1276 results about "Latitude" patented technology

An image capturing system and method for automatically watermarking a plurality of recorded camera and image parameters such as the location (latitude, longitude and altitude), orientation of the principal axis of the camera, whether the camera is in landscape mode or portrait mode, camera velocity, photographer information, time and date, zoom factor, shutter speed, flash on / off, autofocus distance, lightmeter reading, focal length and aperture into every captured image. This watermarked data can be subsequently extracted and compared with the originally recorded data so as to verify the authenticity of a corresponding image. Since the critical data is invisibly watermarked into the image, it is difficult to modify the image without affecting the watermarked data.

A method of delta-encoding and compressing a table containing 6-byte MAC addresses is provided. The MAC addresses are sorted, a first MAC address is stored, and only the binary differences between succeeding MAC addresses are stored. A method of reading a delta-encoded and compressed MAC address table is provided. A first unencoded MAC address is read. The remaining MAC addresses are generated by successively adding stored binary differences to the result of the previous addition. A method of encoding and compressing a location table is provided. A reference latitude and longitude is selected and stored. The offsets from the reference latitude and longitude are stored for the remaining locations. A method of reading an encoded location table is provided. A stored reference latitude and longitude is read. Stored offsets are read and applied to the reference latitude and longitude to generate a set of latitude and longitude locations.

An iconic event timeline for conveying to a user the occurrence of events during a period of time. The iconic event timeline includes a timeline area having an axis representing an interval of time, and a plurality of graphical icons positioned along the axis. Whenever graphical icons representing the same event or class of event occur along the timeline, they occur along the same plane parallel to the axis of the timeline.

A method of delta-encoding and compressing a table containing 6-byte MAC addresses is provided. The MAC addresses are sorted, a first MAC address is stored, and only the binary differences between succeeding MAC addresses are stored. A method of reading a delta-encoded and compressed MAC address table is provided. A first unencoded MAC address is read. The remaining MAC addresses are generated by successively adding stored binary differences to the result of the previous addition. A method of encoding and compressing a location table is provided. A reference latitude and longitude is selected and stored. The offsets from the reference latitude and longitude are stored for the remaining locations. A method of reading an encoded location table is provided. A stored reference latitude and longitude is read. Stored offsets are read and applied to the reference latitude and longitude to generate a set of latitude and longitude locations.

A method and system are provided for collecting images of objects at geographic locations for publication in an online directory, such as online Yellow Pages. A camera and a GPS receiver, both receiving time information from a synchronized clock, are mounted on a vehicle. Time-stamped images captured by the camera and time-stamped geographic locations (e.g., longitude and latitude coordinates) determined by the GPS receiver are recorded. Each image is then associated with a geographic location based on corresponding respective time-stamps. Thereafter, each image is correlated with a street addresses based on each image's associated geographic location, for example by referring to a lookup table that correlates addresses with geographic coordinates. The address-correlated images may then be used in an online directory, where each listing (e.g., business) can be displayed with an image of an object (e.g., store front) taken at the address in the listing.

Apps are secured or security-wrapped either before they are downloaded onto a device, such as a smart phone or tablet device, or after they are downloaded but before they are allowed to access the device operating system and cause any potential damage to the device. The app is secured before it is allowed to access the operating system of the device, thereby preventing the app from malicious behavior. App object code is substituted with security program object code, thereby creating a security-wrapped app. The app is provisioned with a geo-fencing policy which prevents execution of an app outside a pre-defined geographical area. If the device is within the defined area, the app is allowed to execute. The geographical area, such as a building or company campus, is defined using longitude and latitude coordinates and a location accuracy value. Device location is obtained using location / GPS services on the device.

An x-ray system acquires an initial low-contrast, wide latitude (G=2.5, or G=2 or less) x-ray image of a breast. A processing system automatically finds suspected abnormalities in the breast by processing the low contrast initial image, and then automatically converts the initial x-ray image to a high-contrast, narrow latitude image at the locations of the found abnormalities to thereby facilitate diagnosis and patient care. The technology includes effective ways to produce, process and display the various images, and can be extended to other types of images.

