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20100188404 | SINGLE-PASS BOUNDING BOX CALCULATION - Embodiments for single-pass bounding box calculation are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the single-pass bounding box calculation includes rendering a first target to a 2-dimensional screen space, whereby the first target includes at least six pixels. The calculation further includes producing transformed vertices in a set of geometry primitives based on an application-specified transformation. The calculation also includes generating six new points for each transformed vertex in the set of geometry primitives. The calculation additionally includes producing an initial third coordinate value for each pixel by rendering the at least six new points generate for each pixel to each corresponding pixel. The calculation further includes producing a post-rasterization value for each pixel by rasterizing the at least six new points rendered to each pixel with each corresponding pixel. Finally, the calculation includes computing bounding box information for the set of geometry primitives based on the produced third coordinate values. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188412 | CONTENT BASED CACHE FOR GRAPHICS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Providing content based cache for graphic resource management is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a portion of a shadow copy of graphics resources is updated from an original copy of the graphics resources when a requested resource is not current. The shadow copy may be dedicated to a graphics processing unit (GPU) while the original copy may be maintained by a central processing unit (CPU). In further aspects, the requested graphics resource in the shadow copy may be compared to a corresponding graphics resource in the original copy when the GPU requests the graphics resource. The comparison may be performed by comparing hashes of each graphics resource and/or by comparing at least a portion of the graphics resources. | 07-29-2010 |
20100201691 | SHADER-BASED FINITE STATE MACHINE FRAME DETECTION - Embodiments for shader-based finite state machine frame detection for implementing alternative graphical processing on an animation scenario are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the embodiment includes assigning an identifier to each shader used to render animation scenarios. The embodiment also includes defining a finite state machine for a key frame in each of the animation scenarios, whereby each finite state machine representing a plurality of shaders that renders the key frame in each animation scenario. The embodiment further includes deriving a shader ID sequence for each finite state machine based on the identifier assigned to each shader. The embodiment additionally includes comparing an input shader ID sequence of a new frame of a new animation scenario to each derived shader ID sequences. Finally, the embodiment includes executing alternative graphics processing on the new animation scenario when the input shader ID sequence matches one of the derived shader ID sequences. | 08-12-2010 |
20100214294 | METHOD FOR TESSELLATION ON GRAPHICS HARDWARE - An exemplary method for tessellating a primitive of a graphical object includes receiving information for a primitive of a graphical object where the information includes vertex information and an edge factor for each edge of the primitive; based on the received information, dividing the primitive into parts where each part corresponds to at least a portion of an edge of the primitive and at least one vertex of the primitive and where each part has an association with the edge factor of the corresponding edge; for each of the parts, executing a geometry shader on a graphics processing unit (GPU) where the executing includes determining barycentric coordinates for a respective part based in part on its associated edge factor; for each of the parts, outputting the barycentric coordinates to a vertex buffer; and generating a tessellated mesh for the primitive based on the vertex information and the barycentric coordinates of the vertex buffer where the generating includes invoking a draw function of the GPU. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100214301 | VGPU: A real time GPU emulator - An exemplary method for emulating a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes executing a graphics application on a host computing system to generate commands for a target GPU wherein the host computing system includes host system memory and a different, host GPU; converting the generated commands into intermediate commands; based on one or more generated commands that call for one or more shaders, caching one or more corresponding shaders in a shader cache in the host system memory; based on one or more generated commands that call for one or more resources, caching one or more corresponding resources in a resource cache in the host system memory; based on the intermediate commands, outputting commands for the host GPU; and based on the output commands for the host GPU, rendering graphics using the host GPU where output commands that call for one or more shaders access the one or more corresponding shaders in the shader cache and where output commands that call for one or more resources access the one or more corresponding resources in the resource cache. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100217579 | EMULATING LEGACY HARDWARE USING IEEE 754 COMPLIANT HARDWARE - Emulating legacy hardware using IEEE 754 compliant hardware is disclosed herein. In some aspects, the emulation includes locating an instruction that includes NaN (not a number) as at least one of an operand or a resultant. The emulation adjusts the resultant of the instruction, via additional code, to produce a final resultant of non-compliant (legacy) hardware. Legacy software, which was written in anticipation of processing by legacy hardware, may then be processed using compliant hardware. | 08-26-2010 |
