350 results about "Principal function" patented technology

Semi-autonomously executed routines accomplish the primary functions of electrosurgical energy delivery on a responsive basis for power control purposes and to adapt the delivered output waveform to perform new and better surgical procedures. The routines include and output voltage and output current sampling routine, a control routine for establishing the width of drive pulses used to create the output waveform, a pattern generation routine for establishing the pattern of drive pulses to be delivered in one mode cycle established by a selected mode of operation, a pattern delivery routine for repeatedly delivering sequences of the mode cycle pattern of drive pulses, and a power supply control routine for varying the voltage of the drive pulses in coordination with varying the width of the drive pulses.

The present invention relates to the information protection of digital content transferred by streaming and download service through wire or wireless Internet network. The information protection system in this invention suggests a drastic prevention method of copyrights infringement such as illegal copy and unauthorized distribution of digital content, by using of the encryption, decryption, distribution, and authentication technologies. This invention suggests the control technology of general viewer program, not the specific viewer program for information protection, using a network filter driver for streaming and file system filter driver for download service. The main function of network and file system filter driver is the filtering operation such as a hooking, changing, decrypting, and restoring of message and data packet, and transferring to the viewer program. The main idea and technology of this invention suggest higher secure and efficient digital information protection system for live / VOD / HTTP streaming and download service.

The present invention relates to the information protection of digital content transferred by streaming and download service through wire or wireless Internet network. The information protection system in this invention suggests a drastic prevention method of copyrights infringement such as illegal copy and unauthorized distribution of digital content, by using of the encryption, decryption, distribution, and authentication technologies. This invention suggests the control technology of general viewer program, not the specific viewer program for information protection, using a network filter driver for streaming and file system filter driver for download service. The main function of network and file system filter driver is the filtering operation such as a hooking, changing, decrypting, and restoring of message and data packet, and transferring to the viewer program. The main idea and technology of this invention suggest higher secure and efficient digital information protection system for live / VOD / HTTP streaming and download service.

When an entity (such as a customer using a communication device 131, 141, 151 . . . ) attempts to communicate with a target (such as an employee), an arrangement indicates to the customer, “status” information describing at least the employee's present and future ability to communicate with the entity (such as by returning his call). At least one sensing device 111-119 is configured to provide sensing information concerning the target employee's status in response to an action of the target employee with respect to the sensing device. A monitoring server 102 is configured to receive the sensing information and to govern communication to the entity (customer) of the target's “status.” In one implementation, a particular sensing device (such as a cash register 111, computer terminal 112, or time clock 113) is configured to perform both (A) a primary function that is not related to providing the sensing information, and (B) the secondary function of providing the sensing information. In this implementation, the particular sensing device provides the sensing information in response to the person's ordinary use of the particular sensing device as he goes about his job (performing the particular sensing device's primary function), so that the person does not have to explicitly perform any purely presence-related action in order to cause the particular sensing device to communicate the sensing information.

A Method and System for Tuning the Effect of Vehicle Characteristics on Risk Prediction is disclosed. The system many incorporate many of those driver risk assessment system features previously disclosed by Assignee's Prior Applications. The present system provides a major functional distinction from those prior systems by adding the feature of real-time tuning of the risk assessment / prediction / analysis system in response to ongoing changes in vehicle motion characteristics. Specifically, system monitors the vehicle center of gravity for changes on a real-time basis, and then adjusts the risk prediction / assessment / analysis system responsively. The system executes an initialization feature that implements an initial, or series of initial vehicular motion profiles at the commencement of either a driving trip of the system being powered up. A catalog or index of “standardized” motion profiles are accessible for initial comparison to actual vehicle motion characteristics in order to streamline the tuning of the driver risk analysis system. The system determines if and when an offset in Center of Gravity (i.e. from where initialized) has occurred, after which the system responsively tunes the driver risk assessment / prediction / analysis / reporting system.

Process Brokering Services (PBS) are implemented though the concept of Adaptive Documents to facilitate electronic commerce (e-commerce). PBS provides a single point of process control over the various fragmented execution flows and brings together the elements for process integration (views, content, flows) in a unified, scalable architecture on an industry standard platform. The two principal functions of the PBS are brokering of multiple business processes encapsulated in various back-end systems including workflow engines and business applications, and aggregating content from multiple enterprise information systems in the business context and managing the shared access to this based on the roles of the participants. The dynamic services provided by PBS are accessible to clients through the PBS Interface.

