Abstract: The present invention discloses a dynamic reliability evaluation method for coupling faults of a middle trough of a scraper conveyor. Approximation precision of a moment-based saddlepoint approximation method and a function attribute of dynamic t-copula are fully utilized, and the dynamic reliability evaluation method for the coupling faults of the middle trough of the scraper conveyor is provided, so that dynamic correlation between failure modes of the middle trough of the scraper conveyor under a small sample condition is more accurately described, and accuracy of dynamic reliability evaluation of the coupling faults of the middle trough of the scraper conveyor is improved.

Abstract: A movement-synchronized wellbore inspection system and a movement-synchronization control method thereof are disclosed. The wellbore inspection system comprises a rope-climbing robot, a wire rope, a ground wire rope moving device, a ground wire rope moving track, an underground wire rope moving device, an underground wire rope moving track, an inertial sensor and a control device. An upper end of the wire rope is connected to the ground wire rope moving device, and an lower end of the wire rope passes through the rope-climbing robot and is then connected to the underground wire rope moving device. The control device controls the underground and ground wire rope moving devices to move in synchronization, and then the inertial sensor carried on the rope-climbing robot detects posture data of the wire rope and transmits the data to the control device.

Abstract: Hydrocarbon exploration and extraction can be facilitated using machine-learning models. For example, a system described herein can receive seismic data indicating locations of geological bodies in a target area of a subterranean formation. The system can provide the seismic data as input to a trained machine-learning model for determining whether the target area of the subterranean formation includes one or more types of geological bodies. The system can receive an output from the trained machine-learning model indicating whether or not the target area of the subterranean formation includes the one or more types of geological bodies. The system can then execute one or more processing operations for facilitating hydrocarbon exploration or extraction based on the seismic data and the output from the trained machine-learning model.

Abstract: Disclosed are a synchronous movement apparatus of tracks in a wellbore inspection system and a control method thereof. The synchronous movement apparatus includes an upper moving track, a lower moving track, an upper wire rope moving device, a lower wire rope moving device, and a control device; the upper moving track and the lower moving track are correspondingly embedded into an inner wall of a wellbore, and the upper moving track is located above the lower moving track; the upper wire rope moving device is fitted in the upper moving track, and the lower wire rope moving device is fitted in the lower moving track; the upper moving track and the lower moving track have the same structure and each include a track body. A rolling face is arranged on the track body, and grooves are evenly distributed on the rolling face along the extending direction of the track body.

Abstract: A movement-synchronized wellbore inspection system and a movement-synchronization control method thereof are disclosed. The wellbore inspection system comprises a rope-climbing robot, a wire rope, a ground wire rope moving device, a ground wire rope moving track, an underground wire rope moving device, an underground wire rope moving track, an inertial sensor and a control device. An upper end of the wire rope is connected to the ground wire rope moving device, and an lower end of the wire rope passes through the rope-climbing robot and is then connected to the underground wire rope moving device. The control device controls the underground and ground wire rope moving devices to move in synchronization, and then the inertial sensor carried on the rope-climbing robot detects posture data of the wire rope and transmits the data to the control device.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a rope climbing robot capable of surmounting an obstacle and an obstacle surmounting method thereof. The rope climbing robot includes a robot body. The robot body includes a shell, a drive module and a guide module. The shell is longitudinally cut into an even number of shell segments, and is laterally cut into a corresponding drive housing segment and a corresponding guide housing segment according to mounting positions of the drive module and the guide module in the shell. There is at least one guide module and at least one guide housing segment, and a shell opening mechanism is further mounted in the shell. The shell opening mechanism includes a first shell opening mechanism configured to open/close the guide housing segment and a second shell opening mechanism configured to open/close the drive housing segment.

Abstract: Disclosed are a synchronous movement apparatus of tracks in a wellbore inspection system and a control method thereof. The synchronous movement apparatus includes an upper moving track, a lower moving track, an upper wire rope moving device, a lower wire rope moving device, and a control device; the upper moving track and the lower moving track are correspondingly embedded into an inner wall of a wellbore, and the upper moving track is located above the lower moving track; the upper wire rope moving device is fitted in the upper moving track, and the lower wire rope moving device is fitted in the lower moving track; the upper moving track and the lower moving track have the same structure and each include a track body. A rolling face is arranged on the track body, and grooves are evenly distributed on the rolling face along the extending direction of the track body.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wellbore inspection system and method for an ultra-deep vertical shaft. The wellbore inspection system includes a wire rope moving system, inspection robots, a visual image acquisition system, a wireless communication module, a central control system, and an image post-processing system of an upper computer. The wire rope moving system includes a surface wire rope guide rail, an underground wire rope guide rail, a surface wire rope moving device, an underground wire rope moving device, and a wire rope. The visual image acquisition system includes explosion-proof cameras. After image information acquired by the explosion-proof cameras is processed by a lower computer, the processed image is transmitted by a wireless image transmission module to the image post-processing system of the upper computer. The central control system is connected to the inspection robots and the wire rope moving system, and the inspection robots are connected to the central control system.

