276 results about "Short interval" patented technology

A surgical instrument for delivering energy to lung tissue, for example to cause lung volume reduction. In one embodiment, an elongated catheter has a handle portion that includes an interior chamber that is supplied with a biocompatible liquid media under pressure. An energy source delivers energy to the media to cause a liquid-to-vapor phase change within the interior chamber and ejects a flow of vapor media from the working end of the catheter. The delivery of energy and the flow of vapor are controlled by a computer controller to cause a selected pressure and selected volume of vapor to propagate to the extremities of the airways. Contemporaneously, the vapor undergoes a vapor-to-liquid phase transition which delivers a large amount of energy to airway tissue. The thermal energy delivered is equivalent to the heat of vaporization of the fluid media, which shrinks and collapses the treated airways. The treated tissue is the maintained in a collapsed state by means of aspiration for a short interval to enhance tissue remodeling. Thereafter, the patient's wound healing response causes fibrosis and further remodeling to cause permanent lung volume reduction.

An agile digital communications network has a number of routers that serve as nodes in a mesh network communicating between a user device (e.g., computer, server, etc.) and a target device (e.g., disc storage cabinets, tape, jukebox, etc.). The routers operate on an open shortest path first protocol, each router having two or more interfaces or links to other routers. When a link connected to a router is down and is in the shortest path to another router identified in a communication packet, the packet is forwarded to the identified router on a precalculated alternate route that does not use the unavailable link. IP tunneling assures that routing loops do not occur and send the packet back to the router with the unavailable link because it would have been in the shortest path of an intermediate router. A tunneling technique is provided that maximizes the levels of encapsulation needed at two, regardless of the size or configuration of the network. An unavailable link is not broadcast immediately throughout the network, giving the link an opportunity to be restored before all of the routers are called on to recalculate the shortest paths and alternate paths. During a short interval following the discovery of an unavailable link, then, a router connected to that link is in a state identified as the Use Alternate Path state, and the link is repeatedly checked for availability. Each router calculates and stores the alternative paths to each other router after first calculating the shortest path to each other router. The alternate paths are pulled up and used when an unavailable link is detected. Dijkstra's algorithm is used to calculate the shortest paths. A new algorithm called the iterative dynamic Dijkstra's algorithm is used to calculate the alternative routes.

A surgical instrument for delivering energy to lung tissue, for example to cause lung volume reduction. In one embodiment, an elongated catheter has a handle portion that includes an interior chamber that is supplied with a biocompatible liquid media under pressure. An energy source delivers energy to the media to cause a liquid-to-vapor phase change within the interior chamber and ejects a flow of vapor media from the working end of the catheter. The delivery of energy and the flow of vapor are controlled by a computer controller to cause a selected pressure and selected volume of vapor to propagate to the extremities of the airways. Contemporaneously, the vapor undergoes a vapor-to-liquid phase transition which delivers a large amount of energy to airway tissue. The thermal energy delivered is equivalent to the heat of vaporization of the fluid media, which shrinks and collapses the treated airways. The treated tissue is the maintained in a collapsed state by means of aspiration for a short interval to enhance tissue remodeling. Thereafter, the patient's wound healing response causes fibrosis and further remodeling to cause permanent lung volume reduction.

A method, system and a badge utilized therein utilize both the radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to locate subjects (i.e. objects and persons) within a tracking environment. The system includes a battery-operated, microprocessor-based badge for each subject to be located. Each badge automatically transmits: (1) shorter interval, digitized, infrared light signals to identify a delimited area zone of its subject's location; (2) shorter interval, digitized, lower power RF signals to provide a local area zone of its subject's location; and (3) longer interval, digitized, higher power RF signals to provide a wide area zone of its subject's location. Each badge transmits uniquely identifiable IR and higher power RF signals upon actuation of one or more push button switches integrated on the badge or a change of state of one or more external switch connections. Each higher power, longer interval, RF signal is a “supervisory” pulse. This pulse informs a host computer that the badge is in range of an RF receiver and is functional.

