49 results about "Energy minimum" patented technology

Stitched images generated from combinations of multiple separate images mostly have irregular boundaries. Users generally prefer rectangular boundaries. Techniques for warping an image with irregular boundaries to give the image rectangular boundaries are disclosed herein. Preliminary warping of the image into the rectangle provides a rectangular shape on which to overlay a mesh. The image is reverted to its original shape with irregular boundaries and the mesh is warped accordingly. Global optimization is applied to the image by finding an energy minimum, or reduced energy below a threshold, for a function that gives the image a rectangular shape while preserving shapes and preserving straight lines. The mesh is warped according to the solution of the function and the image is stretched and/or compressed along with the mesh. This approach generates results that are qualitatively more visually attractive than other contemporary techniques.

Disclosed in the invention is an ant colony algorithm-based high-energy efficiency wireless sensor network routing method. The method comprises three parts: cluster establishment, transmission in cluster, and transmission between clusters. When a multi-hop relay node is selected, a heuristic ant colony intelligent algorithm is employed to search a multi-hop transmission route; and during the searching process, an expectation importance influence is eliminated and a probability for node selection is completely decided by the link pheromone concentration. And when a local link pheromone is updated, a dump energy minimum value of a collaboration zone node is multiplied by link pheromone increasing degree Q and then the result is divided by transmission energy consumption, thereby completing updating. According to the new pheromone updating method, the dump energy and the transmission energy consumption of the node are scaled appropriately and then are introduced to the link pheromone updating; and when the dump energy of the collaboration zone node at the next hop is increased and the transmission energy consumption is reduced, the node can be selected. Therefore, when the routing method is used, total energy consumption of the network can be reduced; the dump energy of the network nodes can be balanced; and the working life of the network can be prolonged.

The invention relates to a texture and geometric attribute combined model based indoor target analytic method, which comprises the following steps: first, evaluating a static area in an image; then, adopting a slide window; in the static area, calculating the similarity between the texture attribute of the combined model and the texture attribute of the image in the slide window, so as to obtain a probability map of tested images, wherein the number of each pixel of the images represents the probability of the point belonging to the target; obtaining a super pixel set of the images through a segmentation method, and extracting semantic segmentation of the target in the images based on the super pixel set in combination with the probability map obtained from the last step; and finally, evaluating the directed enclosure surface of the target, namely the geometric attribute of the target, in the images through the method, in combination with the geometric attribute of the combined model, semantic marks and line segmentation of the image in a way of utilizing energy minimum. The method can be widely applied to indoor scene target analysis, scene comprehension and three-dimensional reconstruction of computer vision system of monitoring, robot and the like.

Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to conversion of renewable energy such as solar, wind, falling water, wave and biomass resources into energy forms for practical transport by existing electricity and natural gas transport systems and includes embodiments for cyclic conversion of rectilinear forces into electricity wherein charged particles force a separate population of charged particles to flow in a separate circuit to create an electric current. Forces exerted at a first frequency are converted into cyclic electrical current at a frequency that is a multiple of the frequency of the forces. Similar arrangements are provided for conversion of rotary forces into electricity. Components of the disclosure can be manufactured at a high rate from very low cost materials with minimum energy requirements for the purpose of generation of low-cost electricity from linear motion engines and renewable forces such as ocean waves and flowing fluids such as water or air. Corrosion and biofouling are eliminated by application of cathodic and chemical treatments produced by the operation of the disclosure. Various embodiments of the disclosure allow improved cogeneration and motor vehicles, household appliances, and industrial equipment to be operated on energy converted from rectilinear forces.

There are provided a method and a system for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data. In a method for similarity search, the method includes the step of transforming sequence data into a compressed sequence represented by top-k coefficients of the sequence data and a sum of the energy of omitted coefficients of the sequence data. The method further includes the step of computing at least one of a lower bound and an upper bound on a distance range between a query sequence and the compressed sequence, given a first and a second constraint. The first constraint is that a sum of squares of the omitted coefficients is less than a sum of the energy of the omitted coefficients. The second constraint is that the energy of the omitted coefficients is less than the energy of a lowest energy one of the top-k coefficients.

An apparatus and method is provided to accurately align a cap wafer relative to a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) wafer during a bonding process. Other materials may be accurately aligned as well. A trench is established in the MEMS wafer, and a printed substance, secured to the cap wafer, flows into the trench when a pressure is applied to the cap wafer at bond temperature. Natural forces aid in shifting the materials into a lowest energy state and self-aligns the materials into a desired position. The trench also serves as a collection trench for the flowing substance by helping to shape the substance. The trench dimensions may be used to aid in creating a hermetic seal. The alignment tolerances required conventionally during the device design stage are decreased, since the present invention provides a repeatable and accurate alignment bonding process. Chip multiple is increased and therefore chip costs are decreased.

