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20080253935 | METHODS OF MANIPULATING SMALL AMOUNTS OF SOLIDS - The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for manipulating small amounts of solids. Specific embodiments of the invention are particularly suited for the automated transfer of small amounts of solids. In one embodiment, a uniform powder bed is lightly compressed into plugs of powder and dispensed. In another embodiment, the solid is placed in a liquid carrier to form a slurry, dispensed, and the liquid component is subsequently removed. In yet another embodiment, solids are manipulated using adhesive surfaces. | 10-16-2008 |
20090093549 | Aqueous Pharmaceutical Compositions Of 2,6-Diisopropylphenol (Propofol) And Their Uses - The present invention provides aqueous pharmaceutical compositions containing a lipophilic therapeutic agent. In particular, the invention provides aqueous pharmaceutical compositions containing the compound 2,6-diisopropylphenol (propofol). Preferred compositions of the invention contain propofol in the presence of at least one block copolymer (for example, P188 or another poloxamer) and a polyethylene glycol (PEG). Compositions of the invention are preferably sterile or are readily sterilized (e.g., by autoclaving) and are suitable for parenteral administration to any animal, including humans. The compositions are also chemically and physically stable over a wide range of environmental conditions and for extended periods of time. | 04-09-2009 |
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20120093381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION IN MULTI-PARAMETER 3D MR IMAGES VIA ROBUST STATISTIC INFORMATION PROPAGATION - A method for brain tumor segmentation in multi-parametric 3D MR images. The method comprises: pre-processing an input multi-parametric 3D MR image; classifying each voxel in the pre-processed multi-parametric 3D MR image, determining the probability that the voxel is part of a brain tumor, and obtaining an initial label information for the image segmentation based on the classification probability; constructing a graph based representation for the pre-processed image to be segmented; and generating the segmented brain tumor image using the initial label information and graph based representation. This method tries to exploit the local and global consistency of the image to be segmented for the tumor segmentation and can alleviate partially the performance degradation caused by the inter-subject image variability and insufficient statistical information from training. | 04-19-2012 |
20130182931 | METHOD FOR BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION IN MULTI-PARAMETRIC IMAGE BASED ON STATISTICAL INFORMATION AND MULTI-SCALE STRUTURE INFORMATION - A method for brain tumor segmentation in multi-parametric 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images, comprising: determining, for each voxel in the multi-parametric 3D MR image sequence, a probability that the voxel is part of brain tumor; extracting multi-scale structure information of the image; generating multi-scale tumor probability map based on initial tumor probability at voxel level and multi-scale structure information; determining salient tumor region based on multi-scale tumor probability map; obtaining robust initial tumor and non-tumor label based on tumor probability map at voxel level and salient tumor region; and generating a segmented brain tumor image using graph based label information propagation. The present invention is capable of achieving statistical reliable, spatially compact, and robust tumor label initialization, which is helpful to the accurate and reliable tumor segmentation. And the label information propagation framework could partially alleviate the performance degradation caused by image inconsistency between images to be segmented and training images. | 07-18-2013 |
20150361189 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST AND PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF - The present invention relates to preparation and application of an olefin polymerization catalyst. The main catalyst is composed of a carrier, a transition metal halide, and an organic alcohol compound. The transition metal halide is obtained by in-situ reaction between titanate and silicon halide. The molar ratio of the carrier to the transition metal halide to the organic alcohol compound is 1 to 0.01-20 to 0.1-6. The molar ratio of the titanate to the silicon halide is 1 to 0.5-2. The co-catalyst is an organo-aluminum compound. The molar ratio of the transition metal halide in the main catalyst to the co-catalyst is 1 to 30-500. Particles of the catalyst are good in morphology and are in a spherical shape. The catalyst has high activity and the polymer obtained by using the catalyst has a high molecular weight. The catalyst is applicable to a slurry method, a vapor phase polymerization process, or a combined polymerization process. The preparation method thereof is simple, has low requirements on devices, and produces little pollution on the environment. | 12-17-2015 |
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20140313927 | Method and Sending-End Device for Measuring Performance Indicator of Service Flow - A method for measuring a performance indicator of a service flow is disclosed. A sending-end device constructs a measurement packet. The measurement packet is used to trigger a receiving-end device to measure the performance indicator of the service flow. A forwarding attribute of the measurement packet is the same as a forwarding attribute of a packet in the service flow. The measurement packet is sent to the receiving-end device. | 10-23-2014 |
20150195169 | Method, Device, and System for Measuring Network Packet Loss - A method, device, and system for measuring network packet loss. A sender performs data packet counting processing on a service stream sent to a receiver to obtain a first data packet count corresponding to a measurement period identifier. The sender sends an OAM packet including a measurement period identifier to be queried to the receiver. The OAM packet and a data packet of the service stream are transmitted on a same path. The sender receives a second data packet count that is returned by the receiver after the receiver receives the OAM packet. The second data packet count is a count obtained by the receiver by performing data packet counting processing on the received service stream. The sender determines a network packet loss situation according to the first data packet count and the second data packet count. | 07-09-2015 |