The invention discloses a full automatic traffic cone discharging, collecting and storing special vehicle which comprises a discharging and collecting device arranged at the rear end of the vehicle-mounted chassis rear end and connected with a moving device controlling the discharging and collecting device to move. A traffic cone position entering device is arranged on a vehicle-mounted chassis, a conveying device is arranged between the discharging and collecting device and the traffic cone position entering device, and the traffic cone position entering device is connected with a storing device which is of a multi-layer structure and arranged on the vehicle-mounted chassis. The discharging device, the moving device, the conveying device, the traffic cone position entering device and the storing device are connected with an intelligent control system and a power supply and distribution system. The full automatic traffic cone discharging, collecting and storing special vehicle can finish full-automatic discharging, collecting and storing operation of traffic cones at any position in a road and can store a large number of traffic cones automatically to meet traffic cone discharging requirements for short intervals and large strokes, is especially suitable for automatic discharging and collecting of the traffic cones during traffic guiding and temporary road sealing for high ways and urban express ways with large traffic flow.

In a method for operating a radar system, the object is to determine by simple means and at low cost the distance and / or the radial velocity of at least one target object with high resolution. For this purpose, in each measuring phase of the measurement process in the "pulse FMCW radar system", switchover between a transmission mode and a receiving mode is effected a multiple number of times and at short intervals of time. In the transmission mode, all receiving units of the radar system are switched off, while a pulse-shaped (frequency-modulated) transmission signal with time-successive transmission pulses having a specific pulse-on time and a specific carrier frequency is emitted from at least one transmitter unit of the radar system. In receiving mode, all transmitter units are switched off in the pulse-off times of the transmission pulses, while from at least one receiver unit all reflection signals originating from the last emitted transmission pulse are detected as received signal from the entire observation range before emission of the next transmission pulse. The distance and / or the radial velocity of the reflection objects is determined indirectly by the signal processing unit of the radar system by evaluation of the frequency difference and / or phase difference between the transmission signal and the received signal.

In a patient monitoring system (10), shorter interval physiological parameters and longer interval clinical data are collected from a monitored patient (12). A composite acuity score generator (70) generates or updates a composite acuity score indicative of wellbeing of the patient (12) based at least on the sensed physiological parameters and the longer interval data. A monitor (22, 56) displays current values of at least one of selected sensed physiological parameters, longer interval data, and the composite acuity score.

An electric arc welder and a method for performing a pulse welding process producing reduced spatter. The welder produces a current between an advancing electrode and a workpiece. The welder includes a short-detecting capability for detecting a short condition upon occurrence of a short circuit between the advancing electrode and the workpiece. The welder may also include a switching module in the welding circuit path of the welder having an electrical switch and a resistive path. Times of occurrence of short intervals can be tracked and a blanking signal can be generated based on the tracked short intervals to anticipate a next short interval in a next pulse period of the pulsed welding process. The blanking signal can be used to reduce a welding current in the welding circuit path by introducing additional resistance into the welding circuit path via the switching module, for example.

A method and system for estimating processor utilization from power measurements provides an estimate of processor utilization that can be computed outside of the processor and operating system. Measurements of the processor power consumption are gathered over short intervals in a histogram. The idle power consumption of the processor is determined, and a threshold value higher than the idle power consumption level is computed from the idle power consumption. The number of histogram counts for bins greater than the threshold is normalized to the total number of measurements, providing a fractional value that corresponds to the processor utilization over the measurement interval. The fractional value can then be used in a power management algorithm that adjusts the frequency and optionally the voltage of the processor or group of processors based on their utilization.

In a biometrics authentication device which uses biometrics information to authenticate individuals, guidance is provided such that image capture of biometrics information is performed appropriately. An image capture device is caused to perform a plurality of image capture operations (including distance measurement) at short intervals. And when image capture NG occurs frequently, a control unit stacks the NG results, and if image capture NGs are not resolved even after a prescribed number of image capture operations, judges that the relation between the body part and the image capture device must be corrected, analyzes the stacked image capture NG causes, and displays a guidance screen on a display device according to the analysis result.

