320 results about "Location map" patented technology

A map-reduce compatible distributed file system that consists of successive component layers that each provide the basis on which the next layer is built provides transactional read-write-update semantics with file chunk replication and huge file-create rates. A primitive storage layer (storage pools) knits together raw block stores and provides a storage mechanism for containers and transaction logs. Storage pools are manipulated by individual file servers. Containers provide the fundamental basis for data replication, relocation, and transactional updates. A container location database allows containers to be found among all file servers, as well as defining precedence among replicas of containers to organize transactional updates of container contents. Volumes facilitate control of data placement, creation of snapshots and mirrors, and retention of a variety of control and policy information. Key-value stores relate keys to data for such purposes as directories, container location maps, and offset maps in compressed files.

Methods for conducting an electrophysiology procedure using a programmed machine are described, including methods for managing discrete data capture requests received throughout the course of an electrophysiology procedure and for discretizing the display of independent data capture events that occur during the course of the electrophysiology procedure. These methods enable an operator to review location maps of sites visited during the course of a procedure and to review data from discrete moments in the procedure and to play back data over a sequence of times throughout the procedure, one moment at a time. The invention further includes software constructs that enable data management.

An image processing system is provided, which includes: a front monitoring device that obtains an image of a view ahead of a vehicle; a vehicle position detecting device that detects the position and orientation of the vehicle; a map database that stores road maps; a traffic indicator position estimating portion that estimates the position of a traffic indicator (23) based on the shape of a road ahead of the vehicle that has been extracted from the map database, according to the position of the vehicle that has been detected by the vehicle position detecting device; an image processing region setting portion that sets an image processing region within the image obtained by the front monitoring device based on the position of the traffic indicator that has been estimated by the traffic indicator position estimating portion; and a traffic indicator detecting portion that detects the traffic indicator from the image processing region.

In an aspect, a system for using artificial intelligence to evaluate, correct, and monitor user attentiveness includes a forward-facing camera, the forward-facing camera configured to capture a video feed of a field of vision on a digital screen, at least a user alert mechanism configured to output a directional alert to a user, a processing unit in communication with the forward-facing camera and the at least a user alert mechanism, a screen location to spatial location map operating on the processing unit, and a motion detection analyzer operating on the processing unit, the motion detection analyzer designed and configured to detect, on the digital screen, a rapid parameter change, determine a screen location on the digital screen of the rapid parameter change, retrieve, from the screen location to spatial location map, a spatial location based on the screen location, and generate, using the spatial location, the directional alert.

A method is disclosed for representing locations in a geographic database in a manner that facilitates navigation and routing. A core map database includes data that represents public roads in a geographic region. Each of a plurality of location map databases includes data that represent facilities, such as businesses, stores, offices, or other places, that are physically located away from the public network and access to which requires travel on paths away from the public road network. Each of the facilities represented in the location map databases is assigned a location reference code that is associated with data from which a path connecting the facility and the public road network can be determined.

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a computer system, method implemented on a computer, and computer readable medium storing instructions for defining an extension taxonomy. The computer system comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions, the instructions being executable to configure the processor to provide a selection module operable to designate a selected portion of a source document, wherein the source document comprises a set of locations and a location map for identifying each location in the set of locations; wherein each location is configured to receive text-based content and wherein the selected portion comprises at least one location in the set of locations. The processor is also configured to provide: an extension module operable to associate a taxonomy element with a location in the selected portion; a connection module operable to define a location link between the identified taxonomy element and the location in the selected portion; and, a storage module operable to store the taxonomy element and the location link in a repository.

Methods and systems of concealing access patterns to data storage, such as within servers of a cloud computing environment are presented. Server data storage is securely partitioned into smaller electronic data storage partitions of predetermined size. The client side maintains a shuffling buffer and position map for these blocks as stored on the electronic data storage partitions of the server. Concealment is performed with respect to accesses from the client to server using an oblivious sorting protocol. Access operation is concealed with each block being randomly assigned to any of the data storage partitions, and whenever a block is accessed, the block is logically removed from its current partition and logically assigned to a fresh random partition selected from all partitions, while the client maintains tracking of which partition each block is associated with at any point of time.

A method for identifying data for relocation in a multivolume file system. The method includes generating a file location map, the file location map containing a list of the locations of files that occupy space on each of a plurality of volumes of the file system, wherein The file system comprising least a first volume and a second volume. The method further includes updating the file location map in accordance with changes in a file change log for the file system, and identifying data residing on the first volume of the file system by scanning the file location map. Using the identified data, a ratio of per-file activity during a first time period relative to overall file system activity over a second time period is calculated to derive a file activity ratio for each of the files of the identified data. Files are then selected for relocation based on the file activity ratio.

