188 results about "Time gap" patented technology

Gap values for a collection of images are obtained; each gap value is a temporal difference between temporally adjacent images. A first grouping of the collection of images into one or more groups is determined based at least in part on the gap values. The first grouping is performed such that each group is temporally contiguous. The first grouping is presented and input from a user is received in response to the presented first grouping. A second grouping of the collection of images into two or more groups is determined based at least in part on the user input. The second grouping is presented.

Preferred implementations of the invention permit a user to seamlessly switch from a first media stream to a second media stream in a synchronized way, such that the second media stream picks up where the first media stream left off. In this way, the user experiences events chronologically but without interruption. In a preferred implementation, a user watching a skim video switches to a full length video when, for example, the skim video reaches a frame that is of particular interest to the user. The full length video begins at a point corresponding to the frame in the skim video that is of interest to the user, without skipping over video segments, so that the user does not experience any time gaps in the story line.

Systems and methods for improved batch flow management are described. At least some embodiments include a computer system for managing a job flow including a memory storing a plurality of batch queue jobs grouped into Services each including a job and a predecessor job. A time difference is the difference between a scheduled job start time and an estimated predecessor job end time. Jobs with a preceding time gap include jobs immediately preceded only by non-zero time differences. The job start depends upon the predecessor job completion. The computer system further includes a processing unit that identifies jobs preceded by a time gap, selects one of the Services, and traverses in reverse chronological order a critical path of dependent jobs within the Service until a latest job with a preceding time gap is identified or at least those jobs along the critical path preceded by another job are traversed.

The invention discloses one wireless sensor network communication method and system, which comprises the following steps: process center point sends broadcast in initial time and the point measures self and process center distance through the broadcast information; network point organism forms cluster structure and selecting cluster point front network gate and common point front cluster head in initial time; cluster member collects data in set time gap and sends to cluster head; the cluster head and front network gate transmit time gap data to process central point.

The present invention relates to a method of monitoring the gate opening and closing time on line by a high-voltage circuit breaker. The inception time for the breaker gate opening and closing coil with electricity can be obtained through the voltage telecommand sampling of the breaker gate opening and closing coil, the time for the separation and connection of breaker head can be obtained through three-phase voltage telecommand sampling of capacitance sensor of high-voltage electricity-carrying display device that is arranged on the electric power transmission lines. The time gap between the inception time of breaker gat closing coil with electricity and the finish time of separation of breaker head is calculated, then the gate opening time is worked out; the time gap between the inception time of breaker gate closing coil with electricity and the finish time of jointing of breaker head is calculated, then the gate closing time is worked out. The method of the present invention bases on the telecommand sampling of voltage signal; brings the operating facilities of electric power system into full play; and overcomes the shortcomings of previous online monitoring methods; thereby making the verification of time point more conveniently and accurately, and reducing the cost, thus being favorable for the realization of state repairing of the breaker.

The present invention provides a novel framing structure that can be used to smoothly evolve a Time Division Duplex (TDD) wireless communications technology to a Frequency Division Duplex wireless communications technology. A method for establishing the start time of an uplink frame that is offset in relation to a downlink frame by an allocation start time is provided. In addition, methods of allocating downlink and uplink resources for half-duplex and full frequency division duplex operation with adequate provisions for transmit-receive and receive-transmit time gaps are also provided.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for transcutaneously treating tissue located beneath a skin surface with electromagnetic energy delivered from a treatment electrode. A portion of the treatment electrode is contacted with the skin surface. While maintaining the contact between the portion of the treatment electrode and the skin surface, the electromagnetic energy is delivered from the treatment electrode in a plurality of power pulses through the skin surface to the tissue over a treatment time with a time gap between each consecutive pair of the pulses to lower a level of pain perceived by a patient.

An implantable bi-ventricular heart stimulating device has a control circuit that within a time cycle, delivers pacing pulses with both first and second pacing circuits with a time gap between a pacing pulse delivered by these pacing circuits. The time gap can be such that a pacing pulse delivered by the second pacing circuits falls substantially within a first time interval in which an evoked response can be expected to a pacing pulse delivered by the first pacing circuit. The control circuit performs a temporary modification of the operation of the device such that during at least one time cycle no pacing pulse is delivered by the second pacing circuit during the first time interval.

A method for detecting address rotation by a device in a communication network includes receiving, at a first time, a first message transmitted by the device, receiving, at a second time, a second message transmitted by the device, and processing the first message to determine a first sequence number and a first transmitter address. The method also includes processing the second message to determine a second sequence number and a second transmitter address, determining that the second transmitter address is different from the first transmitter address, determining a time gap between the first time and the second time, and determining, based, in part, on the time gap, a sequence threshold value. The method further includes determining a sequence difference between the first sequence number and the second sequence number, determining that the sequence difference is less than the sequence threshold value, and providing an indication of address rotation by the device.

