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20100060857 | SYSTEM FOR 3D IMAGE PROJECTIONS AND VIEWING - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images. | 03-11-2010 |
20130242389 | Method and System for Shaped Glasses and Viewing 3D Images - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images. | 09-19-2013 |
20140022637 | System for 3D Image Projections and Viewing - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images. | 01-23-2014 |
20140285770 | System for 3D Image Projections and Viewing - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images. | 09-25-2014 |
20150378166 | Method and System for Shaped Glasses and Viewing 3D Images - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images. | 12-31-2015 |
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20090038561 | Motor System for Diminution of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere - A motor system is described that sequesters ambient carbon dioxide to a removable carbonate salt by reacting ambient carbon dioxide with an alkali metal hydroxide. The carbon dioxide is aspirated by a turbo-generator that receives exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine. The turbo-generator produces electricity to form the hydroxide in situ from the electrolysis of water in a salt solution. | 02-12-2009 |
20110195345 | Anionic membrane - A separator suitable for alkaline cells or alkaline fuel cells is described that contains on the surface a copolymer of a hydrophobic PTFE component and a hydrophilic PVA-component. This separator resists silver oxidation, peroxide oxidation and provides high hydroxyl conductivity. | 08-11-2011 |
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20110318656 | Cathode for Metal-Air Rechargeable Battery - An air cathode for a metal-air battery is disclosed which contains a catalyst chosen to make the metal air battery more easily rechargeable. This catalyst is based on cobalt phosphate, cobalt borate mixed metal cobalt phosphates, mixed metal cobalt borates, or mixed metal cobalt phosphate borates. | 12-29-2011 |
20140109638 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF A CONVERSION PROCESS - A method is described for reducing the carbon footprint of any commercially important industrial conversion process. The output of this conversion process can be combustible fuels, chemicals, electricity or heat energy. In its broadest form, a carbon negative module outputs energy to a conversion energy and this energy replaces conventional fossil-fuel based energy. A sequesterable carbonaceous solid is produced by the carbon negative process which represents a net carbon withdrawal from the atmosphere. | 04-24-2014 |
20140345343 | ENHANCING BIOCHAR PERFORMANCE USING PYROLYSIS ACID STREAM - A method of producing a modified biochar and the use of the biochar as a soil amendment. The modified biochar can be produced by contacting biochar with an acid-containing solution obtained from an acid containing stream produced in a pyrolysis process, which produces biochar. In accordance with one aspect, a cellulose-containing biomass is pyrolyzed to generate a gaseous organic acid-containing stream, which is condensed to produce an organic acid-containing solution. The biochar is then modified by contact with the organic acid-containing solution. | 11-27-2014 |
20150114908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING PROCESS WATER PRODUCED FROM BIOMASS CONVERSION TO FUELS - In accordance with one embodiment, a process is described for a water treatment process in which water produced from a fuel production process is treated with recycled biochar. In accordance with one aspect, process water is passed through activated carbon generated by the biomass pyrolysis and gasification. In accordance with another aspect, the process water is treated to expel gaseous compounds within the process water. In this manner both inorganics, light organics and heavy organics can be removed from the process water. No fermentation is involved. | 04-30-2015 |
20160101990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING PROCESS WATER - In accordance with one embodiment, a process is described for a water treatment process in which process water is treated with recycled biochar. In accordance with one aspect, process water is passed through activated carbon generated by the biomass pyrolysis and gasification. In accordance with another aspect, the process water is treated to expel gaseous compounds within the process water. In this manner both inorganics, light organics and heavy organics can be removed from the process water. No fermentation is involved. | 04-14-2016 |
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20140207716 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for improving a statistical classification system, such as a statistical classification system that accepts natural language voice queries as inputs. A clustering engine may create one or more clusters of queries where the queries in each cluster are related in some way. A reviewing module may be employed to determine whether each cluster relates to an existing category supported by the classification system, a new category that can be supported by the classification system by training statistical models with the data from the cluster, is ambiguous, or is not useful to improve the classification system. For clusters determined to be useful for improving the system, the data in the clusters may be added to an existing training set or used as a training set to train new statistical models. | 07-24-2014 |
