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A medical imaging recording and viewing system adapted for use interchangably with a variety of endoscopes. The system includes a portable hand-held device that may be removably placed within a cradle affixed to the endoscope. An interface between an image acquisition device of the endoscope and the portable device permits images to be transmitted to and stored within the portable device. The portable device also may include a viewing screen to permit a user to view the images. A docking station may receive the portable device for transferring images to a separate viewing device and for recharging the battery of the portable device.

A vehicle viewing system including a camera system for generating a signal corresponding to a scene by integrating light from the scene incident on pixel cells having a variable integration time, a display system for presenting a visual representation of the scene, and a processor system operable to determine the camera system integration time based on brightness levels in the scene. The camera system preferably includes and an input attenuating filter to limit light striking the optical array. The processor system includes an image brightness detector to determine overall image brightness and a display control to determine luminance settings for the display system. The processor system may determine the intensity of the display system based on the brightness of the scene, ambient light levels, and glare on the display. The display system includes a display and a display attenuation filter for limiting the intensity as viewed by the operator.

The present invention relates to a system and method of viewing pairs of perspective images of 3-D objects (i.e. stereoscopic image pairs) displayed from a CRT display surface in a time-multiplexed or field-sequential manner, and more particularly to a universal method of generating control signals for synchronously changing the optical state of liquid crystal (LC) shutter panels through which the time-multiplexed perspective. images can be sequentially viewed in a substantially flicker-free manner by the left and right eyes of a human viewer, independent of whether the images are displayed on NTSC, PAL, VGA or SVGA styled CRT display devices.

An observation system for observation calls to a call center includes an automatic call director (ACD) unit, an interactive voice response (IVR) unit, and a recorder unit. The ACD receives incoming calls to the call center and also queues and switches the calls to various lines of the call center. The IVR unit is connected to the ACD unit and interacts with a caller via an interactive computer program in which the caller enters a response to a prompt and the response causes the interactive program to provide the caller with information or another prompt. The recorder unit records calls to the call center from beginning to end, including prompts made by the IVR unit, callers responses to the prompts, and information provided by the IVR unit to the callers.

An object observation system of the present invention has an observation apparatus for observing a body to be examined, a three-dimensional image recording apparatus for recording three-dimensional images, which are obtained in advance, of the body to be examined, and an image constructing apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional image based on images in synchronization with the observation apparatus, which are recorded in the three-dimensional image recording apparatus.

A vehicle-borne camera-based observation system for monitoring areas adjacent a vehicle or passenger vehicle, such as a bus or schoolbus, is disclosed, to provide safer operation for passersby, including for children, and driver convenience. The system includes several cameras, and several monitors in a driver's area displaying all of the fields of view from the cameras, such that each monitor may be controllable to show either the field of view of a first camera or a the field of view of a second camera, according to a driver selection or according to an automatic selection. Night vision, automatic tracking, and illumination systems are also provided.

An ultrasound endoscope having an endoscopic observation system along with an ultrasound scan system. An outlet opening of an instrument passage, which is shunted from a biopsy channel of the endoscope, is located within a view field of an endoscopic image pickup window, which largely overlaps a scan range of the ultrasound scan system. A puncture instrument having a sharp-pointed rigid needle at the instrument outlet opening, which is in the view field of the endoscopic image pickup, can be monitored by way of the endoscopic observation system to check its position for safety purposes, from a slightly projected position to a largely projected position whenever it spontaneously gets out of the instrument outlet opening. Once the puncture needle is driven into an intracavitary wall toward a diseased portion in target, it can be monitored through the ultrasound scan system.