A process for transmitting encrypted data through a radio transmission channel having a frame structure such that a TDMA frame comprises at least time slots of a first type forming a traffic channel and at least one time slot of a second type forming an associated signaling channel, comprises steps according to which:a sequence of encrypted data packets is transmitted in the traffic channel on the basis of a determined time slot of the first type, whereas an associated cryptographic synchronization information cue is transmitted in the associated signaling channel inside a determined time slot of the second type, anda cryptographic synchronization delay information cue relating to the time gap between said determined time slot of the second type and said determined time slot of the first type, is also transmitted in the associated signaling channel.

The invention belongs to the field of LED (light-emitting diode) drive control, and provides a blanking control circuit for LED (light-emitting diode) display screens and an LED drive chip. According to the invention, by adopting the blanking control circuit (comprising a time-sequence control module and a blanking module) for the LED (light-emitting diode) display screens, in the line scanning process of an LED display screen, the blanking module charges parasitic capacitors in each line of the LED display screen in a time gap generated by scanning every two lines of LEDs so to achieve the purpose of effectively eliminating a smearing phenomenon; meanwhile, a drive circuit module realizes the accurate constant current control on each line of LEDs on the LED display screen, so that the image display quality of the LED display screen is improved, thereby solving the problem that in the prior art, the display quality of the LED display screen is low because the accurate constant current control on LEDs can not be realized.

Disclosed is a driver assistance method and system for avoiding violation of traffic lights. The method includes: 1, searching for and determining location of a road traffic light where a vehicle locates, and performing a step 2; 2, calculating change time gap t_g of the road traffic light where the vehicle locates, and performing a step 3; 3, comparing the time time-gap required for the vehicle to reach a warning line and the change time gap t_g, and judging whether the current vehicle is about to violate the traffic signal light or not; if yes, executing automatic emergency braking; if not, determining that the current vehicle does not violate the traffic light. The system comprises an automatic emergency bake controller, a vehicular camera, a vehicle electronic stability control system, and a wireless communication transceiving device, wherein the vehicular camera and the vehicle electronic stability control system are connected with the automatic emergency brake controller respectively through buses. The method and system has the advantages that the defects of the existing automatic emergency brake system are made up, the traffic lights can be recognized, corresponding brake judgments are made then, and violations of traffic lights, such as a bicycle running the red light or yellow light, can be avoided effectively.

An arrangement for determining a vehicle speed behaviour model for a leading vehicle, where the leading vehicle drives along a path in front of a trailing host vehicle and where the determination is done by a control unit in the host vehicle, where the host vehicle includes an arrangement for measuring the time gap to the leading vehicle, an arrangement for measuring the speed of the host vehicle, an arrangement for obtaining external information regarding an upcoming change in a road condition, where the control unit is adapted for monitoring the change in vehicle speed of the leading vehicle, and for determining a vehicle speed behaviour model for the leading vehicle based on the monitored change in vehicle speed of the leading vehicle. The vehicle speed behaviour of a leading vehicle can be used by the host vehicle to optimize the fuel consumption, the comfort and the safety of the host vehicle.

A micromirror device with at least one intermediate state is disclosed in this invention with the reflecting mirror placed at an angular position between a fully on angle and fully off angle. The micromirror device includes a reflecting element supported on a hinge for oscillating and positioning at least three angular positions. The micromirror device further has a control circuit for receiving a series of control words of different number of bits as a time modulation signal to control the reflecting element for controlling a gray scale of display wherein the control circuit further receiving an oscillation signal for superimposing on the time modulation signal for oscillating the reflecting element for further controlling the gray scale of display. The series of control words further includes a sequence of control words of a least number of bits to a maximum number of bits of a least number of bits to a maximum number of bits with a time gap between each of the control words. The oscillating signal may be inserted optionally into a gap between the control words, into every control word, into a control word of the MSB, or into a control word of the LSB, In a preferred embodiment, the oscillating signal is applied to dispose the reflecting element at an intermediate state with a zero degree relative to an incident light.

Methods and apparatus for increasing the processing throughput of multiple lots of semiconductor wafers through a cluster tool while maintaining a constant wafer history for each lot are provided. A first lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into a cluster tool containing one or more processing chambers. The first lot of wafers is processed for a first time period. A second lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into the cluster tool prior to completion of the first time period, wherein the second lot is introduced so as to minimize a time gap between the n-th wafer of the first lot of wafers and the first wafer of the second lot of wafers while maintaining a first constant wafer history for each wafer within the first lot and maintaining a second constant wafer history for each wafer in the second lot.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for transcutaneously treating tissue located beneath a skin surface with electromagnetic energy delivered from a treatment electrode. A portion of the treatment electrode is contacted with the skin surface. While maintaining the contact between the portion of the treatment electrode and the skin surface, the electromagnetic energy is delivered from the treatment electrode in a plurality of power pulses through the skin surface to the tissue over a treatment time with a time gap between each consecutive pair of the pulses to lower a level of pain perceived by a patient.