20150039292 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE USER INTERFACE - A method and system are provided for processing natural language user queries for commanding a user interface to perform functions. Individual user queries are classified in accordance with the types of functions and a plurality of user queries may be related to define a particular command. To assist with classification, a query type for each user query is determined where the query type is one of a functional query requesting a particular new command to perform a particular type of function, an entity query relating to an entity associated with the particular new command having the particular type of function and a clarification query responding to a clarification question posed to clarify a prior user query having the particular type of function. Functional queries may be processed using a plurality of natural language processing techniques and scores from each technique combined to determine which type of function is commanded. | 02-05-2015 |
20150066479 | CONVERSATIONAL AGENT - A method, system, and computer program product provide a conversation agent to process natural language queries expressed by a user and perform commands according to the derived intention of the user. A natural language processing (NLP) engine derives intent using conditional random fields to identify a domain and at least one task embodied in the query. The NLP may further identify one or more subdomains, and one or more entities related to the identified command. A template system creates a data structure for information relevant to the derived intent and passes a template to a services manager for interfacing with one or more services capable of accomplishing the task. A dialogue manager may elicit more entities from the user if required by the services manager and otherwise engage in conversation with the user. In one embodiment, the conversational agent allows a user to engage in multiple conversations simultaneously. | 03-05-2015 |
20150081279 | HYBRID NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR - Methods and a natural language processor for processing a natural language query are provided. The processor includes a classifier, a rule-based pre-processor, a rule-based post-processor, a named entity recognizer, and an output module. The method involves receiving a text representation of the natural language query, pre-processing the text representation, applying a classification statistical model to the text representation when pre-processing fails, applying a post-processing rule, and performing name entity recognition. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081293 | SPEECH RECOGNITION USING PHONEME MATCHING - A system, method and computer program is provided for generating customized text representations of audio commands. A first speech recognition module may be used for generating a first text representation of an audio command based on a general language grammar. A second speech recognition module may be used for generating a second text representation of the audio command, the second module including a custom language grammar that may include contacts for a particular user. Entity extraction is applied to the second text representation and the entities are checked against a file containing personal language. If the entities are found in the user-specific language, the two text representations may be fused into a combined text representation and named entity recognition may be performed again to extract further entities. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081294 | SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR USER SPECIFIC LANGUAGE - A system, method and computer program is provided for generating customized text representations of audio commands. A first speech recognition module may be used for generating a first text representation of an audio command based on a general language grammar. A second speech recognition module may be used for generating a second text representation of the audio command, the second module including a custom language grammar that may include contacts for a particular user. Entity extraction is applied to the second text representation and the entities are checked against a file containing personal language. If the entities are found in the user-specific language, the two text representations may be fused into a combined text representation and named entity recognition may be performed again to extract further entities. | 03-19-2015 |
20150220511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE TRAINING DATA - Provided is a system, method and computer-readable medium for generating data that may be used to train models for a natural language processing application. A system architect creates a plurality of sentence patterns that include entity variables and initiates sentence generation. Each entity is associated with one or more entity data sources. A language generator accepts the sentence patterns as inputs, and references the various entity sources to create a plurality of generated sentences. The generated sentences may be associated with a particular class and therefore used to train one or more statistical classification models and entity extraction models for associated models. The sentence generated process may be initiated and controlled using a user interface displayable on a computing device, the user interface in communication with the language generator module. | 08-06-2015 |
