237 results about "Incenter" patented technology

A method of coronary vessel segmentation and visualization includes providing a digitized coronary image, placing a plurality of seed points along an estimated centerline of a coronary vessel, selecting a seed point and constructing a cyclic graph around the seed point in a plane perpendicular to the centerline at the seed point, performing a multi-scale-mean shift filtering in the perpendicular plane to estimate image gradient values, detecting a vessel boundary using a minimum-mean-cycle optimization that minimizes a ratio of a cost of a cycle to a length of a cycle, constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary about a point on the centerline, and refining the location of the centerline point from the sub-voxel accurate boundary, where the steps of constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary and refining the centerline point location are repeated until convergence.

A bone plate is described which is adapted for use in situ to fix a spatial relationship of at least two bone parts. The bone plate has at least one pair of the bone screw apertures that are adjoined by a relief-space contiguous with the open space of the screw apertures themselves. An adjoined aperture pair forms a complex aperture and has a center-to-center distance d of the apertures along an axis running through the centers of the apertures. The center-to-center distance d is equal to or greater than the sum of the radii (r1+r2) of the heads of the individual bone screw used with the aperture pair.

A multi-rib tire tread has a plurality of circumferential spaced apart ribs in an axial direction, adjacent ribs separated by a circumferential grooves and each rib having sides extending radially outward to a radially outward contact surface. The outward contact surface of a central rib has an outwardly convex curvature in an axial direction more rounded than a tread curvature. A first lateral rib and a second lateral rib are positioned adjacent opposite sides of the central rib, each lateral rib having an outwardly convex curvature in an axial direction more rounded than a tread curvature. The convex curvature of the first and second lateral ribs are less rounded than the central rib. The radius of curvature of the center rib is within a range of 170 and 270 millimeters; the radius of curvature of the first lateral rib is within a range of 80 to 180 millimeters; and the radius of curvature of the second lateral rib is within a range of 100 to 200 millimeters.

The present invention is a golf ball which comprises dimples having a cross section defined by the superposition of two or more continuous and differentiable functions. Additionally, the dimples preferably have a circular boundary and maintain an axis coincident with the center of the circular boundary.

A pupil detecting apparatus detects an edge of a pupil in an image of a face. An outline of an upper eyelid is also detected. The apparatus selects an effective edge extending along the pupil by removing a part of edge extending along the upper eyelid from the edges detected. Then, the apparatus applies the circle Hough transformation to the effective edge in order to obtain a center of the pupil and a radius of the pupil. Thereby, it is possible to detect the pupil accurately even if a part of the pupil is covered.

In the invention, the mark aperture radius of the circular target drone is 120%-150% of the rest aperture. In the process, according to the filtering noise of images, threshold segmentation, contour tracing, ellipse recognition, ellipse fitting and center extraction are utilized. Based on the spetial position between the center of the marked aperture and the center of the nearest aperture as well as the distances between the center of the marked aperture and the centers of other apertures and the distance of moving the circular target drone along a certain direction, the position of the camera is determined by using the unique point space orientation method. The invention is suitable to calibration of camera in order to obtain the coincidence relation between the point in 3D space and the pixel in computer image.

An angle-adjustable hinge in which a pair of floating wedge members are disposed as to be rotation symmetric for 180° around a first axis as an axis of symmetry, and each of wedge faces of four wedge-shaped window portions is serially formed on an arc around a second axis as a center, eccentric from the first axis and rotation symmetric for every 90° around the first axis as the axis of symmetry.

An LED module includes an LED and an elongated lens. The lens includes a center axis, a concave incident face, and an opposite convex emitting face. The emitting face includes a portion with a curvature radius at any point along a first plane larger than a distance between the point and the LED, and larger than a curvature radius at a corresponding point of the incident face on the first plane. A curvature radius at any point of the portion of the emitting face along a second plane perpendicularly intersected with the first plane at the center axis is larger than a distance between the point and the LED, while smaller than a curvature radius of a corresponding point at the incident face on the second plane. A radiating angle of the LED module in the first plane is larger than that in the second plane.