An organic electroluminescent element includes an organic layer including a compound having an electron donor moiety and an electron acceptor moiety in a single molecule. The compound satisfies the following expression: (ΔE_H+ΔE_L)≧2.0 eV. ΔE_H represents a difference in energy level between a highest energy occupied molecular orbital spreading over the electron donor moiety and a highest energy occupied molecular orbital spreading over the electron acceptor moiety, and ΔE_L represents a difference in energy level between a lowest energy unoccupied molecular orbital spreading over the electron donor moiety and a lowest energy unoccupied molecular orbital spreading over the electron acceptor moiety, determined by molecular orbital calculation. A highest energy occupied molecular orbital of the compound has an energy level of −5.2 eV or more. A lowest energy unoccupied molecular orbital of the compound has an energy level of −1.2 eV or less.

A method for estimating acoustic noise in an environment where a mobile communication device is operating and where the acoustic noise includes nonstationary noise or speech-like noises, and wherein the environment also includes speech signals. The method includes searching for a local minimum energy over a plurality of frames using at least two reference signals including a first signal comprised of a time-sensitive current local minimum energy estimate, emin, and a second signal comprised of a time-weighted average of previous detected local energy minima, eminmean; and deciding whether the detected local energy minima of the second reference signal is a noise signal. Also, binning the detected input signal energy minima values within a plurality of histograms; and calculating a composite noise energy estimate comprised of a weighted sum of a maximum probability noise energy estimate and an expected value noise energy estimate. As such a nonstationary noise estimator is formed.

A new class of materials for use in electric and electroluminescent devices having one or more phosphine oxide moieties bonded by single bonds to two outer groups. In embodiments having two or more phosphine oxide moieties, the two or more phosphine oxide moieties are further joined by a bridging group. By selecting appropriate bridging and outer groups, the new class of materials of the present invention enables designers to “tune” the electrical and electroluminescent characteristics of the materials. The phosphine oxide moiety restricts electron conjugation between the bridging and outer groups, isolating the bridging and outer groups from each other, and allowing the photophysical properties of the bridging and outer groups to be maintained in the molecule. The lowest energy component (bridging group or particular outer group) thus defines the triplet state, highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular energies for the entire molecule.

The invention discloses a search method and device for figure information. The search method includes the steps that figure identity information in multiple networks and figure identity corresponding relations are obtained; the figure identity information of the known figure identity corresponding relations is gathered to serve as a training set; an energy minimum model based on the figure behavior similarity degree is constructed, and then energy factors and a matching relation classifier are obtained; energy filling is performed through the energy factors to form an energy matrix, and a matching result predicted at one time is obtained through solving the energy matrix; matching results obtained through repeated solving are integrated, so that the figure identity corresponding relations are obtained, and the identity uniformity of figures with the same name is determined; an input name is received, and the identity information, in different networks, of the same figure is displayed in one webpage. The method and device can determine the uniformity of the information with different identities but the same name in the multiple networks, and the adopted algorithm is efficient and calculation is rapid in the process of displaying the identity information, in different networks, of the same figure in the webpage.

The invention discloses an energy consumption optimization method for a double-variable hydraulic system under changing work conditions. The energy consumption optimization method comprises the following steps of: building a hydraulic cylinder displacement, hydraulic loop pressure and hydraulic loop flow rate database through an experiment; to a hydraulic system in running, searching and acquiringthe hydraulic loop pressure and flow rate requirements under the corresponding work condition in the database according to displacement information received by a sensor; regulating the rotating speed of a motor and the output of a pump by using a controller to make sure that the output hydraulic loop pressure of the pump and the hydraulic loop flow rate meet the hydraulic loop pressure and the hydraulic loop flow rate requirements under the corresponding work condition; when the work condition changes, controlling the motor to be switched from an optimal speed to the required speed for the next work condition by using the controller according to an optimal motor acceleration calculated and acquired by the energy consumption optimization method of the system; and meanwhile regulating theoutput of the pump to reach the required output. The energy consumption optimization method disclosed by the invention can be used for controlling the rotating speed, the output of the pump and the acceleration of the motor at an adjacent work condition point under all work conditions according to an energy minimum requirement and farthest guarantees energy consumption minimum of a hydraulic machine in continuous running.

A method for nondestructively measuring the density of a panel, comprising the steps of: directing a collimated radiation beam at the panel at an oblique angle; passing the panel under the collimated radiation beam or passing the collimated radiation beam over the panel; continuously detecting a resultant beam of a plurality of photons with a detector directed at the panel; counting only those photons with an energy level above a minimum energy level; correcting for inaccuracies at the edges of the panel; and generating a density profile of the panel throughout the thickness of the panel.