A method for judging and positioning a pseudo base station based on reported information of a terminal includes the steps that after receiving a message, the terminal judges whether the message is a spam message or not according to key words and a mobile phone number; if yes, a message or voice service is triggered immediately; if network connection fails, the position is judged to be a suspected covering area of the pseudo base station; the longitude and latitude of the position are recorded through a GPS chip of the terminal, when network coverage recovers, the covering position of the suspected pseudo base station is uploaded to a base station; if the terminal supports a route test function, the updating time of the position area, retention and reselection parameters and area codes are stored at the same time, so that a network monitoring server accurately discriminates and draws the covering area of the suspected pseudo base station according to a great deal of information such as the longitude and latitude of the covering position of the suspected pseudo base station, wherein the information is reported by the base station and comes from the terminal or a route test terminal, and then the position where the pseudo base station is located is judged rapidly and accurately. The method is easy and convenient to operate, high in efficiency and good in accuracy and does not increase interfaces and signaling loads of the base station or a core network, and it is necessary to modify hardware configuration of the terminal and an existing communication protocol.

Aiming at the requirements of frequent cell handover, short handover time and high handover success rate in high-speed railway TD-LTE communication system, a fast handover method of TD-LTE communication system based on target cell pre-carrying is proposed. According to the train's running position, speed and direction, after the network planning is completed, a list of neighboring cells is generated in advance, and the switching position of each switching zone is preset, that is, the longitude and latitude position information. Before the train enters the overlapping area of ​​switching between two cells , when the distance from entering the handover zone is a certain value L, the source base station eNodeB determines and sends the pre-bearer information to the target base station eNodeB according to the measurement report of the user terminal UE, and the target base station eNodeB performs the evolution packet system ( Evolved Packet System (EPS) resources to bear the load, when the train enters the handover zone, if the train meets the handover criteria, the train will be handed over from the source cell to the target cell. Therefore, this method reduces the handover delay and is beneficial to improve the handover success rate. The method can dynamically adjust the switching method according to the mobile speed of the UE, solve the problem of fast switching in a high-speed mobile environment, reduce the number of communication drops, improve the success rate of switching, enhance the service quality of high-speed broadband mobile services, and promote high-speed railway trains. The development of domestic multimedia broadband mobile Internet services meets the growing needs of passengers for mobile communication services.

A window assembly having at least one pane is presented for use in a building. Positioned within the pane are a plurality of spaced-apart micro-louvers which extend substantially across the length of the pane. The micro-louvers are positioned to block transmission of direct sunlight through the pane when the sun is at a selected angle above the horizon or higher. The angle at and above which direct light is blocked can be selected to be approximately 30 or 45 degrees above the horizon, for example. The angle can be selected based on the latitude of the location of the window assembly, the time of day during which direct sunlight is blocked, etc. The micro-louvers may have reflective surfaces, be colored as desired, be opaque or translucent.

A solar-energy concentrator optimized for operating in a substantially vertical orientation and method for collecting sunlight with such concentrator. The concentrator includes a photovoltaic (PV) module having a PV cell and layers containing diffraction gratings that may be spatially stacked or multiplexed. Diffraction gratings define corresponding diffraction patterns optimized for solar energy harvesting depending on which direction the concentrator is facing. Additionally, a method of designing a hologram for concentrating solar energy onto an adjacent photovoltaic chip is provided. The method includes selecting a photovoltaic chip material, selecting a photovoltaic cell geometry, selecting a first construction angle, selecting an installation latitude, selecting an installation tilt angle, and modeling hologram performance as a function of a second construction angle and a design wavelength.

A method for determining the location of a mobile station / cell phone making a call that may be an emergency 911 call. When the call is originated at the mobile station, the supporting wireless network receives data from a GPS device built into the mobile station as to the latitude and longitude of the device making the call. In addition, the mobile station transmits a barometric pressure measurement that allows the wireless support network to determine the altitude of the mobile station at the latitude and longitude reported by the mobile station. With that information in hand, the location of the mobile station making the emergency including its altitude relative to ground level at the mobile station's latitude and longitude can readily be determined.

