2207 results about "Vertical edge" patented technology

The present invention provides a SiGe-based bulk integration scheme for generating FinFET devices on a bulk Si substrate in which a simple etch, mask, ion implant set of sequences have been added to accomplish good junction isolation while maintaining the low capacitance benefits of FinFETs. The method of the present invention includes providing a structure including a bottom Si layer and a patterned stack comprising a SiGe layer and a top Si layer on the bottom Si layer; forming a well region and isolation regions via implantation within the bottom Si layer; forming an undercut region beneath the top Si layer by etching back the SiGe layer; and filling the undercut with a dielectric to provide device isolation, wherein the dielectric has an outer vertical edge that is aligned to an outer vertical edge of the top Si layer.

The invention provides a vehicle license plate recognition method based on a video. According to the vehicle license plate recognition method based on the video, moving vehicles are detected and separated out with the vehicle video which is obtained through actual photographing by means of a camera serving as input, the accurate position of a vehicle license plate area is determined by conducting vertical edge extraction on a target vehicle image obtained after pre-processing, a vehicle license plate image is separated out, color correction, binaryzation and inclination correction are conducted on a vehicle license plate image, each character in the positioned vehicle license plate area is separated to serve as an independent character, feature extraction is conducted one each character, obtained feature vectors are classified through a classifier which is well trained in advance, a classification result serves as a preliminary recognition result, secondary recognition is conducted on the stained vehicle license plate characters according to a template matching algorithm imitating the visual characteristics of human eyes, and then a final vehicle license plate recognition result is obtained. The vehicle license plate recognition method based on the video has the advantages that hardware cost is reduced, the management efficiency of an intelligent transportation system is improved, the anti-jamming performance and the robustness are high, the recognition efficiency is high, and the recognition speed is high.

A polygonal cylindrically shaped phased array antenna forming a radar has an active aperture that focuses in any of one or more angular azimuth directions without inertia. It further includes adjacent multiple similar polygonal staves joined along their vertical edges to form a right regular polygonal cylinder. Each stave is further decomposed into flat panels, wherein each panel has a plurality of antenna elements positioned in a regular rectangular or triangular lattice. Each panel contains a beam forming network that electronically forms and steers an electromagnetic beam for purposes of transmission and subsequent reception. The panels optionally may operate as autonomous radars which when coherently combined form multiple larger antenna apertures, each capable of operating autonomously. A switching network allows transmit power and all requisite radar and control signals to be sent to and received from a selected set of panels anywhere on the polygonal cylinder.

An edge enhancement system, including a selective edge controller for determining one or more properties of an edge of image data, and for generating one or more weighting factors on the basis of properties of the edge; and a scaling module for scaling an edge enhancement signal by the weighting factors to control the degree of edge enhancement. The image data may represent a still or moving (i.e., video) image. A max-min search circuit determines maximum and minimum turning points closest to the center of the data processing window and that are located on opposing sides of the window, to determine values and locations of maximum and minimum pixels of the edge. An edge-directed pre-filtering circuit reduces the amplification of edge fuzziness by smoothing close the edges vertical prior to enhancement. An aliasing protection circuit reduces the visibility of saw-tooth defects on predominantly horizontal diagonal edges.

A support arm apparatus and method for stabilizing an outward, distal portion of a thin, rigid panel attached at an inward, vertical edge opposite the outward, distal portion to a fixed vertical surface, comprising a support bar having externally threaded first and second ends and formed at an elbow angle nearer the first end; a first mounting assembly installed on the first end of the support bar for attaching the first end of the support bar to the thin panel at a first location thereon; and a second mounting assembly installed on the second end of the support bar for attaching the second end of the support bar to the fixed vertical surface at a second location thereon; wherein the externally threaded first and second ends of the support bar enable adjustment of the first and second mounting assemblies respectively along a longitudinal axis of each first and second end of the support bar to stabilize the outward, distal portion of the thin panel at a predetermined panel angle.

