93 results about "Nose region" patented technology

A mask system includes a cushion for a mask that seals at its upper extent in a region of the nose that is generally above the tip of the nose or pronasale, and extends across a portion of the cartilaginous framework, alar or flares of the patient's nose, e.g., not extending over or across the bone nasal bone of the patient's nose.

The present invention relates to improvements in drill slip assemblies for use in holding a drill pipe or other tubular member in a vertical position above or within a wellbore. The invention comprises a plurality of slip segments assembled in a slip bowl, each segment containing a plurality of dies which grip the tubular member to prevent any axial displacement. The invention provides at least three improvements over prior art drill slips. First, the outer surface of the slip segment assembly, particularly the lower nose region, is fully supported by the inner surface of the slip bowl such that no portion of the slip segment assembly extends below the bowl. Second, the slip segments are fabricated from forged steel, making them more durable and able to carry higher loads. Third, each die in the lowermost set of hardened dies is fabricated having a rounded bottom end with a tapered profile to complement the rounded bottom of the axial grooves cut into each slip segment.

The invention relates to a voice-and-facial-expression-based identification method for dual-modal emotion fusion. The method comprises: S1, audio data and video data of a to-be-identified object are obtained; S2, a face expression image is extracted from the video data and segmentation of an eye region, a nose region, and a mouth region is carried out; S3, a facial expression feature in each regional image is extracted from images of the three regions; S4, PCA analysis and dimensionality reduction is carried out on voice emotion features and the facial expression features; and S5, naive Bayesian emotion voice classification is carried out on samples of two kinds of modes and decision fusion is carried out on a conditional probability to obtain a final emotion identification result. According to the invention, fusion of the voice emotion features and the facial expression features is carried out by using a decision fusion method, so that accurate data can be provided for corresponding conditional probability calculation carried out at the next step; and an emotion state of a detected object can be obtained precisely by using the method, so that accuracy and reliability of emotion identification can be improved.

Various embodiments for carabiners having two gates are disclosed. The carabiners of the present invention include a C-shaped body having a nose region and an end region. An inner gate is configured to pivot about the end region from a closed position in contact with the nose region, and an open position, wherein the inner gate pivots toward the spine of the C-shaped body. An outer gate is configured to pivot about the end region from a closed position in contact with the nose region, and an open position, extending away from the C-shaped body. The inner and the outer gate may each comprise wire gates, alternatively one gate may comprise a generally cylindrical gate and the other gate may comprise a wire gate. Methods of preventing a carabiner from opening are also disclosed.

A respirator that has a mask body and a nose foam, the mask body being adapted to fit over the nose and mouth of a person and having an interior surface that curves concave downward in the nose region of the mask body. The nose foam has first and second opposing major surfaces and a thickness T that extends from the first major surface to the second major surface. The first major surface of the nose foam is secured to the interior surface of the mask body in the nose region, and the opposing second major surface of the nose foam is available for making substantial contact with a person's nose when the mask body is placed on a person's face. At least the first major surface of the nose foam has a predefined downward concave curvature. A nose foam that is pre-shaped in this manner has less opportunity to become pinched or unnecessarily deformed before being placed on a wearer's face.

A flat fold filtering face piece respirator 10 that includes a mask body 12 and a harness 14. The mask body 12 includes a filtering structure 16 that contains a cover web 48, 50 and a filtration layer 52 that contains electrically-charged microfibers. The filtering structure 16 is folded over upon itself in a nose region 32 of the mask body 12 to be at least 1 centimeter or more wide and to extend across the upper perimeter of the mask body in a generally straight line when the respirator is in the folded condition. The filtering structure 16 has a deflection greater than about 0.5 millimeters and has a recoverability of at least 40% in the folded condition. A mask body having this construction is beneficial in that it does not need to use a nose foam to obtain a snug fit over the nose.

A valve cage device is adapted for use with a subsurface pump or the like. The valve cage includes a housing and an insert. The insert includes a cradle, a plurality of angled ribs, and a base. In one embodiment, the insert may also include an extended nose region. A ball and seat may be positioned in the valve cage. During pumping operations, the cradle retains the ball when the ball is unseated, thereby allowing fluid to pass freely through channels in the insert and around the ball. This eliminates violent action of the ball, thereby obviating a need for a hard liner to be included in the valve cage. A port in the cradle allows fluid to pass therethrough when the ball has been released from the cradle. The angular configuration of the ribs provides for a more laminar flow of fluid compared with prior art valve cages, thereby providing improved passage of fluid through the valve cage. The base may include an angled hook or lip that creates a tight seal, thereby preventing fluid from washing by during pumping operations. During pumping operations, when the ball is released from the cradle, it is guided by the insert and falls straight downward onto the seat, allowing for faster seating of the ball, and in turn, reducing pump stroke loss and providing for more efficient pumping. The valve cage may be configured for a traveling valve or standing valve portion of a subsurface pump or the like.