The invention relates to an accelerated data query method in a query system, which provides an accelerated data query method based on a cache of document system according to the features of unchanged saved historical data and frequent query of same data. The invention saves the historical query data and takes it as the cache data for query, so as to accelerate the query. Upon receiving the query quest from user, the system will first of all turn to the query analyzer; the principal function of the query analyzer is to analyze and plan the query condition; then, after passing through a document buffer, the system analyzes whether the data document in the result satisfies the present query need; if not, the query will be carried out in the database and the final result will be fed back to a data processor; then, the data processor will filter and sort the data according to the final query demand and finally feed back the result document to a super stratum application system. Therefore, without increasing the investment on hardware, this query method is able to greatly reduce the occupation of database and system resource, so as to improve the query speed.

A motor vehicle system for automatically reporting exception events, comprising: one or more digital cameras, at least one digital camera having a primary function; an image memory system for storing digital images; means for detecting exception events; and a wireless communications system for communicating with a central reporting service. A program memory stores executable instruction for causing a processor to perform the steps of: using at least one of the digital cameras to periodically capture digital images at a specified capture frequency; storing the periodically captured digital images in the image memory for a specified period of time; and receiving input from the means for detecting an exception event. In response to the detection of an exception event a communication link is opened to the central reporting service using the wireless communications system, and one or more of the captured digital images are transmitted to the central reporting service.

The present invention relates to a securized, multifunction, acquisition and processing terminal more particularly usable in the banking sector, in connection with games and / or in the electronic management of documents, characterized in that it comprises: a mother board (13), having an interfacing bus with one or more standardized connectors to which can be connected standard input / output modules, at least one specific input / output module permitting the performance of specific functions incorporating at least one dedicated circuit, said module as its main function the supplying of the mother board with preorganized informations, in real time, concerning the specific functions and able to leave to said mother board any developed software processing of said informations.

The invention discloses an interactive e-business service processing method and system. An e-business website platform formed by jointing up a plurality of member clients, a plurality of physical store joining clients and a plurality of commodity supplier terminals, and comprises the following main functional modules of a commodity supplier entering module, a member module, a physical store joining module, a background function management module, a field selection function module, a territory selection function module, an electronic map and a data base. Because the physical store joining clients, the commodity supplier terminals and the member clients are jointed up by the e-business website platform, the advantages of an online platform and offline resources are better exerted, the respective advantages of the e-business website platform, the physical store joining clients, the commodity supplier terminals and the member clients are exerted, the enthusiasm of all parties is aroused, and the situation of mutual benefits, reciprocity and win-win cooperation is finally achieved.

The invention discloses a geomagnetic indoor positioning system and method based on a self-adaptive particle filter algorithm. The geomagnetic indoor positioning system comprises the novel self-adaptive particle filter algorithm and an efficient geomagnetic fingerprint data collecting unit. The efficient geomagnetic fingerprint data collecting unit has the main function of quickly collecting indoor geomagnetic signals by using a mobile phone magnetometer and converting the indoor geomagnetic signals into a geomagnetic fingerprint model to be stored. The novel self-adaptive particle filter algorithm is the improvement to an existing filter algorithm to improve the robustness, the precision and the usability. The key technology of the self-adaptive particle filter improvement algorithm mainly comprises a self-adaptive behavior model, a novel measurement model, a self-adaptive resampling model and a positioning precision estimation and positioning failure detection model. The geomagnetic indoor positioning system is suitable for various smart phones integrated with acceleration sensors, gyroscopes and magnetometers. The geomagnetic indoor positioning system has the advantages that the facing directions, the placing positions and using of the smart phones are not limited, and positioning precision is high.

A method activates different interactive functions based on a classification of vibro-acoustic signals resulting from touch events with finger parts of a user. A primary function is trigger when an interactive element on a touch screen is touched with a finger tip of the user. An auxiliary function is launched when the interactive element is touched with a knuckle or fingernail of the user. The touch events result in generating the vibro-acoustic signals. The vibro-acoustic signals are classified and used to distinguish what finger part was used based on the classification of the vibro-acoustic signals.