The invention is a method and device for improving synchronous detecting precision, used in synchronous detection based on ascending time gap in CDMA system, and its method includes the steps: antenna data segment obtaining to determine the data segment where the synchronous code exists; matching filtration: for detecting if there is ascending synchronous access at protective intervals and ascending guide frequency time gap intervals, firstly making shift relation between NSYNC_UL ascending synchronous codes and with antenna received data at protective intervals and ascending guide frequency time gas intervals and obtaining related power sequence; signature identification: detecting and judging the total related frequency sequence and only in the situation of meeting preset detecting conditions can it determine there is ascending synchronous access; fast physical access channel arrangement: making priority processing according to many ascending synchronous signatures in each subframe. It gives a multiple sampling-based method and device fro improving synchronous detecting precision, improving the synchronous detecting precision.

The invention relates to a method for preventing a cool roller bed of a hot rolling layer from steel rear-end collision. The rolling rhythm of adjacent front band steel and back band steel are controlled according to different steel types and specifications based on a preset technique requirement through a hot metal detector combined with a basic automatic controller and a process controller; and under the premise of ensuring the rolling rhythm, steel rear-end collision of a layer cool zone due to differences in steel types and specifications can be avoided. The method includes the steps: 1, theoretically calculating out a time gap value T between the tail of the front band steel and the head of the back band steel; 2, practically detecting and calculating out a real time gap value T ' between the tail of the front band steel and the head of the back band steel; and 3, comparing the T and the T ', and issuing an on-site swinging command or a moving command to the back band steel according the comparison result. The method can shorten overlong gap time during manual control processes, reduce unnecessary time waste, and can avoid steel rear-end collision of the layer cool zone due to differences in steel types and specifications under the premise of ensuring the fastest rolling rhythm.

An implantable bi-ventricular heart stimulating device has a control circuit that within a time cycle, delivers pacing pulses with both first and second pacing circuits with a time gap between a pacing pulse delivered by these pacing circuits. The time gap can be such that a pacing pulse delivered by the second pacing circuits falls substantially within a first time interval in which an evoked response can be expected to a pacing pulse delivered by the first pacing circuit. The control circuit performs a temporary modification of the operation of the device such that during at least one time cycle no pacing pulse is delivered by the second pacing circuit during the first time interval.

A computer implemented method and apparatus for automatically identifying a representative image for an image group. The method comprises dividing an image group into one or more clusters based on an average time gap of the image group, wherein the images in the image group are in sequential timestamp order wherein the average time gap is calculated using a time span calculated from the timestamp of a first image in the image group to the timestamp of a last image in the image group; recursively dividing a largest cluster in the one or more clusters to determine a resultant cluster, wherein the resultant cluster comprises no time gaps larger than the average time gap of the resultant cluster; and identifying a representative image from the resultant cluster as an image representative for the image group.

The invention provides a multi-source data grid fault identification method, and relates to the field of dispatching automation of electric power systems. When an electric system is dispatched, the advantage that diagnosis is conducted by only depending on protecting action information is not beneficial for the judgment and immediate processing of an accident. The multi-source data grid fault identification method includes the following steps of setting up a parameter, collecting grid operation information in real time, sorting out grid fault reports when receiving action information of a relay protection device, organizing action reports according to a protection device when a real fault signal is detected, taking the time scale of the earliest received protection action as the zero-time of the action report, if other protection action signals belong to the same device and the time gap between the action time and the zero-time is less than a threshold value, arranging the protection action signals to be in the same action report, if received scattered wave records belong to the same device and the time gap is less than the threshold value, arranging the received scattered wave records to be in the same report. According to the technical scheme, after a fault occurs in the electrical system, the real grid fault can be quickly and accurately identified, and a clear grid fault report can be organized.

Methods and apparatus for increasing the processing throughput of multiple lots of semiconductor wafers through a cluster tool while maintaining a constant wafer history for each lot are provided. A first lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into a cluster tool containing one or more processing chambers. The first lot of wafers is processed for a first time period. A second lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into the cluster tool prior to completion of the first time period, wherein the second lot is introduced so as to minimize a time gap between the n-th wafer of the first lot of wafers and the first wafer of the second lot of wafers while maintaining a first constant wafer history for each wafer within the first lot and maintaining a second constant wafer history for each wafer in the second lot.

