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A mobile robot comprising: a travel drive unit configured to move a main body; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of surroundings of the main body; a sensor unit having one or more sensors configured to sense an object during the movement of the main body; characterized by further comprising: a storage configured to, when the sensor unit senses an object, store position information of the sensed object and position information of the mobile robot, register an area having a predetermined size around a position of the sensed object as an object area in a map, and store an image acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area; and a controller having an object recognition module configured to recognize an attribute of the object sequentially with respect to images acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area, and determine a final attribute of the object based on a plurality of recognition results of the sequential recognition. a travel drive unit configured to move a main body; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of surroundings of the main body; a sensor unit having one or more sensors configured to sense an object during the movement of the main body; characterized by further comprising: a storage configured to, when the sensor unit senses an object, store position information of the sensed object and position information of the mobile robot, register an area having a predetermined size around a position of the sensed object as an object area in a map, and store an image acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area; and a controller having an object recognition module configured to recognize an attribute of the object sequentially with respect to images acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area, and determine a final attribute of the object based on a plurality of recognition results of the sequential recognition. a storage configured to, when the sensor unit senses an object, store position information of the sensed object and position information of the mobile robot, register an area having a predetermined size around a position of the sensed object as an object area in a map, and store an image acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area; and a controller having an object recognition module configured to recognize an attribute of the object sequentially with respect to images acquired by the image acquisition unit in the object area, and determine a final attribute of the object based on a plurality of recognition results of the sequential recognition.
A method of adjusting a dynamic range of an audio system comprising: providing an audio system that includes variable values for at least the following parameters: (i) an output signal dynamic range, (ii) a maximum output signal level, and (iii) a minimum output signal level; receiving a user specified value for at least a first of the parameters; determining a value of a second of the parameters, wherein the determined value of the second parameter is based at least in part on the user-specified value of the first parameter, and applying a gain to an input signal as a function of time to compress the input signal to fit within a value set for the output signal dynamic range parameter, wherein that the input signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands and a gain is applied to the input signal in each frequency band to compress the input signal to fit within an output signal dynamic range set for each frequency band, and characterized in that the gains applied to each frequency band are adjusted by a negative feedback servo loop (302, 304, 314) wherein the servo loop computes the time average of the gains, scales the time averaged gains, and subtracts the scaled, time averaged gains from gain values received from a gain setter to create the gains applied to each frequency band, to reduce tilt across frequency of the long term average gains of individual frequency bands. providing an audio system that includes variable values for at least the following parameters: (i) an output signal dynamic range, (ii) a maximum output signal level, and (iii) a minimum output signal level; receiving a user specified value for at least a first of the parameters; determining a value of a second of the parameters, wherein the determined value of the second parameter is based at least in part on the user-specified value of the first parameter, and applying a gain to an input signal as a function of time to compress the input signal to fit within a value set for the output signal dynamic range parameter, wherein that the input signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands and a gain is applied to the input signal in each frequency band to compress the input signal to fit within an output signal dynamic range set for each frequency band, and characterized in that the gains applied to each frequency band are adjusted by a negative feedback servo loop (302, 304, 314) wherein the servo loop computes the time average of the gains, scales the time averaged gains, and subtracts the scaled, time averaged gains from gain values received from a gain setter to create the gains applied to each frequency band, to reduce tilt across frequency of the long term average gains of individual frequency bands.
