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Fingerprint identification system for access control

InactiveUS20070248249A1Facilitate one-to-many biometric identificationMatching and classificationScreening algorithmMinutiae
A one-to-many identification system for access control allows a search rate of up to ˜1:30,000 in a real time. The system uses a very fast pattern based screening algorithm followed by a fast minutiae based screening algorithm. A fused score of both algorithms is used as a decision metric to screen out a vast majority of all the templates after the second stage. The remaining templates are sent to a full minutiae based algorithm to obtain a minutiae comparison score. If the result is still inconclusive after the third stage, a full pattern based algorithm is run, and its score is fused with the minutiae comparison score. The system also uses an adaptive classification technique which minimizes a distance between each template and a number of templates. The system can be realised as a standalone unit or on a server.
Owner:BIOSCRYPT INC

System and method for integration of a calibration target into a C-arm

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved calibration of an image acquisition device. Certain embodiments of the system include an image acquisition device for obtaining at least one image of an object and a calibration fixture positioned in relation to the image acquisition device. The calibration fixture includes a radiotranslucent material providing low frequency content for characterizing the image acquisition device. In an embodiment, the calibration fixture includes a plurality of peaks and valleys to create a low frequency signal for characterizing the image acquisition device. The calibration fixture may be positioned between the image acquisition device and an energy source such that a distance between the image acquisition device and the calibration fixture is minimized. In certain embodiments, a grating or other calibration fixture may be used to generate a moiré pattern to calibrate the image acquisition device.
Owner:STRYKER EURO OPERATIONS HLDG LLC

Minimizing Electromagnetic Interference in Coil Transducers

Disclosed herein are various embodiments of means and methods for reducing the pick-up of electromagnetic interference (“EMI”) by coil transducers configured to provide high voltage isolation and high voltage breakdown performance characteristics in small packages. In some embodiments, the lengths, heights, and horizontal distances between wires electrically connecting transmitter circuits and receiver circuits to coil transducers are minimized and optimized respecting one another.
Owner:AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LTD

Transmission-based optical detection systems

A system that employs transmission-based detection techniques to determine the presence or concentration of an analyte within a test sample is provided. Specifically, the optical detection system contains an assay device that is positioned in the electromagnetic radiation path defined between an illumination source and solar panel. To enhance the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of the system without significantly increasing costs, the distance between the illumination source and / or solar panel and the assay device is minimized. The illumination source and / or solar panel may also be positioned directly adjacent to the assay device. In addition, the system may be selectively controlled to reduce reliance on external optical components, such as optical filters or diffusers.
Owner:KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE INC

Method and apparatus for automatic calibration of robots

An automatic calibration method and apparatus for robots, particularly robots used in substrate processing systems. The method for calibrating a robot in a processing chamber comprises: determining a useable free-space for the robot in a processing system; determining a distance between a position of a robot end effector and a target position in the useable free-space; and generating a path within the useable space from the position of the robot end effector to the target position using incremental displacements of the robot end effector that minimize the distance between the robot end effector and the target position. The apparatus for calibrating a robot in a processing system comprises: a sensor disposed at a location to be taught; a receiver disposed on a robot end effector; and a microprocessor connected to receive signals from the sensor and the receiver to determine a distance between the sensor and the receiver, wherein the microprocessor generates a path using incremental movements that minimizes the distance between the sensor and the receiver.
Owner:APPLIED MATERIALS INC

Method for producing a high resolution detector array

A method for producing a high resolution detector array so as to provide very high packing fraction, i.e. the distance between scintillator elements is minimized so the detector efficiency will be higher than is currently achievable. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the fabrication methodology is enhanced by handling scintillator bars rather than single crystals when gluing on an optical film as well as polishing the scintillator. Namely, a scintillator boule is cut into wide bars of a selected dimension, for example 30 mm, which are then acid etched or mechanically polished. A selected number, N, of these scintillator bars can then be glued together with sheets of optical film between each bar (coating the scintillator disks and optical film with an adhesive of a selected index of refraction). The glued bar block is then cut again into bars in a perpendicular direction, and these new scintillator-optical film bars are polished. Finally, a selected number, M, of these scintillator-optical film bars are glued together with sheets of optical film between each bar; thus creating a polished N×M scintillator-optical film array, (where M may or may not be equal to N), without having to handle individual scintillator crystals or small pieces of optical film.
Owner:SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA INC

