71 results about "Head tilting" patented technology

A face feature analysis which begins by generating multiple face feature candidates, e.g., eyes and nose positions, using an isolated frame face analysis. Then, a nostril tracking window is defined around a nose candidate and tests are applied to the pixels therein based on percentages of skin color area pixels and nostril area pixels to determine whether the nose candidate represents an actual nose. Once actual nostrils are identified, size, separation and contiguity of the actual nostrils is determined by projecting the nostril pixels within the nostril tracking window. A mouth window is defined around the mouth region and mouth detail analysis is then applied to the pixels within the mouth window to identify inner mouth and teeth pixels and therefrom generate an inner mouth contour. The nostril position and inner mouth contour are used to generate a synthetic model head. A direct comparison is made between the inner mouth contour generated and that of a synthetic model head and the synthetic model head is adjusted accordingly. Vector quantization algorithms may be used to develop a codebook of face model parameters to improve processing efficiency. The face feature analysis is suitable regardless of noise, illumination variations, head tilt, scale variations and nostril shape.

The apparatus represents a device having one or two sensors for capturing a single image or two images having the subject's eyes, in which a dimension, such as the horizontal axis, with respect to pixels in the single image or two first images characterizing zero head tilt, and processors in one or more of a housing with the one or two sensors or in a computer system which receives the single image or two images. Such processors determine a head tilt angle between a virtual line extending between the two eyes of the subject in accordance with predefined features, such as pupil or iris center, in the single image or two images and the dimension characterizing zero head tilt, segment left and right iris images from the single image or two images, and rotate the segmented left and right iris image in accordance with the angle to substantially remove head tilt when present. A database of identification data may be provided storing at least templates representative of right and left irises of a plurality of subjects without substantial head tilt, and the processors generate template(s) representative of the left and right irises of the subject, which are either added or compared to the identification data. The processor may also determine interpupillary distance (IPD) or IPD-to-iris ratio using the single image or two images, and as such may be used for comparative searching of the identification data having IPD or IPD-to-iris ratio of the plurality of subjects.

The apparatus represents a device having one or two sensors for capturing a single image or two images having the subject's eyes, and processor(s) in a housing with the one or two sensors and / or in a computer system which receives the single image or two images. Such processor(s) determine a head tilt angle between a virtual line extending between the two eyes of the subject in accordance with a predefined features associated with the eyes and a dimension characterizing zero head tilt in the single image or two images, segment left and right iris images, and rotate the segmented left and right iris images in accordance with the angle to substantially remove head tilt when present. The apparatus may also determine head tilt using predefined features associated with a single eye in the image. The resulting iris image(s) are utilized for enrollment or identification.

The invention discloses a device and a method for detecting and controlling the tilting buckle head of band steel in the rough rolling process. The actual head tilting or buckle head condition of the rolled band steel can be detected by using head tilting and buckling detectors arranged above roller beds and between the roller beds and then the rolling speeds of an upper roller and a lower roller for biting the band steel can be automatically adjusted when the next band steel is rolled, so that upper surface band steel and the lower surface band steel consistently extend and the aim of controlling the tilting buckle head of the band steel can be achieved, wherein the control belongs to the feedback control. According to the invention, the rolling speeds of the upper roller and the lower roller can be adjusted by detecting the actual head tilting or buckle head condition of the band steel, and the detection process is not influenced by logged water, fog, the roughness of the rollers, the elevation of a rolling line, the amplitude of rolling reduction, the thickness of the band steel, the rolling speed and other factors, so that the invention has high accuracy of controlling the tilting buckle head, effectively improves the rolling quality of steel plates and the operation safety of operators and reduces the labor intensity.

An ink jet recording head and an ink jet recording apparatus are provided to prevent occurrence of a white line or recording unevenness due to a head tilt, and realize a high image quality recording. For this purpose, in a recording head provided with nozzles ejecting three types of droplets, a large droplet, medium droplet and small droplet, nozzles are configured such that any nozzles are not arranged on the same line at the centers thereof in the main scanning direction.

This invention relates to an apparatus to aid drivers by delaying the onset of drowsiness and its tendency toward slow response time and brief periods of micro sleep. The preferred embodiment uses two thermoelectric modules mounted on a belt and positioned under the armpits. The modules are most effective when placed in contact with the skin but still effective if placed over light clothing. Manual activation of the unit is preferred but it has input for optional head tilt sensor or eyelid closure sensor. It quietly alarms by sequentially cooling one of the thermoelectric modules while the other thermoelectric module is warmed slightly above body temperature. The sequential pulse driving cycle is controlled by a remote timer located in a small enclosure which is powered from a cigarette lighter plug. The drive signal duration and thus the level of alarm is controlled with a multi-position control on the enclosure.