It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method capable of rapidly completing a handover even during DRX / DTX. In the devices and the method, a terminal (100) transmits a quality measurement result to a base station (150) at an Active interval. Here, the terminal (100) sets the DRX / DTX interval to a short interval since performance of a handover is predicted. The base station (150) which has received the quality measurement result transmitted from the terminal (100) recognizes that the terminal has set the DRX / DTX interval to a short interval and transmits a handover instruction to the terminal (100) at the Active interval, considering the shortened DRX / DTX interval.

The invention relates to a target detection method based on high resolution optical satellite remote sensing images, and a system thereof. The target detection method based on high resolution opticalsatellite remote sensing images includes the steps: obtaining a marked target positive sample and a marked background negative sample to form a training sample; for the training sample, extracting a plurality of different weak characteristic channels, and according to the plurality of different weak channels, obtaining a candidate region; obtaining the context scene of the candidate region, performing characteristic extraction on the candidate region and the context scene of the candidate region, and fusing the extracted characteristics to form the characteristics of the candidate region; training the training sample, and obtaining a classifier; classifying the characteristics of the candidate region by means of the classifier, and obtaining a target region including the target; and performing duplicate removal on the target region to obtain a detection target. The target detection method based on high resolution optical satellite remote sensing images realizes target detection on remote sensing images with enlarged formats, optimizes the targets with very short interval and the target detection effect with uncommon length breadth ratio.

A macular pigment reflectometer is handheld, light, and portable. It can be provided as a part of a self-contained system. The self-contained system includes a docking station in which the macular pigment reflectometer is placed between uses. The docking station is used to recharge the battery of the handheld macular pigment reflectometer. The docking station also has one or more types of communication ports, such as one for a wired or wireless internet connection, through which the handheld macular pigment reflectometer can communicate with a computer or an electronic medical records system. The instrument operates in a pulsed operating mode wherein relative instrument-to-eye motion is reduced and, preferably, nearly eliminated. The handheld macular pigment reflectometer contains an on-board spectrometer which is designed to capture spectra in very short intervals of time. A trigger on the instrument allows for a rapid, intuitive, and sequential alignment followed by rapid data gathering.

The present invention is related to tagging broadcast media, in particular for use in mobile terminals. Metadata related to broadcast video and audio data is transmitted simultaneously within the broadcast packet stream in short intervals in order to allow an exact recognition and immediate recording of single short media objects. These objects may then be sorted based on machine readable category information and used to provide a user specific program.

A method for designing non-linear phase 180° spectral-spatial radio frequency pulses that can be used for spectral editing in magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. A novel feature of the pulse is a symmetric sweep developed by the spectral profile from the outside edges of the spectral window towards the middle whereby coupled components are tipped simultaneously and over a short interval. Pulses have been designed for lactate editing at 1.5T and 3T. The spectral and spatial spin-echo profiles of the RF pulses can be measured experimentally and altered in an iterative manner. Spectral-spatial radio frequency (SSRF) pulses allow simultaneous selection in both frequency and spatial domains. These pulses are particularly important for clinical and research magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) applications for suppression of large water and lipid resonances.

A data processing chip with a flexible timing system and method for supplying clocks to a digital data processing system useful for power conservation. A phase locked loop generates a master clock from which a core clock and a system clock are derived. The frequency of each of the core and system clocks is independently controllable relative to the master clock and can be changed on the fly with glitch free and jitter free operation. The data processing chip is well suited for use in hand held electronic devices where power management is a concern. Power can be saved by lowering the frequency of the core clock, even for short intervals of time.