An adjustable carrying pouch adapted to carry devices of varying sizes. A substantially rectangular pliable horizontal segment is integral with a vertical pliable segment. The horizontal segment includes a pair of retention flaps having a central segment disposed therebetween. The vertical segment depends from the central segment. Hook fastening members are secured to the inside surface of the horizontal segment at each retention flap. The hook fastening members are secured to the inside surface of the vertical segment in opposition to the central segment. Loop fastening members are secured to the outside surface of the horizontal segment at each retention flap in opposition to the hook fastening members. A belt loop or clip is mounted along the central segment on the outside surface of the horizontal segment. The hook and loop fastening members may be adjustably coupled to adapt to the size of the device to be carried.

A modular tower structure is described herein. The modular tower uses a cost-effective, efficient design that reduces the amount of steel necessary for tower structures for wind turbines. The modular tower is constructed from sections. The sections are constructed from panels. The panels comprise a curved or arcuate shape. The panels include vertical edges and horizontal edges. A vertical connection connects or secures the panels at the vertical edges of the panels and forms the sections. The sections have a generally circular shape. The vertical connection includes an interior vertical friction plate positioned over a seam or gap between adjacent panels and an exterior vertical friction plate positioned over the seam or gap between adjacent panels. A horizontal connection connects or secures the sections at the horizontal edges of the panels. The horizontal connection comprises an interior friction plate that covers a seam or gap between the adjacent sections and an exterior friction plate that covers the seam or gap between the adjacent sections.

The present invention relates generally to a loading dock seal. In one aspect it supplements an existing loading dock seal by attaching a flexible sheet vertically along vertical sides of the existing loading dock. The sheet wraps around the rear vertical edges of a truck body to seal any gaps that might exist, for example, between the opened rear door and the truck body wall caused by hinges.

Ultraviolet reactors having an ultraviolet light source for treating a fluid are disclosed. In one embodiment, a reactor is disclosed which includes a vessel having an inlet for receiving fluid and an outlet for discharging fluid. The vessel further includes a plurality of segmented baffles. The baffles further include a partial circumferential edge section that terminates in a vertical edge section to form right and left segmented baffles. The left and right segmented baffles are arranged in an alternating pattern in the vessel to provide plug flow and enhanced radial mixing.

Methods and systems for processing pixels within a current macroblock are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise acquiring a plurality of pixels that are adjacent to the left of a plurality of selected pixels within the current macroblock. A portion of the plurality of selected pixels within the current macroblock may be filtered along a vertical edge utilizing a portion of the acquired plurality of pixels that are adjacent to the left of the plurality of selected pixels. The acquired plurality of pixels that are adjacent to the left of the plurality of selected pixels may be rotated. At least a portion of the plurality of selected pixels within the current macroblock may be filtered along a horizontal edge utilizing at least a portion of the rotated plurality of pixels that are adjacent to the left of the plurality of selected pixels.

An acoustically absorptive apparatus is provided which includes an acoustically absorptive panel and an attachment mechanism. The acoustically absorptive panel is configured to reside along a side of an electronics rack, and includes a multilayer structure to attenuate noise. The attachment mechanism slidably mounts the acoustically absorptive panel to the electronics rack and facilitates sliding of the panel relative to the rack between retracted and extended positions. In the refracted position, the panel is disposed along the side of the rack, and in the extended position, the panel extends beyond a front or back edge of the electronics rack to facilitate attenuating noise emanating from the rack or an aisle alongside a row of multiple racks. In addition, the acoustically absorptive panel hingedly couples along a vertical edge to the attachment mechanism such that the panel is also rotatable outward away from the side of the electronics rack.

A surround molding module incorporates an invisible division bar assembly. The invisible division bar includes a support or glass encapsulation that does not extend outwardly beyond the plane of the exterior surface of fixed and movable windows of the vehicle. It provides a butt joint between these window edges. The support also carries a guide member that provides tracking with a guide extending outwardly from a glass encapsulation secured to the movable window. A glass run channel is also secured to the support along the rear vertical edge of the movable window. An effective window guide tracking system is provided that has improved wind noise and a flush window appearance with no off-set.