The invention relates to an azimuth-elevation tracking method of a heliostat with a reflecting mirror surface deviated from a rotating center, which comprises the following steps: firstly calculating the accurate normal of the mirror surface center of the heliostat, and then calculating the tracking azimuth angle and the tracking elevation angle of the heliostat under the condition that an elevation rotating shaft is parallel to the tangent plane of the mirror surface center; measuring unit target vectors, measuring the inclination angles psit and psia of the azimuth rotating shaft of the heliostat, measuring the non-orthogonal deflection angle tau1 of the two rotating shafts, calculating a certain moment of a unit sun position vector at any moment at daytime of a local place, rotating the heliostat to enable the reflected solar faculae to be just positioned at the center of a focusing target surface, i.e. the center of the faculae is aligned with the center of the focusing target surface, and determining the tracking azimuth angle and the tracking elevation angle corresponding to an initial reference position of the heliostat rotating along the shaft by comparing the current tracking azimuth angle and the tracking elevation angle with the respectively rotated angles of the heliostat from the initial reference position to a current position recorded by an azimuth rotation encoder and an elevation rotation encoder.

A resin lens plate has, on its planar surface, convex lenslets arranged in a regular pattern with adjacent lenslets being apart from each other by a specified center-to-center pitch. Each of the convex lenslets has a rectangular or hexagonal contour in a plan view of the plate, and the lenslets are arranged such that the direction in which the center-to-center distance between adjacent lenslets takes a maximum value is in parallel with the lengthwise side of the plate. A groove or a ridge is formed along the bisector of a center-to-center line drawn between each pair of adjacent lenslets, and a light absorbing film is formed over the groove or the ridge. The groove or ridge inhibits the entry of stray light to the lenslet from adjacent lenslets.

The invention discloses a radius compensation algorithm for a convex contour closed-angle linear and circular arc composite transitional cutting tool, namely D-type cutting tool radius compensation. The radius compensation algorithm comprises the following steps of: taking a ling segment BC, a circular arc CD and a line segment DE as a cutting tool central track of the radius compensation algorithm for the linear and circular arc composite transitional cutting tool; calculating the coordinate of a switching point; and establishing or canceling cutting tool radius compensation. Because the cutting tool central track is extended at a convex contour closed-angle transitional part, the cutting tool cannot always contact an A point any more, and the problem of closed-angle burn caused by B-type cutting tool radius compensation which stays at a closed-angle part for an overlong time is effectively solved. Due to the adoption of circular arc transition at the convex contour closed-angle transitional part, the cutting tool central track is smooth and continuous, and the problem that frequently acceleration and deceleration are required and the processing speed is difficult to improve because of broken line transition of C-type cutting tool radius compensation. The length of the cutting tool central track of the D-type cutting tool radius compensation is longer than that of the cuttingtool central track of the B-type cutting tool radius compensation, and is shorter than that of the cutting tool central track of the C-type cutting tool radius compensation.

The articulated wireline hole finder is a modular device which attaches to the bottom of a wireline logging tool-string to aid conveyance down irregular shaped and / or deviated boreholes which possess features such as ledges, washouts, and contractions, that might otherwise terminate full descent of the tool-string to the bottom of the borehole and thereby compromise the wireline data acquisition objectives. Elements of the articulated wireline hole finder may include a low friction roller nose assembly and spacer sub, an articulated spring joint, that transfers tool-string weight and directs lateral movement of the roller nose towards hole center, and a pair of five arm centralizers that possess a wide dynamic range.

An afocal beam relay has a concave reflective surface having a first center of curvature and a first vertex that define an optical axis. A convex reflective surface has a second center of curvature that is substantially coincident with the first center of curvature and a second vertex that lies along the optical axis. The convex reflective surface faces toward the concave reflective surface to relay a decentered entrance pupil to a decentered exit pupil. An aspheric corrector element is disposed in the path of input light that is directed to the decentered entrance pupil and has correction values that are substantially centered on the first center of curvature.

The invention relates to a two-freedom-degree limit anisotropic flexible biomimetic ankle which comprises a connector for being connected with a prosthetic socket, a connecting rod connected to the lower end of the connector, a spring mounting bracket connected to the middle of the connecting rod, a central sphere pin pair connected to the lower end of the connecting rod, an ankle limit end cover arranged on the upper portion of the central sphere pin pair and a sphere pin pair base arranged below the central sphere pin pair. A limit cambered surface with four spring guide holes is arranged at the upper end of the ankle limit end cover, and an inner spherical surface is arranged at the lower end of the ankle limit end cover. The spring mounting bracket is supported in the limit cambered surface through four spiral compression springs installed in the four spring guide holes. An inner spherical surface is arranged at the upper end of the sphere pin pair base. The central sphere pin pair is in clearance fit with the inner spherical surface of the ankle limit end cover and the inner spherical surface of the sphere pin pair base, and a bolt pin on the side face of the central sphere pin pair is in clearance fit with a bolt pin guide groove in the ankle limit end cover and a bolt pin guide groove in the sphere pin pair base. The two-freedom-degree limit anisotropic flexible biomimetic ankle has two degrees of freedom, can perform plantar flexion, dorsal flexion, introversion and extroversion, has different angle ranges and flexibility in each direction, and enables an amputee to walk on a more complicated pavement.

