87 results about "Object design" patented technology

An extrusion-based freeform fabrication method for making a three-dimensional object from a design created on a computer, including (a) providing a support member; (b) operating a dispensing head having at least one dispensing nozzle with a discharge orifice for dispensing continuous strands of a material composition in a fluent state at a first temperature onto the support member, the material composition including a reactive prepolymer with a melting point above 23° C. and the first temperature being greater than the prepolymer melting point; (c) operating material treatment devices for causing the dispensed strands of material composition to rapidly achieve a rigid state in which the material composition is substantially solidified to build up the 3-D object, the material treatment devices also working to convert the reactive prepolymer to a higher molecular weight thermoplastic resin; and (d) operating control devices for generating control signals in response to coordinates of the object design to control the movement of the dispensing nozzle relative to the support member and for controlling the strand dispensing of the material composition to construct the 3-D object.

An extensible base process control and manufacturing information application development and execution software suite is disclosed that facilitates streamlined third party (e.g., OEM) development of derivative applications for particular vertical markets. The suite includes an object design toolkit that provides object template derivation tools for accessing and editing a set of base object templates. The objects derivable from the base templates include at least application objects deployed upon lower level hosting component objects of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application. The toolkit also includes development tools for creating new base object templates that are added as extensions of the set of base object templates.In addition to the toolkit, the suite includes a set of marketing package customization tools facilitating seamlessly integrating changes by developers to the extensible base development and execution software suite. The marketing package customization tools include electronically editable base user documentation.

A freeform fabrication method for making a three-dimensional food object from a design created on a computer, including: (a) providing a support member by which the object is supported while being constructed; (b) operating a material dispensing head for dispensing a continuous or intermittent strand of food composition in a fluent state; this food composition including a liquid ingredient and a primary body-building food material and the dispensed food composition having a rigidity and strength sufficient for permitting the food composition to be built up layer by layer into a three-dimensional shape in a non-solid state; and (c) operating control devices for generating control signals in response to coordinates of the object design and controlling the position of the dispensing head relative to the support member in response to the control signals to control dispensing of the food composition to construct a 3-D shape of this object. The method optionally includes an additional step of applying a heat treatment to the 3-D shape after this 3-D shape is constructed. This method can be used to form an intricate shape of a cake mix, which is then baked in an oven. It can also be used to form a custom-designed decorative shape on the top surface of a pre-made cake.

Modern enterprises have multiple dissimilar data stores. Collectively, the enterprise data stores store a set of enterprise data objects, typically in multiple dissimilar formats. An object-oriented heterogeneous data store interface (HDSI) for interacting with such enterprise data stores and data objects is described. The HDSI may include a query component, a data store component and a provider interface that specifies a query behavior with a query component parameter. For each type of data store, there may be a provider plug-in to the HDSI. Each provider plug-in may include provider components that conform to the provider interface. The HDSI may further include data store object components corresponding to data objects stored in the data stores. A data store object design GUI may be utilized to build graphical representations of data objects. A data store object source code generator may generate object-oriented programming language source code for each data store object component.

Developing decision-making skills of a user through practice in a simulated environment comprises defining a simulated situation to be influenced by the user including a set of objects that are represented by an attribute-characteristic representation, presenting information concerning a current state of the simulation, obtaining decisions from the user that at least partially determine object designs to be evaluated, evaluating an object design using a value function having multiple optima, updating the simulation with the results from the evaluation, and permitting continued practice by selectively repeating several of these steps. A system executes simulation software that simulates such a situation on a processor, and includes evaluation software for selecting and evaluating design objects by applying a value function having multiple optima. At least one terminal and communication links are provided for information transfer and implementation of the simulated situation. Diagnosis of the user's cognitive approach is also disclosed.

Methods and systems are described for constructing media-synchronized objects through additive manufacturing means. At least one construction configuration for at least one object is at least partly synchronized with at least one segment of at least one associated instructional media presentation viewed by a user through at least one media presentation device. Various embodiments demonstrate successive object portions synchronized with successive media presentation segments, at least partly automated object construction synchronized with one or more media presentation segments, and / or user assembly of multiple object portions configured to modify media presentation aspects. In select embodiments, object design modifications by the user are configured to change media presentation aspects. Certain embodiments permit accelerated and / or decelerated object construction being configured to accelerate, decelerate, lengthen, and / or truncate associated media presentations.

Developing decision-making skills of a user through practice in a simulated environment comprises defining a simulated situation to be influenced by the user including a set of objects that are represented by an attribute-characteristic representation, presenting information concerning a current state of the simulation, obtaining decisions from the user that at least partially determine object designs to be evaluated, evaluating an object design using a value function having multiple optima, updating the simulation with the results from the evaluation, and permitting continued practice by selectively repeating several of these steps. A system executes simulation software that simulates such a situation on a processor, and includes evaluation software for selecting and evaluating design objects by applying a value function having multiple optima. At least one terminal and communication links are provided for information transfer and implementation of the simulated situation. Diagnosis of the user's cognitive approach is also disclosed.