A medical ultrasound viewing system for processing a sequence of three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound images far performing a quantitative estimation of a flow through a body organ comprising means for performing steps of acquiring a sequence of 3D color flow images, of said flow; assessing the flow velocity values in the 3D images, constructing isovelocity surfaces (6) by segmentation of the flow velocity values; computing the volume (Vol) delimited by the isovelocity surfaces; and using the flow velocity value (V) and the volume (Vol) computed from a segmented surface for computing the surface of an orifice (3) of the organ through which the flow propagates. The viewing system further comprises means for performing steps of measuring the peak velocity (VREG) of said flow through said orifice; computing the surface of the orifice (SOR) through which the flow propagates as a function of the flow velocity value (V) at an isovelocity surface upstream the flow propagation with respect to said orifice, the volume (Vol) computed from said segmented isovelocity surface, and the peak velocity of the flow through said orifice. The surface is given by the formula: SOR=Vol. V / VREG. The system can be applied to the assessment of the surface of regurgitation of the mitral jet.

The invention relates to the technical field of cell automation augmentation and culture instrument, in particular relates to an automation augmentation and culture system of induced pluripotent stem cells, which comprises a cell automation augmentation and culture system, an operation room and a control system which are mutually connected, wherein, the cell automation augmentation and culture system comprises a culture box and a culture box control room connected with the culture box; the culture box comprises at least one culture device for fixing a culture container fixed block of a culture container, a culture container cover automatic opening and closing system, a culture container automatic popping and closing system, a digital temperature system and at least one sensor; the culture box control room comprises an air flow purification and induction system and a culture box digital power system; and the operation room comprises a bar code automatic entry system, an liquid automatic replace system and a cell on-line observing system. By utilizing the system provided by the invention, a somatic cell can be automatically induced into a pluripotent stem cell, and the system can be used for stem cell research and clinical stem cell treatment.

A fluorescence diagnosis system has a viewing system at least one light source and a camera system. The at least one light source can be operated in three modes, a first generating white light, a second with a first fluorescence excitation light of a first excitation wavelength and a third in which a second fluorescence excitation light of a second excitation wavelength is generated producing a fluorescence image in the NIR range. The camera system is sensitive at least in the visible and the NIR range. The system further comprises an image processing system for converting the fluorescence image in the NIR range into a visible image.

The invention discloses a dynamic equilibrium management system of a collector-distributed motor battery, comprising a battery sub-observation system (7), a battery equilibrium system (1), a battery management subsystem (12) and a host computer (10). The battery sub-observation system (7) consists of a plurality of monolithic battery sampling molds. The battery management subsystem (12) comprises a battery management ECU with a microcolltroller as the core, a multi-channel communication line (23), a concentration line communication mold and a channel selectivity control mold. The battery equilibrium system (1) consists of a plurality of monolithic battery equilibrium molds (2) and a channel selectivity circuit (3). The dynamic equilibrium management system formed by the invention has compact topological layout and simple structure, which is easy to be transferred, maintained and developed. The invention realized the management method of centralization control and dynamic distributed equilibrium, which has good property of adjustment and control and high reliability.

Disclosed is an electronic real property viewing system for providing virtual tours of real property units via a public communications network such as the internet. The electronic property viewing system includes a system for affiliates to create their own virtual tours in real time by uploading photographs into a template, resulting in both movable and still photographs with accompanying data sets. Another embodiment of this invention involves the exchange of the creation and / or maintenance of such virtual tour available on a public communications network for occupation time units in the real property units.

The invention relates to a method for implementing an operating and observation system for field devices (FG1-FGN) A server device (HS1-HSN) is provided in each field device and the field devices are connected to a proxy server device (1). Said proxy server device is connected to a user device (N1-NN) on which a browser device is installed. The proxy server device interrogates the field devices in order to automatically identify the field devices which are connected to the proxy server device, and allocates a network address to each field device. A basic information message is produced by the proxy server device, said information message comprising specific electronic information about each field device, based on the results of the interrogation thereof. The respective electronic information comprises link information concerning the respective server device of each field device, such that after the basic information message has been transmitted to the user device, respective device information messages are emitted in a graphical manner, by means of the browser device, for the observation / operation of the field devices. Said device information messages can be requested from the respective server devices of the field devices.

