain brightness of the video stream or the still image at the predetermined level and if the brightness of the scene is at, or greater than, the predetermined brightness, the processor is configured to set the light collection time less than the flicker on time of the light source.

A method and device for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed, where the structured-light image is captured using a shorter frame period than the regular image. In order to achieve a shorter frame period for the structured-light image, the structured-light image may correspond to an image captured with reduced dynamic range, reduced spatial resolution, or a combination of them. The capturing process comprises applying reset signals to a pixel array to reset rows of pixels of the pixel array, reading-out analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array and converting the analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array into digital outputs for the image using one or more analog-to-digital converters.

A focus detection system includes a line sensor array having areas including pixels, wherein the line sensor array photoelectrically converts object light received by each pixel into electric charges, and outputs accumulated electric charges as an image signal; monitor sensor arrays, adjacent to the areas of the line sensor array, for monitoring amounts of light received thereby to output monitor signals, respectively; a controller which terminates an integral operation of the line sensor array immediately after the monitor signals reach an integration termination value; and a saturation detecting device for detecting whether the image signal reaches a predetermined level of saturation. If the saturation detecting device detects that the image signal reaches the predetermined level of saturation, the controller changes the integration termination value so that the monitor signals reach the integration termination value quicker, and makes the line sensor array perform the integral operation again.

The interferometer of the invention comprises a moving mirror 106 for rotating the direction of an illumination beam on an observed sample 114, and a reference beam interfering with a beam diffracted by the object 114 on a detector 111. The reference beam is tilted relative to the diffracted beam.

Imaging systems and methods for processing images. Various of the imaging systems include a motion detection and / or estimation engine. Information from such a motion engine can be used by one or more of a scene definition engine, a blur reduction engine, an anti-shake engine, and a video compression engine. Various of the methods include processes for accepting motion information from a motion detection and / or estimation engine and performing one or more of the following functions: anti-shake, blur reduction, scene definition, video compression, and power management. In some cases, the various systems and methods can be implemented on a single chip.

A focus detection system includes a line sensor array having areas including pixels, wherein the line sensor array photoelectrically converts object light received by each pixel into electric charges, and outputs accumulated electric charges as an image signal; monitor sensor arrays, adjacent to the areas of the line sensor array, for monitoring amounts of light received thereby to output monitor signals, respectively; a controller which terminates an integral operation of the line sensor array immediately after the monitor signals reach an integration termination value; and a saturation detecting device for detecting whether the image signal reaches a predetermined level of saturation. If the saturation detecting device detects that the image signal reaches the predetermined level of saturation, the controller changes the integration termination value so that the monitor signals reach the integration termination value quicker, and makes the line sensor array perform the integral operation again.

The invention provides a method for building a vascularized tissue engineering periosteum. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: 1, preparing a macromolecular micro / nano-fibermembrane by an electrostatic spinning method; 2, inoculating seed cells to the nano-fiber membrane, performing cultivation in vitro and performing directional induction for a period of time; 3, implanting a seed cell / nano-fiber membrane composite body subjected for in-vitro directional induction for a period of time in vivo, performing in-vivo vascularization for a period of time and then takingout to obtain the tissue engineering periosteum. By the method, the rejection reaction of an autologous tissue can be effectively reduced and the vascularization degree of the tissue engineering periosteum can be greatly increased; furthermore, the tissue engineering periosteum is vascularize in vivo in advance, so that the integration time of a blood vessel at the defect position and a blood vessel of the implanted tissue engineering periosteum can be shortened, the healing process of the bone defect is shortened, and the method has a very wide application prospect in the fields of wound healing and tissue engineering.

The invention discloses an underwater glider navigation system and a high-precision attitude estimation method. The underwater glider navigation system mainly comprises an inertial unit and an external host processor, wherein an inertial system with high integration density is adopted, and a triaxial magnetometer, a triaxial accelerometer, a three-axis gyroscope and a pressure sensor are arranged inside. The method comprises the steps of initializing, then sampling, processing, calibrating, and loading data of the sensor into an output register through an SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface); embedded compensation, thus quickly and effectively acquiring data from the SPI after powering on; using a data processing unit with high performance to process an entry address of an auxiliary kernel as special data in a multi-kernel mapping file, thus enabling other kernels to be triggered more easily. The underwater glider navigation system provided by the invention has the complete and integrated sensor part, supports high-performance navigation, and meets the platform stable control application requirement. In regard to on-line accelerated speed and vibration accelerated speed noise suppression, because of high-precision calibration, the system can provide high-precision information in a complicated and changeable underwater environment, and the complexity and the cost are remarkably reduced.