20150200828 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING NETWORK PACKET LOSS - Provided are a method, apparatus and system for measuring network packet loss, the method includes: acquiring data packet measurement information measured by at least one target logical port to a traffic stream, transmitting the data packet measurement information to a measurement control point, so that the measurement control point determine the condition of network packet loss according to the data packet measurement information. As a data collecting point acquires the data packet measurement information measured by at least one target logical port to the traffic stream, and uniformly transmits the data packet measurement information to the measurement control point, when multiple target logical ports respectively perform measurement to acquire respective data packet measurement information, the measurement control point uniformly determines condition of packet loss of the traffic stream. Therefore, accurate packet loss measurement can be performed on the traffic stream under the scenario of point-to-point, point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint networks. | 07-16-2015 |
20150207712 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING NETWORK DELAY - A method, an apparatus, and a system for measuring a network delay are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring delay measurement information obtained by measuring a service flow by at least one target logical port TLP, where the delay measurement information includes: timestamp information, a service flow identifier, and a TLP identifier; and transmitting the delay measurement information to a measurement control point MCP, so that the MCP determines details about a network delay according to the timestamp information, the service flow identifier, and the TLP identifier. Embodiments of the present application further provide an apparatus and a system for measuring a network delay. Embodiments of the present application achieve direct and accurate delay measurement of a service flow in scenarios of point to point transmission or point to multipoint transmission on the network, and reflect details about a real delay of the service flow. | 07-23-2015 |
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20130125463 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GASIFICATION OF BIOMASS - A method for gasifying biomass. The method includes: a) grinding the biomass, feeding the biomass into a gasifier while spraying superheated water vapor into the gasifier, controlling the gasifier at an operating temperature of 1200-1600° C., contacting the biomass with the superheated water vapor, desiccating, separating volatile matters, pyrolyzing, and gasifying the biomass to produce crude synthetic gas and ash; b) transporting the crude synthetic gas into a spray tower, quenching the crude synthetic gas by spraying water to cool down the crude synthetic gas to a temperature of 650-800° C., condensing a slag and a tar from the crude synthetic gas, dissolving and removing alkali metal oxides and part of acid gas to obtain primary synthetic gas; and c) cooling, dust removing, deacidifying, and desiccating the primary synthetic gas to transform the primary synthetic gas into clean synthetic gas. | 05-23-2013 |
20130125464 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC GAS FROM BIOMASS - A method for producing synthetic gas from biomass by: a) grinding the biomass, feeding the biomass into a pyrolysis furnace while spraying a first superheated water vapor into the pyrolysis furnace, controlling the temperature of the pyrolysis furnace at 500-800° C., contacting the biomass with the first superheated water vapor for a pyrolysis reaction to yield crude synthetic gas and ash including coke; b) cooling the ash, and separating the coke from the ash; c) transporting the crude synthetic gas and the coke into a gasifier, spraying a second superheated water vapor into the gasifier, controlling the gasifier at an operating temperature of 1200-1600° C., contacting the biomass with the second superheated water vapor for a gasification reaction to yield primary synthetic gas; and d) cooling, removing dust, deacidifying, and desiccating the primary synthetic gas to obtain clean synthetic gas. | 05-23-2013 |
20130125465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PYROLYSIS AND GASIFICATION OF BIOMASS - A method for pyrolysis and gasification of biomass by: a) providing a gasifier and a pyrolysis furnace; heating and introducing a solid particle, or a plurality thereof, into the gasifier and the pyrolysis furnace; b) grinding and feeding the biomass into the pyrolysis furnace while spraying saturated water vapor into the pyrolysis furnace, contacting the biomass with the saturated water vapor at 500-800° C. to yield crude synthetic gas and ash including coke; c) separating the ash, heating the solid particle, and transporting the solid particle into the gasifier; d) cooling the ash, and separating the coke; and e) introducing the crude synthetic gas into the gasifier, transporting the coke into the gasifier while spraying saturated water vapor into the gasifier, contacting the coke and the crude synthetic gas with the saturated water vapor at 1200-1600° C. | 05-23-2013 |
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20140147412 | SPIRO COMPOUNDS AS HEPATITIS C VIRUS INHIBITORS - Disclosed are spiro compounds of formula (I), or stereomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, nitrogen oxides, hydrates, solvates, metabolites, pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. The compounds can be used to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection or hepatitis C disease. Furthermore disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and the method of using the compounds or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of HCV infection or hepatitis C disease. | 05-29-2014 |
20150079028 | Bridged Ring compounds As Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Inhibitors And Pharmaceutical Applications Thereof - Provided herein is a compound having Formula (I), or a stereoisomer, a geometric isomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a hydrate, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof, which can be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds disclosed herein, which can be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. | 03-19-2015 |