The present invention is directed to three-dimensional printing techniques, methodologies, systems and apparatus to facilitate increased print speed. Through the use of multiple nozzles on a print head printing line by line, more material is deposited. By including nozzles sufficient for a line dimensional (or portion) of a page or planar element of an object design, the material deposition for an entire plane or layer is done line by line in one pass of the print head. Likewise, through the inclusion of multiple lasers, beams or energy sources more material can be cured, such as all along a contour line, instead of point by point.

The invention features a rectangular 3-D modeling grid called a display environment that may be mapped to one or more sensor(s) to provide a heads up display device the ability to generate and view an Augmented Reality first; person view of custom 3-D objects. Location sensors create the positioning and perimeter of the display environment. The Display Environment may Sbe navigated by the combination of the display device's physical movement sensed by motion sensors and the display device's physical location based on its proximity to synchronized location sensors. Sensors on the display device recognize when the device is moving with respect to the Display Environment to initiate re-rendering of its 3-D model being displayed. Movement of the display device enable first person 3-D model illustrative and perspective views which may also be used to design 3-D models with customizable scale, orientation, positioning physics, and artificial intelligence.

A development verification apparatus for verification of universal chips, including an object design module for storing and executing the object code of the chip to be verified, a control processing module for executing the control program etc. of the user of the development verification apparatus, a power management module for managing the power and charging the battery, and an extended function module for implementing developing function in various fields.

A system and method for performing optical inspection are provided. At least one “invariant feature” of an object design is determined, and such invariant feature is used in inspecting objects having the corresponding design. An “invariant feature” is a feature that is invariant certain transformations occurring in a captured image of an object under inspection, such as brightness, color, and / or other transformations in the captured image. Accordingly, an inspection template may comprise information corresponding to at least one pre-selected invariant feature of an object's design. In certain embodiments, the template is a shape description of a feature that provides an intrinsic invariance to a specified set of basic transformations. Accordingly, the amount of pixel values stored in a template may be minimized, which minimizes the number of pixel comparisons made between a captured image of the object under inspection and the inspection template during the inspection analysis.

A system and method for creating a proxy object capable of communication with an external entity, comprising specifying a proxy object definition for the proxy object wherein the proxy object definition defines a first function for communicating with the external entity, specifying at least one implementation class for the proxy object definition, wherein the at least one implementation class does not implement the first function, and wherein the at least one implementation class includes functionality to support one of: proxy object design, software compilation and software execution.

This invention relates to a method for pre-taking objects in a permanent object-relationship system including receiving a read request and judging if information of an object is stored in the object buffer storage according to the kind and key words of the object corresponding to the read request, if so, the information of the object is returned, otherwise, the attribute information of said object is analyzed based on the object-relationship mapping information stored in the system then to store the generated information into the buffer storage, which introduces a pre-taking strategy to an object-relationship permanent system to suit the current complicated object design of multiple kinds and large numbers and increase the read hit ratio of the system to the utmost.

A method and apparatus for the self-illumination of various objects designed for use in sports, entertainment, safety, and emergency related activities. The objects are caused to self-illuminate by chemiluminescence to facilitate usage of the objects during non-daylight hours or in areas that are otherwise surrounded by darkness. Chemiluminescence may be activated through a variety of injection, acceleration, or tactile manipulation that are utilized to cause emission of visible light from within one or more cavities of the objects, from exterior portions of the objects, or from various inserts of the objects. Subcutaneous layers are also provided that may be caused to emanate visible light through chemiluminescence.

An airborne deployment system and method for deploying an object designed. for a waterborne task. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has an object such as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) releasably coupled thereto. The UAV is guided to a target site on a body of water in accordance with navigation. rules predicated on navigation capability of the UAV. The UUV Is released from the UAV at a location that is one of in the air and on the water in accordance with release rules predicated on the navigation capability of UAV.

An embodiment of the invention provides a database persistent layer device and a database operation method. The database persistent layer device comprises a pixel domain module, a pixel code mapping and code generating domain module and a database domain module, wherein the pixel domain module is used for providing a pixel editing environment, receiving design instructions on data objects represented in pixel form and input into the pixel editing environment by users and editing the data objects designed by the users to generate corresponding pixel describe files; the pixel code mapping and code generating domain module is used for analyzing the pixel describe files generated by the pixel domain module to generate corresponding plain old java object (POJO) and data access object (DAO); and the database domain module is used for mapping the generated POJO into a database table in the database and performing operation on the database table in the database and data members of the database table according to the generated DAO. By means of the embodiment of the data persistent layer device and the database operation method, automatic generation of data of the POJO and the DAO in a persistence layer can be achieved in the application program design, so that work amount of the persistence layer in the application program database is greatly reducd, and development efficiency is improved.

An apparatus for locating misplaced keys and other objects designed with a signal transceiver and equipped with a GPS tracking chip. During use, when the user has lost an object, such as a set of keys, or any other object to which the tracking device is attached, the user may transmit signal to the tracking device on a smartphone or tablet belonging to the user via a downloadable mobile application synced for use with the tracking device in order to easily guide the user to the lost object.