In a digital radio system including a transmitter unit and at least one receiver unit, changes to the system can implemented without modifying the hardware components by providing the transmitter unit and the receiver unit with processing capability. With respect to the transmitter unit, the principal function of the processing capability is to modify the encoding of the transmitted signal stream. The processing capability of the receiver unit provides the ability to identify when the decoding algorithms are not compatible with the transmitted signal stream. The decoding algorithms of receiver unit can be updated to be compatible with transmitted signals in several different embodiments. According to one embodiment, the updated decoding algorithm can be transmitted to the receiver unit along with, or in place of, the program signal stream. The programmable processor of the receiver unit identifies the decoder algorithm signal stream and installs the decoder algorithm in the programmable processor. In this embodiment of the invention, the upgrade of the receiver unit can be transparent to the user. The upgrade of the receiver unit can also be accomplished by manual intervention by the user.

A method for entering a preceding vehicle autonomous following mode includes the steps of registering and identifying at least one preceding vehicle in front of a host vehicle by at least a first and a second sensor device, comparing the preceding vehicle with vehicle data in a remote database system, and upon a match establishing a communication channel between the preceding vehicle and the host vehicle, identifying to an operator of the host vehicle preceding vehicles with which the communication channel has been established, and obtaining from the operator a selection of a target vehicles to engage following of. Finally, autonomous following mode of the target vehicle is engaged, wherein a vehicle control system automatically controls at least the following three main functions of the host vehicle: forward propulsion, steering, and braking.

The invention is an eye shield sleeping device that has a strap, a pair of eye shields, a pair of ear covers, a timer, one or more speakers, a microphone, and a voice recognition system. The timer creates an awakening sound when the time on the timer expires. The sound is produced by the speaker mounted inside the ear cover. The user can control the device using commands issued to the voice recognition system. The device can be connected to a media and communication appliance, such as a cell phone, a computer, and a digital player, which can play through the speakers. The voice recognition system can also be used to control a connected appliance. The principal function of the device is to create a restful environment for the user for a controlled period of time. Anticipated applications include naps while traveling and in sleep rooms at work.

A mirror network flow control protocol based on a software definition in a virtual network environment is characterized in that the protocol can adapt a system structure of mirror flow collection, mirror flow distribution and mirror flow control, which is decoupling in functions and has distributed disposition. A mirror flow collector node / virtual machine is deployed in a business network environment of a user, and has a main function to capture the mirror flow in the virtual network environment and to carry out forwarding according to a target assigned by the protocol. A mirror flow dispatcher is deployed in a non-business network environment, that is the influence of a network load on the normal network communication of the user business network environment does not need to be considered, and the function of the mirror flow dispatcher is to carry out flow copy and distribution according to a multi-purpose flow analysis device assigned by the protocol. A mirror flow center controller uniformly controls forwarding logic of the whole mirror network flow, and provides soft defined interfaces.

A spa control system designed to reduce maintenance cost by providing modular construction for major control functions, with built-in diagnostic capabilities for isolating defective spa components. Multi-colored LEDs on the spaside panel constantly report the status of each component of the spa as well as the status of the functional modules themselves. Each time a component is activated, measurements of operational parameters, such as load currents, are instantly made and evaluated so that the proper LED color can be presented at the spaside. Since major functions such as audio, LED control, wireless, and spa logic are separated into removable modules, repair of the control system requires less time and less skilled personnel. Other design improvements, such as direct monitoring of heater element temperature and the purging of pumps on an as required-basis, enhance the spa's overall reliability and thus reduce the need for maintenance.

Proposed is a light module (110) comprising at least two primary light sources (111,112,113) capable of emitting a primary color light. This allows the light module to emit light having intensity (Y) and color coordinates (x,y) through additive color mixing of the constituent primary colors. The light module further comprises an modulator (115) capable of modulating the primary light sources enabling embedment of data in the light emitted. The modulator (115) is arranged to modulate the color coordinates of the light emitted for embedding the data. This is especially advantageous as the sensitivity of the human eye to changes in color is lower than to changes in intensity. The invention thus advantageously allows embedding the data into the light emitted from the light modules (110) of an illumination system (100) without reducing the performance of its primary function as an aid to human vision.