Thrust reverser with sliding pivot joints

A target type thrust reverser is provided for reversing the thrust of jet engines, particularly on aircraft. The thrust reverser preferably has a plurality of doors that occupy a stowed position about the nozzle of the jet engine until deployed. In the stowed position, the doors are out of the exhaust stream of the jet engine. The doors are mounted to pivot joints on the rear portions of the doors. To deploy the thrust reverser, actuators connected to the pivot joints cause the pivot joints to translate linearly aft, and link rods attached to the forward portions of the doors cause the doors to pivot about the sliding pivot joints. In this manner, the distance between the doors and the engine exhaust nozzle is minimized during deployment, which enables significant weight savings due to reduced loads and fewer parts. A novel lock is also provided for simultaneously locking the thrust reverser doors and the actuators.
Owner:AIRCRAFT INTEGRATION RESOURCES

Control method for improving rolling pace of roughing mill

The invention discloses a control method for improving rolling pace of a roughing mill and relates to a control device or method which is specially applicable to a metal rolling mill or machined products of the metal rolling mill. Plate blank head and plate blank tail detection devices are arranged on all groups of roller beds; according to detected plate blank head and plate blank tail signals, plate blank collision prevention conditions are set, and the occupancy state of a rack and the number of the idle roller beds are determined; according to the occupancy state of the rack and the number of the idle roller beds, control modes of the groups of roller beds are set; according to the plate blank collision prevention conditions and the control modes of the groups of roller beds, transmission speeds of the groups of roller beds are controlled respectively, and starting and stopping of a second plate blank are controlled to minimize the distance between a first plate blank and the second plate blank, so that the transmission time interval between the two plate blanks is minimized. By the aid of the method, the distance between the two adjacent machined plate blanks can be greatly shortened, so that the front and back rack production is closely connected, and the rolling pace of the rolling mill and the device utilization rate can be greatly improved.
Owner:BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO LTD

Turbine blade cooling with a hollow airfoil configured to minimize a distance between a pin array section and the trailing edge of the air foil

A turbine blade with a generally hollow airfoil having an outer wall that defines a chamber for receiving cooling air, the airfoil comprising a leading edge that resides in an upstream direction, a trailing edge that resides in a downstream direction, a convex suction side, a concave pressure side, and an insert disposed within the chamber that is configured to initially receive at least a portion of the cooling air entering the chamber and direct the cooling air through a plurality of insert apertures to cool the inner surface of the outer wall, the insert further comprising a configuration that generally conforms to the contour of the outer wall of the chamber but in spaced relation thereto, wherein the chamber and insert narrow as they extend toward the trailing edge, the insert eventually terminating and the chamber eventually terminating at a pin array section, wherein a first distance exists that comprises the generally axial distance between the position of downstream termination point of the insert and the position of an upstream beginning point of the pin array section, wherein the pin array section, at a downstream end, comprises a plurality of openings that define an inlet to a plurality of trailing edge cooling apertures, and wherein the chamber, the insert, and the pin array section are configured such that the first distance is approximately minimized.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Brain-electrical signal processing method based on isolated component automatic clustering process

The invention relates to electroencephalographic signal extraction, in particular to an electroencephalographic signal processing method based on isolated component automatic-clustering process. In order to improve signal-to-noise ratio for inducing an electroencephalographic signal, to remarkably improve the separability of the electroencephalographic signal within an action period under the stimulation of different tasks, and to facilitate the extraction and analysis of signal characteristics and the recognition of the task mode, the invention adopts a technical proposal which is in particular as below: the electroencephalographic signal processing method based on isolated component automatic-clustering process comprises the following steps: firstly, adopting an online maximum information algorithm (Informax algorithm) based on an information maximization criterion to sequentially carry out isolated component analysis (ICA) on stimulated and induced multi-channel signals, constructing a large component sample set Y with all obtained components, calculating the mutual information of the components, and finally adopting a total intra-class distance minimization criterion to carry out clustering process on a mutual information distance matrix so as to obtain class tags of all the components.
Owner:TIANJIN UNIV

Electrical machine having a stator winding with a plurality of filars

A stator for an electric machine includes a generally cylindrically-shaped stator core having a plurality of circumferentially spaced core slots. A stator winding includes a plurality of phases, each including a plurality of filars, each filar extending circumferentially around the stator core to form a plurality of layers. Each of the filars is a conductor having a plurality of substantially straight segments disposed in the core slots. The straight segments are alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments. The filars of a particular phase each have an average radial position within the stator core, and are staggered throughout the layers such that a distance between the average radial position of each filar and the average radial position of the other filars is minimized.
Owner:BORGWARNER INC

