63 results about "Object composition" patented technology

A method and apparatus for identifying an object include encoding physical attributes of an object where the encoded information is utilized as at least one element for composing a digital watermark for the object. In another embodiment the physical attributes of the object are utilized as a key for accessing information included in a digital watermark for the object.

A computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and construction project cost estimating and scheduling system (“DMES system”) is described. The DMES system provides a central source for all of the design and construction information for a construction project in a coordinated two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatial database that is freely accessible by all of the members of an interdisciplinary construction project team as a means to produce automatically coordinated design development and construction document information. The DMES system acquires and stores all of the appropriate design, engineering, and construction expertise and information available for any building type for use in automatically assembling and coordinating the design, cost-estimating, and scheduling for a construction project. In one embodiment, the DMES system consists of a plurality of objects, comprising elements and massing elements arranged in an assembly hierarchy. Each of the objects includes programming code that defines an interface and discrete internal functions that define its behavior. When instantiated in the database, the objects automatically create further instances of other objects in the hierarchy, which in turn do the same, thus assembling a complete building model automatically from the initial manually-placed instance. The building model enables automatic generation of drawings and cost and scheduling information. By running automatic iterations of the building model, multiple designs may be evaluated to determine the optimum design.

A method and system for overlaying an object in a window of a software application where an overlay plane is composed of at least one object and the overlay plane is overlaid with the window using either a layering feature of the software application or by directly compositing the overlay plane with the window using enhanced functionality not included in the software application. The overlaying of the overlay plane in relation to the window does not depend on a cursor or pointing device designated position but may rather, for example, be arbitrarily placed or may be positioned in proximity to the text or graphic link used to initiate the overlaying process. The method and system may be implemented using a plugin-control for the software application.

A system and method for managing personal information with increased efficiency and flexibility. In one embodiment, the system includes a group website tier made up of a plurality of group website objects, a group tier made up of a plurality of group objects, a user tier made up of a plurality of user objects, a first set of relationships that define relationships between the group website objects and the group objects, and a second set of relationships that define relationships between the group objects and the user objects. Furthermore, the system preferably is configured such that each of the objects may be uniquely identified from objects on the same tier and objects on different tiers. Additionally, the first set of relationships may include a first type of relationships that define which group objects have access to each of the plurality of group websites, and a second type of relationships that define which group objects appear as content for each of the plurality of group website objects.

A method of extracting features characterising objects consists in discriminating an object from a context, the discriminating step comprising, determining the context consisting of at least two objects, choosing a topic object from the context, deriving feature sets of the topic object and the other objects in the context, judging whether there is at least one distinctive feature set in the feature sets, deriving a new feature set if there is not a distinctive feature set amongst the feature sets, and registering one of the distinctive feature sets as an outcome; and restarting the discriminating step when there exists an object which is not discriminated from the other objects. This method represents a selectionist approach to the characterisation of objects, driven by a discrimination task. There is also an apparatus putting this method into practice and a system for autonomous development of a common vocabulary by a plurality of agents incorporating the method and/or apparatus.

An arrangement for coordinating data representative of a building system includes a process connected to a memory. The memory stores a plurality of building space objects and at least one building automation device object. At least one building space object includes a reference to at least one of the group consisting of a parent building space object and a child building space object, a reference to at least one graphic file containing a graphic image representation of the building space, and a reference to information regarding one or more building automation devices associated with the building space object. At least one building automation device object includes a reference to a corresponding building space object, a reference to at least one operating value of the building automation device, and a reference to a link to a file containing information regarding the at least one building automation device object.

A handheld projecting device that illuminates a visible image comprised of one or more video objects that appear to interact, connect, and/or form paths with physical objects and/or other video objects within a user's environment. In at least one embodiment, a projecting device animates and projects one or more video objects that appear to responsively adapt to the position and orientation of at least one physical object for unique graphic and tactile effects. In some embodiments, a projecting device may connect together physical objects and video objects to form a user-defined object path, such as a racetrack or adventure trail. Video objects may be rendered and illuminated as three-dimensional objects to simulate real world objects.

A header object for a data file is comprised of sub-objects which specify properties of the data stream and contains information needed to properly verify and interpret the information within the data object. In order to allow the protection of any set of sub-objects without requiring that the sub-objects follow any specific ordering, a new sub-object is introduced which includes region specifiers identifying regions within sub-objects and verification information for those regions. This new sub-object in the header object allows the modification of non-protected regions and reorganization of sub-objects in a header without invalidating verification information.

A method to increase the ease and effectiveness of biofeedback by dynamically representing physiological indicators on a computer display using a configurable particle system. This particle system consists of a number of similar objects, each object having properties such as location, velocity, lifetime, color, image, transparency, size, and shape, where at least one of these properties has a random component. The objects' properties are continuously updated over time, and also updated as the physiological indicators change. The particle system can be easily set to represent physiological indicators in many different manners, or to simultaneously represent many different physiological indicators.

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing a hierarchical database. The hierarchical structure of a database is modeled into an objects framework, wherein the objects framework is comprised of one or more objects that correspond to application views, database definitions, and data defined and stored in the database, and the objects are organized into a tree structure to represent the hierarchical structure of the database. An Internet-enabled application accesses the hierarchical structure of the database through the objects framework using at least one multi-frame output form, wherein the multi-frame output form displays data from a plurality of the objects.