The invention discloses a method and device for human face in-vivo detection, and belongs to the field of human face recognition. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a 3D human face image; selecting a first group of feature points on the whole region of the 3D human face image; selecting a second group of feature points on a local region of the 3D human face image, and acquiring a three-dimensional coordinate of the second group of feature points, wherein the local region is a nose region, an eye region or a mouth region; using the three-dimensional coordinate of the first group of feature points to compute a first human face feature for representing depth information of the first group of feature points; using the three-dimensional coordinates of the first group of feature points and the second group of feature points to compute a second human face feature for representing the depth information of the first group of feature points and the second group of feature points; using the first human face feature and / or the second human face feature to judge whether the 3D human face image is a living body. The method disclosed by the invention is capable of judging whether the human face image is the living body; the recognition precision is high, and the recognition result has robustness and stability.

A flexible oro-nasal mask for mounting in a rigid shell attached to the helmet of aircrew at a fixed distance therefrom. The flexible oro-nasal mask incorporates an inspiratory and expiratory valve and the periphery of the mask is adapted to make a seal with the pilot's face. The oro-nasal mask includes an extendable structure which presses the periphery of the mask automatically towards the pilot's face to improve the seal therewith when gas at a pressure above that required for normal breathing is supplied to the mask. The extendable structure is configured so that when gas at a high pressure is supplied to the interior of the mask, the portion in the bottom region of the mask extends more than the portion in the upper region of the mask and the bottom of the mask is moved away from the wearer's face by a greater amount in the chin region than the nose region and the mask pivots upwardly automatically to compensate for the effects of G thereon. One embodiment of an extendable structure comprises an annular inwardly directed re-entrant recess formed in the wall of the mask adjacent the peripheral seal, the depth of said recess in the bottom half of the mask being greater than the depth in the top half thereof.

A patient interface packaging that includes an integrated sizing template. The packaging system includes a container having an inner chamber containing a patient interface device having a size contained within. The packaging further includes an outer exterior having an integral flap. The integral flap includes at least one opening therethrough forming a sizing template. The size of the opening corresponds to the size of the mask contained within the package so that the opening may be fitted to the nose region of a patient's to allow the user to determine an appropriate size patient interface device that matches his or her anatomical dimensions.

A corona igniter (20) for emitting a radio frequency electric field and providing a corona discharge (24) includes a central electrode (22) at a positive voltage, a grounded metal shell (30), and an insulator (28) with an abruption (34) extending radially outward relative to the central electrode (22). The abruption (34) is typically an increase of at least 15% of a local thickness (t) of the insulator (28) over less than 25% of a nose length (1) of an insulator nose region (74). The abruption (34) is typically one flank (82) of a protrusion or a notch, and the flank (82) faces the shell (30). The abruption (34) reverses the electric field and voltage potential gradient along the insulator outer surface (32), repels charged ions away from the insulator (28), and thus prevents the formation of a conductive path between the central electrode (22) and the shell (22).

A full face mask has a body frame having a continuous, closed sidewall extending and compliantly resting on bony contours around facial features of a wearer, and a lateral partition extending and resting on bony contours of a wearer's face from one side to another side of the sidewall between the areas of the nose and upper lip. The lateral partition separates the frame into a lower mask section having a lower cavity with a pod opening and an upper mask section having an upper cavity. Lenses supported by the frame define a forward field of view and integrated in the frame are components including a radio frequency antenna receiving dive information signals, a display in a peripheral area outside of the forward field of view, a controller coupled for processing the signals to generate outputs, and a control that passes outputs for display at the visual display.

The invention provides a three dimensional facial expression recognition method based on multiple dimensional characteristics of representative regions. The three dimensional facial expression recognition method includes the following steps: performing pretreatment operation on the three dimensional facial data, and acquiring the more normalized point cloud data; performing automatic calibration of a representative region of three dimensional facial expression; according to the position of the tip point of nose, completing automatic calibration of the eye region (E region), the nose region (N region) and the mouth region (M region); respectively extracting the three dimensional characteristics and the two dimensional characteristics of three representative regions, and performing gauss normalization and fusion of characteristics; and at last, according to the fusion characteristics of each representative region, performing SVM training to realize three dimensional facial expression recognition. The three dimensional facial expression recognition method based on multiple dimensional characteristics of representative regions not only can observe the contribution degree of different regions of the face on different expressions, but also can effectively recognize different expressions of the three dimensional face.

