553 results about "Physical information" patented technology

Automatically determining issues associated with a photovoltaic (PV) system. Information regarding the PV system may be stored. The information may include logical information regarding a logical configuration of the PV system and physical information regarding a physical layout of the PV system. Measurement data regarding the PV system may be received. The measurement data regarding the PV system may be automatically analyzed using the logical information and the physical information. An indication of any issues determined by said analyzing may be automatically provided.

A blood-pressure monitor, including a blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, an information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, from a living subject, physical information which changes with change of blood pressure of the subject, a measurement starting device for starting a measurement of the blood-pressure measuring device, when a subsequent piece of information obtained by the obtaining device after the measuring device has measured a last blood pressure of the subject in a last measurement thereof has been deviated by not less than a predetermined amount from an initial piece of information obtained by the obtaining device when the measuring device measured the last blood pressure of the subject, a display device which displays a graph representing the pieces of information obtained by the obtaining device, and a control device which controls the display device to display the graph representing the initial piece of information and each one of subsequent pieces of information iteratively obtained by the obtaining device after the measuring device has measured the last blood pressure of the subject, so that the initial piece of information and the each one subsequent piece of information can be compared with each other.

A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting tree stands into tree crowns, each tree crown having a tree crown area, classifying tree crowns based on species, and analyzing the tree crown classification to determine information about the individual tree crowns and aggregate tree stands. The tree crown area is used to determine physical information such as tree diameter breast height, tree stem volume and tree height. The tree crown area is also used to determine the value of timber in tree stands and parcels of land using tree stem volume and market price of timber per species.

A shoe includes a shoe sole having a chamber formed in a heel portion, a detecting device disposed in the chamber of the heel portion of the shoe sole and arranged to be depressed and actuated by a heel portion of a user, a processor device attached to the shoe and electrically coupled to the detecting device, to receive and to process the information into physical information of the user. A display device is coupled to the processor device, to receive and display the physical information from the processor device, and to allow the user to readily know his physical conditions. The physical information may be wirelessly transmitted to the display device.

A stationary exercise cycle includes a simulation system for simulating real-world terrain based on environmental and other real-world conditions. Using topographical or other data, an actual location can be simulated. The exercise cycle may include a resistance mechanism that is adjusted based on changes in simulated slope, and by amounts simulating actual frictional and gravitational forces. The simulated speed of the rider, as well as speed and direction of a simulated wind, are used to determine a simulated air speed. Based on the simulated air speed, the simulation system determines the simulated air resistance hindering the rider, and changes reflective of the simulated air resistance are made by the resistance mechanism. The stationary exercise cycle takes into account actual or approximate physical information of the user in determining the real-world conditions that are simulated, including the height, weight, shape, and / or rising position of the rider.

The present invention provides a health care support system that can give appropriate advice depending on a situation.At first step, whether a driver is seated is checked using a signal from a pressure sensor. At second step, whether the driver is in a resting state is checked using heart rate and the like. At third step, physical information is acquired. At forth step, a health status is judged based on the measured pieces of physical information and the like. At fifth step, activity status information is acquired. At sixth step, an activity status is judged based on the activity status information. At seventh step, an appropriate piece of advice for the driver is selected based on a judgment result of the health status and a judgment result of the activity status. At eighth step, the selected piece of advice is displayed on a displaying section and audibly outputted.

Disclosed herein is a physical information acquisition device including an electromagnetic wave output section, a first detection section, and a signal processing section. The electromagnetic wave output section is adapted to generate electromagnetic wave at a wavelength equivalent to a specific wavelength when, for a first wavelength range of electromagnetic wave, a wavelength where electromagnetic wave energy is lower than at other wavelengths is determined to be the specific wavelength. The first detection section is adapted to detect electromagnetic wave at the specific wavelength. The signal processing section is adapted to perform signal processing based on detection information acquired from the first detection section.

An embodiment of the invention provides a signaling transport method. The signaling transport method includes receiving an up data frame transmitted by user equipment (UE), and according to whether the up data frame is received correctly, determining feeding back acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK / NACK) information to the UE; sending down control information (DCI) to the UE on a physical down control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced physical down control channel (ePDCCH), wherein the DCI comprises a response information field of L bits, the response information field of L bits carries the ACK / NACK information, and L is an integer greater than 1. The signaling transport method relieves the problem of the physical information channel (PHICH) capacity tension due to the fact that a PHICH feeds back response information to the UE in a traditional mode, thereby improving the operation efficiency.

Disclosed is a method of acquiring physical information that acquires physical information by using a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes unit elements, each of which has a detecting unit and a unit signal generating unit. The method includes the steps of: providing an operation current supply unit supplying an operation current such that the unit signal generating unit outputs a unit signal, and a signal processing unit receiving the unit signal output from each of the unit elements forming the semiconductor device and outputting an output unit signal; and when a selective read mode is designated for reading the unit signal from a portion of the respective unit elements, an operation current of the output signal line of the unit signal generating unit not to be read is reduced so as to be smaller than an operation current of the output signal line of the unit signal generating unit to be read.