A wireless apparatus which can realize a DFS function that avoidance of interference with radar is considered in an Ad-Hoc mode under a multihop circumstance is provided. A Beacon frame is transmitted at a shorter interval than a previously set interval when radar is detected by wireless apparatuses N1 to N6 which have a DFS function which perform avoidance of interference with radar.

The invention discloses a touch sense vibration control system and a method of an intelligent terminal. The system comprises a command generator, a filter, a touch sense driver and a linear resonance actuator. The command generator generates an initial command signal according to an input signal. The filter filters the initial command signal so as to allow the amplitude of a predetermined number of initial pulse of the filtered command signal to be greater than a set threshold and phase positions of a predetermined number of pulse at the end to be reversed; and the touch sense driver generates a driving signal for driving the actuator to vibrate according to the filtered command signal. According to the invention, the filter carries out filtering processing on the initial command signal generated by the command generator, so when follow-up generated driving signals are used for driving the actuator to vibrate, the actuator can rapidly make moving responses and braking responses. Thus, overlapping degree of front and back vibration events at a quite short interval in the time dimension is weakened; the degree of distinction of the front and back vibration events in the time dimension is increased; and expected vibration effects are ensured.

When insufficient traffic is present in the network to maintain synchronization in this manner, other methods must be used. One approach involves making direct measurements of the timing between base stations. This is accomplished in one of two ways. The base may interrupt its transmissions on all sectors for a short interval during which it determines the time of arrival of signals from other base stations. Given knowledge of the other base station locations, time errors relative to all other base stations may be derived. Alternatively, the base may send a short signal at high power in the mobile transmit band. This time-of-arrival of this signal is measured by the surrounding base stations and the time errors between pairs of base stations are computed. In some cases, a base station may be isolated sufficiently from all other base stations in the network such that direct base-to-base measurement is not viable. In this case, a fixed mobile is placed at a location in the handoff region between the isolated cell and another cell in the network. The fixed mobile either performs measurements of base station pilots on command of the base and reports the timing information, or sends a burst transmission at a specified time and power level to be measured by the base stations.

Methods and compositions for treating or preventing acute or chronic viral infection over a short time interval in mammals with sulfated polysaccharides wherein the polysaccharides have a percent of sulfur with respect to the sugar residue effective to enable maximal interaction of constituent sulfate groups with the microbe which causes the infection and wherein the sulfated polysaccharide is not substantially endocytosed or degraded by cell receptor binding in the mammal and thereby retains antiviral activity in vivo.

A burst reading memory section (200) and continuous reading memory section (210) are independently provided for each of the two-dimensionally arrayed pixels (10). The burst reading memory section (200) has capacitors (25001-25104) capable of holding a plurality of signals. The continuous reading memory section (210) has only one capacitor 213. Signal output lines for the two memory sections are separately provided. When a signal produced by photoelectric conversion at the pixel (10) is outputted on a pixel output line (14), the signal can be simultaneously written in the capacitors at both memory sections (200, 201), after which the signals can be separately extracted to the outside at different timings. Therefore, a series of images taken at extremely short intervals of time during a short period of time can be obtained at an arbitrary timing without impeding a continuous image-acquiring operation at a low frame rate. Accordingly, both an ultrahigh-speed imaging operation having a limitation on the number of frames and an imaging that is rather slow but has no limitation on the number of frames can be simultaneously performed.

A motion sensor is used to sense the movement of the camera during an exposure period. The camera has an image sensor to form one or more exposures. When the movement is within a certain range, the exposures are used to provide one or more frames so that an image can be constructed based on the frames. In one embodiment, the exposure period is divided into several short intervals in order to capture several image frames and only the image frames captured when the position of the camera is within a predetermined range are used to form the final image. The exposure time for each frame is small in order to reduce the motion blur degradation of the individual frames. If the camera is stable and substantially stationary relative to the scene, then all or many of the shorter frames are used to form the final image.