In the thin-film magnetic head of the present invention, the distance to a heat-generating layer is shorter from the end part on the side facing, a recording medium in a magnetoresistive device than from the end part on the side facing the recording medium in an electromagnetic transducer. Therefore, even when the thin-film magnetic head tilts so that its electromagnetic transducer side approaches the recording medium when floating up from the recording medium, the amount of thermal expansion caused by the heat from the heat-generating layer is greater in the magnetoresistive device than in the electromagnetic transducer. This reduces the gap between the magnetoresistive device and the recording medium, whereby a high reproducing output can be obtained.

The present invention relates to the estimation of the vertical in humans using an experimental design that incorporates virtual reality. Methods of measuring the perceived vertical in a subject using steady state and transient experiments are disclosed. The inventive methods are useful for diagnosis, as well as for follow up after patient rehabilitation.

A self-contained head set based sleep or fatigue alarm for a driver of a vehicle contains a set of arms extending from the alarm housing around the driver's head to the area under the driver's lower jaw. Involuntary relaxation of the driver's lower jaw causes rotation of the arms which in turn urges the movable contact against the stationary contact and therefore leads to the completion of the electrical circuit. After a predetermined delay, a buzzer or vibrator is activated to awaken the driver. In another embodiment, two relaxation motions, jaw lowering and head tilting, are used at the same time to trigger the alarm. In a third embodiment, either one of these two relaxation motions is used to trigger the alarm independently thus increasing the sensitivity of the alarm.

A branch pruning mechanical arm consists of a base, a bottom cover, a rotary table, a big bevel gear, a small bevel gear, a motor, a vertical seat, a lifting oil cylinder, a lower arm, a flexible arm, a rotary head, a tilt angle oil cylinder, a disc saw flexible oil cylinder, a mechanical claw driving oil cylinder, a mechanical claw, a disc saw, a hydraulic motor and the like. The rotary table is driven by the motor to rotate by 360 degrees. The lifting oil cylinder is controlled to stretch, so that the mechanical arm can stand up. The flexible arm is driven by a traction wire rope or a gear rock to extend or retract node by node. A pruning mechanism can rotate by 360 degrees around the axis thereof by controlling the working head tilt angle oil cylinder and the rotary head. By controlling the oil cylinder to retract, the mechanical claw reliably clamps a to-be-pruned branch. The hydraulic motor drives the disc saw to rotate at a high speed, and controls the flexible oil cylinder to extend out at the same time, so that the disc saw gradually cuts off the to-be-pruned branch. By controlling the oil cylinder, the flexible arm and the rotary table, the pruned branches are reliably conveyed back to the ground, so that the branches are pruned.

A CMP system accurately measures eccentric forces applied to carriers for wafer or polishing pad conditioning pucks. An initial coaxial relationship between wafer axis of rotation and a carrier axis is maintained during application of the eccentric force, such that a sensor may measure the eccentric forces. Such initial coaxial relationship is maintained by a linear bearing assembly mounted between the carrier and the sensor. The linear bearing assembly is provided as an array of separate linear bearing assemblies, and may be assembled with a retainer ring in conjunction with a motor for moving the ring relative to the wafer mounted on the carrier so that an exposed surface of the wafer and a surface of the retainer ring to be engaged by the polishing pad are coplanar during the polishing operation.

Disclosed is a head tilting device of a slim electric shaver, which allows the electric shaver to be easily carried about when it is not used and a head to tilt from a housing when it is used. The head tilting device includes hinge pins formed at right and left sides of a head and connected to head supporters formed in a pair on right and left sides of the upper end of a housing for guiding the swing motion of the head; a lid installed on the housing for covering the head; slide pins formed on the upper end of a folding piece, the lower end of which is connected to a switch knob sliding up and down on the housing, and slidingly inserted into a T-type groove formed through the lower end of the central portion of the head; a swing arm installed at a pivot traversing support pieces formed on the housing, the upper end of the swing arm being protruded from the upper portion of the housing and being slidingly inserted into a trimmer groove of a trimmer unit exposed from the rear portion of the head; and an eccentric shaft installed on a motor shaft of a driving motor and slidingly inserted into a clevis groove formed in the lower end of the swing arm.