The invention provides an industrial internet component information identification method, which comprises the steps of: configuring a component identifier, a description file and a service interface for a networking object according to a semantic database, and constituting industrial internet component models by means of the component identifier, the description file, the service interface and the networking object; acquiring a component identifier of an industrial internet component to be identified; initiating a query request to an identifier analysis system; receiving a semantic database address returned by the identifier analysis system; querying an industrial internet semantic vocabulary corresponding to the component identifier from a corresponding semantic database server according to the received semantic database address; and receiving semantic description information obtained through querying the industrial internet semantic vocabulary which corresponds to the component identifier and is returned by the semantic database server, and mapping information in the corresponding industrial internet component model into semantic vocabulary capable of identifying the industrial internet component according to the semantic description information. The industrial internet component information identification method can realize the compatibility identification of heterogeneous information within the component.

The invention is applicable to the field of data processing, provides a data clustering method, a data clustering system and data processing equipment. The method comprises the following steps: inputting a data set consisting of n objects with a block data feature required to be clustered and an expected class number k; selecting k block data objects from the data set to serve as an initial class center; calculating the distance from each object to the initial class center; distributing each block data object to the center closest to the block data object according to the calculated distance to form k disjointed classes; calculating the center of each class to serve as a new class center; repeatedly executing the step of distributing each block data object to the center closest to the block data object according to the calculated distance to form the k disjointed classes and the step of calculating the center of each class to serve as the new class center until the algorithm is converged; obtaining the division result of the data set. By the data clustering method, the data clustering system, and the data processing equipment, the data with the block feature can be processed directly without compressing the block data, so that the loss of information is avoided, and the obtained clustering result is better than the clustering effect obtained after the block data is compressed.

An image processing system processes images via a first processing layer adapted to perform object-independent processing, a second processing layer adapted to perform object-dependent processing, and a third processing layer adapted to perform object composition, recognition and association. The image processing system performs object-independent processing using a plurality of processors each of which is associated with a different one of the pixels of the image. The image processing system performs object-independent processing using a symmetric multi-processor. The plurality of processors may form a massively parallel processor of a systolic array type and configured as a single-instruction multiple-data system. Each of the plurality of the processors is further configured to perform object-independent processing using a unified and symmetric processing of N dimensions in space and one dimension in time. The plurality of processors are formed on a semiconductor substrate different from the semiconductor substrate on which images are captured.

An application management system includes a web server including objects including a predefined and preassembled component, the objects forming: a generic organization model composed of logic organizational entities; a generic management model composed of logic operational entities; a generic control model composed of data analysis tools; a generic model of screens and kinematics for a user interface; a set of tables and files characterizing the activation and personalization options of the objects and the processes, streams and rules associated with the objects; tools for identifying possible activations of objects linked to an initial object activation; management tools for building logic networks including data spaces, and preassembled links that can be activated and personalized, each data space may be composed of all the objects, a connector object suitable for searching for tables and files; a data server including a single predefined physical database including data corresponding to the objects.

A portable terminal can support a pop-up function capable of providing output information of an object focused on a list screen according to navigation execution. The portable terminal can output a list screen composed of a plurality of objects, extract output information of a specific object focused among the objects, and display the output information of the focused specific object on a pop-up window of the list screen.

A method and apparatus for processing a rich media user interface composed of a plurality of component objects that is capable of transferring information from a group of component objects having a specific function but not supporting the export of information to a group of component objects importing information only through predetermined paths through unpredictable path are provided. The method for processing content composed of user interface component objects includes receiving content including a plurality of user interface component objects, extracting exportable information which is defined to be exportable outside the content, and transferring the extracted exportable information to a target object.

A method for analyzing an object, includes irradiating the object with incident photon radiation, acquiring a spectrum transmitted by the object using a spectrometric transmission detector, determining at least one first property of the object from the transmission spectrum, verifying that at least one doubt criterion relating to the first property of the object is met, and translating the fact that the object contains a material that is potentially dubious for the application under consideration. A second part, carried out only when the doubt criterion is met, includes acquiring an energy spectrum scattered by the object using a spectrometric scattering detector at an angle of 1° to 15°, and determining a second property of the object from at least the scatter spectrum and comparing at least the second property of the object with properties of standard materials stored in a database to identify the objects composition material.

This invention discloses one optical burst exchange route selecting method based on materials predicting, which comprises the following steps: reading one degree joint three status of transmission distance L1, updated circle T1, wavelength busy degree P1 and occupancy information W1; reading the send degree joint relative three status and bringing each parameter to the linear or non-linear information prediction module to compute out relative joint status information reliable amending factorªŠ to compute out joint instant materials information; If w is zero then amending 0+ªŠ as 1-ªŠ to use one degree joint instant materials signal subject to form matrix A and the second degree joint instant information to form subject matrix B and computing Qú¢Aí‡Bíõto select largest Q value as burst transmission reliable path.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for generating the verification content of lip language recognition. The method and device are suitable for recognizing facial actions inin-vivo body detection. The method includes the steps that a lip language recognition request of a terminal device is acquired, verification request parameters are obtained according to the lip language recognition request, and the number of verification objects needed by lip language recognition verification is determined; recognition objects are selected from a plurality of preset recognition object groups to serve as the verification objects for forming the verification content of lip language recognition, wherein the adjacent verification objects in the verification content belong to different recognition object groups respectively; the verification content is output to a verification interface for lip language recognition, a user of the terminal device is subjected to lip language recognition verification of the verification content. By the adoption of the method and device, the verification content that the adjacent verification objects are different in pronunciation lip shape change can be generated, and the occurrence probability that the lip shape changes are difficult to recognize is reduced, so that the accuracy and convenience of lip language recognition are improved.