A method activates different interactive functions based on a classification of vibro-acoustic signals resulting from touch events with finger parts of a user. A primary function is trigger when an interactive element on a touch screen is touched with a finger tip of the user. An auxiliary function is launched when the interactive element is touched with a knuckle or fingernail of the user. The touch events result in generating the vibro-acoustic signals. The vibro-acoustic signals are classified and used to distinguish what finger part was used based on the classification of the vibro-acoustic signals.

The scheme of the invention discloses a vehicle assistance driving system based on the infrared thermal imaging and millimeter wave radar technology. The main functions include pedestrian and vehicledetection, image and sound fusion and collision early warning in driving of the vehicle. The early warning system uses the following technical characteristics: the infrared camera and the millimeter wave radar specialized for vehicle-mounted assistance driving, the data acquired by the radar, such as the distance, the direction and the speed and the images acquired by the infrared camera are fusedfor screening and determining the pedestrians or the vehicles, the pedestrian or vehicle characteristics are extracted through the algorithm, finally the result is displayed on the visual interface and multidimensional early warning information including images, numbers and sound is provided.

The invention discloses a voice reminding system for a dish washing machine, which relates to the field of a household appliance. The voice reminding system comprises an information collection module, a control module and a voice module, wherein the information collection module is arranged on a corresponding part of the dish washing machine and used for detecting the work state information of the corresponding part and transmitting the work state information to the control module; the control module is used for judging whether the corresponding part has a fault or not according to the work state information and transmitting control information to the voice module in case of fault; and the voice module is used for receiving the control information and carrying out the corresponding voice alarming according to different faulted parts. According to the system, the work state of main functional parts of the dish washing machine is detected through the information collection module, the corresponding fault alarming information is played through the voice module when each functional part has the fault, so that the specific situation of the fault of the dish washing machine can be clearly known by a user; and meanwhile, the voice module is matched with a display control panel, so that the corresponding keystroke reminding voice corresponding to a keystroke command of the user is played in real time.

The invention discloses a method for constructing a large environmental risk source monitoring system. The method comprises the following steps of: screening the large environmental risk source which needs to be monitored and indexes according to the result of the identification of the environmental risk source; drawing up a monitoring stationing scheme respectively for a fixed source, a moving source and a sensitive environmental receptor by combining with a monitoring index system; establishing a monitoring technique base, selecting monitoring techniques for different monitored objects, and determining the configuration level of monitoring equipment by a comprehensive evaluation method; transmitting monitoring data according to a wire / wireless output mode of the monitoring equipment, receiving, analyzing and warehousing the data by a server, and giving an alarm for the overweight and invalid data by the server; establishing a monitoring system comprehensive database which comprises a spatial database, an attribute database and a manage information database; and constructing an Internet geographic information system (WebGIS) framework-based monitoring information platform to conduct the main function of the system. The method integrates the functions, such as continuous online monitoring, database management, GIS map display, model analysis and the like, and can effectively serve decision and command and prevent accident occurrence.

A storage apparatus according to the present invention can store information related to a power supply abnormality after shutting down the principal functions of a data processing board when a power supply abnormality occurs in a data processing board. A power supply controller of a data processing board mounted in the storage apparatus monitors the operational status of DC / DC power supplies mounted to the data processing board, on the basis of detection signals from a voltage detection circuit. When a power supply abnormality is detected, the power supply controller immediately shuts down the operation of all the DC / DC power supplies. Shutting down the DC / DC power supplies also shuts down the principal functionality of the data processing board. Then, after storing information related to the power supply abnormality in memory, the power supply controller shuts down the auxiliary power supply. The information stored in memory can be transmitted to a management apparatus by way of an intermediary apparatus, which is another data processing board or the like.

The invention discloses a wind power field group central monitoring system built on the basis of a geographic information system (GIS, Geographic Information System) and a supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), which realized every monitoring function by integrating each main function module on a central monitoring platform. The realizing mode of the invention refers to that at first the wind power field real-time data of a wind power field monitoring center is uploaded to a wind power field group central monitoring center through a monitoring information reporting module constructed by a remote wide area SCADA system, and a GIS comprehensive application system based on the GIS calls each module for corresponding intellect analysis according to need. The combination of the GIS and the SCADA leads the constructed wind power field group monitoring system to satisfy more completely the function orientation and the business requirement of the system, can ensure a large-scale wind power group to uniformly monitor and manage all the wind power fields under the group, can effectively realize comprehensively monitoring the wind power field groups by the large-scale wind power group, increases enterprise operation efficiency, and realizes the integration of the monitoring, managing, maintaining, and scheduling of the wind power enterprise.