20150232509 | SPIRO RING COMPOUNDS AS HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) INHIBITORS - A compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer, a geometric isomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a hydrate, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof is provided, which can be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. Also a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound and the use of the compound and the pharmaceutical composition thereof are provided, which can also be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. | 08-20-2015 |
20150299215 | SPIRO RING COMPOUND AS HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) INHIBITOR AND USES THEREOF - A compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer, a geometric isomer. a tautomer, an N-oxide, a hydrate, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof is provided, which can be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. Also a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound and the use of the compound and the pharmaceutical composition thereof are provided, which can also be used for treating HCV infection or a HCV disorder. | 10-22-2015 |
20150307509 | FUSED RING COMPOUNDS AS HEPATITIS C VIRUS INHIBITORS, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF - Provided are fused tricyclic compounds effective to inhibit the function of the NS5A protein of formula (I), wherein X, X′, Y, Y′, A, A′, Q | 10-29-2015 |
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20100176732 | DIRECTION CONTROLLABLE LIGHTING UNIT - A direction controllable lighting unit ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100327754 | ADAPTIVE MODULATION AND DATA EMBEDDING IN LIGHT FOR ADVANCED LIGHTING CONTROL - This invention relates to a method for controlling a light output signal emitted by a set of light sources comprising at least one light source, wherein said light output signal comprises a modulation signal which carries individual information, the method comprising recurrently: remotely detecting the light output signal of said set of light sources; determining at least one quality measure of said remote detection of the light output signal; and adjusting the modulation signal on basis of said at least one quality measure. | 12-30-2010 |
20110022342 | DISTRIBUTED SPECTRUM SENSING - In summary, the invention relates to a device, a system, a method and a computer program for spectrum sensing. A detection procedure for detecting a signal of interest or an event by using a plurality of sensing devices capable of communicating with a central unit is proposed. The sensing devices can compute soft detection metrics and communicate this information to a central unit, where the information may be used to make a final detection decision using a certain specified rule. The signaling overhead of the proposed approach can be of the same order as that of a hard signaling approach. However, the proposed approach may achieve a better detection performance. | 01-27-2011 |
20110043116 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LIGHT - Proposed is an illumination system ( | 02-24-2011 |
20120091896 | EFFICIENT ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT IN CODED LIGHTING SYSTEMS - Coded light has been proposed to enable advanced control of light sources and transmit information using light sources. It is based on invisibly embedding of data and identifiers in their light output. Methods, devices and systems configured to efficient assignment of addresses in a coded lighting system, still allowing for unique identification, are proposed. More specifically, the assignment of addresses occurs in two phases, where in the initial phase wide area unique addresses are used, while in the second phase only local area unique addresses are used. Also, methods, devices and systems configured to efficiently distribute a set of addresses over a set of light sources in this second phase, to maximize the performance of the illumination contribution estimation, and positioning, are disclosed. | 04-19-2012 |
20120163826 | CODED LIGHT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - Coded light has been proposed to enable advanced control of light sources and transmit information using light sources. An assignment for the identification frequencies of light sources enables more unique frequencies to be assigned, i.e. more light sources to be uniquely identified in the system. An available frequency band is divided into non-uniform frequency regions and frequencies are selected from a set of uniformly spaced frequencies in the non-uniform frequency regions. A receiver is based on a successive approach and is enabled to analyze higher harmonics of the received light signals. The light contributions are successively estimated group by group. | 06-28-2012 |
20130069540 | Adaptive modulation and data embedding in light for advanced lighting control - Disclosed is a method for controlling a light output signal emitted by a set of light sources comprising at least one light source, wherein said light output signal includes a modulation signal which carries individual information, such that the method includes recurrently:
| 03-21-2013 |
20140042913 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DAYLIGHT-INTEGRATED ILLUMINATION CONTROL - A light detector arranged to determine a daylight contribution and an artificial light contribution to a combined illumination level wherein the artificial light comprises individual light coding modulation. The detector comprises:—a photo-sensor arranged to detect the illumination level at its position, and generate an illumination signal; and—a calculator, connected with the photo-sensor for receiving the illumination signal, and arranged to calculate the daylight contribution and the artificial light contribution and output corresponding daylight and artificial light signals. The calculator comprises:—an electronic filter arranged to prepare the illumination signal for estimation of the daylight and artificial light contributions;—a daylight part and an artificial light part, respectively connected to the electronic filter. The artificial light part comprises an artificial light DC component estimator, and the daylight part comprises a total DC component estimator, and a subtractor connected to the total DC component estimator and to the artificial light DC component estimator, and being arranged to determine the daylight contribution as the difference between their outputs. The artificial light DC component estimator is arranged to include present luminaire dimming level data and modulation depth data regarding the light coding modulation in a basis of its estimation. | 02-13-2014 |