A process for producing brominated multi-walled carbon nanotubes, wherein the multi-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxyl groups, obtained by previous oxidation of native multi-walled carbon nanotubes with 30% hydrogen peroxide, are subjected to the reaction with liquid bromine by heating carried out at 30°C for 5 to 10 days and affording multi-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with covalently linked bromine atoms as confirmed by EDS analysis carried out with respect to both the crude and purified brominated product, wherein purification procedure consists of the following steps: a) dispersion in distilled water and centrifugation at 9000 rpm. for 10 min and decantation the liquid layer from over the nanotubes; b) addition of methanol to the residues from step a) and centrifugation for 10 min. at 9000 rpm. and decantation the methanol layer from over the nanotubes; c) putting the residues from step b) in the oven for a minimum 12 hours at 65°C; and d) adding benzene to the sample obtained in step c) benzene, centrifugation for 10 min. at 9000 rpm., decantation benzene layer and leaving the residues for minimum 12 hours in the drying oven at 80°C. a) dispersion in distilled water and centrifugation at 9000 rpm. for 10 min and decantation the liquid layer from over the nanotubes; b) addition of methanol to the residues from step a) and centrifugation for 10 min. at 9000 rpm. and decantation the methanol layer from over the nanotubes; c) putting the residues from step b) in the oven for a minimum 12 hours at 65°C; and d) adding benzene to the sample obtained in step c) benzene, centrifugation for 10 min. at 9000 rpm., decantation benzene layer and leaving the residues for minimum 12 hours in the drying oven at 80°C.
A method for adjusting bandwidth in a communications network including a plurality of nodes connected over multiple links and having a plurality of services running on the links, the method comprising the steps of: detecting degradation of a link by utilizing performance parameters for monitoring signal quality, the degradation invoking a reduction in bandwidth available to the services running on the link; communicating information about the degradation; and causing redistribution of services between the degraded link and at least one other link, wherein the redistributing comprises keeping a high priority service on the degraded link, if the degraded link can sustain the high priority service. detecting degradation of a link by utilizing performance parameters for monitoring signal quality, the degradation invoking a reduction in bandwidth available to the services running on the link; communicating information about the degradation; and causing redistribution of services between the degraded link and at least one other link, wherein the redistributing comprises keeping a high priority service on the degraded link, if the degraded link can sustain the high priority service.
A case of an electronic device, the case comprising: a body part comprising a main body and at least one auxiliary body (240a, 240b), wherein at least a portion of the main body is a metallic portion, wherein the at least one auxiliary body includes a first auxiliary body and is disposed on a same surface as the metallic portion of the main body, and wherein a metallic portion of the first auxiliary body is used as an antenna and configured to transmit and receive signals; an insulation member disposed between the metallic portions of the first auxiliary body and the main body; characterized by: a bonding layer (341, 342) disposed in contact with: the insulation member and the metallic portion of the main body, or the insulation member and the metallic portion of the first auxiliary body, wherein the insulation member is a polymer resin comprising inorganic particles, wherein the bonding layer comprises an organic bonding layer including at least one of triazine thiol, dibutyl amino, dithio pirymidine, or a silane-based composition. a body part comprising a main body and at least one auxiliary body (240a, 240b), wherein at least a portion of the main body is a metallic portion, wherein the at least one auxiliary body includes a first auxiliary body and is disposed on a same surface as the metallic portion of the main body, and wherein a metallic portion of the first auxiliary body is used as an antenna and configured to transmit and receive signals; an insulation member disposed between the metallic portions of the first auxiliary body and the main body; characterized by: a bonding layer (341, 342) disposed in contact with: the insulation member and the metallic portion of the main body, or the insulation member and the metallic portion of the first auxiliary body, wherein the insulation member is a polymer resin comprising inorganic particles, wherein the bonding layer comprises an organic bonding layer including at least one of triazine thiol, dibutyl amino, dithio pirymidine, or a silane-based composition. the insulation member and the metallic portion of the main body, or the insulation member and the metallic portion of the first auxiliary body, wherein the insulation member is a polymer resin comprising inorganic particles, wherein the bonding layer comprises an organic bonding layer including at least one of triazine thiol, dibutyl amino, dithio pirymidine, or a silane-based composition.
