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Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for multi-player gaming. Some embodiments relate to systems having an improved communications infrastructure and improved handheld game controllers, while other embodiments relate to improvements in handling large numbers of players in the multi-player game when played in a game arena with a single large display screen showing the multi-player game images. In one particular embodiment, a system is provided that has a game server controlling a display system to display the multi-player game on the large screen and a plurality of game controllers. Each game controller has a secondary display means for providing a secondary game display and input means for receiving player input. The system further comprises communication mans for enabling communication between the game server and each of the plurality of game controllers. The plurality of game controllers are located in proximity to the large display screen such that it is visible to game players manipulating the game controllers while playing the multi-player game.

A cockpit display system has a display, such as a multi-function display (MFD) for displaying a graphical representation of an input device when a sensor senses that an aviator's finger is proximate to the input device. The display graphically depicts in real-time the position of the aviator's finger relative to the buttons of the input device. The aviator's finger can be depicted by an icon, shading or highlighting. When the aviator lightly touches a button, the graphical representation of that button can for example be highlighted, shaded or colored. Furthermore, when the button is firmly depressed, the graphical representation of that button can change color or shading. The aviator can thus operate any awkwardly located input device by simply reaching toward the input device and then guiding his finger to the correct button by looking at the graphical representation of the input device.

Tools and methods for optimizing the selection and placement of wireless radio devices in a wireless network within a geographic region using a remote database that includes a geographic mapping of existing wireless devices within the network and / or adjacent networks, device characteristics for the wireless devices within the network and / or adjacent networks, and radio frequency spectral information across times for a plurality of regions (e.g., corresponding to locations of existing wireless devices). A tool may include a local user interface, a remote database, and a processor that communicates with the user interface and remote database. The methods and tools described herein may receive user input indicating a desired location and / or operational characteristics of new wireless radio device and may determine and suggest an optimal type, location and / or operational parameters for the additional device, or may suggest other modifications to the current network to optimize the network including the new device.

Interactive legacy applications can be run from a network, such as the Internet, without requiring any code changes in the application. Typically, legacy applications are critical to a business, are self-contained on the computer, have mixed business and user interface logic, and were written before distributed computing emerged. Separating business logic from user interface logic as required by web application architectures is not practicable in the case of legacy applications. A client has a network user agent which can access a network server connected to the computer. When an application is invoked from the network user agent, a runtime data redirector intercepts the application's raw data and sends the data to the network server which then serves the data across the network to the network user agent. Input data from the user entered through the network user agent are sent back to the application via the same runtime intercept.

The invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for assigning color names to individual image pixels, and generating verbal description of color composition in images, suitable for a wide variety of information processing applications. For an isolated image pixel (individual color sample or color value) an illustrative embodiment of this invention uses a predetermined vocabulary of color names, and then generates a distance measure describing the best color match and corresponding color name for the given pixel. For the input image, an illustrative embodiment of this invention computes the simplified representation of the scene, consistent with human perception, and uses the predetermined vocabulary, syntax rules and metric to assign color names to all perceptually significant objects and regions and obtain the verbal description of the overall color composition. The invention is also applicable to other types of information signals, such as sequences of video frames, web pages, etc.

A load transducer is disclosed herein. The load transducer includes a body portion having a plurality of sides, the plurality of sides of the body portion including a first side; a plurality of beam portions including a first beam portion and a second beam portion, the first beam portion being coupled to the body portion, the second beam portion being coupled to the first beam portion, and the second beam portion extending along the first side of the body portion; and at least one load cell disposed on one or more of the plurality of beam portions, the at least one load cell configured to measure at least one force or moment component of a load applied to the load transducer. A force measurement assembly including a plurality of load transducers with first and second beam portions is also disclosed herein.

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that simplifies a graphical representation of software code for a developer. The software development tool provides the developer with a more coherent, manageable, and abstract graphical view of the project model, and facilitates the developer in graphically debugging and editing the associated software code. The improved software development tool detects a group of related elements in the code, and collapses a portion of the graphical representation of the code associated with the group of related elements.

The system and method of the present invention relates to the determining the specific ordering and execution of events from temporal constraints, filtering functions, and execution heuristics. To facilitate specification of event order objects be can associated with events in an object authoring system which provides for interaction, conditional behavior, and fuzzy relationships by dividing all time into past, present, and future. A user or developer can then perform all their work in the editable area marked “now.” Items that may have happened prior to the current work show up in the “past” area and items which might happen in the future show up in the “future” area. A user can then associate and / or dissociate objects associated with events in the editable area, for instance by simply loosely specifying temporal relationships or constraints amongst objects rather than specifying an exact temporal sequence directly.