The invention discloses a penetration probe-based deep sea multi-element comprehensive observation system, which comprises an upper computer and a data recovery cabin, wherein the upper end and the lower end of the data recovery cabin are connected with a probe rod through a hydraulic separation releaser and a launching device respectively; a small-sized pile driver is arranged in the launching device; the launching device is provided with an underwater search light, an underwater camera and an underwater acoustic communication transceiver; the top of the data recovery cabin is provided with a floating body; a central controller is included in the data recovery cabin; the outer side face of the data recovery cabin is provided with an underwater acoustic transducer; and the outer surface of the probe rod is provided with more than 10 annular electrodes and more than 2 pore water pressure sensors which are connected with the central controller. The system has a simple structure, is reliable in work and accurate in control, can carry various sensors and adapt to a deep sea high pressure environment, and can synchronously and automatically observe and record states and changes of sea water and sediments within a 10m depth range close to a sea water-sediment interface with over 2,000m water depth, including the state of sediments of 6-7m below a sea bottom surface, the condition ofsea water of a bottom layer of 3-4m above the sea bottom surface and the dynamic change in position of the sea bottom surface.

The invention relates to a double-camera automatic coordination multi-target eagle eye observation system and an observation method thereof. The system comprises a hardware platform, a wide angle camera, a pan / tilt / zoom (PTZ) camera, a processor and a multi-channel video acquisition card. The observation method comprises the following steps of: calibrating two cameras to obtain an angle that a moving camera rotates and aligns with any position of the wide angle camera; detecting moving targets from the wide angel camera, and tracking and marking; selecting a target; controlling the PTZ camerato zoom and track if the target moves fast; amplifying the target if the target moves slowly; positioning interested characteristics; and secondarily amplifying and observing an interested region. The system has the advantages of low cost, simple implementation and the like, and can be widely applied to multi-target video tracking fields such as robots, intelligent transportation, video monitoring and the like.

There is provided an endoscope capable of observing cells at a desired position existing in the depth direction with a simple structure as compared to the conventional configuration. The endoscope includes an insert unit to be inserted into a biological body, a low-scaling observation system for observing an observation position in a biological body with a low scaling, and a high-scaling observation system for observing a target position of the aforementioned observation position as a local position with a high scaling. The high-scaling observation system includes a plurality of illumination units for applying illumination light for high-scaling observation of the target position. The illumination units are arranged at predetermined positions of the end face of the insert unit.

An object observation system of the present invention has an observation apparatus for observing a body to be examined, a three-dimensional image recording apparatus for recording three-dimensional images, which are obtained in advance, of the body to be examined, and an image constructing apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional image based on images in synchronization with the observation apparatus, which are recorded in the three-dimensional image recording apparatus.

The invention discloses a multi-unmanned-aerial-vehicle cluster to-the-ground observation system and a formation control method thereof. The system comprises a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles. A plurality of ground stations corresponding to the unmanned aerial vehicles in a one-to-one mode are arranged on the ground, and the ground stations carry out information interaction through a task management machine. The unmanned aerial vehicles send waypoint information to the corresponding ground stations. The ground stations are used for receiving the waypoint information sent by the unmanned aerial vehicles and sending the waypoint information to the task management machine. The task management machine is used for receiving the waypoint information sent by the ground stations and controlling the formation of the unmanned aerial vehicles according to the waypoint information. By adopting the system and the method, the capability of multi-mode, multi-angle and high-reliability data acquisition in a variety of environments can be realized through precision formation. Operation is simple and efficient. The system is stable and reliable.

An intra-operative medical image viewing system can allow a surgeon to maintain a viewing perspective on the patient while calling-up visual images on-the-fly. A digital image source has at least one image file representative of an anatomical or pathological feature of a patient. A display is worn by the surgeon or positioned between the surgeon and her patient during surgery. The display is selectively transparent, and exhibits to the surgeon an image derived from the image file. An image control unit retrieves the image file from the image source and controls the display so that at least a portion of the image depiction can be exhibited and modified at will by the surgeon. A plurality of peripheral devices are each configured to receive an image control input from the surgeon and, in response, generate an image control signal. Each peripheral accepts a different user-interface modality.