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20130182835 | System and Method of Intelligent Call Routing for Cross Sell Offer Selection based on Optimization Parameters or Account-level Data - An apparatus and methods for a call routing system is disclosed whereby the call routing service provider is associated with a series of partners. By providing a system supporting not only the main user, but also the partners, efficiencies are gained through cost-spreading. Agents can be qualified to field calls for multiple business entities. Cross-selling and proactive servicing based on caller demographic and profile data can be effectuated. The system employs a centralized or global bank of shared Interactive Voice Response (IVR) units so that unnecessary post-routing and call site interflow are reduced. The system comprises a central server system that interfaces with a long distance provider so that route requests are received, caller data is retrieved from one or more databases, routing and handling strategies are developed, load balancing is effectuated, and calls are appropriately routed to one of a plurality of geographically separated call center systems with queues staffed by agents. Each call center system is designed to support various queues, and agents may be qualified or assigned to various queues based on their skill sets and skill levels. | 07-18-2013 |
20140133646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTELLIGENT CALL ROUTING FOR CROSS SELL OFFER SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMIZATION PARAMETERS OR ACCOUNT-LEVEL DATA - An apparatus and methods for a call routing system is disclosed whereby the call routing service provider is associated with a series of partners. By providing a system supporting not only the main user, but also the partners, efficiencies are gained through cost-spreading. Agents can be qualified to field calls for multiple business entities. Cross-selling and proactive servicing based on caller demographic and profile data can be effectuated. The system employs a centralized or global bank of shared Interactive Voice Response (IVR) units so that unnecessary post-routing and call site interflow are reduced. The system comprises a central server system that interfaces with a long distance provider so that route requests are received, caller data is retrieved from one or more databases, routing and handling strategies are developed, load balancing is effectuated, and calls are appropriately routed to one of a plurality of geographically separated call center systems with queues staffed by agents. Each call center system is designed to support various queues, and agents may be qualified or assigned to various queues based on their skill sets and skill levels. | 05-15-2014 |
20150189087 | SYSTEM ANDMETHOD OF INTELLIGENT CALL ROUTING FOR CROSS SELL OFFER SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMIZATION PARAMETERS OR ACCOUNT-LEVEL DATA - An apparatus and methods for a call routing system is disclosed whereby the call routing service provider is associated with a series of partners. By providing a system supporting not only the main user, but also the partners, efficiencies are gained through cost-spreading. Agents can be qualified to field calls for multiple business entities. Cross-selling and proactive servicing based on caller demographic and profile data can be effectuated. The system employs a centralized or global bank of shared Interactive Voice Response (IVR) units so that unnecessary post-routing and call site interflow are reduced. The system comprises a central server system that interfaces with a long distance provider so that route requests are received, caller data is retrieved from one or more databases, routing and handling strategies are developed, load balancing is effectuated, and calls are appropriately routed to one of a plurality of geographically separated call center systems with queues staffed by agents. Each call center system is designed to support various queues, and agents may be qualified or assigned to various queues based on their skill sets and skill levels. | 07-02-2015 |
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20100011245 | FAULT TOLERANT ROUTING IN A NON-HOT-STANDBY CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for replacing an active processing engine with a non-hot-standby processing engine. Multiple processing engines within a network routing system are configured. The processing engines include an active processing engine having one or more software contexts, representative of a set of objects implementing a virtual router, for example, and a non-hot-standby processing engine having no pre-created software contexts corresponding to the one or more software contexts. Responsive to determining a fault associated with the active processing engine, the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with the non-hot-standby processing engine by creating replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to the one or more software contexts. | 01-14-2010 |
20100281296 | FAULT TOLERANT ROUTING IN A NON-HOT-STANDBY CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. A fault manager executing on a control blade of multiple server blades of a network routing system actively monitors an active processing engine of multiple processing engines within the network routing system. Responsive to detecting a fault associated with the active processing engine, the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with a non-hot-standby processing engine of the multiple processing engines by (i) determining one or more software contexts that were associated with the active processing engine prior to detection of the fault, and (ii) creating one or more replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to the one or more software contexts. | 11-04-2010 |