A method of taxation comprising the following steps: changing consumption tax rates at short intervals of time; applying the consumption tax rate in effect to every taxable transaction that occurs during that short interval of time; setting progressive income tax rates to be in effect for a long interval of time; and applying the progressive tax rate in effect to all taxpayer yearly incomes equal to or greater than a predetermined progressive tax minimum income. Taxpayers who file a statement declaring yearly income less than a consumption tax minimum income will receive a refund of consumption taxes paid; while those who file a statement declaring yearly income equal to or greater than the consumption tax minimum income, but less than the progressive tax minimum income, will receive a rebate or credit for consumption taxes that is regressive. Surplus consumption tax revenue is held in a buffer reserve and later used during intervals of time during which a shortfall in consumption tax revenue has occurred.

The invention relates to wireless multimedia communication. In order to alleviate transmission quality shaking caused by an unreliable wireless channel when streaming media is transmitted in the wireless environment, further improve the transmission quality and increase the utilization ratio of the wireless channel. The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: compared with a traditional speed control method, a speed control method in wireless streaming media transmission is characterized by comprising the following steps: obtaining the packet loss rate and business data passing rate parameters by smoothing treatment in a shorter interval; adjusting the streaming media transmission speed based on the parameters and an improved additive increase and multiplicative decrease algorithm, when the channel is in underload, determining the speed amplification by a variable constant additive factor and a constant additive factor determined by the packet loss, and when the channel is in overload, determining the speed reduction range by a variable constant multiplicative factor and a constant reductive factor determined by the packet loss; and setting a speed switching threshold, regarding the speed switching to be effective only when the difference between the current predicting speed and the previous predicting speed exceeds the set threshold. The speed control method in the wireless streaming media transmission is mainly applied to wireless multimedia communication.

A wiring substrate includes: an insulating layer; a wiring formed on the insulating layer; and a solder resist layer formed on the insulating layer so as to cover at least a portion of the wiring, the solder resist layer being constituted by a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers contain fillers of different grain diameters, a layer thickness of an innermost layer for constituting the plurality of layers is thicker than a layer thickness of the wiring, and a grain diameter of the filler contained in the innermost layer is smaller than a shortest interval between adjacent lines of the wiring.

Pulsed detonation engines (PDEs), or various components thereof, such as the detonation chamber and / or nozzle, can be economically constructed from materials having low thermal stability, such as plastics, composites, and light metals. During operation, the intermittent injection and detonation of reactants produces a motive force (e.g., thrust) over relatively short intervals useful in orbit control and the like. The relatively short intervals of operation prevent temperatures of the PDE components from reaching temperatures that would result in their dimensional failure.

A method for adjusting coolant temperature in an internal combustion engine (2), whereby the coolant circuit thereof contains an electrically driven coolant pump (3) and an electrically controllable bypass valve (4). If the setpoint value of the coolant temperature changes in an abrupt manner, the rotating speed of the coolant pump (3) rises during the short interval in order to reduce the dead time required for adjustment. A Smith controller, which takes into account dead times of the system, is used to regulate the bypass valve.

In a biometrics authentication device which uses biometrics information to authenticate individuals, guidance is provided such that image capture of biometrics information is performed appropriately. An image capture device is caused to perform a plurality of image capture operations (including distance measurement) at short intervals. And when image capture NG occurs frequently, a control unit stacks the NG results, and if image capture NGs are not resolved even after a prescribed number of image capture operations, judges that the relation between the body part and the image capture device must be corrected, analyzes the stacked image capture NG causes, and displays a guidance screen on a display device according to the analysis result.

Systems and methods for the efficient characterization of acceleration events in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an acceleration characterization telematics system includes an acceleration sensor, a storage device, where the storage device is configured to store an acceleration event characterization application, and a processor, wherein the acceleration event characterization application configures the processor to receive acceleration information using the acceleration sensor, determine short interval filter information using the received acceleration information, determine long interval filter information using the received acceleration information, and characterize an acceleration event in the received acceleration information using the received acceleration information, the short interval filter information, and the long interval filter information.