20140072310 | Lighting device and receiver - There is provided a method and corresponding lighting device ( | 03-13-2014 |
20140334825 | PROTOCOLS FOR CODED LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS - Protocols for coded light communication and control in a lighting system wherein each lighting device transmits modulated light during illumination are proposed. When a first source lighting device need to transmit information across the lighting system to a destination lighting device one or more intermediate lighting devices decode received coded light transmissions from the first source lighting device. The one or more intermediate lighting devices superimposes the coded light transmissions from the first source lighting device with coded light transmissions from a second source lighting device in a broadcast. The first source lighting device uses the received broadcast signal from the one or more intermediate lighting devices to retrieve the coded light transmissions from the second source lighting device by canceling stored a priori known signal components. | 11-13-2014 |
20140375217 | VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS USING A REMOTE CONTROL - According to one aspect of the disclosure, a lighting system comprises a remote control unit ( | 12-25-2014 |
20150078743 | Method and device for visible light communication - A method and device for visible light communication is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a first sequence and a second sequence of light intensity frequencies to represent a first symbol and a second symbol, respectively, for embedding data. The method comprises further transmitting a light signal. The light signal comprises time periods in which a light intensity of the light signal is sequentially controlled according to the selected sequence of light intensity frequencies. Thereby, a frequency hopping light signal is generated, in which data may be embedded. The light signal may be generated and transmitted by the device comprising a light emitter. | 03-19-2015 |
20150123546 | METHODS FOR ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLING LIGHTING BASED UPON TRAFFIC IN AN OUTDOOR LIGHTING NETWORK - Methods for an outdoor lighting network ( | 05-07-2015 |
20160087719 | RECEIVING CODED VISIBLE LIGHT IN PRESENCE OF INTERFERENCE - A coded visible light receiver comprises: a sensor, a transform module, and an interference cancelling module. The sensor receives light comprising data modulated into the light according to a coding scheme. The transform module is configured to transform the data into a frequency domain representation, representing a band of a spectrum resulting from the data being modulated into the light according to the coding scheme. The interference cancelling module is configured to cancel interference occurring in the band of the data, by determining one or more components in the band that exceed a threshold signal strength and cancelling those components. | 03-24-2016 |
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20130243343 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PEOPLE GROUP DETECTION - A method and a device for people group detection, relating to the field of image processing includes acquiring at least one corner and foreground region in video data; computing, according to said corner and foreground region, to obtain at least one cluster; constructing at least one region of people group according to said cluster. The device includes an acquisition module, a clustering module, and a construction module. Automatic people group detection is realized that is independent of the location detection of people and can be applied to any scene including complicated ones, and thus user demands can be better satisfied. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251197 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR OBJECTS COUNTING - A method and a device for objects counting in image processing includes acquiring the depth image of any one frame; detecting objects according to the depth image; associating the identical object in different frames to form a trajectory; and determining the number of objects according to the number of trajectories. The devices include an acquisition module for acquiring the depth image of any one frame; a detection module for detecting objects according to the depth image; an association module for associating the identical object in different frames to form a trajectory; a determining module for determining the number of objects according to the number of trajectories. The objects are detected according to the depth image. The identical object in different frames is associated to form a trajectory and the number of objects is determined according to the number of trajectories. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251246 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR TRAINING A POSE CLASSIFIER AND AN OBJECT CLASSIFIER, A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR OBJECT DETECTION - A method and a device for training a pose classifier and an object classifier, and a method and a device for objection detection, relating to the field of image processing are provided. The object detection method includes acquiring input image samples; performing pose estimation processing on said input image sample according to said pose classifier; and performing object detection on the processed input image sample according to said pose classifier to acquire the location information of the object, wherein said object is an object with joints. Objects in different poses can be detected and therefore the object hit rate is increased. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251252 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING COLOR FEATURES - A method and device for extracting color features, relating to the field of image processing includes converting an original image into sub-images corresponding to channels in a color space, dividing the sub-images into a plurality of cells with identical size, and calculating the color histograms of each of the plurality of cells. A cell and neighboring cells thereof are defined as the effective scope of the cell, and a feature vector of the cell is determined according to a degree of similarity of the color histograms of every two neighboring cells in the effective scope. The feature vectors of the cells in the sub-images are concatenated to obtain feature vectors of the sub-images, and a feature vector of the original image is obtained according to the feature vectors of the sub-images. | 09-26-2013 |