Systems and methods for intelligent placement of appliance response to a voice command are provided. An exemplary system includes a plurality of appliances. An exemplary method includes connecting each of the plurality of appliances over a local area network and generating a location map providing a location of each of the plurality of appliances. The method includes receiving the human voice signal at a plurality of microphones respectively included in the plurality of appliances and determining an originating location of the human voice signal based at least in part on the location map. The method includes selecting one of the plurality of appliances to respond to the human voice signal based at least in part on the location map and the originating location.

A method for processing magnetotelluric signals to identify subterranean deposits is provided for. The methods comprise obtaining magnetotelluric data from an area of interest. The magnetotelluric data comprises the amplitude of magnetotelluric signals recorded over time at one or more defined locations in the area of interest. The data for each location then is filtered through a set of frequency filters. The frequency filters correspond to subterranean depths over a range of interest. Amplitude peaks in the filtered data then are identified and analyzed to determine a value correlated to the resistance of the earth at each frequency and location. The resistance values are indicative of the presence or absence of deposits at the corresponding subterranean depth. Preferably, the amplitude data is power normalized across all locations in the survey, a gain factor is applied to the resistance values to scale the values for depth variation, and the resistance values are displayed as a depth-location plot for interpretation.

A mobile device may determine its location within an environment having a plurality of light sources in response to the unique frequencies and the predetermined locations of the light sources. For some embodiments, the mobile device can determine its location by detecting the frequencies of light signals emitted from the light sources, providing the determined frequencies as search keys to retrieve the predetermined locations of the light sources from a look-up table, detecting the intensity of light signals emitted from the light sources, correlating the light intensities to distances, and then calculating the position of the mobile device in response to the correlated distances and the predetermined locations of the light sources.

A method is disclosed for representing locations in a geographic database in a manner that facilitates navigation and routing. A core map database includes data that represents public roads in a geographic region. Each of a plurality of location map databases includes data that represent facilities, such as businesses, stores, offices, or other places, that are physically located away from the public network and access to which requires travel on paths away from the public road network. Each of the facilities represented in the location map databases is assigned a location reference code that is associated with data from which a path connecting the facility and the public road network can be determined.

A method for quickly identifying data residing on a volume in a multivolume file system. The method includes generating a file location map, the file location map containing a list of the locations of files that occupy space on each of a plurality of volumes of the file system. The file system comprises least a first volume and a second volume. The file location map is updated in accordance with changes in a file change log for the file system. Data residing on the first volume of the file system is identified by scanning the file location map.

A method in a processing system for managing backup data on a set of nodes in a network data processing system. An inventory of files is generated on a set of nodes in the network data processing system. An initial map from the inventory is created, wherein the first initial map includes an identification of each file located on a node in the set of nodes. A location map is built from the initial map and the location map identifies a set of files and identifies each node on which a file in the set of files is located, wherein at least one node in the set of nodes is a peer node to another node in the set of nodes.

The invention discloses a method and system for positioning and playing a three-dimensional panoramic video. The method comprises the following steps of: collecting panoramic video information and GPS (Global Positioning System) data information; binding the collected panoramic video information and GPS data information; converting the collected panoramic video information into a three-dimensional panoramic video with an flv (flash video) format which is suitable for panoramic playing; converting the GPS data information corresponding to the panoramic video information into a location map with a web mode or a kml file; playing the three-dimensional panoramic video with the flv format in a webpage, and synchronously positioning the three-dimensional panoramic video. By utilizing the method and system, panoramic videos with different definitions can be generated, web-based playing is realized by applying a flash 3D technology, pitching and sweeping operations can be carried out conveniently, and remote viewing and close looking effects can be simulated by controlling FOV (Field of View).

The invention provides an urban centralized charging station planning method based on an improved K-means algorithm. The method comprises the steps that a centralized charging station location map is established according to the geographical location information and the charging demand of each charging demand point in an area to be planned; for the centralized charging station location map, a charging station planning scheme is acquired based on a method combining a graph theory central point and a K-means clustering algorithm; and the construction cost of a charging station, the charging cost of a user and the operation annual income of the charging station are used as evaluation indexes to optimize the charging station planning scheme. The urban centralized charging station planning method based on the improved K-means algorithm has the advantages that fast location of the charging station is realized based on the clustering idea; the quantitative evaluation indexes are used to realize the optimal location planning of the charging station; and a scientific basis is provided for location planning and planning scheme evaluation of the charging station.

An information processing apparatus and method by which the user can see an album display and can enjoy the album display as a memory. Image data, time information and position information are recorded. Thumbnail icons representative of the image data are displayed along with the time information, and a map image is displayed in concave / convex display. Position icons representative of the time information and the position information are displayed on the map image. The map and the thumbnail icons are moved on the display by at least one of different types of movement including horizontal movement, vertical movement, clockwise or counterclockwise rolling movement, upward or downward pitching movement and leftward or rightward yawing movement; so that the user can enjoy various images.