The invention relates to a soft tissue deformation simulation method based on smooth particle hydrodynamics, belonging to the technical field of graphic processing. In the method, a smooth particle hydrodynamics method is selected, and a viscoelastic mechanics model is used for reflecting the biomechanical characteristics of soft tissue. The method comprises the following steps of: constructing a series of equations related to soft tissue deformation simulation according to the viscoelastic model; selecting a proper support domain search strategy and a smooth kernel function, approximately calculating each related item of the equation by adopting the particle approximation method, and calculating the variation values of the density, the position, the velocity and the like of each particle along with time through the display integration method; and dynamically outputting the status of each time step size of the particle model to a screen, rendering texture irradiation, and displaying the real-time deformation process of soft tissues and organs under stressing conditions. The method does not need troublesome grid computing, thereby increasing the accuracy and the real-time performance of soft tissue deformation simulation.

The invention discloses a projection pursuit-based method for evaluating flooding risk of a drainage pipe network, which relates to the technical field of system comprehensive evaluation. The method integrates multi-aspect flooding risk effect factors from a drainage pipe network model, a geographic information system and a database system and uses a projection pursuit evaluation method for evaluating the flooding risk of the drainage pipe network. In the method, linear projection is conducted on each evaluation indicator sample; an optimal projection direction vector is searched in accordancewith a certain principle and the optimal projection direction vector reflects the important level of each evaluation indicator, namely objective weight, and based on the objective weight, a comprehensive evaluation number is established for conducting evaluation grading on the flooding risk of the drainage pipe network, thus providing technical support for emergency rescue in flood season. The method avoids one-sidedness of human analysis in evaluation process, has more scientific evaluation result, and can vividly and directly represent disaster risk degree and distribution due to an obtained flooding disaster risk map, thus providing excellent decision platform for rescue dispose.

The system and method of the present invention enable the user to build and / or use an interactive visual instrument panel for monitoring and / or managing one or more target systems locally or remotely in real-time, with the instrument panel being configured based on the user-defined requirements and based on the attributes of the target system(s) being monitored and / or managed. In one embodiment of the present invention a novel data handling system is provided for ensuring that the target system is able to continuously transmit real-time data without any data loss and without interrupting its operation.

Roughly described, a manufacturing process is enhanced by using TCAD and TCAD-derived models. A TCAD simulation model of the process is developed, which predicts, in dependence upon a plurality of process input parameters, a value for a performance parameter of a product to be manufactured using the process. Estimated, predicted or desired values for a calculated subset of the parameters (including either process input parameters or product performance parameters or both), are determined in dependence upon the process model, and further in dependence upon actual, estimated or desired values for a different subset of the parameters (again either process input parameters or product performance parameters or both). The determination is preferably made using a process compact model of the process, itself developed in dependence upon the simulation model.

PCT No. PCT / DE98 / 00472 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 25, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 25, 1999 PCT Filed Feb. 18, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 53195 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 26, 1998A fuel tank ventilation valve for a Laval nozzle, which has a sensitive regulation of the through flow quantity. The valve has a valve seat which is embodied on a valve seat body which has at least one opening that can be closed by the valve member. A cross section of the at least one opening is embodied as essentially smaller than an entry cross section of the Laval nozzle that is disposed spaced apart from the valve seat. The valve is suited for a metered introduction of fuel that has evaporated from a fuel tank of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition into an intake tube of the engine.

A method for use with an electronic reading device comprising automatically fetching electronic media content and automatically and dynamically sequencing portions of the electronic media content for display on an electronic reading device. Optionally, the electronic media content can be automatically and dynamically divided into the portions that are then sequenced. Optionally, the electronic media content can be re-sequenced to reflect user preferences and needs. Various methods for recognizing and altering the display of the electronic reading device quickly and efficiently are disclosed.

An augmented reality control system in which the generation and utilization of simple geometric forms of real world objects at the enterprise level are layered onto or based on real world objects. Digital data is aligned to real world objects via surrogate of simplified geometric forms.

Roughly described, a manufacturing process is enhanced by using TCAD and TCAD-derived models. A TCAD simulation model of the process is developed, which predicts, in dependence upon a plurality of process input parameters, a value for a performance parameter of a product to be manufactured using the process. Estimated, predicted or desired values for a calculated subset of the parameters (including either process input parameters or product performance parameters or both), are determined in dependence upon the process model, and further in dependence upon actual, estimated or desired values for a different subset of the parameters (again either process input parameters or product performance parameters or both). The determination is preferably made using a process compact model of the process, itself developed in dependence upon the simulation model.

A system, method, and computer program for determining a simplified representation of an assembly model comprising the steps of saving a plurality of display states and configuration settings of an assembly model in a design representation; translating said design representation into a simplified representation by use of a visibility solution; and storing said simplified representation and said design representation in an assembly document and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.