The present invention provides a biological sample culturing and observation system which includes: an incubator in which a biological samples are housed, and whose interior is maintained in a culturing environment satisfying predetermined conditions, and the interior is isolated from the outside; an observation optical system that from outside the incubator optically observes the biological sample via the incubator; a light blocking device that blocks external light that is irradiated on the biological sample and within the visual field of a observation optical system; and a supply device that selectively supplies a liquid or gas to the biological sample inside the incubator from a plurality of holding vessels that individually hold a plurality of different types of liquid or gas that are necessary for the culturing.

The invention relates to an evaluating system and method based on radio astronomical instrument device electromagnetic radiation. The evaluating system comprises a microwave switch, a receiving antenna, a reference noise source, a signal source and an emitting antenna, wherein two normally-open contacts are arranged at one end of the microwave switch, the other end of the microwave switch is connected to a spectrometer through a pre-amplifier, the spectrometer is connected with a computer, the receiving antenna is connected to one normally-open contact of the microwave switch, the standard noise source is connected to the other normally-open contact of the microwave switch, the signal source is connected to the computer through the network, and the emitting antenna is connected to the output end of the signal source through a radio frequency cable. According to the system and method, by means of the technical index and observation requirements of a radio astronomical observation system, radio astronomical instrument device radiated emission is tested and evaluated, the influence of radio astronomical instrument device radiated emission on a radio telescope is analyzed, so that reference is provided for compatibility design, shielding design and site radio management of the radio astronomical observation system, and the engineering significance is high.

An observation system for masking a privacy zone and method thereof are provided. The observation system has a camera part that photographs a certain observation area. An operation part receives a user-set command for selecting a privacy zone among the observation area, where the privacy zone requires no observation. A control part outputs a control signal for setting a mask area that masks the privacy zone according to the user-set command. An area set part generates a plurality of vertexes forming the mask area according to the control signal. An image signal process part uses a mosaic scheme to masks the privacy zone photographed by the camera part according to the mask area formed by the plurality of vertexes set by the area set part. An output part displays the mask area masked by the image signal process part. Therefore, the privacy zone photographed from the camera part is not displayed on a screen.

A system and method for determining when to display frontal curb view images to a driver of a vehicle, and what types of images to display. A variety of factors—such as vehicle speed, GPS / location data, the existence of a curb in forward-view images, and vehicle driving history—are evaluated as potential triggers for the curb view display, which is intended for situations where the driver is pulling the vehicle into a parking spot which is bounded in front by a curb or other structure. When forward curb-view display is triggered, a second evaluation is performed to determine what image or images to display which will provide the best view of the vehicle's position relative to the curb. The selected images are digitally synthesized or enhanced, and displayed on a console-mounted or in-dash display device.

A behavior of a walker is detected according to combination of detection of the walking behavior on a level and an altitude variation of the walker to more accurately detect the behavior of the walker. A burned calorie can be obtained according to the type of the walking behavior. An altitude variation can be obtained more accurately by integrating altitude variation only at sections with vertical movement during walking. A stride is estimated according to the behavior of the walker in consideration of the vertical movement. Obtained position and traveling direction are used for compensating values in inertial navigation system. The behavior with and without vertical movement is used in a walker navigator and a worker observing system including a worker terminal carried by the walker for detecting the behavior of the worker and a worker observing terminal for providing the detected position and behavior of the walker.