It is an object of the present invention, when extracting arbitrary region(s) from image(s) taken with a digital camera or the like and printing same, to make it possible to carry out borderless printing. During cropped printing, because user(s) can specify arbitrary region(s) of arbitrary size(s), aspect ratio(s) of cropped image(s) and aspect ratio(s) of printing paper will not match, and distorted image(s) will result if an attempt is made to carry out printing with no border at any of the four edges thereof. Image(s) may therefore be rotated based on aspect ratio(s) of print region(s) defined by print layout(s) and aspect ratio(s) of cropped image(s) (S17 through S19), and image(s) may be enlarged and / or reduced such that aspect ratio(s) thereof is or are preserved unaltered so as to cause no margin to be formed on at least either the two horizontal or the two vertical edges of print region(s) (S20). Furthermore, when carrying out borderless printing, portion(s) extending beyond edge(s) of printing paper may be taken into consideration in advance in establishing image cutting frame(s). This will make it possible for printing of image(s) at locus or loci specified by user(s) to be carried out faithfully, without distortion, and without borders at two edges thereof.

A thermal wall system for slowing heat transfer through walls. The system includes horizontal top and bottom tracks, horizontal top and bottom plates, and vertical studs mounted to and extending between the top and bottom plates. The top tracks and plates have flanges that extend downward. The bottom tracks and plates have flanges that extend upward. The width of the plates fits within the width of the tracks. Top and bottom tracks and plates are respectively nested along their webs and one flange to form a longitudinal opening between their respective opposing flanges. Rigid insulation may be disposed in the longitudinal opening. Thermal framing components may also be provided, extending between the top and bottom plates, to support vertical edges of insulation sheets. Thermal end caps may be used to treat the terminal edges of insulation.

A method for switching application program in a touch screen terminal, comprising: in a running interface of an application program, displaying an application program switching window in a screen sweet area upon a condition that a lateral slide signal is detected which is triggered at a screen vertical edge of the screen sweet area and laterally slid to an opposite side of the screen vertical edge; upon a condition that the application program switching window is being displayed, quitting the application program switching window from the screen sweet area in the event that a lateral slide signal is detected which is triggered at an arbitrary point in the touch screen and laterally slid to the screen vertical edge of the screen sweet area; and switching to a corresponding application program in the event that a click signal to an application program icon within the application program switching window is detected.

The invention discloses a license plate recognition method and system, and the method comprises the following steps: collecting a vehicle image; carrying out the filtering of the vehicle image, and carrying out the edge detection of the vehicle image through a Canny operator, so as to convert the vehicle image into an edge binary image; scanning the edge binary image, so as to obtain license plate candidate regions according to the edge spacing and edge jump; locating the license plate in the license plate candidate regions according to the vertical edge features and morphological expansion of the license plate; searching a plurality of characters from the license plate according to the contour features of a single character, and removing the pseudo characters in the characters according to a license plate template; carrying out the recognition of the characters through an SVM classifier, and determining the license plate number of a vehicle according to a recognition result. The method can carry out the precise positioning and character segmentation of the license plate, and improves the character recognition rate of the license plate.

The present invention relates to the LED lighting engineering, in particular to a double optical lens used on a LED street lamp. The double optical lens is characterized in that a base level is provided, and the base level is a plane; a light outgoing face of the lens consists of two partial sphere surfaces and a transition surface between the two partial sphere surfaces; the light outgoing face communicates with the base level to define the outline of the base level; the center of the base level is provided with a light entering face, which is a concave face; the base level, the light entering face, and the light outgoing face together define the body of the double optical lens; the double optical lens also includes a pair of buckle hooks arranged on the base level of the body, the pairs of buckle hooks is respectively arranged on the two vertical edges of the base level; the hook points of the buckle hooks extend out of the base level along the base level; the obverse face of the hook points, namely the face facing to the light outgoing face is the first plane, and the first plane is parallel to the base level. The reverse face of the hook points, namely the face keeping away from the light outgoing face is the second plane, and the second plane is an inclined plane relatively to the first plane. The end extending out of the base level of the second face is the low end.

The improved sheet and post container sidewall construction of the present invention includes a post with a novel cross section that increases the rigidity of the post at a minimum thickness. The cross section of the post includes a central wall connected to lateral wings that attach to the outer protective skin of a container. The central wall is connected to the lateral wings by a connecting segment that lies inside the lateral edges of the central wall, creating a channel between the central wall and the lateral wings. This channel enables the vertical edge of a liner to be held securely in place behind the central wall. The cross section of the structural post also provides increased rigidity because the thickness of the metal of the post is doubled along a significant portion of the lateral edges of the central wall. This configuration provides increased rigidity for the post and achieves the important objective of providing smooth container walls free of recesses, potential protrusions and snag points.