20110279368 | INFERRING USER INTENT TO ENGAGE A MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM - Techniques are provided for inferring a user's intent to interact with an application run by a motion capture system. Deliberate user gestures to interact with the motion capture system are disambiguated from unrelated user motions within the system's field of view. An algorithm may be used to determine the user's aggregated level of intent to engage the system. Parameters in the algorithm may include posture and motion of the user's body, as well as the state of the system. The system may develop a skeletal model to determine the various parameters. If the system determines that the parameters strongly indicate an intent to engage the system, then the system may react quickly. However, if the parameters only weakly indicate an intent to engage the system, it may take longer for the user to engage the system. | 11-17-2011 |
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20100010989 | Method for Efficiently Supporting Interactive, Fuzzy Search on Structured Data - A method to support efficient, interactive, and fuzzy search on text data includes an interactive, fuzzy search on structured data used in applications such as query relaxation, autocomplete, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and errors exist in user queries as well as data. It utilizes techniques to efficiently and interactively answer fuzzy queries on structured data to allow users to efficiently search for information interactively, and they can find records and documents even if these records and documents are slightly different from the user keywords. | 01-14-2010 |
20100125594 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Performance of Approximate String Queries Using Variable Length High-Quality Grams - A computer process, called VGRAM, improves the performance of these string search algorithms in computers by using a carefully chosen dictionary of variable-length grams based on their frequencies in the string collection. A dynamic programming algorithm for computing a tight lower bound on the number of common grams shared by two similar strings in order to improve query performance is disclosed. A method for automatically computing a dictionary of high-quality grams for a workload of queries. Improvement on query performance is achieved by these techniques by a cost-based quantitative approach to deciding good grams for approximate string queries. An approach for answering approximate queries efficiently based on discarding gram lists, and another is based on combining correlated lists. An indexing structure is reduced to a given amount of space, while retaining efficient query processing by using algorithms in a computer based on discarding gram lists and combining correlated lists. | 05-20-2010 |
20120059821 | Method for Efficiently Supporting Interactive, Fuzzy Search on Structured Data - A method to support efficient, interactive, and fuzzy search on text data includes an interactive, fuzzy search on structured data used in applications such as query relaxation, autocomplete, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and errors exist in user queries as well as data. It utilizes techniques to efficiently and interactively answer fuzzy queries on structured data to allow users to efficiently search for information interactively, and they can find records and documents even if these records and documents are slightly different from the user keywords. | 03-08-2012 |
20130262485 | High Efficiency Prefix Search Algorithm Supporting Interactive, Fuzzy Search on Geographical Structured Data - A computer-implemented method for retrieving information from a dataset of multiple records includes the steps of receiving a search phrase from a user or client application, the search phrase having a query keyword prefix, and traversing a multilayered spatial tree using the query keyword prefix until a termination condition occurs. The multilayered spatial tree is constructed using geographic information and has a root node and a plurality of child nodes including a plurality of leaf nodes. Each leaf node is associated with a corresponding list of records. At least some of the nodes are each associated with a corresponding hybrid filter including an object filter and a child filter. The object filter directly points to one or more records, and the child filter points to one or more child nodes for a subsequent traversal step. | 10-03-2013 |
20150239987 | COMPLEMENT FACTOR Bb ANTIBODIES - The present disclosure relates to antibodies and polynucleotides encoding the same, which may be used to prevent, control, or reduce the activity of the complement pathway. In addition, the disclosure is directed to compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases mediated by or involving complement Factor Bb. Specifically, the disclosure is related to anti-complement Factor Bb antibodies. | 08-27-2015 |
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20100085835 | NOVEL CURVE-FITTING TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS OF GUIDED ELASTIC WAVES - A method for estimating a slowness of an earth formation, the method including: transmitting acoustic energy into the earth formation using an acoustic source; receiving the acoustic energy with an array of acoustic receivers, each acoustic receiver being configured to provide acoustic waveform data related to the received acoustic energy; transforming the acoustic waveform data into a frequency domain to provide frequency domain data; calculating a slowness-frequency coherence function using the frequency domain data; selecting slowness dispersion data from peaks of the slowness-frequency coherence function; fitting a curve to the slowness dispersion data; and estimating the slowness from the curve. | 04-08-2010 |
