203 results about "Visual patterns" patented technology

This paperless book is portable and uses removable ROM devices to provide the visual and aural information displayed in the paperless book. The book can be read in a visual mode, as print, or in an aural mode, as the spoken word corresponding to the print, or in both visual and aural modes. The display mode may be conveniently shifted back and forth between visual and aural, for use, for example, by a counter who uses the book in the aural mode while driving and switches to the visual mode while riding on a train. In addition, the visual display may be manipulated affecting the appearance, for use, for example, by persons with reduced visual acuity. Movies also may be viewed using the paperless book. Finally, portions of the text may be enhanced by additional visual images, music or other sounds.

A method and device are provided for pairing devices using a short-range wireless communication protocol. Pairing may be performed by causing a device to output a visual pattern. The visual pattern may be detected and the device may be identified based on the detected pattern. Upon identification, pairing may be completed.

The present invention is directed to a traffic display for an aircraft, which includes a vertical traffic indicator. The vertical traffic indicator includes flight levels, depicted utilizing differing visual patterns to represent the current flight level as well as available and unavailable flight levels for transit. The vertical traffic indicator includes aircraft indicators positioned in relation to flight levels to indicate attitude. The aircraft indicators may also include status indicators indicating separation standards, vertical trend, intent, or whether an aircraft is a reference aircraft for an ITP. The traffic display provides clear and intuitive means of understanding the flying environment related to the performance of the ITP, increasing situational awareness and simplifying the ITP. The traffic display is specifically advantageous for performance of an ITP, but may be integrated with displays including terrain, weather, flight plan waypoints, or TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) traffic.

The present invention provides methods and devices for making new and inexpensive miniarrays suitable for gene expression analysis. Also provided herein are methods of diagnosis for specific tissue or condition using specialized diagnostic miniarrays that exhibit specific visual pattern as diagnostic readout.

The invention provides novel slate-like composite materials and methods for preparation thereof. The slate-like composite materials can be readily produced from widely available, low cost precursor materials by a process suitable for large-scale production. The precursor materials include calcium silicate, for example, wollastonite, and particulate filler materials which comprise silicon dioxide-rich materials such as quartz, mica, feldspar, sand and glass. Additives can include calcium carbonate-rich and magnesium carbonate-rich materials. Various additives can be used to fine-tune the physical appearance and mechanical properties of the composite material, such as colorants such as particles of colored materials, such as colored glass, colored sand, and colored quartz particles, and pigments (e.g., black iron oxide, cobalt oxide and chromium oxide). These slate-like composite materials exhibit visual patterns unique to slate as well as display compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption similar to that of slate.

A tool-carrying assembly to be secured by a waist-encircling belt, and, additionally, by straps encircling the legs of a workman using the belt assembly. The assembly is thus stabilized, and enhanced weight distribution is achieved. Elements of the belt assembly include a waist-encircling band supporting a pair of laterally spaced, depending panels each carrying tool-accepting pockets. The pockets preferably carry visual markings and coding as well as other indicia identifying clearly the specific tools to be "housed" or carried in and to be returned to each pocket after use. Inventory control of the tools is thereby significantly enhanced. Pivotal flaps depending from the band-carried panels serve to cover the tools when not in use, and to prevent the tools from scratching or otherwise marring any article, or fixture, or "workpiece" requiring the workman's attention. The panels and the tools carried thereby are disposed in lateral, spaced zones at the wearer's sides (and not directly in the front of one's body) thus further to reduce any likelihood of the tools coming into damaging physical contact with an article being worked upon. That is, both frontal and rearwardly located zones about the wearer of the tool belt assembly are rendered essentially free and clear of all tools and other mechanical impediments. While wearing the tool assembly of the invention, a worker can, without any discomfort, lie upon and use a "creeper". Significantly, a frontal sector of the belt itself is covered with a relatively soft, non-marring protective pad, composition, or surface material effective to prevent possible damage from a workman's belt buckle. An additional feature of the invention is that the panels may be structured to constitute a core sandwiched between a pair of encasing sheet-like webs. The resulting composite is readily formable to provide selectable visual patterns, designs or indicia, for example, to identify product name or sources and / or to constitute decorations.

An open frame display shelf assembly formed of elongate parallel base rods to which are connected an array of rod beams arranged transversely to the base rods and bent upwardly to support forward and rearward wall-forming rods. The wall-forming rods are arranged to provide receptor gaps. The shelves are supported from cantilevered sidewalls also containing receptor gaps. A bracket assembly with two adjusting components and three triangularly oriented connectors permit attitude adjustments of the shelf. A sign mount at the forward walls of the shelving is tiltable to accommodate the attitude of the shelf assembly. Sign support assemblies, carrying product identifying visual patterns may be pivotally mounted from the forward edge of forward region of one shelf to freely abuttably rest upon the forward wall of the next lower adjacent shelf. To access the product, the customer pivotally lifts the sign support.