20110185221 | FAULT TOLERANT ROUTING IN A NON-HOT-STANDBY CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. One or more processing engines of a network routing system are configured to function as active processing engines, each of which having one or more software contexts. A control blade is configured to monitor the active processing engines. One or more of the processing engines are identified to function as non-hot-standby processing engines, each of which having no pre-created software contexts corresponding to the software contexts of the active processing engines. The control blade monitors the active processing engines. Responsive to detecting a fault associated with an active processing engine the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with a non-hot-standby processing engine by creating one or more replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to those of the active processing engine. | 07-28-2011 |
20130227340 | FAULT TOLERANT ROUTING IN A NON-HOT-STANDBY CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network muting system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. One or more processing engines of a network routing system are configured to function as active processing engines, each of which having one or more software contexts. A control blade is contoured to monitor the active processing engines. One or more of the processing engines are identified to function as non-hot-standby processing engines, each of which having no pre-created software contexts corresponding, to the software contexts of the active processing engines. The control blade monitors the active processing engines. Responsive to detecting a fault associated with an active processing engine the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with a non-hot-standby processing engine by creating one or more replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to those of the active processing engine. | 08-29-2013 |
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20120320605 | LAMPSHADE FRAME ASSEMBLY - An improved lampshade frame assembly comprising: a frame device, including an upper frame, a lower frame and a link rod seat coupled to the upper frame or the lower frame; a hood device, including a hood, a connecting strip with appropriate elasticity and separately formed at upper and lower positions of an internal side of the hood, and an external side of the connecting strip being fixed to the hood, and a pair of embedding grooves formed on an internal side of the connecting strip for coupling the upper frame and the lower frame respectively to achieve the effects of reducing the material and weight of a lamp and the packaging volume of the lampshade frame, saving the transportation cost, providing a secured assembly of the hood and frame, improving the quality, and enhancing the add-on value of the lamp. | 12-20-2012 |
20130010477 | MAGNETIC LAMPSHADE FRAME ASSEMBLY - A magnetic lampshade frame assembly comprises: a frame device, including upper and lower frames; a hood device, including a hood, a connecting strip separately formed at upper and lower positions of an internal side of the hood, and an external side of the connecting strip being fixed to the hood, and an internal side of the connecting strip being magnetically coupled to the upper frame or the lower frame, and at least one of the connecting strip and the upper frame or at least one of the connecting strip and the lower frame is made of a magnetic material, so as to achieve the effects of saving the material of the lamp, assembling or disassembly a lampshade quickly and conveniently, avoiding damages of a lampshade, providing a secured connection between the hood and the frame, and improving the texture to enhance the added value of the lamp product. | 01-10-2013 |
20140314571 | CEILING LIGHT ASSEMBLY - A ceiling light assembly which comprises: a main body comprising (a) an upper shell developing an upper shell space inside and one group of suction holes at its surface and (b) a lower shell on which a lower through hole is centrally opened; a fan unit held in the upper shell space and comprising at least a fan body and an airflow tube to which the fan body is connected wherein the airflow tube is a hollow ringlike tube developing an air passage internally and having an air outlet which faces downward being away from the fan body and linking said air passage; a lighting unit installed in the main body to realize the hidden fan unit which is integrated with the lighting unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20150204506 | SHADE STRUCTURE - A shade structure comprises a frame and a shading cover. The frame is constructed by an upper and lower frame parallel to each other, and two outer lateral surfaces of the upper and lower frame have two first buckling modules respectively. The shading cover comprises a decorating layer and a support layer. The decorating layer is disposed at the outer lateral surface of the support layer. The shade structure features that the two upper and lower edges of an outer lateral surface of the decorating layer are fastened with a second buckling module via a suture, and the two upper and lower edges are bent reversely from an outer lateral surface to an inner lateral surface of the support layer, so as to hide the suture in the inner lateral surface of the support layer, and the second buckling module is integrated with the two first buckling modules as one body. | 07-23-2015 |