20130142009 | ACOUSTIC IMAGING - In various embodiments, apparatus and methods are provided to perform acoustic imaging. An acoustic wave can be acquired at a detector, where the acoustic wave propagates from a target to the detector. The target may be acoustically illuminated to provide the acoustic wave. A signal from the detector in response to acquiring the acoustic wave can be processed in a model such that the processing implements a synthetic acoustic lens to generate an image of the target. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 06-06-2013 |
20130163387 | Method of Controlled Pulse Driving of a Stacked PZT Bender Bar for Dipole Acoustic Radiation - A bender bar is presented. The bender bar includes at least two pairs of piezoelectric elements arranged on an inert element to adjust the response frequency of the bender bar. In some embodiments, the piezoelectric elements can be stacked on the inert element. In some embodiments, the piezoelectric elements are symmetrically arranged with respect to the bender bar such that a gap is formed between piezoelectric elements arranged on the inert element. | 06-27-2013 |
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20130207056 | RYLENE MONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES AND USE THEREOF AS PHOTOSENSITIZERS IN SOLAR CELLS AND PHOTODETECTORS - Thin layers or films of metal oxides are used as a semiconductor material of solar cells and they are coated with a sensitizer to achieve the high absorption of sunlight. Various dyes have been used as sensitizers in solar cells. Rylene monoimide derivatives are developed as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells and as photodetectors. The Rylene monoimide derivatives have very good quantum efficiencies, particularly in the NIR region of the absorption spectrum. | 08-15-2013 |
20140039193 | BORON CONTAINING PERYLENE MONOIMIDES, A PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, THEIR USE AS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PERYLENE MONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES, MONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS - Boron-comprising perylene monoimides and a process for producing the boron-comprising perylene monoimides are provided. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are useful as building blocks for producing perylene monoimide derivatives and monoimide derivatives. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are also useful for preparing dye-sensitized solar cells. | 02-06-2014 |
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20150179954 | SUBSTITUTED TERRYLENE AND QUATERRYLENE DERIVATES AND USE AS SEMICONDUCTORS THEREOF - Disclosed are terrylene and quaterrylene derivates of general formula (I) and the use thereof as organic semiconductor materials. | 06-25-2015 |
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20150225418 | CONVENIENTLY PREPARED NAPHTHALENE AND PERYLENE DERIVATIVES AS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND DYESTUFF - The present invention provides the compounds of formulae (3) and (1), wherein n is 0 or 1, R | 08-13-2015 |
20150284569 | BORON CONTAINING PERYLENE MONOIMIDES, A PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, THEIR USE AS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PERYLENE MONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES, MONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS - Boron-comprising perylene monoimides and a process for producing the boron-comprising perylene monoimides are provided. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are useful as building blocks for producing perylene monoimide derivatives and monoimide derivatives. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are also useful for preparing dye-sensitized solar cells. | 10-08-2015 |
20160024106 | PERYLENEMONOIMIDE AND NAPHTHALENEMONOIMIDE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS - The present invention relates to the use of a compound of formula I: | 01-28-2016 |
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20130241944 | Electronic Device and Display Control Method Thereof - A display control method for an electronic device and an electronic device are provided, which can implement interactive program display or interactive picture display, and thus provide good user experience. The method includes: a display unit receives a first operation and generates a first instruction corresponding to the first operation; a process unit responses the first instruction to control the display region, so that the first display region and the second display region perform interactive program display or interactive picture display. | 09-19-2013 |
20140031038 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE HANDOVER - Disclosed in the present invention are a method and an apparatus for device handover, which belongs to the mobile communication field. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a Multimedia. Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service configuration information of neighbor cells; selecting a target cell for a user equipment according to the MBMS service configuration information of the neighbor cells and the MBMS service reception information of the user equipment; handing over the user equipment to the target cell. The apparatus comprises: an acquiring module, for obtaining the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service configuration information of the neighbor cells; a selecting module, for selecting a target cell for a user equipment according to the MBMS service configuration information of the neighbor cells and the MBMS service reception information of the user equipment; a handover module, for handing over the user equipment to the target cell. With the implementation of the technical solution that the MBMS service configuration information of the neighbor cells is obtained, the target cell for the user equipment is selected according to the MBMS service configuration information and the MBMS service reception information of the user equipment, and the user equipment is handed over to the target cell, the present invention enables the user equipment to switch to an appropriate target cell. | 01-30-2014 |