A system and method for use by a business entity for loan origination and underwriting in connection with real estate investment using a computer implemented application having a plurality of data input and dialog screens requiring one-time entry of data. The method includes steps to be followed in any sequence by one or more users of the business entity for using the system. The method includes inputting and storing loan origination information via data input screens, the information including financial and physical information relating to a specific real estate investment. The input loan origination information is dynamically compared with pre-determined rules and a dialog screen is displayed on a near real-time basis if any of said rules are violated. The input data is dynamically compared with other rules for determining the ongoing sequence of data input and dialog screens. Comparison with other rules results in the calculation of calculated values and automatically generated dialog text, some of which is automatically populated in word processing documents, an automated loan request and a credit application. The system includes both manual and automatic input of market data quantitatively describing the real estate market associated with the property, as well as multimedia data describing the property and the region surrounding the property. A report representing all of the stored input and calculated values are automatically produced in both paper and electronic form suitable for loan origination and underwriting.

An automatic document classification system is described that uses lexical and physical features to assign a class ciεC{c1, c2, . . . , ci} to a document d. The primary lexical features are the result of a feature selection method known as Orthogonal Centroid Feature Selection (OCFS). Additional information may be gathered on character type frequencies (digits, letters, and symbols) within d. Physical information is assembled through image analysis to yield physical attributes such as document dimensionality, text alignment, and color distribution. The resulting lexical and physical information is combined into an input vector X and is used to train a supervised neural network to perform the classification.

A health management support system includes: a unit that receives two or more types of physical information measured by a user along with measurement time data; an analyzing unit for analyzing the relationship between the received two or more types of physical information in accordance with a predetermined rule; an advice generating unit that generates advice based on a result of the analysis; and an advice output unit that outputs the generated advice. The analyzing unit has a knowledge file that stores the predetermined rule, and an engine unit for executing the analysis. The advice generating unit generates the advice for notifying the user of a goal achievement level by analyzing the two or more types of physical information measured in a first predetermined period.

There is provided a physical information acquiring method of acquiring physical information for a predetermined purpose on the basis of change information that is acquired under predetermined detection conditions for a physical quantity using an portion for physical quantity distribution detection. The portion for physical quantity distribution detection includes a detector that detects change information corresponding to a change in a physical quantity made incident on the detector and has unit components that output unit signals based on the change information detected by the detector arranged in a predetermined order. In the physical information acquiring method, a carrier signal is converted into a signal related to a frequency on the basis of the change information detected by the detector. The physical information for a predetermined purpose is acquired using the signal related to a frequency.

The present invention is directed to a method and system for detecting a wireless telephone communication in a vehicle, and once detected, when the vehicle exceeds a predefined speed limit, for generating and sending Dual-Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) encoded information over the voice channel. The encoded information comprises the values of various physical parameters related to the moving vehicle. For instance, these parameters can include the current time at which the telephone communication started, and optionally, the position of the vehicle. In a particular embodiment, the values of the various parameters are sent at regular time intervals until the communication terminates.

In particular for a solid-state image sensor with high resolution, a control line is not driven at any of two end points of the control line, but the control line is driven at two arbitrary dividing points on the control line. Preferably, two points on control line whose distance from a closer end of a range in which skew is to be suppressed is equal to ¼ of the total length of the range may be selected as the dividing points at which the control line is driven. In this case, the time constant at points farthest from the driving points becomes ¼ of that which occurs when the control line is driven at both end points thereof and 1 / 16 of that which occurs when the control line is driven at one end point thereof, and thus, theoretically, the skew can be reduced to ¼ or 1 / 16 of that which occurs when the control line is driven at both end points or only one end point.

A communication apparatus including a physical information recognizing module, an MAC information recognizing module, a coordinating module, and a re-configurable transmitting / receiving module is provided. The physical information recognizing module recognizes a set of physical information relative to at least one communication network. The MAC information recognizing module recognizes a set of MAC information relative to the at least one communication network. The coordinating module generates a set of control signals selectively based on the set of physical information and the set of MAC information. The re-configurable transmitting / receiving module is configured according to the set of control signals and is used for transmitting / receiving data via the at least one communication network.

The invention discloses a multi-split system and a networking method thereof. The multi-split system comprises an outdoor unit, a plurality of indoor units and an power line carrier communication module, wherein the outdoor unit comprises an outdoor unit main control board; each indoor unit is connected with the outdoor unit through a refrigerant pipeline, and comprises an indoor unit main control board; the power line carrier communication module comprises a first carrier communication unit and a plurality of second carrier communication units; the first carrier communication unit is connected with the outdoor unit main control board; the second carrier communication units are connected with the indoor unit main control boards one to one; and the first carrier communication unit establishes carrier communication connection with the second carrier communication units through the refrigerant pipelines, so that the outdoor unit can communicate with each indoor unit. The multi-split system realizes the effect of communication between the outdoor unit and the indoor units by taking the refrigerant pipelines as physical information channels, and both the reliability and the stability are relatively high.