A force / displacement touch device, this invention employs a base-plane 32 and flexible mounting material to suspend, or “float,” a non-rigidly mounted touch-plane 12, and uses sensors at each mounting point 22 to measure Z-axis deflection of the floating touch-plane 12. The system adapts existing planes in typical LCD assemblies to implement touch screens. This floating touch detection system provides an accurate, sensitive, compact and low-cost solution. It mitigates XY friction to improve detection of Z-forces. This approach provides latitude in locating sensors 34, allows for additional mid-plane sensors, enables greater accuracy and resolution, and adds features such as “multi-touch” sensitivity. This touch system is defined as a unique and novel ‘floating’ co-planar assembly of a touch-plane 12 to a base-plane 32, which uses a flexible material 22 or medium to define a consistent resting air gap, and then senses and measures any deflection from the co-planar resting position, using any among a broad variety of sensor types.

A solar powered sign annunciator comprised of a plurality of high intensity light emitting diodes (LED); a microprocessor controller to regulate power consumption and annunciator characteristics, battery charging and sensor response with an integrated software charge controller; a minimalized solar panel array sized to produce sufficient power for battery charging under normalized solar radiation to latitudes as far north as 45 degrees; a direction sensing Doppler radar to determine the approach of traffic; a low voltage battery to minimize power control losses to the LED array; a temperature sensor to determine proper charging battery status and battery capacity; and a plurality of analog to digital (A / D) converters incorporated in the microprocessor to sense solar power output, temperature input, battery voltage and charging current and Doppler phase shift differential. The system also includes a housing arrangement to incorporate all aforementioned items in a weathertight enclosure providing sufficient horizontal surface for solar cell attachment yet in a package compact enough to easily attach to existing designed signs.

The invention discloses a method for subdividing and polymerizing geographic grids based on longitude and latitude, comprising the steps of: 1, subdividing space of the earth surface according to a GeoSOT (geographical coordinates subdividing grid with one dimension integral coding on 2<n>-tree ) grid subdivision manner; 2, giving unique codes to GeoSOT grid facets obtained via the subdivision, wherein the codes of the grid facets keep integral dimensions such as degree, minute and second and can adopt four code forms such as a quaternary one-dimensional code form, a binary one-dimensional code form, a binary two-dimensional code form and a decimal two-dimensional code form; and 3, selecting a specific layer in the GeoSOT grids as a basic tuple, aggregating to form any one geographic grid subdivided on the basis of longitude and latitude, and automatically giving globally unique codes to facets of the aggregated grid. The aggregated grid has uniform subdivision basic tuples, so that the integration organization problem of global space information can be solved hopefully.

The invention provides a method for rapidly detecting and positioning illegal base station intrusion. According to the method, basic network parameters such as LAC, CI and field intensity, acquired by a common user handset and user business behaviors are utilized to determine whether parameter change and the business behaviors are in accordance with various pre-set early warning characteristic conditions, summation of weights in accordance with the characteristic conditions is carried out, whether the present situation belongs to early warning of illegal base station intrusion is determined according to the total weight; when existence of the early warning is determined, a GPS switch of a user is in an open state, present GPS latitude and longitude information of a position of the user is recorded, first-level early warning information is transmitted to a remote central processing unit; report information of multiple terminals are classified by the central processing unit according to LAC codes before attack, secondary integrated alarm analysis on one type of early warning information is carried out to determine whether pre-set alarm characteristic conditions are satisfied, summation of weights in accordance with the alarm characteristic conditions is carried out, whether the present situation belongs to illegal base station intrusion alarm is determined according to the total weight, after existence of the alarm is determined, an illegal base station position during the present illegal base station intrusion is calculated, and real-time alarm is carried out.

In a camera location landmark search system, when an image is captured by a digital camera, a GPS calculator calculates position data indicating a camera position. The position data and image data of the captured image are memorized in association with each other. Map data is divided at regular intervals of latitude and longitude into a lot of areas. Based on the position data, a divisional area including the camera position is selected with reference to a divisional area index table of the map data, and landmark data prepared for the determined divisional area are retrieved from a landmark data table of the map data. Based on the landmark data, a landmark corresponding to the camera position is determined, and the landmark name is memorized in association with the image data. The image data as sorted according to the landmark names may be displayed with the landmark names.

The invention relates to the field of mobile communication terminals, and discloses a mobile phone camera-based latitude realization method and a mobile phone. In the mobile phone camera-based latitude realization method and the mobile phone provided by the invention, two cameras are adopted, one camera performs photometry and simultaneously changes the exposure of the second camera, the two cameras simultaneously perform shooting, and shot images are synthesized in a baseband chip by a software synthesis algorithm to obtain a photo with a large dynamic range. Therefore, the mobile phone has a new latitude shooting function and a better shooting effect, and the shot photos are clearer.