20150105637 | PULSE OXIMETRY-BASED CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) QUALITY FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Medical devices, plug-ins, systems, and methods for CPR quality feedback are disclosed. The medical devices can calculate peripheral circulation relevant parameters based on measured signals containing at least partial hemodynamic characteristics. Amplitude and area characteristics included in the peripheral circulation relevant parameters can further be determined for providing feedback and control relating to CPR quality during the compression process. Also, compression interruption during CPR can be evaluated based on a pulse waveform generated from the measured signals. | 04-16-2015 |
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20140027005 | Enhanced Flow Boiling in Microchannels by High Frequency Microbubble-Excited and -Modulated Oscillations - Microfluidic devices, along with their methods of formation and use, are provided. The microfluidic device can include a substrate with a main channel and a first auxiliary channel defined in the substrate's surface. The main channel has a main width of about 1000 μm or less. The first auxiliary channel intersects with the main channel at a first aperture defined in a first side wall of the main channel. A second auxiliary channel can intersect with the main channel at a second aperture defined in a second side wall of the main channel. A plurality of main channels and respective auxiliary channel(s) can be included on the surface. | 01-30-2014 |
20140034132 | Microfluidic Devices for the Generation of Nano-Vapor Bubbles and Their Methods of Manufacture and Use - Microfluidic devices having superhydrophilic bi-porous interfaces are provided, along with their methods of formation. The device can include a substrate defining a microchannel formed between a pair of side walls and a bottom surface and a plurality of nanowires extending from each of the side walls and the bottom surface. For example, the nanowires can be silicon nanowires (e.g., pure silicon, silicon oxide, silicon carbide, etc., or mixtures thereof). | 02-06-2014 |
20140037938 | Carbon Nanotube Enabled Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Composite Interfaces and Methods of Their Formation - Methods are generally provided for forming a coated substrate having a plurality of carbon nanoparticles, along with the resulting coated substrates. In one embodiment, the method includes oxidizing the carbon nanoparticles to form oxygen containing end groups on the surfaces of the carbon nanoparticles; dispersing the oxidized carbon nanoparticles into a polymeric media to form an ink; and depositing the ink onto a substrate to form a coating. Generally, the coating includes the oxidized carbon nanoparticles dispersed within the polymeric material. | 02-06-2014 |
20140338778 | Ultra-Efficient Two-Phase Evaporators/Boilers Enabled by Nanotip-Induced Boundary Layers - Microfluidic devices, along with methods of their fabrication, are provided. The microfluidic device can include a substrate defining a microchannel formed between a pair of side walls and a bottom surface and a plurality of nanotips positioned within the microchannel and proximate to each side wall such that a boundary layer is formed along each side wall between the plurality of nanotips and the side wall upon addition of a liquid into the microchannel. | 11-20-2014 |
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20140002412 | NOISE REDUCTION METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF TOUCH DETECTION OF A CAPACITIVE SCREEN | 01-02-2014 |
20140035863 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - It is provided a touch screen device applied in an electronic information technology area. In the touch screen device supporting an active capacitance stylus, a demodulation unit demodulates a signal received by a reception unit by two orthogonal signals, and then an amplitude recovery unit recovers an amplitude of the signal received by the reception unit, the amplitude of the signal received by the reception unit can be recovered relatively exactly without the need that the demodulation signal must be synchronous with the signal received by the reception unit (or the signal transmitted from the active capacitance stylus), and there is no need to add additional hardware resources for synchronization in the touch screen device of the embodiment of the present invention compared with the existing detection method which needs to perform synchronization of the demodulation signal and the signal transmitted from the active capacitance stylus in the prior art. | 02-06-2014 |
20140362033 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN - The embodiments of the disclosure provide a capacitive touch screen, including: a substrate; a plurality of sensing electrodes provided on the substrate, the plurality of sensing electrodes being arranged in a two-dimensional array; and a touch control chip bound to the substrate, the touch control chip being connected with each of the plurality of sensing electrodes via a corresponding wire. The capacitive touch screen according to the embodiments of the disclosure solves the problem of errors caused by noise transmission between electrodes in the prior art on the premise of achieving multi-touch, thereby significantly improves the signal-to-noise ratio. | 12-11-2014 |