The invention provides novel paving stones and construction block composite materials and methods for preparation thereof. The paving stones and construction block composite materials can be readily produced from widely available, low cost precursor materials by a production process that involves compacting in a mold that is suitable for large-scale production. The precursor materials include calcium silicate, for example, wollastonite, and particulate filler materials which can comprise silicon dioxide-rich materials. Additives can include calcium carbonate-rich and magnesium carbonate-rich materials. Various additives can be used to fine-tune the physical appearance and mechanical properties of the composite material, such as colorants such as particles of colored materials, such as, and pigments (e.g., black iron oxide, cobalt oxide and chromium oxide). These paving stones and construction block composite materials exhibit visual patterns similar to stone as well as display compressive strength and water absorption equal to or better than that of stone.

An IC card includes a first visible layer including a natural material having a unique visual pattern. A storage device is configured to store a digital reference image of the unique visual pattern to be visually compared with the unique visual pattern for authentication. An authentication method based on the IC card is also provided.

The invention provides novel wood-like composite materials and methods for preparation thereof. The wood-like composite materials can be readily produced from widely available, low cost precursor materials by a production process that involves casting in a mold that is suitable for large-scale production. The precursor materials include calcium silicate, for example, wollastonite, and particulate filler materials which comprise silicon dioxide-rich materials such as quartz, mica, feldspar, sand and glass. Additives can include calcium carbonate-rich and magnesium carbonate-rich materials. Various additives can be used to fine-tune the physical appearance and mechanical properties of the composite material, such as colorants such as particles of colored materials, such as, and pigments (e.g., black iron oxide, cobalt oxide and chromium oxide). These wood-like composite materials exhibit visual patterns unique to wood as well as display compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption superior to that of wood.

The invention relates to a method and a system for extracting, looking up and comparing visual patterns based on frame-to-frame variation characteristics. The method comprises the following steps: performing effective video preprocessing, and unifying various videos with different qualities and resolution ratios to a level with accordant resolution ratios and video qualities as much as possible; performing calculation of relativity between a number of adjacent frames to find out a plurality of image blocks with obvious (such as the biggest difference) characteristics between a number of the adjacent frames, and coding the plurality of the blocks to form frame fingerprints; and combining the sequences of the frame fingerprint to form the visual patterns. Simultaneously, because the method for extracting the visual patterns has good robustness, a visual pattern comparison and lookup algorithm which is matched with the method for extracting the visual patterns and is based on matched inverted row query and window sliding is invented. Under the condition of ensuring the accuracy of the query, the retrieval rate is greatly improved. The method and the system can be applicable for real-time operations.

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for record disambiguation in a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device, the multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including at least a voice mode and a visual mode, that include: prompting, by the multimodal application, a user to identify a particular record among a plurality of records; receiving, by the multimodal application in response to the prompt, a voice utterance from the user; determining, by the multimodal application, that the voice utterance ambiguously identifies more than one of the plurality of records; generating, by the multimodal application, a user interaction to disambiguate the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon record attributes of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance; and selecting, by the multimodal application for further processing, one of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon the user interaction.

The invention provides an Internet-based cross-media landmark historical event extraction and picture retrieval method. The method comprises two steps of historical event extraction and cross-media picture retrieval based on historical events. Events can be collected from tag sets of photo-sharing websites and extracted from articles in related landmark introduction websites. The extraction of events from tag sets can be realized by utilizing the frequency of each tag in time to select an optimal partition interval of the tags within the time range, obtaining a sudden weight of each tag by an age theory, and performing tag clustering on tags with high sudden weights, wherein each cluster forms an event. Cross-media picture retrieval based on events can be realized by using time constraints and event keywords to retrieve picture sets to obtain an initialized picture ranking result, establishing a model by utilizing visual mode difference between related pictures and irrelevant pictures, removing irrelevant pictures in a retrieval result, and finally establishing a reordering model by using the relativity and diversity of pictures as the constrain to find a corresponding and representative picture set for each event, so as to realize the visualization of the landmark historical events.

The present disclosure is directed to a flexible filament that includes a length of material configured to be used in forming at least a portion of a textile product to have at least a portion of a visual pattern that is visible on at least one of a first side or a second side of the textile product. The material includes a plurality of stitch indicators formed on the material to separate the material into a plurality of segmented regions, at least one of the stitch indicators or the segmented regions forming at least the portion of the visual pattern visible on the at least one of the first side or the second side of the textile product.