A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing generator generates a layout drawing based on the request for proposal. The design generator generates, based on an order and a proposal, an object design comprising an assembly specification, a detail specification, and machine control files. The proposal is generated based on the cost estimate and the layout drawing. The order is generated based on the proposal. Manufactured components are generated based on the machine control files. Subassemblies are generated from the manufactured components and the procured components based on the detail specifications. The engineered object is generated based on the subassemblies and the assembly specifications.

The invention provides a data access system, which comprises a user interface assembly unit, a data mapping assembly unit and a property access assembly unit, wherein the user interface assembly unit is used for sending an access request to the data mapping assembly unit during running of a window program, and receiving service data fed back by the property access assembly unit; the data mapping assembly unit is used for searching out a data mapping table of the window program according to the access request, wherein the data mapping table comprises mapping relations from user interface data to service data; and the property access assembly unit is used for acquiring service data needed to be displayed during running of the window program according to the mapping relations in the data mapping table, and feeding the service data back to the user interface assembly unit. The invention further provides a data access method. According to the technical scheme of the invention, a data access function can be performed between a user interface assembly and a service object assembly through data mapping description and an intermediate data mapping service assembly on the premise of not influencing a user interface design and a service object design.

The invention relates to methods and devices for launching into the water, from a height H greater than a predetermined height hmax, a life-saving object designed to be able to be launched into the water in free fall from this maximum height hmax. One end of a halyard is fixedly hooked to the life-saving object or to the launch site; the halyard functionally cooperates respectively with the launch site or the life-saving object so that the life-saving object falling by gravity is braked on and / or by the halyard over at least one part (H-hmax) of its drop height. By controlling the braking effect, the life-saving object, falling from the height H in a braked manner over at least one part (H-hmax) of this height hits the surface of the water (5) with a kinetic energy not exceeding that which it would have at the end of a non-braked free fall from at most the height hmax.

The invention discloses an optimization control method and apparatus of a refining apparatus coupling unit. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a closed-loop dynamic feedback decoupling compensator D(s) paired based on a relative gain matrix loop, decoupling a controlled object G(s), and converting the G(s) into a generalized object G(s)<^>; designing an inner-mold controller C(s) for the generalized object G(s)<^>; calculating a fuzzy input amount, a process output and process model output deviation e(t) and a deviation change rate e(t)<.>; determining a fuzzy rule, and obtaining a fuzzy relation between an inner-mold controller parameter and e(t) and e(t)<.>; correcting the value of a controller parameter lambda i in an online mode through performing analyzing, processing, table-querying and operation on the fuzzy rule according to the following formula: lambda i= lambda i0+{Ei,ECi}lambda i, wherein lambda i0 is an initial value set for the filter time constant lambda i according to an identification result of an object model parameter and operation experience, and {Ei,ECi} lambda i represents online correction on the lambda i after fuzzy logic reasoning calculation. The method can realize full-flow automatic control of a controlled system and further inhibit interference better.

The invention relates to the field of crop cultivation, in particular to a purple cauliflower hybrid seed cultivation method. A mediummorchid parent 97.f3-7-3-1a3 is taken as a main body parent to be respectively hybridized with purple-flower vegetable material ZiYin-1 with Europe consanguinity, variant distant related ZiPa (purple cabbage) according to a seed cultivation object design technical scheme by use of existing germplasm resources; backcross or continuous backcross is performed on the F1 generation, individual selection and autocopuation in a net chamber are performed BC1, BC2 and descendants by virtue of a pedigreen method according to the seed cultivation object, so that two stable-character and good-regularity self-incompatible lines are line-bred after 6-7 generations; the hybrid F1 generation has great heterosis and has yield which is increased by not less than 80% than those of parents, and ball flowers are purple red in color, compact, gorgeous and glossy, taste crisp, tender and sweet if being not cooked, taste delicious, tasty and refreshing if being cooked, and are named as ZIJING-1.

A method and apparatus for the self-illumination of various objects designed for use in sports, entertainment, safety, and emergency related activities. The objects are caused to self-illuminate by chemiluminescence to facilitate usage of the objects during non-daylight hours or in areas that are otherwise surrounded by darkness. Chemiluminescence may be activated through injection, acceleration, tactile manipulation, through the process of attaching various portions of the self-illuminating objects together, or through the use of a mechanical activator. Activation is utilized to cause emission of visible light from within one or more cavities of the objects, from exterior portions of the objects, or from various inserts of the objects. Subcutaneous packets are also provided that may be caused to emanate visible light through chemiluminescence.

A method for running a computer program on computing hardware, in particular on a microprocessor. The computer program includes multiple program objects designed as tasks, for example. Transient and permanent errors are detected during the running of the computer program on the computing hardware. To be able to handle these transient errors constructively when they occur in a computer system in such a way that the functionality and function reliability of the computer system are restored within the shortest possible error tolerance time, at least one program object that has already been sent for execution is set into a defined state on detection of an error and is restarted from this state. The program object is a runtime object of the computer program, for example, also known as a task. One or more tasks that are still being executed or have already been executed on occurrence of an error are restarted and run again.