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An apparatus and method for combining the functionality of multiple airborne traffic surveillance systems that operate in the L-band frequency range. The apparatus and method combine the functionality of both a Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and a Mode-Select (Mode-S) transponder in an integrated L-band traffic surveillance apparatus having a single processor that is embodied in a single Line Replaceable Unit.

A radar jamming signal generated by equipment carried by a target aircraft, is launched onto the leading end of a towed single wire transmission line so as to travel the length of the line as a nonradiating surface wave. A drogue radiator is attached to the trailing end of the line for radiating the jamming signal transversely of the towed line so as to be received by and cause jamming of tracking and / or fire control radar. The length of the single wire transmission line is selected so that the trailing radiator causes the jamming signal to emanate from a position sufficiently behind the aircraft so as to be outside the destructive radius of weapon fire directed at the apparent source of the jamming signal by fire control radar. A ventriloqual-like deception of the radar is thus achieved. A wave launcher couples the jamming signal to the leading end of the transmission line and for this purpose includes an electrically conducted horn-shaped structure, a tunable coaxial feed end at the constricted end of the horn structure, an inner transition conductor connecting the inner conductor of the coaxial feed to a leading end of the single wire transmission line, and a plurality of annular dielectric lenses and dielectric guides cooperatively shaped and fitted to the horn structure in a manner that effectively matches the bounded electromagnetic transmission wave characteristics of the coaxial feed cable with the surface wave transmission characteristics of the single wire transmission line. Coacting with the ventriloqual-like radiation of the jamming signal from the trailing end of the transmission line is an anti-integration network that hides the return radar signal reflected off the target aircraft in a signal energy “hole” created for such purpose in a secondary low level noise signal transmitted directly from the aircraft.

Apparatus incorporating a filter tow processing unit adapted to supply filter tow to a continuous rod forming unit includes an object insertion unit that positions objects within the filter tow to manufacture a filter rod containing objects positioned at predetermined intervals. The apparatus also includes an upper hopper that acts as a reservoir for a plurality of objects, and provides for supply of objects to a lower hopper. The lower hopper is shaped so that objects are stacked therein. The bottom of the lower hopper is shaped so as to cooperate with a portion of upper region of a rotating wheel. The peripheral face of the rotating wheel incorporates a plurality of spaced pockets, each pocket being of sufficient shape and size to accommodate one object. Objects within the lower hopper are aligned in a single line along a portion of the peripheral face in the upper region of the rotating wheel. Each object then is positioned at predetermined intervals within a continuous supply of filter material. Then, the filter material is formed into a continuous rod having individual objects positioned at predetermined spaced intervals within that rod. The continuous rod then is subdivided at predetermined intervals so as to form a plurality of filter rods (e.g., four-up filter rods containing four spaced objects).

The present invention discloses a portable solar tarp or a field portable battery charger employing a solar tarp, utilizing flexible solar panels, solar fabric, or solar film. Around the perimeter of the solar tarp is a series of attachment points for straps. The attachment points can be grommets, loops, buckles, hooks, buttons, or grab loops and lines, and to which connected various straps (webbing, line, cord, or cable). The present invention further discloses a versatile, adjustable strapping system utilizing straps, buckles, and hooks. The present invention strapping system can attach almost any object to nearly any other object, such as back packs, luggage, vehicles, boats, permanent and portable shelters and buildings, mechanical equipment, and natural objects such as trees, rocks. The solar panel according to the present invention can have the photovoltaic cells wired individually, or in a single line, because when parts of the photovoltaic system is subjected to shade, or if due to space constraint, parts of the photovoltaic system is covered or folded away, the remaining photovoltaic cells with useable energy are still able to function at peak capacity, since the covered cells will not become an energy drain upon the remaining cells. Further, the photovoltaic system is able to harness all available energy, regardless of the required or desired voltage and / or amperage for the system, thus converting any and all available energy into a useable current to either recharge batteries, or power a load.