A method of processing an input image representing at least a part-spherical panoramic view with respect to a primary image viewpoint comprises mapping regions of the input image to regions of a planar image according to a mapping which varies according to latitude within the input image relative to a horizontal reference plane so that a ratio of the number of pixels in an image region in the input image to the number of pixels in the image region in the planar image to which that image region in the input image is mapped, generally increases with increasing latitude from the horizontal reference plane.

The invention relates to a resident trip information obtaining method based on an intelligent mobile phone. The method comprises the following steps: (1), a mobile phone client detecting whether a GPS and a Network are opened; (2), the mobile phone client uploading user registration information and home / work place coordinate information to a web server; (3), the web server receiving the registration information and the coordinate information; (4), the mobile phone client acquiring tracing point latitude and longitude information and time information of a user in accordance with specific time intervals and uploading the information to a local place; (5), the mobile phone client automatically uploading the tracing point information stored in the local place at user specific time or uploading the information when the user clicks a hand-operated transmission button; (6), the web server receiving tracing point data and storing the data in a traveler locus table in a database; and (7), the web server determining an algorithm according to information compiled in advance, and through combination with POI information, analyzing to obtain a trip chain of a resident. Compared to the prior art, the method provided by the invention has the advantages of wide application scope, low cost, simple process, high information accuracy and the like.

The invention is an image pickup apparatus comprising an LE-SE buffer for storing multiple images with different exposure amounts that have been taken with a CCD, an SL synthesizing circuit for performing Super Latitude (SL) processing for the multiple images to generate a synthesized image with a wide dynamic range, a suitability evaluating circuit for evaluating whether the photography scene is suitable for performing SL processing with the SL synthesizing circuit, an image quality evaluating circuit for comparing the synthesized image with the images before synthesizing and evaluating image quality, and a recording format selecting circuit for which of the multiple images before synthesizing and the synthesized image to be recorded by a recording circuit, based on the image quality evaluation results and operating input from a key input circuit.

A solar tracking mechanism and mounting platform for solar panels is mounted with three or four legs attachable to a concrete pad and includes a substantially vertically disposed axle and a substantially horizontally disposed axle to which a plurality of panel support members are mounted to form a panel support assembly. The vertically disposed axle allows at least 240 degree rotation of the panel support assembly to follow the daily East-West travel of the Sun in the sky. The substantially horizontally disposed axle allows declining or tilting of the panel support assembly for the North-South adjustment of the panel support assembly to correspond to the geographic latitude of the location where the solar tracking mechanism and platform is used. The substantially horizontally disposed axle is placed on the centroid or substantially on the centroid location relative to the panel support members, including solar panels so that, as a result, the assembly is completely or substantially balanced and can be placed horizontally or in any inclined position without the weight of the assembly, including solar panels mounted thereon, causing it to precipitously drop or fall.

This invention provides an object tracking method and system for tracking objects in video frames which takes into account the scaling and variance of each matching feature. This provides for some latitude in the choice of matching feature, whilst ensuring that as many matching features as possible can be used to determine matches between objects, thus giving increased accuracy in the matching thus determined. A parallel matching approach is used, and heuristic rules employed to account for occlusions between objects.

A method of registering a mobile device in a mobile telecommunications network comprises the device's receiving power from a power source and transmitting a registration request signal including mobile device identification data, an associated mobile network determining a set of latitude and longitude location coordinates for the transmitting mobile device, comparing the determined set of latitude and longitude location coordinates with a table for matching the location coordinates with a service area code, determining a service area code responsive to the comparison, and storing the service area code, the mobile device identification data, the determined service area code and a location area code of the associated public mobile network for registering the mobile device in the associated mobile network. A related mobile device comprises a power source, a processor for determining whether power has been actuated, a global positioning system for determining a set of latitude and longitude location coordinates for the transmitting mobile device, the processor for comparing the determined set of latitude and longitude location coordinates with a table for matching the location coordinates with a service area code, determining a service area code responsive to the comparison and storing the service area code in memory of the mobile device.