The invention discloses an orbital parameter measurement device and method based on an absolute coordinate measurement reference system. The orbital parameter measurement device comprises a trolley platform, an inertial measuring unit, a three-dimensional laser scanner, a fixed point and mark point observation system, a gauge measurement device and a gesture and curve parameter computer, wherein the trolley platform moves along a rail orbit and used for arrangement of required equipment; the inertial measuring unit is arranged on the trolley platform and used for measuring the corner motion amount and the acceleration change amount of the trolley in the spatial three-axis direction; the three-dimensional laser scanner is arranged on the trolley platform and used for measuring space position coordinate value of a reflector relative to the original point of the three-dimensional laser scanner; the fixed point and mark point observation system is used for positioning the initial space position of the trolley; the gauge measuring device is arranged on the trolley platform and used for measuring gauge parameters the rail at a current position where the trolley platform is located; and the gesture and curve parameter computer is used for calculating the curve parameters of the orbit according to the measured value. According to the orbital parameter measurement device and method disclosed by the invention, the technical problems of low measurement speed, low efficiency and low measured result precision can be solved, and the measuring efficiency is effectively improved on the promise of ensuring the measuring precision.

An endoscope with a digital viewing system, such as a digital camera, with a housing having a longitudinal axis, with a lens attached to the housing and with an electronic image sensor positioned in the interior of the housing for converting a picture delivered through the lens into a digital format, characterized in that the image sensor is movable transverse to or out of the longitudinal axis. The movement of the image sensor facilitates focusing.

The invention relates to a kind of wet-form stack-gas desulfurizing industrial art monitoring and auto-control system, which can be used in desulfurizing industrial art by spraying lime powder or size mixture of lime to stack gases in order to forming high purity gypsum. The hardware of the invention contains industrial cybertron, PLC, group of server, router, Internet system and remote terminal. And the feature of it is that it contains the subsystems as follows: the monitoring and data acquisition subsystem, which includes the intelligence instrument; the simulated instrument and the observation system of the air pollutant that is CEMS; the data processing and electrical control system, which controls the on-the-spot actuating mechanism by PLC; the network and data communication subsystem and the safety control subsystem, which include the safety emergency power supply and the control cabinet on the spot of the subject equipment. The industrial cybertron works for data processing and central control, which uses PLC to control spot actuating mechanism, and it can manifest the data of equipment state at the right moment and can type all kinds of report form, in order to realize auto-control and remote control at the right moment.

A medical viewing system for processing and displaying a sequence a sequence of medical angiograms representing a balloon, moving in an artery, this system comprising extracting means for automatically extracting balloon image data in a phase of balloon expansion, and computing means for automatically defining and storing coordinates of a Region of Interest (ROI) based on the expanded balloon image data, located around the expanded balloon; and display means for displaying the images. Contrast agent may be used as agent of balloon expansion. The system may have means to detect and keep track of balloon markers and means to look around those markers for further balloon image data extraction.

The invention relates to a wheel barycenter distortion angle observation method integrated with Kalman filtering and acceleration integral, comprising the following steps: 1) setting a barycenter distortion angle observation system comprising a vehicle speed sensor, a longitudinal acceleration sensor, a transverse acceleration sensor, a yaw velocity sensor and a controller, and respectively obtaining the primary signals of longitudinal acceleration, transverse acceleration and yaw velocity; 2) carrying out Kalman filtering processing on the longitudinal acceleration, transverse acceleration and yaw velocity respectively, so as to obtain the processed estimated values of the longitudinal acceleration, the transverse acceleration and the yaw velocity; 3) carrying out barycenter distortion angle observation respectively by adopting the mode based on Kalman filtering and signal integral; and4) carrying out weighted process on the results of the two methods in the step 3), thus obtaining the barycenter distortion angle observation value. The weighted process is carried out based on the Kalman filtering and acceleration integral. Not only has the method wide application range, but also accurate barycenter distortion angle observation result can be obtained under the condition of low cost.

To provide a vehicle peripheral area observation system that can, with a simple configuration, detect a pedestrian who has a possibility of hitting against the vehicle by removing an appearance motion due to water vapor or a light source fluctuation. A water vapor region is detected from motion information and luminance information from videos captured with an on-vehicle camera, and recognition of a moving object in the water vapor region is invalidated for a given period of time.