Method for modelling a scene from a plurality of maps representative of depth (101, 102), each map representative of depth (101, 102) being associated with a view (11, 12) of the said scene according to a particular viewpoint (410, 420), said method comprising the following steps: - generating, for each map representative of depth (101, 102) of said plurality, a surface (31, 32) representative of said map representative of depth in world space; - estimating a volume bounding the surfaces (31, 32) generated in world space, said bounding volume being discretized into a plurality of voxels, an attribute representative of transparency being associated with the voxels of the bounding volume and the attribute being initialized in opaque state; - changing the value of the attribute representative of transparency to the transparent state for the voxels of the bounding volume, which do not belong to view cones formed from each view point (410, 420) associated with said generated surfaces (31, 32); - generating, for each surface (31, 32), a plurality of rays originating from the viewpoint (410, 420) associated with said generated surface (31, 32) and having as end point the intersection with said generated surface (31, 32); - running through said plurality of generated rays, the value of the attribute representative of transparency being changed to the transparent state for the voxels of the bounding volume having an intersection with one of the generated rays; and - generating data representative of a resulting surface according to the attributes representative of transparency associated with said voxels. - generating, for each map representative of depth (101, 102) of said plurality, a surface (31, 32) representative of said map representative of depth in world space; - estimating a volume bounding the surfaces (31, 32) generated in world space, said bounding volume being discretized into a plurality of voxels, an attribute representative of transparency being associated with the voxels of the bounding volume and the attribute being initialized in opaque state; - changing the value of the attribute representative of transparency to the transparent state for the voxels of the bounding volume, which do not belong to view cones formed from each view point (410, 420) associated with said generated surfaces (31, 32); - generating, for each surface (31, 32), a plurality of rays originating from the viewpoint (410, 420) associated with said generated surface (31, 32) and having as end point the intersection with said generated surface (31, 32); - running through said plurality of generated rays, the value of the attribute representative of transparency being changed to the transparent state for the voxels of the bounding volume having an intersection with one of the generated rays; and - generating data representative of a resulting surface according to the attributes representative of transparency associated with said voxels.
A method performed by an encryption node for provisioning storage in a system, wherein the encryption node is associated with an application node and the application node is configured to run at least part of one or more applications, the method comprising: in response to an unencrypted storage volume becoming available to the encryption node from a storage provisioning node of the system, generating an encrypted storage volume from the unencrypted storage volume and initiating provisioning (22, 908) of the encrypted storage volume to make the encrypted storage volume available at a compute node of the system for use by the application node.
Link chain having chain members respectively interconnected via a chain link, wherein a respective link pin extends through at least one link opening for forming a chain link, a bearing face (4, 6, 17) of the link opening and/or of the link pin comprises a nitrided surface layer, and the link pin and/or the chain member are made from an alloyed steel, characterized in that the nitrided surface layer of the bearing face (4, 6, 17) which is without a porous zone has an outer oxidation layer for improving the wear resistance of the chain link, wherein the transition between the nitrided surface layer and the outer oxidation layer is freed by way of vibratory grinding of the nitrided surface layer from a porous zone previously existing on the nitrided surface layer and is substantially formed without residue.
An apparatus for automatically determining the patient's quality of vision, said apparatus comprising: (a) test optics for testing said vision, said test optics being variable to provide different amounts of optical correction; (b) a light source and associated optics (20, 28) for directing light into an eye of the patient, said light reflecting from tissue in said eye, said reflected light comprising a plurality of wavefronts that propagate through an ocular lens and cornea in said eye; (c) a wavefront sensor including one or more optical detectors for measuring said wavefronts emanating from the patient's eye, said wavefront sensor having an electrical output representative of said wavefront; (d) an electrical processor configured to receive said electrical output from said wavefront sensor and (e) a mechanical actuator electrically connected to said processor, said mechanical actuator adjusting the test optics so as to vary the amounts of optical correction (f) a computer readable medium having a program of instructions stored thereon for causing said electrical processor to execute method steps for determining the quality of said patient's vision, comprising calculating a value of a figure of merit indicative of the patient's quality of vision, said value being derived at least in part from a measurement of one of the wavefronts from the patient's eye, characterized in that said figure of merit indicative of quality of a person's vision comprises a Quality of Vision Factor defined as QVF = exp − Σ P n Z n 2, wherein Z n corresponds to coefficients for Zernike polynomials and P n correspond