The invention discloses an adherent-cultured cell activity detection method and device based on impedance spectroscopy. An interdigital electrode, which is parallel with the bottom surface of a culture dish, is arranged at the bottom of the interior of the culture dish; two poles of the interdigital electrode are connected to a controller by virtue of lead wires; a DDS (direct digital synthesizer) frequency generator, which is controlled by a single chip microcomputer in the controller, is promoted to transmit sine waves which are in n pieces of frequencies from high frequency to low frequency; a current excitation signal, after being transformed by a voltage-controlled current source, is outputted to the interdigital electrode; n pieces of response voltages of the interdigital electrode, by virtue of a differential amplifier, are inputted to a single chip microcomputer after undergoing analog-to-digital conversion; the single chip microcomputer is used for calculating a complex impedance value under different frequencies, and is used for calculating a dual-layer capacitance value in accordance with an equivalent circuit model and the complex impedance value; the capacitance value of a dual-layer capacitor in an equivalent circuit serves an index for assessing cell activity, so that more accurate cell activity information can be obtained; and the method and the device can be used for monitoring the cell activity in real time, cannot damage the steady state of cells and can achieve quantitative measurement on the cell activity.

The invention relates to a generation method and system for a dynamic diagnosis report. The generation method comprises the steps of obtaining check data, wherein the check data comprises personal information and condition checking information of a patient; generating a main body of the dynamic diagnosis report according to the obtained check data; performing labeling on a medical striograph in the obtained condition checking information; enabling a labeled picture format file to be associated to the main body of the dynamic diagnosis report; and receiving signature information, and performing synthesis on the signature information and the associated main body of the dynamic diagnosis report to obtain the dynamic diagnosis report. The generation system comprises a check data acquisition module, a report main body generation module, a medical striograph labeling module, an image-text associating module and a dynamic diagnosis report generation module. According to the generation method and system disclosed by the invention, the electronic type dynamic diagnosis report is adopted to replace a conventional paper report, so that the electronic type dynamic diagnosis report can be stored and read conveniently; and by enabling the medical image to be associated with examination findings or diagnosis opinions, so that the condition information of the patient can be presented more intuitionally.

The invention relates to a system and method called autotopology of a network or advertising based network management which enables the analysis and automatic graphical and hierarchical representation of any hierarchical or flat network topology, especially a switched Ethernet (SE). The autotopology can be used for self-configured networks (for example by using zeroconf) and for any otherwise configured networks, especially using DHCP or manually configured networks. The use of zeroconf is called autoconfiguration. Autoconfiguration and autotopology enable a comfortable and safe administration of a network. Administration of a self-configured network using the autotopology data proceeds in a separate and low-priority sub-network (link local) so that the productive operation of the network remains undisturbed. The topology of the network is used as a clear possibility of administering a network. Administration of the network is possible immediately after determination of the topology.

The present invention is notably directed to a microfluidic chip (1, 1a) comprising: a flow path (22) defined by a hydrophilic surface; a liquid input (24, 24a, 24b) on one side of the flow path; at least one electrical circuit (62), hereafter DEP circuit, comprising at least one pair of dielectrophoretic electrodes (E21, E22), hereafter DEP electrodes, wherein: each of the DEP electrodes extends transverse to the flow path; and the DEP circuit is configured to generate a dielectrophoretic force, hereafter DEP force, at the level of the DEP electrodes. The chip may further include one or more electroosmotic circuits. The present invention is further directed to methods of operation of such a microfluidic chip.

In the computed-based analysis of forming processes, for example, manufacturing sheet metal parts for the automobile industry, the material loading is represented by major and minor strains εI, εII and is visualised with respect to a forming limit strain curve. In the method according to the invention, one proceeds from a target state (4n) of the material, as has been determined in the computed simulation of the forming process. A proportional trajectory of a loading and thus of the state variables of the material, in particular of the stresses (σ), is determined, which leads to the same target state. The associated proportional strain trajectory is evaluated for this proportional loading trajectory. The strain state (4p) which results from this strain trajectory, is called the equivalent strain state (4p) and may be used in the forming limit strain diagram for assessing the target state. Thereby, the equivalent strain state is set in relation to the forming limit strain curve (1) for the proportional trajectories.

This invention is method for multiple source monitoring data fusion, the details of which are the following: to select suitable datum of water environment monitoring according to chart one as fusion datum; to determine the identification frame in evidence theory with at most five kinds of basic values; to determine the basic confidence level and assign function values zero to one; to classify the process of the monitoring fusion data into two kinds of evidence and multiple kinds of evidence; to lay criterion rules for category; to distribute largest probability value to the determined water environment and the difference with other water environment more than threshold value 0.28; the basic uncertainty probability value m(theta) is less than threshold value 0.35 and the basic probability value of determined water environment m(A) is larger than uncertainty probability value m(theta).

Various techniques are described which may be used to facilitate and improve seismic exploration activities. For example, one aspect of the present invention is directed to a technique for enabling in-situ measurement of geophone response parameters. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a technique for improving geophone calibration and for improving the accuracy of measurement of geophone response parameters. Yet another aspect of the present invention is directed to a technique for compensating geophone response output data in order to improve the accuracy of such data.