The invention provides an image depth calculating method. The image depth calculating method is based on an active visual pattern of structure light and adopts a block matching motion estimation method so as to improve matching accuracy. High-resolution depth information of a target object is acquired through the laser trigonometry or a table lookup method, and the image depth calculating method avoids a complicated depth calculating formula, achieves rapid and accurate acquisition of the depth information, simplifies a hardware structure, is easy to achieve, and facilitates large-scale popularization.

This invention concerns automatically generating embroidery stitch patterns in a computer aided design system where areas defined by vector outline shapes are filled with stitches which follow curved lines rather than straight lines. This is done in a way to maintain consistent densities and consistent needle penetration patterns inside the areas. The shapes of the areas may be simple polygons which can be filled in one contiguous segment of curved stitching, or they may be complex or multi-boundary shapes which must be stitched in more than one distinct segments of curved line stitching. The areas are transformed into another coordinate space where known calculation methods for straight line stitching are used to calculate straight line fills of the transformed area. The resulting area and stitches are then transformed back to the original coordinates, resulting in even stitching along smooth curves which fills the original area such that the intermediate stitch penetration points along the curves form a smooth continuous visual pattern throughout the area.

A method and system for the assessment and diagnosis of voice in normal and diseased states can include determining at least one quantitative measure of vocal fold vibration using a laryngeal image recording of a subject's vocal fold obtained from an endoscopic device or an auditory recording of a subject during a phonatory task, and can include subsequent analysis of a waveform selected from waveform types comprising a) an acoustic recording, and b) a glottal waveform that is extracted from the laryngeal image recording. The method and system can generate a comprehensive, at-a-glance, physician friendly visual pattern and characteristics of vocal fold vibrations and correlate with specific voice conditions for diagnosis and assessment of voice and therapies and treatments of voice disorder.

A first device may authenticate a key of a second device (after discovering the second device, and executing a pairing protocol with the second device, wherein a result of the pairing protocol is a bit string) by encoding the bit string, transmitting a human-perceptible representation of the encoded bit string, transmitting a human-perceptible distinctive end of string indicator, receiving human feedback and determining whether or not a key of the second device is authentic based on the received human feedback. At the first device, wireless communications with the second device may be controlled based on the determination of whether or not the key of the second device is authentic.

The invention discloses an aero-engine numerical control installation method guided by visual patterns, and belongs to the technical field of installation automation. The aero-engine numerical control installation method is characterized in that a numerical control electric unwheeling is operated to carry out initial alignment on the horizontal axis position and the vertical axis position of an aero-engine according to the relative position information, measured by a pose monitoring platform in an aero-engine numerical control installation system, of the aero-engine and an engine installation cabin, a multi-axis pose adjusting platform is used for accurately aligning the axis position with the axis deviation angle of the aero-engine, automatic whole-course precision installation of the aero-engine is carried out under the real-time monitoring guiding of the pose monitoring platform, and automatic numerical control installation of the aero-engine is achieved. The aero-engine numerical control installation method has the advantages that the advanced image recognizing and measuring technology and the precise numerical control technology are combined to be applied to the installation work of the aero-engine, and the installation efficiency and installation quality are improved.

The invention discloses an identity key file signing and verifying method. According to the identity key file signing and verifying method, identity data representing identity characteristics are operated through an identity password algorithm to generate asymmetric identity public and private key pairs, identity password data serving as a public key are converted into visual identity patterns forsigning files and registered and distributed to a signing end and a verification end. By encrypting and decrypting the files through the identity passwords, the identity key file signing and verifying method can ensure security of the files during transmission, and by signing the files through the visual patterns converted from the identity code data, ensures safety of the files during a signingprocess and is free from security assurance of a third party during transmission and verification; a verification algorithm with anti-counterfeit verification through electronic evidences generated during signing without inquiring original texts can protect privacy of users; encrypting and decrypting the files through the identity key data and signing the files through the identity key patterns achieve safety of electronic files and meanwhile simultaneously achieve connotation of law and culture of sign patterns and traditional written files such as seals or fingerprints.

The invention provides a surface roughness on line measurement method under uncertain condition, and provides a method of establishing relational model of ambient lighting, surface characteristic quantity and surface roughness to calculate the value of surface roughness to be measured aiming at influence of ambient lighting in surface roughness measurement by using machine vision in realistic condition. The method can remarkably improve the measurement precision of surface roughness under various external ambient lighting conditions. The method is realized by the following technical scheme: surface statistical characteristic and texture characteristic of surface characteristic quantity, are obtained by using the methods of arithmetic mean deviation and gray level co-occurrence matrix according to visual pattern; change situation of ambient lighting is monitored by optics luminometer in real-time; relational model of ambient lighting, surface characteristic quantity and surface roughness is established based on the above change situation; functions determined by the above model is used for calculating surface roughness. The method provided by the invention has the advantage of improving on line measurement precision remarkably.