to psychometric weight factors. (a) test optics for testing said vision, said test optics being variable to provide different amounts of optical correction; (b) a light source and associated optics (20, 28) for directing light into an eye of the patient, said light reflecting from tissue in said eye, said reflected light comprising a plurality of wavefronts that propagate through an ocular lens and cornea in said eye; (c) a wavefront sensor including one or more optical detectors for measuring said wavefronts emanating from the patient's eye, said wavefront sensor having an electrical output representative of said wavefront; (d) an electrical processor configured to receive said electrical output from said wavefront sensor and (e) a mechanical actuator electrically connected to said processor, said mechanical actuator adjusting the test optics so as to vary the amounts of optical correction (f) a computer readable medium having a program of instructions stored thereon for causing said electrical processor to execute method steps for determining the quality of said patient's vision, comprising calculating a value of a figure of merit indicative of the patient's quality of vision, said value being derived at least in part from a measurement of one of the wavefronts from the patient's eye,
A method, comprising: generating, at a metrology unit of a utility meter, flow rate data according to a static gas flow sensor; processing, at the metrology unit of the utility meter, the flow rate data to produce gas-volume data; wherein processing the flow rate data to produce the gas-volume data comprises: processing the flow rate data to produce raw gas-volume data; and processing the raw gas-volume data, based at least in part on measured gas temperature data, to produce the gas-volume data; accumulating, at the metrology unit of the utility meter, the gas-volume data to thereby create accumulated gas-volume data; and sending the accumulated gas-volume data from the metrology unit to an index unit of the utility meter, characterised in that sending the accumulated gas-volume data to the index unit is delayed based on workload at the index unit. generating, at a metrology unit of a utility meter, flow rate data according to a static gas flow sensor; processing, at the metrology unit of the utility meter, the flow rate data to produce gas-volume data; wherein processing the flow rate data to produce the gas-volume data comprises: processing the flow rate data to produce raw gas-volume data; and processing the raw gas-volume data, based at least in part on measured gas temperature data, to produce the gas-volume data; accumulating, at the metrology unit of the utility meter, the gas-volume data to thereby create accumulated gas-volume data; and sending the accumulated gas-volume data from the metrology unit to an index unit of the utility meter, characterised in that sending the accumulated gas-volume data to the index unit is delayed based on workload at the index unit. processing the flow rate data to produce raw gas-volume data; and processing the raw gas-volume data, based at least in part on measured gas temperature data, to produce the gas-volume data; accumulating, at the metrology unit of the utility meter, the gas-volume data to thereby create accumulated gas-volume data; and sending the accumulated gas-volume data from the metrology unit to an index unit of the utility meter, characterised in that sending the accumulated gas-volume data to the index unit is delayed based on workload at the index unit.
Multicontact body for electrical connector device, comprising: - an attachment member adapted to cooperate with a connector body of an electrical connector which mates with a complementary electrical connector device for immobilizing the multicontact holder with respect to the connector body. - a plurality of individual guiding portions including each: * a guiding surface adapted to guide one electrical contact of the electrical connector device along a guiding axis, and * a first axial stop adapted to prevent said electrical contact from moving into said electrical connector device towards a first direction of the guiding axis, wherein the multicontact body is a multicontact holder in which each individual guiding portion includes a second axial stop adapted to prevent said electrical contact from moving in a second direction of the guiding axis opposite the first direction, wherein each guiding portion comprises a spring arm having a free end provided with a locking projection which includes said first and second axial stops (40e, 41e) and wherein the locking projection is radially movable between a biased position in which the locking projection radially extends totally outside the guiding surface of the corresponding guiding portion, and a stopping position in which the locking projection radially extends at least partially inside said guiding surface, so as to be adapted to radially enter in an axial stop recess of an electrical contact, characterized in that the spring arm comprises an inner guiding shoulder arranged to cooperate with a guiding shoulder provided on a contact body of said contact. - an attachment member adapted to cooperate with a connector body of an electrical connector which mates with a complementary electrical connector device for immobilizing the multicontact holder with respect to the connector body. - a plurality of individual guiding portions including each: * a guiding surface adapted to guide one electrical contact of the electrical connector device along a guiding axis, and * a first axial stop adapted to prevent said electrical contact from moving into said electrical connector device towards a first direction of the guiding axis, * a guiding surface adapted to guide one electrical contact of the electrical connector device along a guiding axis, and * a first axial stop adapted to prevent said electrical contact from moving into said electrical connector device towards a first direction of the guiding axis,