A GUI (Graphical User Interface) Manager is used by a network administrator to fill-in predefined templates. The administrator does not need to compile, debug or write a single line of scripting code. The GUI manager has a “select the box” and “point and click” and “fill-in the blank” approach for selecting computer settings. The predefined configuration and / or template(s) are used by a logon script program on a client system to manage the configuration of resources on at least one client. There are three levels of resources that can be managed. The first type of resource is an operating system. The second type of resource is an application resource. And the third type of resource is to redirect a resource on the client to a resource on a network such as a drive letter mapping. Resources include configurations from the group of configuration settings consisting of drive mappings, shell folders, printer deployment, proxy server access, application paths, service packs, anti-virus updates, policies and automatic mail profile creation. In another embodiment, validation logic is used on the clients' system during the execution of an application program that takes the template and applies the defined configuration settings in the template to the clients' system so as to automatically configure at least one configuration setting for a user if the combination of one or more predefined conditions for a selected group, a selected operating system and a selected connection method are met. In still another embodiment, an interpretive engine is used on the client's system to permit the administration of client resources with a template while also allowing network administrators to build their own custom logon scripts.

The present application is directed to a manifold system for low pressure and high pressure fluids. The manifold system may include one or more manifold sub-assemblies that may be assembled together, separated apart and replaced as desired. In oil and gas hydraulic fracturing operations, each manifold sub-assembly includes two or more low pressure fluid lines and two or more high pressure fluid lines for fluidly communicating with hydraulic fracturing pumps. High pressure fluid may exit the manifold system via a single line or multiple lines.

The invention relates to a vector-relation-based method for calibrating single-line laser radar and a CCD camera. Point set information of the laser radar for scanning a V-shaped target is extracted in a laser coordinate system, and direction vectors and intersection coordinates of straight lines in two different planes of the target are obtained by means of straight line fitting; the CCD camera is used for capturing images in a camera coordinate system, target plane equations and an equation of a plane passing through an original point and laser radar scanning lines are obtained by processing image information, a straight-line equation of laser radar scanning is built, and furthermore, the direction vectors and the intersection coordinates of the straight lines are obtained; finally, calibration is finished according to the relations between direction vectors and the intersection coordinates of the straight lines corresponding to the different coordinate systems. According to the method, no object in a calibration scene needs to be moved, collection of all calibration data can be completed at a time, and calibration efficiency is improved greatly. According to the method, the direction vectors of the straight lines of the laser scanning target planes under the coordinate systems of sensors to be calibrated are obtained directly, calibration precision is guaranteed, and meanwhile the calibration algorithm is simplified.

A medication cabinet that includes at least one drawer, a drive mechanism, and a drawer latching mechanism, is disclosed. The drawer includes a slider, and a container that includes a receptacle and a lid that moves between an open position and a closed position. The container also includes a fastener to fasten the lid to the receptacle. The slider maintains the lid in the closed position when at least a portion of the wall is coupled with the fastener, and actuates the lid from the closed position to the open position when the fastener passes through an opening in the wall. The drive mechanism controls longitudinal movement of the slider, and is mounted to the chassis, allowing the drawer to be free of electrical connections with the chassis. When the drive mechanism is not used to move the lid into the open position, longitudinal movement of the slider is inhibited.

An integrated audio transducer with associated signal processing electronics is disclosed. A silicon audio transducer, such as a MEMS microphone or speaker, can be integrated with audio processing electronics in a single package. The audio processing electronics can be configured using control signals. The audio processing electronics can provide a single line serial data interface and a single line control interface. The audio transducers can be integrated with associated processing electronics. A silicon microphone can be integrated with an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). The ADC output can be a single line serial interface. The ADC can be configured using a single line serial control interface. A speaker may be integrated with a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). Audio transducers can also be integrated with more complex processing electronics. Audio processing parameters such as gain, dynamic range, and filter characteristics may be configured using the serial interface.