A football helmet and shoulder pad combination are designed to prevent head and neck injuries. An outer helmet is connected to a neck assembly which permits but limits head turning mobility as well as up-down and left and right head tilt. The neck mechanism which is mounted about the neck comprises substantially circular inner and -outer spherical guides and a concentric movable inner element therebetween with an upwardly extending member on each side of the neck. The guides contain stops to limit the motion permitted by the helmet and the lower portion of the mechanism is mounted on the shoulder pads to distribute the load during impact. The helmet portion with a resilient coupling joining the portions. The upwardly extending members on the inner element are mounted to respective sides of the outer helmet. The helmet may also be retrofitted to existing equipment.

In alternative embodiments, provided is an internally powered prosthetic limb and method for controlling same, offering hands-free control of a prosthetic limb. The internally powered prosthetic limb controlled by an input control device, comprising: a breath inlet configured to receive air pressure exerted from a user's mouth to be converted into a first electronic signal, wherein the first electronic signal is proportional to the exerted pressure; a motion sensor configured to sense tilting of the user's head and operable to convert the user's head tilting motion into a second electronic signal, wherein the second electronic signal is proportional to the user's head tilting motion; and a processor in communication with the breath inlet and the motion sensor, the processor operable to convert the exerted air pressure into the first electronic signal and further process the first electronic signal into first positional data for transmission to a plurality of digit-actuators in the prosthetic limb, the processor further operable to process the second electronic signal into second positional data for transmission to a wrist-actuator in the prosthetic limb; wherein the plurality of digit-actuators in the prosthetic limb can be controllably actuated in proportion to the air pressure exerted by the user, and the wrist-actuator can be controllably actuated to rotate in proportion to the head tilting motion of the user.

The invention discloses an industrial connector, and a male head and a female socket which are in plug-type connection. The male head comprises an inserted head sleeve and an inserted core assembly which is arranged therein; the female socket comprises a socket sleeve and a socket assembly which is arranged therein; a clamping hook is arranged in a clamping hook slot of the male head; the clamping hook is screwed with the clamping hook slot through a pin shaft; a hook head is arranged at one end of the clamping hook; a snap fastener is arranged at the other end of the clamping hook; a spring is arranged below the snap fastener; one end of the spring presses against the snap fastener, and the other end of the spring presses against the clamping hook slot; a protruding block is arranged in a U-shaped slot of the female socket; an inclined slot capable of indwelling the hook head is formed between the protruding block and the U-shaped slot; and when the male head is inserted into the female socket, the hook head is clamped inside the inclined slot and fixes the inserted head sleeve of the male head, while when the snap fastener is pressed down, under the balancing action of the pin shaft, the hood head tilts up and the inserted head sleeve is separated from the socket sleeve. The industrial connector can make connection of the male head and the female socket more tight and reliable.

The invention discloses a laser swing welding system, and relates to the field of laser welding. The laser swing welding system further includes a laser swing welding operation table including a three-way moving mechanism and a welding head swing mechanism, and the welding head swing mechanism includes an X-axis moving mechanism fixed to the three-way moving mechanism, a welding head tilting mechanism fixed to the X-axis moving mechanism and a laser welding head fixed to the welding head tilting mechanism. The three-way moving mechanism is used for driving the welding head swing mechanism to basically move in a reciprocating mode in the X-axis, Y-axis and / or Z-axis directions. The X-axis moving mechanism is used for driving the welding head tilting mechanism and the laser welding head to basically move in a reciprocating mode in the X-axis direction. The welding head tilting mechanism is used for driving the laser welding head to rotate around the Y-axis. When welding a weld seam of aworkpiece, the laser swing welding system can reduce the degree of deformation of the workpiece and can improve the welding efficiency, and reduces the precision requirements for the workpiece at thesame time.

A curved dip tube for sprayer heads that solves the problem of spraying air as a container's contents are dispensed and reduced to a level that allows the tip of a straight dip tube to become disengaged with the liquid as the container is tilted downward. As the user of a sprayer head tilts or tips it from a vertical to a horizontal position to spray the intended target the liquid level pools at the lowest point in the container. It then becomes advantageous for the tip of the curved dip tube to be positioned on the lowest point where the bottom meets the wall. This is accomplished by lengthening the dip tube and then curving it to direct the tip toward the side. Once installed onto a sprayer head and inserted into a container the curved dip tube extends toward the bottom of the container, curves and follows the contour of the bottom of the container, pointing in the same direction as the sprayer head output nozzle. The liquid contents of the container can now be fully consumed without spraying air during operation as the consumer uses the product in its entirety.