Abstract: An optical system may include equipment with a housing that is configured to receive external equipment such as a cellular telephone. The external equipment may have a display mounted on a front face of the external equipment and may have additional components such as a front-facing camera. Communications circuitry in the equipment may support wired and wireless communications with the external equipment. An optical combiner in the equipment may be used to combine display image light emitted from pixels in the display with real-world image light received from external objects. The optical combiner may have a reflector with a concave lens shape that focuses light from the display towards eye boxes in which a viewer's eyes are located. The reflector may be a partial mirror or a reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer and additional components may be used in implementing a tunable tint layer.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus stores at least a reference image and performs the following operations: (a) receiving an image, (b) determining a plurality of representative keypoints for the image, such as determining the representative keypoints by a density restriction based method, (c) finding out that a matched area in the image corresponds to a first reference image according to the representative keypoints, (d) determining that a matched number between the representative keypoints and a plurality of reference keypoints of the first reference image is less than a threshold, and (e) storing the matched area in the image processing apparatus as a second reference image.

Abstract: A large-tonnage skip anti-blocking system includes a skip, wherein two parallel rows of guide rails are fixed to upper and lower shaft walls of a shaft on two sides of the skip correspondingly, a plurality of pulleys are mounted on the guide rails in a matched mode, impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower pulleys, front plates of the impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower sets of pulleys in the front row, rear plates of the impact plates are mounted between the upper and lower sets of pulleys in the back row, a length of rib plates of the impact plates is greater than a width of the skip, hydraulic cylinder bases and vibration motors are mounted on outer sides of the rib plates at intervals.

Abstract: A tension balance system for steel wire ropes on a friction hoisting driving end of an ultra-deep well includes a friction wheel, left and right guiding wheels, left and right steel wire ropes, left and right adjustment wheels, left and right rewinding wheels, left and right adjustment oil cylinders, a hydraulic pipeline, a pump station, a pipeline switch group, left and right hoisting containers, balance ropes, and reels. The friction wheel is disposed in the middle, the left and right adjustment wheels and the left and right rewinding wheels are circularly distributed around the friction wheel, the left and right guiding wheels, the left and right adjustment wheels, and left and right rewinding wheels are all symmetrically disposed on two sides of the friction wheel; both a quantity of left steel wire ropes and a quantity of right steel wire ropes are even numbers more than 2.

Abstract: This disclosure presents a fault prediction system using a deep learning neural network, such as a convolutional neural network. The fault prediction system utilizes as input seismic data, and then derives various seismic attributes from the seismic data. In various aspects, the seismic attributes can be normalized and have importance coefficients determined. A sub-set of seismic attributes can be selected to reduce computing resources and processing time. The deep learning neural network can utilize the seismic data and seismic attributes to determine parameterized results representing fault probabilities. The fault prediction system can utilize the fault probabilities to determine fault predictions which can be represented as a predicted new seismic data, such as using a three-dimensional image.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to gaze-dependent visual encryption of electronic device displays. Each display frame that is displayed on the electronic device display may include a clear-display region around the user's gaze location and an obscured region outside the clear-display region. In this way, only the display content that the user is actively viewing is recognizable and understandable and an onlooker such as an unwanted observer looking over the user's shoulder is unable to understand what is displayed. The obscured region of each display frame may be generated such that the overall look and structure of that region is unchanged, but the content is unintelligible. In this way, the visual experience of the user is not disrupted or distracted by the visual encryption and the eye of the onlooker is not guided to the clear-display region by the visual encryption.

Abstract: Disclosed are an online monitoring system for a crack on a hoist spindle and an operation method thereof. The system comprises: a rope power part, a crack detection part, a wireless transmission part, and a computer. The rope power part comprises two traction ropes, two guide wheels, two stepper motors, and two stepper motor drivers. The crack detection part comprises a spiral tube guide rail, a sliding body, and an ultrasonic generator. The wireless transmission part comprises three zigbee wireless sensing modules. The zigbee wireless sensing modules receive instructions from the computer and transmit the instructions to the stepper motor drivers to control the motors to rotate. The stepper motors drive the guide wheels to rotate to realize the winding of the ropes, so as to pull the sliding body to slide on the spiral tube guide rail. The ultrasonic generator clamped on the sliding body monitors the rotating spindle along the spiral tube guide rail.

Abstract: The present invention provides a telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine, including a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a lifting cylinder, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper, and the upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. Pressurized water is used in the telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the lifting cylinder to realize periodic lifting motion of the piston rod, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.

Abstract: A self-priming water turbine-driven reel sprinkler irrigation machine includes a framework, a plug board, a reel, a PE pipe, a water turbine driving device, a sprinkler wagon, and a self-priming device. The framework comprises an underframe, a reel support frame, a plug board support frame, and a wheel assembly. A bottom portion of the underframe is provided with an underframe rotary device, and the underframe rotary device comprises a rotary bearing and a chassis support member. An inner ring of the rotary bearing is fixedly mounted to the underframe, and an outer ring of the rotary bearing is fixedly mounted and connected to the chassis support member. A telescopic front support is disposed at a front part of the underframe. The wheel assembly comprises a wheel support beam, a wheel, and a wheel lifting hydraulic cylinder. The self-priming device comprises a water pump, a pumping hose, and a filtering mechanism.

Abstract: Liquid crystal display panels and methods of addressing Vcom drift using capacitive measurements as a substitute for direct optical flicker measurements.

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.

Abstract: An optical system may include equipment with a housing that is configured to receive external equipment such as a cellular telephone. The external equipment may include a display. To control the persistence of the display, the optical system may include a light modulating layer. The light modulating layer may switch between a transparent state in which display image light is passed through the light modulating layer to reach the viewer and an opaque state in which display image light is blocked by the light modulating layer from reaching the viewer. The light modulating layer may be placed in the transparent state for a portion of each display frame and the opaque state for the remaining portion of each display frame. The light modulating layer may be formed in the housing of the equipment that receives the external equipment or may be formed with the external equipment directly.