The invention discloses an automatic generation method used for a single line diagram of a distribution network and based on topological hierarchy. The method comprises the following steps: deleting related equipment in a topological structure of the distribution network, and simplifying the topological structure of the distribution network; acquiring key nodes of the topological structure of the distribution network, and generating a main framework of the topological structure of the distribution network; arranging the positions of the key nodes based on a gravitation-repulsion model, and obtaining a skeletal structure based on the gravitation-repulsion; describing the topological structure of the distribution network through an outgoing line-trunk line-T-shaped key node-branch line model of a power station; finishing the arrangement and the automatic mapping of the equipment in the power station on the basis of the topological structure of the equipment in the power station; and performing routing mapping without overlap or intersection on decibels of the trunk line and the branch line respectively. The automatic generation method achieves automatic generation of the single line diagram of the distribution network above a certain scale, and simultaneously, the generated single line diagram is clearer and more attractive through the routing algorithm without overlap or intersection.

The invention discloses a calibration method of correlation between a single line laser radar and a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera, which is based on the condition that the CCD camera can carry out weak imaging on an infrared light source used by the single line laser radar. The calibration method comprises the steps of: firstly, extracting a virtual control point in a scanning plane under the assistance of a cubic calibration key; and then filtering visible light by using an infrared filter to image infrared light only, carrying out enhancement, binarization treatment and Hough transformation on an infrared image with scanning line information, and extracting two laser scanning lines, wherein the intersection point of the two scanning lines is the image coordinate of the virtual control point in the image. After acquiring multiple groups of corresponding points through the steps, a correlation parameter between the laser radar and the camera can be solved by adopting an optimization method for minimizing a reprojection error. Because the invention acquires the information of the corresponding points directly, the calibration process becomes simpler and the precision is greatly improved with a calibrated angle error smaller than 0.3 degree and a position error smaller than 0.5cm.

A comparator is arranged to compare a series of analog voltage signal samples on a first capacitor with a voltage on a second capacitor which is linearly increased or decreased to equal the sample value. The comparator's single output freezes the count of the counter at counts which are proportional to the voltage of the respective samples. In this manner, analog to digital conversion can be accomplished using a single line between the analog and digital sides of a circuit, thereby reducing parasitic capacitance.

An apparatus, computer readable medium and method for communicating over a telecommunications network, such as the Internet, with a provider of a service, such as a business. A method for communicating over a telecommunications network with a local representative of an entity, comprising the steps of: receiving, over a data telecommunications network, a request for a connection with a local representative of an entity from a subscriber, wherein the data telecommunications network supports simultaneous voice and data connection over a single line from the subscriber to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) site; determining the geographical location of the subscriber; translating the request from the directory listing database a local representative of the entity that is the geographically nearest to the subscriber requesting a connection; and establishing a voice connection between the subscriber requesting the connection with the local representative of the entity.

In large arrays of image sensing devices, like CCDs, a small number of defective image elements (pixels) must be tolerated and the resulting image degradation should be eliminated through bad pixel correction. The disclosed invention provides a mechanism to effectively detect defective pixels “on the fly” in a Bayer RGB type color image sensor, optimized for low cost applications. It calculates a variable threshold based on signal changes on nearby pixels of the same color within a single row and checks if the signal change of the pixel under test exceeds said variable threshold. It further performs a plausibility check using nearby pixels of an other color in the same row.

In one embodiment, a surface-mount device comprises a casing having opposed, first and second main surfaces, side surfaces, and end surfaces. A lead frame partially encased by the casing comprises (1) an electrically conductive LED chip carrier part having a surface carrying a linear array of three LEDs adapted to be energized to produce in combination a substantially full range of colors, each LED having a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal, the first terminal of each of the three LEDs being electrically and thermally coupled to the chip carrying surface of the chip carrier part; and (2) three electrically conductive connection parts separate from the chip carrier part, each of the three connection parts having a connection pad, the second terminal of each of the three LEDs being electrically coupled to the connection pad of a corresponding one of the three connection parts with a single wire bond. The linear array of LEDs extends in a first direction, and each of the chip carrier part and three connection parts has a lead. The leads are disposed in parallel relationship with each other and extend through the end surfaces of the casing in a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction. An array of the surface-mount devices may be used in an LED display such as an indoor LED screen.