Process Brokering Services (PBS) are implemented though the concept of Adaptive Documents to facilitate electronic commerce (e-commerce). PBS provides a single point of process control over the various fragmented execution flows and brings together the elements for process integration (views, content, flows) in a unified, scalable architecture on an industry standard platform. The two principal functions of the PBS are brokering of multiple business processes encapsulated in various back-end systems including workflow engines and business applications, and aggregating content from multiple enterprise information systems in the business context and managing the shared access to this based on the roles of the participants. The dynamic services provided by PBS are accessible to clients through the PBS Interface.

A method and apparatus is provided for use in spinal fusion procedures. An interbody fusion device has a first piece that is a load bearing device designed to bear the axial loading from the end plates of adjacent vertebrae. A second piece of the interbody fusion device is a retention component whose primary functions are to prevent migration of the load bearing device and loss or migration of graft material from within the load bearing device. A secondary function of the retention component is to address fixation of fasteners when the surgeon is confronted with a challenging access to adequate boney structures due to excessive curvature / angulation of the vertebrae column, minimal invasive surgery techniques, danger to surrounding vascular or neurological tissues, poor bone quality, or similar surgical complications. A tertiary function of the retention component is to provide better alignment and stabilization of misaligned vertebrae when spondylolisthesis is a significant factor. One or more fasteners secure the retention component to each of the vertebrae above and below the load bearing device. The fasteners cause the end plates of the vertebrae to compress the end plates to the load bearing device to facilitate proper fusion.

The invention discloses a multi-chain management method and a multi-chain management system based on blockchains, and the blockchains comprise a main chain and several sub chains. The method comprisesthe following steps: the sub chains determine whether a new sub chain can join the blockchains; if the number of the sub chains reaches or exceeds the preset number, the main chain determines that the new sub chain can join the blockchains, and the new sub chain is added to the blockchains to become a sub chain. The invention adopts a method of a multi-block chain system to divide each of the blockchains, and establish a main chain and sub chains, wherein the main chain is used for main functions such as fund acceptance, asset issuance, and organization management; the sub chains are used forsub functions such as asset transfer, user management, transaction records, and sub-processes for a certain item, and key steps such as settlement are carried out on the main chain to achieve multi-tasking synchronization without cumbersome operations such as one-by-one storage and backup by the user for the own identity on multiple blockchain network, which realizes efficient and automatic management of multiple blockchain nodes.

A motor vehicle system for automatically reporting exception events, comprising: one or more digital cameras, at least one digital camera having a primary function; an image memory system for storing digital images; means for detecting exception events; and a wireless communications system for communicating with a central reporting service. A program memory stores executable instruction for causing a processor to perform the steps of: using at least one of the digital cameras to periodically capture digital images at a specified capture frequency; storing the periodically captured digital images in the image memory for a specified period of time; and receiving input from the means for detecting an exception event. In response to the detection of an exception event a communication link is opened to the central reporting service using the wireless communications system, and one or more of the captured digital images are transmitted to the central reporting service.

The invention discloses a smart power grid aggregation method and system for differential privacy security and fault tolerance. The method comprises the steps that a smart electric meter records and reports the electricity consumption of users in real time; a control center is responsible for collecting, processing and analyzing real-time electricity consumption data; a gateway is responsible for instruction delivery, data aggregation and security transmission between the control center and the users; a credible center is responsible for managing the whole system, and main function modules include a system initialization function module, a data aggregation request function module, a data aggregation request relay function module, a user data report function module, a security data aggregation function module and an aggregated data recovery module. According to the smart power grid aggregation method and system, the common fault tolerant function is supported, a difference privacy attack can be resisted, and the phenomenon that a hostile attacker exposes and obtains privacy information of the users by eavesdropping user communication links can be resisted; when some user data are not reported successfully, the electricity consumption of all the users with normal data reporting can still be aggregated; the smart power grid aggregation method and system have the high elastic expandability and can support efficient million-scale smart power grid electricity consumption data aggregation.