A baseball training apparatus occludes peripheral vision of each eye across the nose region of a baseball player by creating a visual divide that extends from and immediately adjacent to the nose along the central sagittal plane. In various embodiments, the visual divide is extendible, removable and replaceable, pivotal, and may incorporate scribes to vary shape or geometry. The visual divide may further be mounted from a pair of glasses without lenses, though other embodiments with and without lenses are contemplated. The eye divider is used to align or confirm alignment of a baseball player properly with the pitcher, to ensure that the batter has both eyes facing the pitcher.

The invention discloses a hidden Markov model based face geometrical feature identification method. The method comprises: performing graying and histogram equalization on a face image and obtaining a face frame region of a face by utilizing a classifier; setting a shrinkage coefficient of the face frame region, shrinking the face frame region, and intercepting an eye region, a nose region and a mouth region in the face frame region by utilizing the classifier; extracting and recording feature information; and comparing the obtained feature information with feature information stored in a database, to obtain the comprehensive matching rate. Comparative matching is performed by utilizing length and angle ratios of parts of the face, so that the influence caused by non-rigid and illumination conditions of the face is greatly reduced, the influence caused by change of the length and angle ratios of the parts of the face along with change of age and weight of people is avoided, and the accuracy and scientificity of matching are ensured.

A goggle having a removable noseguard, comprising a flexible goggle frame having a nose region that extends over the bridge of the user's nose, the goggle frame comprising an engagement region that extends from the front of the goggle frame and having a plurality of locking tabs, and a flexible noseguard comprising a channel to receive the engagement region to position the noseguard on the frame and a plurality of notches sized and positioned to receive the plurality of locking tabs to firmly attach the noseguard to the goggle frame.

The invention discloses a mask wearing condition monitoring method based on face and posture recognition. The mask wearing condition monitoring method comprises the following steps of: step 1, acquiring a monitoring video; step 2, performing face detection on an image in the video data, and detecting whether a face exists in the image or not; step 3, if a face exists in the image, identifying theface and performing identity authentication, determining a target identity corresponding to the face, and if all target identities cannot be determined, returning to the step 1; step 4, performing mask detection on a detected face region, and detecting whether the target wears a mask or not and whether the target wears the mask correctly or not; step 5, if the target does not wear the mask or doesnot wear the mask correctly, transmitting a prompt to the target; and step 6, performing posture detection on the target, if a hand touches mouth and nose regions, sending a prompt to the target, andotherwise, continuing the posture detection. According to the mask wearing condition monitoring method, the condition of mask wearing can be automatically monitored and reminded, and the bad habit ofwearing the mask can be corrected.

The invention relates to a rotor blade (20), especially for a rotary wing aircraft. The invention is characterized in that an aerodynamically effective rotor blade profile with a profile nose region (21), a profile base body (20a) with a profile core, an upper and lower cover skin (30) that envelops the profile core (22), and a profile rear edge region (23) with a rear edge (40) and a reversibly bendable supporting member (26) that can be attached with the first end to the end region of the profile base body (20a) pointing toward the rear edge (40) and projects with the second end freely out of the profile base body (20a) and its end region toward the rear edge (40) and forms a movable rotor blade flap (24), and several actuators (35) that are dynamically connected to the projecting second end of the reversibly bendable supporting member (26) and an arc-shaped flap deflection can be initiated via the change in length of the actuators, the second end of the reversibly bendable supporting member (26) that forms the rotor blade flap (24) viewed in the direction of the span (S) being divided by notches (34) into several segments to which at least one actuator (35) at a time is assigned.

A patient interface packaging that includes an integrated sizing template. The packaging system includes a container having an inner chamber containing a patient interface device having a size contained within. The packaging further includes an outer exterior having an integral flap. The integral flap includes at least one opening therethrough forming a sizing template. The size of the opening corresponds to the size of the mask contained within the package so that the opening may be fitted to the nose region of a patient's to allow the user to determine an appropriate size patient interface device that matches his or her anatomical dimensions.

A muzzle shield for protecting the muzzle of an animal from the ultraviolet light of the sun. The muzzle shield includes a frustum-like structure in which the narrowest end is attached to the muzzle of the animal distal from the nose region and sides of the muzzle shield extend outward towards the nose, extending between approximately to the end of the nose to slight beyond the nose. The frustum-like shape characteristic of the muzzle shield advantageously restricts the amount of contact that the muzzle shield has with the muzzle of the animal to prevent irritation, overheating, entrapment of insects or debris, etc.