A first memory chip (103a) and a second memory chip (103b) mounted in this order on one surface of a mounting board (101) each have a rectangular planar shape and include a plurality of electrode pads formed in a single line along one side of the rectangle. An electrode pad line of the second memory chip (103b) is formed in parallel with an electrode pad line of the first memory chip (103a). A chip select pad is disposed on an end of the electrode pad line. Control pads, address pads, or data pads (113a) of the first memory chip (103a) are wire bonded to first stitches (109) formed in a single line along one side of the rectangle. A chip select pad (121a) and a chip select pad (121b) are wire bonded to second stitches (111) formed in a line along a side adjacent to a side of the chip select pad (121a). Accordingly, an increase in package area is suppressed when a plurality of memory chips are stacked.

The invention discloses a method for converting an SCD (Substation Configuration Description) model into a dispatching center CIM (Common Information Model), which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) establishing a complete SCD model; (2) deleting models which are not needed by a primary station and minimizing the SCD model; (3) realizing mapping between the SCD model and the CIM; (4) deriving a single line drawing file in an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format by the CIM and meanwhile establishing an association relationship between an SVG single line drawing and the CIM; (5) after the primary station obtains the CIM and the SVG single line drawing file of a substation, testing validity; and after passing the test, splicing the models and meanwhile establishing a database by the association relationship between the SVG single line drawing and the CIM. The invention can automatically explain real-time data, reduce repetitive time-consuming work which easily causes mistakes, such as manual signal check, and the like, and meet the maintenance requirement of a source terminal directly by adopting a self-describing model established by the substation.

An audio processing system for a vehicle includes a plurality of loudspeakers positioned to form a single line array. The loudspeaker line array is positionable in a vehicle on a dashboard of the vehicle substantially at the convergence of the dashboard and a window of the vehicle. When the loudspeaker line array is driven by an audio signal, a vertically and horizontally focused and narrowed sound pattern is perceived by a listener in the vehicle. The sound pattern is the result of the constructive combination of the direct sound impulses and the reflected sound impulses produced by each loudspeaker in the array. Using delay, attenuation and phase adjustment of the audio signal, the sound pattern may be controlled, limited, and directed to one or more locations in the vehicle.

The invention discloses an indoor robot SLAM method. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining image data through a camera, wherein the image data comprises RGB images and depth images; using a corner detection algorithm, an LK characteristic point tracing algorithm, and a RANSAC algorithm to process the RGB images and depth images to adjust the position and angle of the camera so as to obtain the RGB image data information under a robot operation system; converting the depth images in a world coordinate system to a ground coordinate, traversing the depth images that are projected on the ground coordinate, setting the gray value of the grid where a barrier stays as a first characteristic value, carrying out traversing to obtain a 2D barrier grid map; through a single line laser radar scanning mode, searching the 2D barrier grid map, when the grid with a grey value equal to the first characteristic value is found, feeding back the distance between the grid and the camera to obtain the distance between a robot and the barrier, obtaining the depth images under a robot operation system, and obtaining an environment 2D map.

The voltage-current property of the specific pixel is measured to store the data on a single line in a line memory. The property data of adjacent pixels are compared. A failure determination unit detects whether or not the pixel to be compared is faulty. If it is determined as being faulty, the faulty pixel is removed from the pixel group to be compared. The burn-in determination unit performs the comparison using normal pixels only to provide the correct burn-in data. The calculation unit reflects the burn-in data in the image data from the host.

The fruit quality real-time detection and sorting robot system is formed from fruit conveying and turning component, computer vision identification component and autoamtic sorting component. The double-cone rollers of fruit conveying and turning component can make fruits, automatically form single line arrangement, and can forward convey fruits at a certain speed, at the same time make the fruits uniformly turn around horizontal small shaft so as to make computer vision identification component detect whole surface of every fruit, including shape, size, colour, surface smoothness and surface defect and injury and obtain quality information of every fruit, and define its grade and position information, said information can be transferred into automatic sorting component to make fruit fall into its correspondent fruit collecting box so as to implement automatic of fruit detection and sorting process.