The invention discloses a method for renting an idle private car parking stall, comprising a third-party platform, a private car parking stall rent-seeker and a private car parking stall leaser. The private car parking stall rent-seeker and the private car parking stall leaser fill relevant information in a downloaded third-party APP. Then, the third-party APP collects all the parking stall rental information for the parking stall rent-seeker to screen the parking stall that meets his or her requirement; and then, with a deposit, the parking stall can be booked and used. When the parking stall rent-seeker leaves the parking stall, the rental fee is deducted and the remaining deposit is returned. At the same time, the rent seeker also receives a rental-fee deduction message as evidence so that he or she does not pay parking fee to a community property management company. The third-party platform also receives the booking from other qualified parking stall leasers through the use of the time gap between the parking stall rent-seeker and the parking stall leaser. According to the invention, through the management of the idle parking stalls, a driver no longer worries about trying to find a parking stall. In addition, the utilization efficiency of the fixed parking stalls is also raised; and pressure on a current parking lot is also eased.

A method for allocating a radio resource for a Long Term Evolution-unlicensed, LTE-U, data transmission of a communication device in an unlicensed frequency band is disclosed. The method includes the communication device determining a time gap duration until a start time of a subframe. The communication device selects a resource allocation transmission from a plurality of resource allocation transmissions as a function of the determined time gap duration. Related communication devices, methods by devices, and systems are disclosed.

A method and device for parameter independent buffer underrun prevention in a data communication system includes a buffer for compensating for a difference in the rate of flow of data having a write port and a read port. After a commencement of writing data into the buffer, a predetermined delay time occurs. When the delay time has passed, reading data out from the buffer starts. Then the length of a time gap between the completion of writing data into the buffer and completion of reading data out from the buffer is determined. Finally, the length of the predetermined delay time is decreased by a first value if the length of the time gap is larger than a specified tolerance value and the length of the predetermined delay time is increased by a second value if the length of the time gap is smaller than the specified tolerance value. The provided method and device advantageously adjusts to systems having dynamically varying parameters, e.g., processors or other devices having a variable clock rate due to power-saving-modes.

The invention relates to a method for timing monitoring control for internal memory data base in mobile communication equipment by adopting the technical measures of time gap and scanning time-sharing, which realizes increased scanning rate, decreased scanning frequentness and effectively reduced interval timer number.

The invention discloses a method for preparing flower-sweet-aroma congou black tea from tea in summer and autumn. The method comprises the following steps of performing light supplementary withering on fresh tea leaves, performing making of green leaves, performing rolling, performing fermentation, performing drying and performing aroma-increasing treatment, wherein the fresh tea leaves are the tea in summer and autumn with one bud and two leaves or one bud and three leaves, and the light supplementary withering is performed by a method of combining yellow light withering with blue light withering; in the process of making of green leaves, the rotating speed of a machine for rocking of green leaves is 20-25rpm, and the process of making of green leaves is performed in three time gaps; in the fermentation process, fermentation is performed at 28-30 DEG C until the congou black tea has flower sweet aroma and does not have green grass smell; and the drying process comprises three steps ofperforming primary baking, performing rolling-frying and performing sufficient drying. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the defects existing in the prior art can be overcome, the flower-sweet-aroma congou black tea being tight and bent in shape strips, rich and durable in flower sweet aroma, red and bright in soup color, and mellow and brisk in taste is obtained. The technological process is simple, the equipment requirements are low, the energy consumption is low, and the method has technological innovation value, and is high in actual significance.

The invention discloses a method for rapidly decomposing time gap conflicts in a distributed type TDMA protocol. The method mainly solves the problem that in an Ad Hoc network, due to the time gap conflicts, the transmission efficiency and channel utilization rate are decreased. The method includes the steps that firstly, a node has access to a network and is marked with a time gap type; secondly, when receiving a correct packet during a receiving time gap, the node calculates prediction parameters according to the physical layer parameters of the packet and conducts conflict forecasting decomposition if the prediction parameters meet the conflict prediction conditions; thirdly, when receiving a wrong packet during the receiving time gap, the node conducts conflict decomposition if physical layer parameters of the packet meet the conflict conditions; fourthly, when receiving no packet during the receiving time gap or receiving a correct packet during an idle time gap, the node renews a time gap list. The cross-layer design is introduced, and therefore the time gap conflicts are more efficiently predicted and detected, the network transmission efficiency and channel utilization rate are increased, and the method can be used for the distributed type self-organized network.

An aspect of the present disclosure has been made in an effort to provide an apparatus and a method of automatically controlling a transmission, capable of increasing work efficiency by removing a time gap between a starting time point when an operation such as excavation of a wheel loader starts and a transmission time point when the kickdown is performed. In addition, an aspect of the present disclosure has been made in an effort to provide an apparatus and a method of automatically controlling a transmission, capable of performing an automatic kickdown transmission at the same time of the starting time point of operation, preferably before the operation is performed.