Disclosed is a visualized optimization processing method for a random forest classification model. The method comprises: for a random forest classification model which has been constructed, estimating the degree of correlation between various decision trees of the random forest classification model via out-of-bag data; constructing a correlation matrix using the degree of correlation between various decision trees of the random forest classification model; according to the correlation matrix, by means of the dimension reduction technology, acquiring a visual pattern of the random forest classification model in a space with dimensions fewer than three; and according to the visualized pattern of the random forest classification model, conducting optimization processing on the random forest classification model, so that the upper limit of a second generalization error of the processed random forest classification model does not go beyond the upper limit of a first generalization error of the random forest classification model prior to processing. By means of the above-mentioned method, the present invention can reduce the number of decision trees in the random forest classification model and reduce the memory space required by the random forest classification model, and can also improve the prediction speed and accuracy at the same time.

Disclosed are embodiments for generating visual patterns that exhibit interesting group dynamics. Embodiments include methods and systems for synthesizing collective attribute modeling, such as collective behavior, using physics-inspired rules. In embodiments, multi-state energy functions allows for encoding a rich set of behavior with few control parameters. A disturbance-based control scheme allows for smooth transitions between the various stable configurations and exhibits interesting and complex dynamic behavior. Moreover, in embodiments, the disturbance propagation computation is global, allowing for very fast implementation.

An image processing system processes light conveying visual pattern information represented by individual light rays. The system includes an optical assembly having an input surface and an output surface. The input and output surfaces define a plurality of input and output positions, respectively, for the light rays to enter and exit, respectively, the assembly. The assembly includes a light-shifting apparatus operable so that a respective one of the light rays entering a respective one of the input positions is selectively shiftable by the apparatus in a first direction and, subsequently, in a second direction angled with respect to the first direction from a preceding one to another of the output positions. The assembly is further operable so that following each shifting operation, a respective one of the light rays transmitted by the assembly from an arbitrarily selected one of the output positions is solely derived from the light received from a single one of the input positions.

A decorative concrete product and method of making the same is provided. The concrete surface carries a unique textural and visual decorative pattern that is troweled over the uncured surface. The decorative pattern strategically conceals any imperfections in the concrete surface. A decorative finishing tool is utilized to create a unique and consistent pattern throughout the exposed surface of the concrete. Unique visual patterns may include any aesthetic design including wood grain, or lightly finished honed or cut stone. The decorative finishing tool may be configured so that varying textures and contours may consistently be imprinted throughout the concrete. Advantageously, the cured concrete retains the durability of a concrete surface while carrying a visually and texturally appealing appearance.

A control panel has a screen for displaying instructions, objects, status information and the like. The control panel also includes a user interface comprising a number of button, include at least one select button which is configured to select from among one or more options displayed on the screen. The select button is visually connected to an option displayed on the screen. The visual connection is formed by a first light portion extending from the button to the edge of the screen, and a second light portion displayed on the screen itself, the second light portion extending from the edge of the screen proximate to where the first light portion terminates, to option. The width, color and / or visual pattern of the first and second portions may be similar so as to accentuate the connectedness between the button and the option. Such a control panel may be associated with a standalone photograph printer.

The invention relates to a moving object detecting device based on a microwave transducer and an ultrasonic transducer. The moving object detecting device comprises a low-power dissipation microcontroller unit, the microwave transducer, the ultrasonic transducer, a signal amplifying and filtering processing circuit, a field bus interface unit, a temperature transducer and a power source unit. The microwave detecting technology and the ultrasonic detecting technology are combined. The detecting distance of the microwave transducer is far, the response speed is high, the anti-jamming capability is high, the measuring precision of the ultrasonic measurement is high, and the angle range is small. When the microwave transducer detects that a moving object passes a detecting area, the ultrasonic transducer is started immediately to confirm that the object enters the detecting area, and the distance and speed information can be obtained. The moving object detecting device is compact in structure and capable of dealing with different environments and detecting the low-speed moving object, the problems that an existing detecting technology based on a pressure transducer, a pyroelectric infrared transducer and visual patterns is large in error, poor in anti-jamming capability and the like are well solved, and the problems that installation and construction are difficult are solved. The moving object detecting device has the advantages of being small in size, high in response speed and low in power consumption.

A system and method is provided for visual authentication and authorization of a user for mobile touch devices, the system having: a login display on a mobile touch device displaying a visual pattern; a data collection engine whereby touch attributes are obtained from a plurality of user touch events to the mobile touch device with reference to the visual pattern, the touch attributes comprise measured touch attributes and derived touch attributes calculated from the measured touch attributes; an authentication engine whereby the touch attributes are compared to projected user touch attributes derived from user touch attribute values obtained during prior successful logins.