The invention discloses a green energy small waterplane catamaran unmanned boat for marine environmental monitoring. Optimization design is performed on a line style aspect of the unmanned boat, a V-shaped small body is disposed on the head part of a box-type connection bridge, and an intelligent pod is disposed on the tail part to increase the maneuverability of the unmanned boat and reduce a head tilt phenomenon; and in order to meet requirements of meteorological monitoring, the unmanned boat is provided with an environmental sensing system at one third position of the boat bow, an environmental monitoring system, and an intelligent navigation system installed at the stern, wherein the intelligent navigation system includes two main propulsion devices arranged at rear portions of two floating bodies, a pod device arranged on the lower rear part of the connection bridge, and a solar sail device on the rear upper surface, a design of combination of a sail and solar energy can effectively increase the utilization rate of photovoltaic panels and provides more space for embarkation of meteorological monitoring equipment.

Described is a wearable device that combines a mechanism which is configured for modifying a head angle of the subject when in the supine position in order to achieve a head tilt position and a mechanism for causing a forward movement of the mandibles in order to obtain an optimal open airway in a subject. Embodiments of the device are configured to be attached to a bed, stretcher, or other flat surface.

The invention relates to an electric oscillating angle regulator, belong to accessories of electric fan, comprising: an angle modulation knob, a dial, an imported angle signal converter, a stretching wire, a baffle plate with cut, and a segmented positioning device between the angle modulation knob and the imported angle signal converter, which has a plurality of segmented positioning modes, and the minimum distance when segmented position is bigger than the return error and idle displacement of the course that oscillating adjusting the angle modulation knob. Said invention avoids the idle operation when operating the angle modulation knob, to form a quick and effective electric oscillating angle regulator, which fit the oscillating fan.

The invention relates to a spray head tilting mechanism, which comprises a fixed cantilever, a rotary driving motor fixedly arranged on the fixed cantilever, a rotating frame arranged at the rotary driving motor, a parallel rod hinge mechanism arranged at the rotating frame and fixedly provided with a spray head and a linear motor driving the parallel rod hinge mechanism,. The parallel rod hinge mechanism includes at least two spindles arranged in parallel and having the same movement track, at least two connection rods arranged in parallel and having the same movement track, and a plurality of fixed pins connecting the spindles and the connection rods and enabling the spindles and the connection rods to be arranged in interval. One ends of the connection rods suspend and are fixedly provided with sprayer heads. The rotating frame and the parallel rod hinge mechanism rotate around the driving motor under the rotation of the rotary driving motor, the parallel rod hinge mechanism moves through being driven by the linear motor and can make the spray head rotate around a preset forming point, the fixation of the forming point position is ensured, and higher forming efficiency and forming precision are realized.

An electronic apparatus includes a base, a first adjusting member, a first guide rod, a second guide rod, and an optical pickup head. The first adjusting member has a first supporting part, and a first rotating axis. The first rotating axis is passed through the first supporting part. The distance between the periphery of the first supporting part and the first rotating axis gradually changes. The first adjusting member is pivoted to the base by the first rotating axis. At least one part of the first guide rod is disposed on the periphery of the first supporting part. At least one part of the second guide rod connects with the base. The optical pickup head is disposed both on the first guide rod and the second guide rod. An optical head tilting angle adjusting mechanism is provided in the electronic apparatus.

A telepresence robot for use in association with a remote computing device includes a base, a body, a neck, a head and a tilt mechanism. The base has a drive system in communication with the remote computing device. The body is operably attached to the base. The neck is operably attached to the body. The head is operably attached to the neck. The head has a screen and the screen is in communication with the remote computing device. The tilt mechanism connects the head to the neck. The tilt mechanism includes a chain and sprocket assembly whereby the head tilts at least 10 degrees forwardly from a generally upright position and at least 10 degrees backwardly form the generally upright position.

The invention discloses a kind of optical disk data accessing device, has an optical head tilt control module, which is used to control the tilt quantity, decreases flutter of regenerate signal. The optical tilt control module includes regenerate signal generating unit, which is used to receive the radio frequency signal generated by the optical head, and generates EFM signal; flutter examining device, receives EFM signal, and examines the flutter of EFM signal; tilt control unit, which is used to correct tilt control value, and selects better value, in adjusting period it generates the tilt control value according to regenerate data; and tilt driver for receiving tilt control value and generates tilt control signal to drive optical head to rotate.