A distributed data processing system executes multiple tasks within a parallel job, including a first local task on a local node and at least one task executing on a remote node, with a remote memory having real address (RA) locations mapped to one or more of the source effective addresses (EA) and destination EA of a data move operation initiated by a task executing on the local node. On initiation of the data move operation, remote asynchronous data move (RADM) logic identifies that the operation moves data to / from a first EA that is memory mapped to an RA of the remote memory. The local processor / RADM logic initiates a RADM operation that moves a copy of the data directly from / to the first remote memory by completing the RADM operation using the network interface cards (NICs) of the source and destination processing nodes, determined by accessing a data center for the node IDs of remote memory.

A printer system comprising a printer adapted to print a location pattern comprising a plurality of dots, each having a substantially predetermined size and nominal position in the pattern, the printer having a resolution constraining the position at which the dots may be printed, the system being adapted to modify at least some of the dots prior to printing such that the modified dots have an optical centre of gravity that more closely coincides with their nominal positions.

A system for measuring plant attributes comprises a plant attribute sensor (103, 108, 110); a digital a priori plant location map (118); and an ECU (126) coupled to the plant attribute sensor (103, 108, 110) and configured to retrieve and use the a priori plant map and to anticipate a plant measurement based upon the a priori plant map and to use that anticipation to improve the accuracy of the plant measurement.

A system for measuring plant attributes comprises a plant attribute sensor (103, 108, 110); a digital a priori plant location map (118); and an ECU (126) coupled to the plant attribute sensor (103, 108, 110) and configured to retrieve and use the a priori plant map and to anticipate a plant measurement based upon the a priori plant map and to use that anticipation to improve the accuracy of the plant measurement.

A hybrid-computing navigation system worn by a user includes a modified motion sensor group which includes 9-axis or 10-axis motion sensors that are built-in, and a host device configured for providing navigation information, in which the modified motion sensor group is worn on the user so that a moving direction of the user is the same as a heading direction calculated from the modified motion sensor group. The modified motion sensor group provides step counting and absolute orientation in yaw, roll and pitch using a sensor fusion technique. The navigation system further includes at least one wireless sensor at wifi hot spot to perform sensor fusion for obtaining an absolute position of an estimated position of the user. Sensor fusion combining with location map are used to perform location map matching and fingerprinting. A method of position estimation of a user using the navigation system is also disclosed.

A two-dimensional bar code region location and type judgment method has the following steps: a collected color bitmap image is converted into a 256-level grey level image; the grey level image is divided into m x n sub regions, and the threshold value of each sub region is automatically obtained; after an overall check of all the pixels, a pixel value is set as '0' if the grey-level value of the pixel is larger than the threshold value of the sub region where the pixel is located, and on the contrary, the pixel value is set as '1'; a four communicated region labeling method is used for carrying out communicated region labeling of the two-valued image; communicated sub regions having different labeling values are respectively picked up, the shape feature of the communicated regions is compared with that of the existing location map of the two-dimensional bar code, and the type of the two-dimensional bar code to be recognized can be judged and the region location of the two-dimensional bar code can also be completed if the similarity with a certain existing shape feature of the location map of the two-dimensional bar code is sufficient.

The invention discloses a human pose estimation based on directional image fusion, which comprises the following steps: extracting features to obtain high-level features; performing preliminary learning detection of key point location map and detection of directional image to obtaina position heat map and a directional heat map. The predicted position heat map, direction map and high-level features are fused to get more accurate position heat map. By fusing the direction information, the invention improves the prediction precision of the key points, and compared with the previous network structure, the proposed depth convolution network can obtain more human posture information. The invention can effectively solve the attitude estimation under the occlusion problem. For the occluded key points, when the position heat map is basically correct, even if the position network of the first stage cannot find the key point position well, the back fusion network can accurately predict the keypoint position, and the robustness is better. The network structure parameters of this method are much smaller, and the requirement of display memory is not high in the training phase, so the trainingis easier to converge.

The invention relates to a system and method for generating a detector position map for an array of detectors. The detector position map comprises a map which converts measured position coordinates from a detection event to the detector in the array which detected the detection event. The method comprises the steps of illuminating an array of detectors with a source of radiation to generate a histogram, the histogram comprising an event count as a function of two dimensions, the two dimensions corresponding to a face of the array of detectors, wherein the histogram comprises a plurality of first peaks; modifying the histogram to comprise a plurality of second peaks, wherein the second peaks have a greater degree of isolation from each other than the first peaks; and for each detector, determining a region on the detector position map which corresponds to the detector, each region being based on a position of one of the second peaks.

Techniques for guideline-based food purchase management are provided. The techniques include generating a personalized set of nutrition guidelines for a user, generating a user profile for the user, wherein the user profile comprises health information and nutrition preferences, and using the personalized set of nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list for the user. Techniques for generating location-based food purchase guidance are also provided. The techniques include obtaining a shopping list of food items and a list of stores to be considered in connection with the food items on the shopping list, using the shopping list, list of stores, a store location map and inter-store routing guidance to generate an inter-store shopping route, and generating an in-store shopping route, for each of the stores in the inter-store shopping route, based on the shopping list, intra-store routing guidance and a floor plan for the store.