A marine handling craft and system is intended for use in deploying, inspecting and receiving vessels and payloads to and from locations on, under, over or near water and wet soils in potentially turbulent aquatic or atmospheric conditions. The marine handling craft may operate as a robot, or deployed from a crane or boom on a mother ship or other platform or helicopter so that it can transport and mate and dock at various locations, such as supply ships or autonomous marine vessels, at a stand off distance to limit potential harm to valuable assets. A sliding fastener and track are included on the marine handling craft so that it can be tethered and lifted by a single line or cable, and so can be manipulated by a single crane or helicopter. The utility of the handling craft is not limited to the transport of payloads and it may function as a stand-alone vessel for various remote sensing purposes. Smart communication between the marine handling craft and other vessels or other nodes in a distributed computer network facilitates simultaneous, hierarchical and multi-tasking control of the craft and permits verification and inspection of payloads, which might otherwise cause damage when proximate to more valuable assets.

A photonic bandgap device has a lattice structure, with a waveguide formed by a mesh of defects in the lattice, the defects being located discontinuously, but sufficiently close to each other to provide coupling between overlapping evanescent defect modes. By changing shape and configuration of the mesh and varying the types of defects, it is easier to control the width and position of the transmission band, in wavelength terms, compared to a waveguide formed only from a planar defect, i.e. a single line of defects. Multiplexers, demultiplexers, filters, switches, combiners, and splitters may be created. Many devices and different types of devices can be integrated onto the same crystal lattice, with far greater compactness than planar waveguide technology. The mesh can have a periodic structure of lines of defects, or periodic spacing between defects to reduce loss.

Vertical-color-filter pixel sensors having simplified wiring and reduced transistor counts are disclosed. In an embodiment, a single line is used for reference voltage, pixel reset voltage, and column-output signals in a VCF pixel sensor. In another embodiment, row-reset signals and row-enable signals are sent across a line that is shared between adjacent rows in an array of VCF pixel sensors. The present invention also provides an optimized layout for a VCF pixel sensor with shared row-reset, row-enable, reference voltage and column-output lines as well as a VCF pixel sensor in which source-follower voltage, source-follower amplifier voltage and row-enable signals all share a common line. These combined line embodiments can be used with a single column-output line as well as two row-enable lines. The embodiments can also be implemented in a VCF pixel sensor without a row-enable transistor.

An ergonomic single-line compact laser bar code scanning system having a compact housing for hand-held disposition at a counter. The scanning system is automatically-activated and includes a bar code symbol reading mechanism contained within a hand-supportable housing having a manually-activatable data transmission switch formed integrally in the housing. During symbol reading operations, the bar code symbol reading mechanism automatically generates a visible laser scanning pattern for repeatedly reading one or more bar code symbols on an object during a bar code symbol reading cycle, and automatically generating a new symbol character data string in response to each bar code symbol read thereby. During system operation, the user visually aligns the visible laser scanning pattern with a particular bar code symbol on an object (e.g., product, bar code menu, etc.) so that the bar code symbol is detected, scanned, and decoded. The user depresses the data transmission switch to produce a data transmission control activation signal and enabling a currently or subsequently produced symbol character data string to be automatically selected and transmitted to a host system.

The present invention is related to systems and methods for translating language text on a mobile camera device offline without access to the Internet. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for displaying text of a first language and a translation of the first language text into a second language text which is displayed in real time in augmented reality on the mobile device. The processing can use a single line or a multiline algorithm designed with a plurality of processing innovations to insure accurate real-time translations without motion jitter. The invention may be used to help travelers in a foreign country with difficulties in reading and understanding text written in the local language of that country. The present invention may be utilized with wearable computers or glasses, producing seamless augmented reality foreign language translations. Some embodiments are particularly useful in translations from Asian languages to English. Some embodiments are especially optimized to translate multiple lines of foreign language text.

A medication cabinet that includes at least one drawer, a drive mechanism, and a drawer latching mechanism, is disclosed. The drawer includes a slider, and a container that includes a receptacle and a lid that moves between an open position and a closed position. The container also includes a fastener to fasten the lid to the receptacle. The slider maintains the lid in the closed position when at least a portion of the wall is coupled with the fastener, and actuates the lid from the closed position to the open position when the fastener passes through an opening in the wall. The drive mechanism controls longitudinal movement of the slider, and is mounted to the chassis, allowing the drawer to be free of electrical connections with the chassis. When the drive mechanism is not used to move the lid into the open position, longitudinal movement of the slider is inhibited.