The present invention includes systems and methods for quantitative and qualitative imaging of gases, vapors, fumes, and the like. In one embodiment, the system uses a moving, or a rotating filter for alternately capturing on-line and off-line images of a scene that potentially includes the target gas of interest. The moving, or rotating filter includes at least two filter segments for transmitting (a) wavelengths corresponding to a spectroscopic absorption feature for on-line elements of the target gas, and (b) nearby wavelengths not corresponding to a spectroscopic absorption feature for off-line elements of the target gas. An image processor executes an algorithm for transforming the collected on-line and off-line data, corresponding to different pixels in the imaging array, into an image map of path-integrated concentration, or concentration path lengths (CPLs). The systems and methods of the invention do not use active light sources to illuminate the target gas. Instead, imaging and processing is done entirely using passive received energy from the target gas.

The invention discloses an excitation generation method for an SOC system-level verification environment. The method comprises: S1, analyzing an input file; analyzing a sub-module equipment model UVMinterface and the top layer of the SOC system-level verification environment, and establishing a connection relationship between the sub-module equipment model UVM interface and the top layer signal interface of the SOC system-level verification environment; S2, establishing an integrated verification environment; enabling a sub-module equipment model UVM environment to be quickly integrated intothe SOC system-level verification environment; and S3, performing simulation operation, and analyzing the result after operation. The method has the advantages that the principle is simple, operationis easy and convenient, the verification environment integration time can be shortened, and the SOC verification progress is accelerated.

An opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide and a method of making the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is a free-standing bulk material that may be machined to form furniture used for holding semi-conductor wafers during processing of the wafers. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is opaque at wavelengths of light where semi-conductor wafers are processed. Such opaqueness provides for improved semi-conductor wafer manufacturing. Edge rings fashioned from the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide can be employed in RTP chambers.

An interferometric method and apparatus for in-situ monitoring of a thin film thickness and of etch and deposition rates using a pulsed flash lamp providing a high instantaneous power pulse and having a wide spectral width. The optical path between the flash lamp and a spectrograph used for detecting light reflected from a wafer is substantially transmissive to the ultraviolet range of the spectrum making available to the software algorithms operable to calculate film thickness and etch and deposition rates desirable wavelengths.

The invention provides a commodity information processing method and a commodity information processing system and relates to the technical field of networks. The method comprises the following steps: a first server receives participation requests of first users and commodity information of the first users; transaction information data of the first users is respectively acquired from a second server according to the participation requests of the first users; the second server records the transaction information data of the first users; the first users are grouped according to the transaction information data of the first users; and the commodity information of the first users in the same group is integrated. According to the commodity information processing method and the commodity information processing system, commodity information of commodity information delivery parties can be accurately and objectively grouped; waste of commodity information delivery resources is reduced and the delivery efficiency is improved; a lot of time for communication is saved for the commodity information delivery parties, and long-cycle commodity information integration time caused by the communication cycle is shortened; and the integration efficiency is high, and the cost of integration can be reduced.

In the present invention, unlike a conventional circuit, discrimination is not made by integrating a logical code that includes “0” and “1” to some extent and produced from a random code, but repetition of an identical pattern of a well-known preamble signal added to a head portion of a signal is discriminated when a bit-rate of the signal is changed. More specifically, the repetition of the identical pattern is converted into a consecutive identical signal to generate the consecutive identical signal (having a length of tens bits to thousands bits). Although the consecutive identical signal is longer than a same-code continuation length included in the signal, and is shorter than a time constant necessary to the conventional circuit by about one to three digits. Therefore, an integration time can be shortened to the same degree as the generated consecutive identical signal length, and the bit-rate can be discriminated at high speed within a preamble signal receiving time.

An opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide and a method of making the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is doped with a sufficient amount of nitrogen to provide the desired properties of the silicon carbide. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is a free-standing bulk material that may be machined to form furniture used for holding semi-conductor wafers during processing of the wafers. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is opaque at wavelengths of light where semi-conductor wafers are processed. Such opaqueness provides for improved semi-conductor wafer manufacturing. Edge rings fashioned from the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide can be employed in RTP chambers.

An opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide and a method of making the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is a free-standing bulk material that may be machined to form furniture used for holding semi-conductor wafers during processing of the wafers. The opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide is opaque at wavelengths of light where semi-conductor wafers are processed. Such opaqueness provides for improved semi-conductor wafer manufacturing. Edge rings fashioned from the opaque, low resistivity silicon carbide can be employed in RTP chambers.

In a method for determination of controller settings for a control loop for controlling the reception signal strength of a radio receiver, the transfer function for that part of the signal path of the radio receiver which forms the controlled section (4, 10) of the control loop is known at least approximately as a function. The controller settings are determined by calculation, by optimization of the overall transfer function of the control loop with respect to a desired optimality criterion, taking into account the known function.

An integral avionics bay module. The module has a structure that has an integral cabin floor on top that closes the structure. Installing such an integral avionics bay structure in a single operation inside a primary fuselage structure considerably reduces the integration time on the final assembly line for the aircraft.