Method and device for dispatching electric taxi

The invention discloses a method and device for dispatching an electric taxi. The method comprises the following steps: A, according to a predetermined time interval, collecting data of the electric taxi and a charging facility; B, optimally dispatching the charging of the electric taxi by an ordered time charging strategy, an ordered space charging strategy or an ordered time and space combined charging strategy, wherein the ordered time charging strategy comprises maximization of the time utilization efficiency of a charging facility of a charging station, minimization of the time of charging service of the electric taxi and minimization of time-category load variance from the electric taxi to an electric region distribution network; the ordered space charging strategy comprises maximization of the space utilization efficiency of the charging facility of the charging station, minimization of a displacement distance of charging the electric taxi and minimization of time-category load variance from the electric taxi to the electric region distribution network. Through the use of the method and device for dispatching the electric taxi, the usage rate of charging equipment in the charging station can be increased.
Owner:BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIV

Power gate placement techniques in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) (3DICs)

Power gate placement techniques in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) (3DICs) are disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the present disclosure contemplate consolidating power gating circuits or cells into a single tier within a 3DIC. Still further, the power gating circuits are consolidated in a tier closest to a voltage source. This closest tier may include a backside metal layer that allows a distance between the voltage source and the power gating circuits to be minimized. By minimizing the distance between the voltage source and the power gating circuits, power loss from routing elements therebetween is minimized. Further, by consolidating the power gating circuits in a single tier, routing distances between the power gating circuits and downstream elements may be minimized and power loss from those routing elements are minimized. Other advantages are likewise realized by placement of the power gating circuits according to exemplary aspects of the present disclosure.
Owner:QUALCOMM INC

Bladder for use in a damping device

In an embodiment, the present invention provides a damping device that comprises a bladder that has an exterior surface and an interior surface, with the interior surface defining a chamber which stores a compressible fluid and a valve that is attached to the interior surface of the bladder. In an embodiment, the damping device contains a bladder that can be constructed from one or more of the following materials: urethane, neoprene, Viton, Nitrile, buna rubber, or silicon. The bladder is constructed to minimize the distance between the interior surface and the exterior surface. In an embodiment, the damping device contains a valve that can be constructed from one of the following materials: steel, brass, aluminum, or composite. The valve includes a stem that has threads for attaching a nut and a flange for attaching the valve to the interior surface of the bladder. The flange is contoured to maintain the axial location of the bladder within the damping device. In an embodiment, the flange is constructed from a material that is attachable to the interior surface of the bladder. In operation, compressible fluid is introduced into the bladder through the valve, with the valve permitting the adjustment of the internal pressure of a fluid contained within the bladder. The fluid volume within the bladder in an expanded condition as compared to the total displaceable volume of the piston rod is in a ratio of about 3:1. In an embodiment, the pressure within the bladder is at least 100 p.s.i, or at least 150 p.s.i.
Owner:PROGRESSIVE SUSPENSION

Soil sampling method based on near-earth sensor technology

The invention discloses a soil sampling method based on a near-earth sensor technology. Data quickly acquired by utilizing a near-earth sensor are transformed into a decorrelation matrix with one center by transforming a principal component and removing outliers, then the positions of initial candidate points of a curved surface response design are found by adopting a central composite response design, the position points only statistically satisfy the selection of coordinate position points of the central composite response design, afterwards the screening of the optimal position is determined by adopting iterative computation according to the standards of minimized distance and a maximized covariance structure among close positions, whether sampling positions are evenly distributed in a sample area is judged by adopting an optimized index, and finally sampling points with the coordinate positions are output in a form of graphics. Efficient sampling for soil fertility can be carried out by combining the data quickly acquired by utilizing the near-earth sensor with the curved surface sampling design, and an optimal soil sampling layout scheme can be obtained quickly and accurately, the cost is saved, and the efficiency and the representativeness of the distribution of the sampling points are improved.
Owner:ZHEJIANG UNIV

Solar Panel Interconnection System

A solar panel interconnection system in which electrical interconnection distance is minimized irrespective of one of landscape or portrait panel orientation includes a first solar panel having first diagonally opposed corners, a first edge, a second edge and a tap to provide electrical connectivity thereto, and a second solar panel having second diagonally opposed corners, a first edge, a second edge and a tap to provide electrical connectivity thereto. The first edge and the second edge of the first solar panel extend from one of the first diagonally opposed corners and the tap on the first solar panel is disposed at the same corner thereof. The first edge and the second edge of the second solar panel extend from one of the second diagonally opposed corners and the tap on the second solar panel is disposed at the same corner thereof. The first solar panel and the second solar panel are disposed with either the first edge of each facing each other, such as in a landscape orientation, or the second edge of each facing each other, such as in a portrait orientation. In either event, the tap on each panel will be proximate each other to minimize electrical interconnection distance.
Owner:CROFT STEVEN THOMAS