An eyeglass positioning device configured to be positioned between a user's nose and eyeglasses frame to elevate multifocal lenses relative to a user's eyes to bring an intermediate or near field of vision into a line of sight for use with certain activities, such as computer use, when the user's head is in an upright and normal head tilt position. The eyeglass positioning device preferably comprises a connector and two support arms that simply sit on a user's nose in either an upright or an inverted orientation, providing greater flexibility of use and comfort. The eyeglass positioning device may be used with a variety of shapes, styles, and sizes or eyeglass frames without requiring attachment to the frames or obstructing the field of view through the lenses. The eyeglass positioning device may include a visual or tactile indicator to aid in placing the device on a user's nose.

Disclosed is a propeller telescoping and head tilting device for a trans-medium aircraft, which belongs to the technical field of trans-medium aircrafts. In the propeller telescoping and head tiltingdevice, a rack I of a head telescoping mechanism is engaged with a gear III of a telescoping driving mechanism. A guide rail I is fixedly connected to a head bin shell. A hollow shaft sleeves the middle of a telescopic shaft in the head telescoping mechanism. A rack II is engaged with a gear IV. A guide rail II is fixedly connected to the head bin shell. A base of a motor I is fixedly connected toa support plate. A base of a motor II in the telescoping driving mechanism is fixedly connected to the head bin shell. A bearing II with a seat and a bearing III with a seat are respectively fixedlyconnected to a bearing mounting plate I and the bearing mounting plate II. The inner ends of a tilting shaft I and a tilting shaft II are fixedly connected to the head bin shell. Bases of a bearing IVwith a seat and a bearing V with a seat are fixedly connected to a fuselage shell. A base of a motor III is fixedly connected to the fuselage shell. The propeller telescoping and head tilting devicefor a trans-medium aircraft can realize the extension and contraction of propellers, which ensures good sealing performance and small underwater running resistance of the aircraft, and can realize rapid out-of-water of the aircraft, which greatly shortens the out-of-water time of the aircraft.

Provided is an X-ray radiographic apparatus that can take a lateral cephalometric radiograph, a posteroanterior cephalometric radiograph, etc. under the same state of the tilt in the front-rear direction of the head of a subject easily and with high reproducibility, and is free of risks associated with the use of an infraorbital point pointing bar.The X-ray radiographic apparatus comprises: a pair of arms provided facing each other with a reference line therebetween; ear rods provided to mutually facing inside surfaces of the pair of arms; a head tilt setting device for setting the tilt in the front-rear direction of the head of the subject provided on one arm, and a horizontal plane verification mechanism provided on the head tilt setting device or outside of the head tilt setting device.

The invention relates to a measuring tool, provides a linear dimension measuring tool and especially relates to an integrated inner / outer caliper capable of realizing direct reading. The caliper has inner caliper and outer caliper two states, and comprises a pair of caliper arms, which are symmetrically arranged and are in cross hinge through a rotation pin, wherein one section, at one side of the rotation pin, of each caliper arm is a clamping section, and the other section is a reading section. The end portion of each clamping section is provided with a caliper head, the included angle between which and the caliper arm is adjustable in the plane defined by the pair of caliper arms; the two caliper heads, the front ends of which are sharp ends, are symmetrically arranged; when the caliper heads tilt inwardly, the caliper is an inner caliper, and when the caliper heads tilt outwardly, the caliper is an outer caliper; the reading section is provided with a reading device for reflecting the length of the inner caliper and the length of the outer caliper; the caliper heads are rotatably arranged at the end portions of the clamping sections through control screws respectively; and the two sides of the back end of each caliper head are respectively provided with a limit lug for limiting the caliper head from tilting inwardly and outwardly to an extreme position.

Tilt between a head stack and its associated disk stack in a hard disk drive (HDD) is measured by determining the deviation of a target head from its expected position (based on the position of the current head) each time electrical contact is switched from the current head to a target head. A running average tilt value is stored and used to modify the logical seek distance used in a Rotational Position Optimization (RPO) algorithm to better order I / O requests in a queue. Also, the running average tilt value can be used by the servo to pre-position the target head before electrical contact is made with the target head, to improve speed of operation.