Images for information handling system manufacture and maintenance are created and managed by manipulating the images as virtual machines through a secure remote network interface, such as a virtual private network or virtual desktop infrastructure. Operating system and application installation and updates, such as service packs and patches, are performed on a virtual machine of the image to adjust the image as desired, and then the image is transformed for loading on physical information handling systems, such as newly manufactured information handling systems or deployed information handling systems in need of maintenance.

The invention provides a physical store-based online shopping system and method, aiming at the defects of an existing electronic shopping system. The system has a function of collecting commodity physical information, so that people can utilize the network to have a shopping experience just like making personal appearance at a shopping site, and people can truly feel selected goods in many aspects of vision, hearing, touch and olfaction. The system comprises an information server, a client terminal and a merchant terminal, wherein the information server is connected with the client terminal by virtue of a network; the information server is used for providing shopping or commercial service information, and receiving purchase tasks and the like which are submitted by the client communication terminal; the client terminal is used for providing the purchase tasks to the information server or the merchant terminal; the merchant terminal communicates with the client terminal or / and the information server about relevant purchases according to the order forms submitted by the client terminal. Aiming at meeting the demands of clients, the invention provides the purchase system based on network interactivity between purchase services and clients, and provides a brand-new convenient shopping experience.

An efficient percolation aggregation solver methodology captures media connectivity and continuity to reliably incorporate relevant flow solution trends in subterranean formation models. The approach allows introduction of meaningful physical information that is generally overlooked by state-of-the-art algebraic algorithms in the solution process. Percolation aggregation extends the efficiency and robustness of solution methods used to solve scientific and engineering problems.

The present invention relates to a method for certifying and subsequently authenticating original physical or digital documents. The concept of the evidence lies in the dual nature of a physical information item and a digital information item, one being the reference for the other that cannot lie amended at the risk of the evidence being lost. For a physical original document (8) associated with a bubble seal (7) there is a corresponding time-and-date-stamped, proprietary paperless reference counterpart. For a time-and-date-stamped, proprietary digital original document (15) there is a corresponding reference counterpart in the form of a bubble seal (7).

The invention discloses an internal rectal optical, optoacoustic and ultrasonic multimode imaging endoscope which comprises a sleeve, an optoacoustic signal activating component, an ultrasonic signal activating and collecting component, an optical imaging component and an image reconstructing and displaying component. A device comprises a compact internal rectal optical, optoacoustic and ultrasonic multimode imaging endoscope, three kinds of imaging can be performed simultaneously, multi-parameter physical information and multi-scale structural images in recta can be acquired. The invention further provides a configuration scheme of the whole device and a method for utilizing the device for imaging. Three imaging techniques are highly integrated into one set of instrument, each imaging technique is optimized, and combination of three rectal endoscopic imaging methods of optical imaging, optoacoustic imaging and ultrasonic imaging is realized. The integrated endoscope combines specific advantages of three imaging modes, rectal physical images with multi-parameter information and multi-scale structural characteristics can be acquired, and application requirements of a rectal endoscope on medicine can be met better.

Belonging to flash memory chip lifetime prediction technologies, the invention in particular relates to a mathematical model based flash memory chip lifetime prediction method. The method includes: firstly using a flash memory chip test system to collect the physical information and lifetime information of a sample flash memory chip, then conducting operation processing on the data information obtained by testing through intelligent algorithm to obtain a flash memory chip lifetime prediction model, finally carrying out a few tests to obtain the physical information of the to-be-predicted flashmemory chip, and inputting the physical information into the prediction model to obtain a predicted lifetime value of the flash memory chip. The flash memory sample test method provided by the invention employs constrained random data as the test data set to perform testing, can more effectively simulate the data operation of the flash memory chip in the actual use process, and the obtained flashmemory physical information and lifetime information are more valuable.

A communication device enabling a user to perform authentication by simple action with the use of physical information and to perform communication via user's body. An authentication device (10) has a communication section (30) for communicating via user's body, a communication terminal (31) for communications, a sensor section (26) for sensing physical information, an authentication section (20) for authenticating the physical information and user information, and a storage section (22) for storing the physical information. The sensor section (26) is placed so that a communication contact portion (62b) is in contact with the communication terminal (31) when the sensor section (62a) senses physical information. By this the user can perform, by simpler action, both authentication using physical information and communications via the user's body.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for designing a display for user interaction. The proposed apparatus includes an input unit for receiving physical information of a user and a condition depending on a working environment. A space selection unit selects an optimal near-body work space corresponding to the condition received by the input unit. A space search unit calculates an overlapping area between a viewing frustum space, defined by a relationship between a gaze of the user and an optical system of a display enabling a 3D image to be displayed, and the optimal near-body work space selected by the space selection unit. A location selection unit selects a location of a virtual screen based on results of calculation. An optical system production unit produces an optical system in which the virtual screen is located at the location selected by the location selection unit.