A method of generating complementary masks for use in a multiple-exposure lithographic imaging process. The method includes the steps of: identifying a target pattern having a plurality of features comprising horizontal and vertical edges; generating a horizontal mask based on the target pattern; generating a vertical mask based on the target pattern; performing a shielding step in which at least one of the vertical edges of the plurality of features in the target pattern is replaced by a shield in the horizontal mask, and in which at least one of the horizontal edges of the plurality of features in the target pattern is replaced by a shield in the vertical mask, where the shields have a width which is greater that the width of the corresponding feature in the target pattern; performing an assist feature placement step in which sub-resolution assist features are disposed parallel to at least one of the horizontal edges of the plurality of features in the horizontal mask, and are disposed parallel to at least one of the vertical edges of the plurality of features in the vertical mask, and performing a feature biasing step in which at least one of the horizontal edges of the plurality of features in the horizontal mask are adjusted such that the resulting feature accurately reproduces the target pattern, and at least one of the vertical edges of the plurality of features in the vertical mask are adjusted such that the resulting feature accurately reproduces the target pattern.

A window shade assembly includes a flexible shade material having a pair of non-beaded vertical edges positioned in a pair of opposed vertical side channels. A re-channeling system includes a lip to at least partially define a plane of the flexible shade material within the side channels, and a bottom rail irremovably and slidingly received in each side channel. The side channels can be two parts. A single resilient seal strip is used with the side channels to seal the flexible shade material. The seal strip can be an edge of the flexible wrapping material for the side channels.

A method and apparatus for video processing of reconstructed video in a reconstruction loop are disclosed. An embodiment according to the present invention performs padding for the blocks in the slice boundaries according to a processing order. Each of the one or more reconstructed blocks at slice boundaries is padded according to a padding order. In-loop filtering is applied to the reconstructed slice according to the processing order, wherein the reconstructed slice is filtered by referencing the one or more padded blocks. The padding order can be vertical-edge first and then horizontal-edge, or horizontal-edge first and then vertical-edge. Various embodiments are disclosed regarding whether padding for a later padded block in the processing order is skipped or not in the overlapped area. The present invention is also applied to adaptation blocks for block-based in-loop filtering in slice boundaries.

A surround molding module incorporates an invisible division bar assembly. The invisible division bar includes a support or glass encapsulation that does not extend outwardly beyond the plane of the exterior surface of fixed and movable windows of the vehicle. It provides a butt joint between these window edges. The support also carries a guide member that provides tracking with a guide extending outwardly from a glass encapsulation secured to the movable window. A glass run channel is also secured to the support along the rear vertical edge of the movable window. An effective window guide tracking system is provided that has improved wind noise and a flush window appearance with no off-set.

One embodiment provides an apparatus for material deposition. The apparatus includes a reaction chamber, and a pair of susceptors. Each susceptor has a front side and a back side, and the front side mounts substrates. The susceptors are positioned vertically in such a way that the front sides of the susceptors face each other, and the vertical edges of the susceptors are in contact with each other, thereby forming a substantially enclosed narrow channel between the substrates. The apparatus also includes a number of gas nozzles for injecting reaction gases. The gas nozzles are controlled in such a way that gas flow directions inside the chamber can be alternated, thereby facilitating uniform material deposition. The apparatus includes a number of heating units situated outside the reaction chamber. The heating units are arranged in such a way that they radiate heat energy directly to the back sides of the susceptors.

Methods for forming a patterned SOI region in a Si-containing substrate are provided which has geometries of about 0.25 μm or less. The methods disclose each utilize a patterned dielectric mask that includes at least one opening having a size of about 0.25 μm or less which exposes a portion of a Si-containing substrate. Oxygen ions are implanted through the opening using at least a base ion implantation process which is carried out at an oxygen beam energy of about 120 keV or less and an oxygen dosage of about 4E17 cm−2 or less. These conditions minimize erosion of the vertical edges of the patterned dielectric mask and minimize formation of lateral straggles.