A can end for a beverage container has a center panel with a stay-on tab opening system. A tear panel is defined by a first frangible score and a non-frangible hinge segment. A tab is attached to the center panel by a rivet. The tab has a void region partially surrounding a rivet island. A first circle has a first center point located at a center of the rivet and a first radius equal to a distance from the center of the rivet to a radially outermost point of the void region on a first axis running through the nose and lift ends of the tab and a center of the rivet. A second circle has a coincident center and a second radius less than 2.5 times first radius. A second frangible score is spaced completely radially outwardly from the rivet island and between the first and second circles.

The invention relates to a method for extracting the features of a palm in a non-contact imaging mode. The method includes the steps that firstly, an incircle of the palm at the roots of fingers is extracted, and a plurality of radial line segments drawn from the incenter are intersected at a circumference; meanwhile, a template is constructed to calculate gradient values of points in the incircle, the relative radius of a center of mass is calculated according to the gradient values of the points on the line segments, the relative radius is defined into a feature parameter, and feature vector space is constructed. The features constructed through the method have the advantages of being unchanged in translation, rotation and scaling and short in feature extraction time.

A method of coronary vessel segmentation and visualization includes providing a digitized coronary image, placing a plurality of seed points along an estimated centerline of a coronary vessel, selecting a seed point and constructing a cyclic graph around the seed point in a plane perpendicular to the centerline at the seed point, performing a multi-scale-mean shift filtering in the perpendicular plane to estimate image gradient values, detecting a vessel boundary using a minimum-mean-cycle optimization that minimizes a ratio of a cost of a cycle to a length of a cycle, constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary about a point on the centerline, and refining the location of the centerline point from the sub-voxel accurate boundary, where the steps of constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary and refining the centerline point location are repeated until convergence.

A compressor includes an impeller including blades extending along a shroud. Each of the blades includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a tip edge connecting the leading edge and the trailing edge and opposing the shroud. The tip edge has a central curve extending along a center of a thickness of the tip edge from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The central curve has a tangential line touching a contact in the central curve. The tangential line has a tip edge inclination angle made by the rotation axis and the tangential line viewed in a reference direction which passes the contact and which is perpendicular to the rotation axis. The tip edge inclination angle increases as the contact approaches a first maximum inclination point in the central curve. The first maximum inclination point is separated from both the leading edge and the trailing edge.

An interlocking building block, and procedure for constructing the same, having a planar locking mechanism and a spatial locking mechanism. The planar locking mechanism being a three-clawed piece built around an equilateral triangle with protruding arms and grooves corresponding to a circular arc. The protruding claws are rotated on a plane around a center of rotation. These align with grooves of another three-clawed piece to offer a locking mechanism, where the center point of the circular arc is identical to the center of planar rotation. The spatial locking mechanism may have a hexagonal prism placed next to the three-clawed piece and connected to the corners of the equilateral triangle, into which the three-clawed piece is placed so that the protruding claws extend beyond the hexagonal prism, or the spatial locking mechanism consists of protrusions ensuring a groove / taper connection and connecting grooves, so that each piece contains protrusions and grooves.

A triangle ruler includes a triangle ruler body defining three corners, three sides, opposing first surface and second surface surrounded by the three sides and three corners and a recessed annular scale located at the center thereof, and a direction indicator including a pendulum and a pointer and pivoting about the center of the recessed annular scale in such a manner that the pivot axis of the direction indicator extends perpendicular to the first and second surfaces of the triangle ruler body, and the effects of the weight of the direction indicator keeps one end of the pointer to constantly indicate a predetermined direction. Thus, the invention combines the functions of a conventional protractor and a conventional triangle ruler to facilitate drawing a variety of different angles of lines.

Distance meters measure distances from a reference position to a first area including an upper pitch circle portion and a second area including a lower pitch circle portion. Center coordinates of the hub is calculated based on respective center coordinates of two hub bolts included within the first and second areas. Coordinates of three points defining apexes of a triangle are acquired. Inclination angle of the hub relative to a vertical plane is calculated based on the coordinates of the three points, and an orientation of each of the hub bolts is calculated based on the center coordinates of the hub and the center coordinates of the hub bolt.