Sunlight is localized at a solar cell by means of a lens in conjunction with a solar energy trap with very low losses. The lens is a standard magnifying lens which concentrates the sunlight to a spot which is a small percentage of the total area of the lens. The lens is fixed at a tilt angle which is in accordance with the latitude of the site of the solar collection. The daily arc of the sun across the face of the lens produces a smooth arc path of the spot in three dimensional spaces. At or near the smooth arc in space, a guide which may be a secondary mirror surface or an opening guides the light into a solar trap. The solar trap is a fully mirrored enclosed space which permits light to enter but not leave the trap. The light in the trap is guided to a solar cell within the trap with reflected and scattered light being absorbed by the solar cell.

The invention discloses a multidimensional model based oil and gas resource data key system implementation method and system. According to the multidimensional model based oil and gas resource data key system implementation system, sorting, cleaning, classification and systematization are performed on source data of oil and gas resources, cleaning, transformation and integration are performed based on an ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) framework, the source data are loaded into a data warehouse or a market to form a core database, and the data processing efficiency is improved and data mining is performed through establishment of a multidimensional model. According to the multidimensional model based oil and gas resource data key system implementation method, different latitudes of the data can be flexibly combined, the custom analysis on core data such as the oil price, the yield, reserves, the quantity of the resources, import and export and the mining right is achieved, integrated management and visual display of statements, graphics, texts and maps are supported, interfaces and function modules of the system are based on a configuration scheme, and accordingly the configuration is flexible, the extension can be performed, the use is easy, the display form of the data is enriched, and the retrieval efficiency is improved.

A method and system are provided for collecting images of objects at geographic locations for publication in an online directory, such as online Yellow Pages. A camera and a GPS receiver, both receiving time information from a synchronized clock, are mounted on a vehicle. Time-stamped images captured by the camera and time-stamped geographic locations (e.g., longitude and latitude coordinates) determined by the GPS receiver are recorded. Each image is then associated with a geographic location based on corresponding respective time-stamps. Thereafter, each image is correlated with a street addresses based on each image's associated geographic location, for example by referring to a lookup table that correlates addresses with geographic coordinates. The address-correlated images may then be used in an online directory, where each listing (e.g., business) can be displayed with an image of an object (e.g., store front) taken at the address in the listing.

In a camera location landmark search system, when an image is captured by a digital camera, a GPS calculator calculates position data indicating a camera position. The position data and image data of the captured image are memorized in association with each other. Map data is divided at regular intervals of latitude and longitude into a lot of areas. Based on the position data, a divisional area including the camera position is selected with reference to a divisional area index table of the map data, and landmark data prepared for the determined divisional area are retrieved from a landmark data table of the map data. Based on the landmark data, a landmark corresponding to the camera position is determined, and the landmark name is memorized in association with the image data. The image data as sorted according to the landmark names may be displayed with the landmark names.

An age assessment method based on face recognition technology is a method capable of considering affects on age estimation caused by race, sex, latitude (region), rural-urban difference. The method of using face recognition technology to estimate age has vast applicability and improves accuracy of age estimation observably. The method is based on an effective hypothesis, that is people with similar appearance has similar facial features at different ages, when estimating ages, just comparing the face image to be estimated with face image of different ages with higher appearance similarity, finding numbers of face images at different ages has highest appearance similarity with the object being estimated, proceeding weighted average to infer age of the object being estimated.

This highly balanced, nose-independent type of eyewear device keeps optical devices securely positioned before the eyes in previously unobtained, carefree comfort. It also allows micro-positioning of optical devices at definite placements. Select device of the method likewise stows glasses, handy on, both above and below line-of-sight. The head, including ears is used extensively, but not the nose or other face, except and unless by the margins. Typically tensile strap (70) or one or more rigid cranial-crown extensions (72) [dubbed pate-pieces] extend to the top of the head from somewhere along distally counterweighted, glasses earpieces. Alternately a counterweight-and-support line (34) is strung from a [whimsically chosen] counterbalancing mass (32) behind the head to support the front. Counterpoised cranial support inherently lends more latitude to eyewear design. This type of support promises to spawn an explosion of pleasing, exciting new eyewear. The disclosure espouses glasses which absolutely stay put, while remaining comfortably unnoticed.