Method and apparatus for providing a spin valve transistor with differential detection

A method and apparatus for providing a spin valve transistor with differential detection is disclosed. The present invention provides a structure including spin valves that are (100)-oriented on a (100) substrate to take advantages of the high MR sensitivity of spin valve transistor read heads without the need for shields. This allows the distance between the free layers in the differential sensor to be minimized thereby allowing an increase in the areal density.
Owner:HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH NETHERLANDS BV

Flipping-type graft fixation device and method

A buckle useful for cortical fixation has a graft retention loop slidably affixed thereto for movement from a first position adjacent a first end of the buckle to a second position at about the midpoint of the buckle. The buckle, with a graft over the loop, is drawn up lengthwise through a bone tunnel through a tibia and then flipped sideways to rest against the surface of the bone with the loop and graft depending back into the tunnel. The sliding attachment of the loop permits flipping of the buckle minimizes the flipping distance, which is the excess amount of the loop which must be pulled free of the tunnel to allow the buckle to be flipped sideways.
Owner:DEPUY SYNTHES PROD INC

Chip scale image sensor and method for fabricating the same

Disclosed are a chip scale image sensor and its fabricating method. Such a chip scale image sensor includes a first substrate on which a peripheral circuit is formed, a second substrate which is stacked on the first substrate and on which a pixel array is formed, and global interconnections for electrically connecting the pixel array and the peripheral circuit. That is, since a pixel array and a peripheral circuit are separately formed and then are coupled to each other, there is no need to apply a repetitive fabricating process of forming multilayer metal interconnections to the pixel array. Thus, photosensitivity of the pixel array is not lowered, distances between a photodiode, a color filter and a micro lens can be minimized, and sensitivity of the image sensor can be still more improved due to a wide choice of light transmissive films.
Owner:CROSSTEK CAPITAL

Method of planning for deployment of facilities and apparatus associated therewith

A method of planning for deployment of facilities includes modeling maximization of satisfaction of demands for service in a geographic area (packing constraint) and minimization of distance traveled from locations of interest within the geographic area to deployed facilities (covering constraint) as a mixed packing and covering problem with a service level constraint on the deployed facilities and an overall budget constraint. Additional embodiments describe an iterative process to identify an optimized solution, an incremental process to identify incremental optimized solutions in relation to release of incremental budgets for deployment of facilities, and deployment of facilities in which multiple private providers compete for sites and subsidies from an authoritative agency. Various embodiments of facility deployment planning systems associated with the method are also provided, as well as various embodiments of non-transitory computer readable medium associated with the method.
Owner:CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES LLC

Optical image capturing system

InactiveUS20180106979A1Reduce the overall heightAvoid undesired generationMountingsInfraredOptical axis
An optical image capturing system including an imaging lens assembly having at least three lens elements for capturing image is provided. The optical image capturing system includes at least three pieces of lens elements; a first image plane for visible ray; a second image plane for infrared ray; and an image sensing device located between the first image plane the second image plane. The distance on the optical axis can be minimized by the design of said optical lens elements to improve the imaging quality of both visible ray and infrared ray in compact cameras.
Owner:ABILITY OPTO ELECTRONICS TECH

Organic light emitting display device and fabricating method using the same

Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a fabricating method using the same. The organic light emitting display device (100) and a fabrication method comprising a touch electrode layer (150) including touch electrodes (152) and touch lines (155) on an upper substrate (130) which are directly formed on the upper substrate (130) to secure a large distance between the touch electrodes (152) and cathode as well as minimize a distance between the upper and lower substrates (110, 130), thereby widening the viewing angle of an image while reducing a parasitic capacitance.
Owner:LG DISPLAY CO LTD

Multi-field cancer therapy apparatus and method of use thereof

A multi-field cancer therapy apparatus and method of use thereof is described increasing dimensionality of incident tumor treatment angles while minimizing distance between a final beamline focusing magnet and the patient. Increased dimensionality of incident tumor treatment angles is achieved through coordinated use of one or more of: a rotatable targeting magnet; a first patient rotation platform rotating the patient around, without intersecting, a vertical axis; a second patient rotation platform rotating a body part through a movable vertical axis; and patient tilt. The increased charged particle incident angle dimensionality distributes Bragg peak tail energy about the tumor. Dynamic energy and / or intensity control of the charged particle beam as a function of efficiency of beam delivery based on tumor shape further reduces Bragg peak tail energy delivered to healthy tissue about the tumor.
Owner:BALAKIN ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH +1
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