The invention, which relates to the image processing technology, provides a color correction method for a color face image. With the provided method, the color correction precision is improved. Firstly, a face image is segmented into six target divided regions: an eye region, an ear region, a mouth region, a nose region, an eyebrow region, and a skin region by using a face five-sense-organ segmentation method; secondly, color blocks falling into all target divided region color ranges are selected from a color correction colour atla; thirdly, optimal color block sub sets of all target divided regions are selected by using a greedy searching algorithm, color correction models are established for all target divided regions at optimal color block sub sets of all target divided regions, and divided region color correction is carried out on a to-be-corrected color face image by using the established color correction models for all target divided regions. Therefore, the correction effect is closer to the practical face intrinsic color.

The present invention relates to improvements in drill slip assemblies for use in holding a drill pipe or other tubular member in a vertical position above or within a wellbore. The invention comprises a plurality of slip segments assembled in a slip bowl, each segment containing a plurality of dies which grip the tubular member to prevent any axial displacement. The invention provides at least three improvements over prior art drill slips. First, the outer surface of the slip segment assembly, particularly the lower nose region, is fully supported by the inner surface of the slip bowl such that no portion of the slip segment assembly extends below the bowl. Second, the slip segments are fabricated from forged steel, making them more durable and able to carry higher loads. Third, each die in the lowermost set of hardened dies is fabricated having a rounded bottom end with a tapered profile to complement the rounded bottom of the axial grooves cut into each slip segment.

Improved MOSFET devices are obtained by incorporating strain inducing source-drain regions whose closest facing “nose” portions underlying the gate are located at different depths from the device surface. In a preferred embodiment, the spaced-apart source-drain regions may laterally overlap. This close proximity increases the favorable impact of the strain inducing source-drain regions on the carrier mobility in an induced channel region between the source and drain. The source-drain regions are formed by epitaxially refilling asymmetric cavities etched from both sides of the gate. Cavity asymmetry is obtained by forming an initial cavity proximate only one sidewall of the gate and then etching the final spaced-apart source-drain cavities proximate both sidewalls of the gate along predetermined crystallographic directions. The finished cavities having different depths and nose regions at different heights extending toward each other under the gate, are epitaxially refilled with the strain inducing semiconductor material for the source-drain regions.

A baseball training apparatus occludes peripheral vision of each eye across the nose region of a baseball player by creating a visual divide that extends from and immediately adjacent to the nose along the central sagittal plane. In various embodiments, the visual divide is extendible, removable and replaceable, pivotal, and may incorporate scribes to vary shape or geometry. The visual divide may further be mounted from a pair of glasses without lenses, though other embodiments with and without lenses are contemplated. The eye divider is used to align or confirm alignment of a baseball player properly with the pitcher, to ensure that the batter has both eyes facing the pitcher.

A sports training apparatus occludes peripheral vision of each eye across the nose region of a player by creating a visual divide that extends from and immediately adjacent to the nose along the central sagittal plane. In various embodiments, the visual divide is extendible, removable and replaceable, pivotal, and may incorporate scribes to vary shape or geometry. The visual divide may further be mounted from a pair of glasses without lenses, though other embodiments with and without lenses are contemplated. The eye divider is used to align or confirm alignment of a player properly to ensure that the player batter has both eyes facing in the proper direction.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: receiving a nose adjustmentinstruction of a face image to be processed, wherein the nose adjustment instruction includes parameter modification information based on a nose region of the face image to be processed; Detecting a nasal feature point in a nasal region of a face image to be processed in response to parameter modification information; Obtaining the moving nasal feature points according to the nasal feature points;According to the moving nose feature points, determining the adjusted nose region, and obtaining the adjusted face image. In accordance with an embodiment of that present disclosure, after receivingthe nose adjustment instruction, the nose region of the face image to be processed is adjusted according to the parameter modification information in the nose adjustment instruction, The invention realizes the function of adjusting the nose region of the user in the image by one key without editing the nose region of the face image manually, which reduces the processing time and improves the interactive experience of the user.

The embodiment of the invention provides an AR imaging method, a device and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: detecting a face image taken by a mobile terminal and extracting a sub-image of a nose region in the face image; determining a light intensity weighting center of the sub-image based on the light rays, comparing the light intensity weighting center with the weighting center of the face image to obtain a light estimation angle; obtaining a ray angle of a real scene according to the ray estimation angle and the rotation angle of the mobile terminal, whereinthe real scene is the real world currently photographed by the mobile terminal; a shadow image of the virtual object is generated according to a light angle of the real scene and a preset position ofthe virtual object in the real scene. No additional hardware is required, and only the mobile terminal using the existing dual-camera can obtain the light information in the real world, which providesmore realistic effect for AR, reduces the cost and requires low performance for the mobile terminal equipment.