Abstract: A method, device and multipoint control unit device for adjusting and controlling a sub-picture in multiple pictures are provided. The method includes: acquiring the N original video images sent from a plurality of video terminals, adjusting the resolutions of the N original video images and correspondingly displaying the N resolution-adjusted video images in N regions on the display screen of the multipoint control unit, wherein N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1; performing a resolution increase adjustment processing on the video image in any one of the N regions to acquire a resolution-increased video image; and cutting, according to the information of the region where the resolution-increased video image is located, the resolution-increased video image to obtain an image which is located in the region where the resolution-increased video image is located after the cutting.

Abstract: A system for generating custom modular objects is described. The custom modules form part of a modular construction set from which an object can be created by a user. The object acts as a user input device for an interactive software experience. To generate a custom (i.e. non-standard) module, a virtual 3D shape is received by a module generation service. The service converts this shape into a derived 3D shape for the module, for example, ensuring that the module is shaped such that it is compatible with other modules from the modular construction set to which it will be connected for form an object and/or by adding an aperture for receiving a connector and/or electronics core. Once generated, the derived 3D shape is sent to the user in physical form or virtual form and a virtual representation of the module is provided to the interactive software experience.

Abstract: A method and a system for recovering and utilizing crane operating energy and a crane includes converting by a first hydraulic power means hydraulic energy generated by a hydraulic actuator into mechanical energy of a transmission shaft; driving, by the transmission shaft, a second hydraulic power means to rotate so as to convert the mechanical energy of the transmission shaft into mechanical energy of the second hydraulic power means; filling, by the second hydraulic power means, pressurized oil into an accumulator so as to convert the mechanical energy of the second hydraulic power means into hydraulic energy for storage.

Abstract: A building block is described which has a plurality of faces each with an associated coupling element, such that a first coupling element is adjacent to a first face and a second coupling element is adjacent to a second face, etc. An RF switch in the block is arranged to selectively couple two of the coupling elements together under the control of a processor. The processor controls the RF switch in response to signals received from a transceiver module. A sensing and switching arrangement within the building block selectively connects the processor to one of the coupling elements based on a detected orientation of the block (e.g. so that power harvested from the transceiver module can be used to power the processor). The coupling elements are either all antennas or all electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined counterweight hitching device and method thereof, and a counterweight mounting structure.

Abstract: The disclosure provides bio-asphalt, bio-asphalt compositions and a method for preparing them. It belongs to the technical field of asphalt material. The method of the disclosure uses bio-oil as the raw material, adopts a combination of extraction process and oxidation process to prepare bio-asphalt, and modifies the product obtained from bio-oil by extraction process or bio-asphalt with ordinary petroleum asphalt and/or aromatic hydrocarbon oil and a macromolecular material to obtain a bio-asphalt composition.

Abstract: A system in which attributes are transferred between generations of characters in an interactive software experience is described. In an embodiment, data identifying one or more hardware attributes for a virtual entity are determined based on a physical user device associated with that virtual entity. One or more virtual attributes for the virtual entity are accessed and one or more behaviors of the virtual entity within the interactive software experience are modified based on a combination of the hardware and virtual attributes.

Abstract: A system for generating custom modular objects is described. The custom modules form part of a modular construction set from which an object can be created by a user. The object acts as a user input device for an interactive software experience. To generate a custom (i.e. non-standard) module, a virtual 3D shape is received by a module generation service. The service converts this shape into a derived 3D shape for the module, for example, ensuring that the module is shaped such that it is compatible with other modules from the modular construction set to which it will be connected for form an object and/or by adding an aperture for receiving a connector and/or electronics core. Once generated, the derived 3D shape is sent to the user in physical form or virtual form and a virtual representation of the module is provided to the interactive software experience.

Abstract: A system in which attributes are transferred between generations of characters in an interactive software experience is described. In an embodiment, data identifying one or more hardware attributes for a virtual entity are received from a physical user device associated with that virtual entity. One or more virtual attributes for the virtual entity are accessed and one or more behaviors of the virtual entity within the interactive software experience are modified based on a combination of the hardware and virtual attributes.

Abstract: A data store for a modular assembly system is described. The data store comprises a number of records, each record relating to a physical module in the modular assembly system and comprising a module ID, an owner ID for the module and one or more properties fields. The properties field(s) define any property of the module and different records may define different properties. At least one of the fields in each data record (e.g. the module ID or owner ID) is verified by an authentication service. A user assembles two or more modules into a coherent physical whole object to act as a user input device to an interactive software experience. The data store communicates with the interactive software experience and causes a change in behavior of the interactive software experience in response to a check of the data records for each of the modules in the object.

Abstract: Methods for processing seismic data are described. The method includes: obtaining seismic data; solving a series of partial differential wave equations, wherein a first partial differential wave equation describes propagation of a seismic wave going from a first reflector to a second reflector, wherein a second partial differential wave equation describes propagation of a seismic wave going from a second reflector to a third reflector, and wherein a third partial differential wave equation describes propagation of a seismic wave going from a third reflector to a seismic receiver, wherein outputting predicted internal multiples for further imaging or attenuation.

Abstract: A method for expanding a rectangular section ring to form a non-rectangular section ring. The method includes heating a rectangular section ring of an alloy to a temperature of between 1000 and 1020° C., preheating an expanding block to a temperature of between 260 and 320° C., nesting the inner circumferential surface of the rectangular section ring on the outer circumferential surface of the expanding block; enabling the expanding block to press the inner circumferential surface of the ring in the radial direction, expanding the inner and outer diameter of the rectangular section ring and decreasing the wall thickness thereof for deforming the rectangular section ring to yield a profiled ring billet, whereby finishing a first expanding; rotating the profiled ring billet for 45° along the central axis, whereby finishing a first rotation; and repeating the expanding process and the rotation to obtain a non-rectangular section ring.

Abstract: A reader device for short-range wireless tags comprises a sensing module coupled to one or more RF antennas. The sensing module is arranged to selectively activate and deactivate individual RF antennas and to read data from a plurality of objects comprising short-range wireless tags which are proximate to an active RF antenna. A scheduler module within the reader device is arranged to obtain device characteristics for the plurality of objects based at least in part on data read by the sensing module and then to generate a powering schedule for the plurality of objects based on the device characteristics. The generated powering schedule is then implemented by the sensing module.

Abstract: An object for use with a capacitive-touch-sensing device comprises a plurality of conductive regions on a single face of the object and a switching arrangement connected to the plurality of conductive regions. The switching arrangement is configured to change a capacitive footprint of the face of the object, for example, by selectively connecting (e.g. shorting) together two or more conductive regions.

Abstract: An extender object for use with a multi-modal sensing surface comprises at least two antenna coils. A first antenna coil in the object is electrically connected to a second antenna coil in the object and the two antenna coils may be spatially separated. At least one of the first and second antenna coils comprises a plurality of radial elements extending in and/or out from the coil.

Abstract: A sensing surface device comprises a sensing module coupled to a sensing mat. The sensing module is configured to detect a first object at a first position on the sensing mat, detect an event associated with the first object and detect a movement at a second position on the sensing mat. The sensing module is further configured to generate an input to trigger an action in software based on both the detected event and the detected movement.

Abstract: A multi-modal sensing surface comprises two overlaid arrays: a capacitive sensing electrode array and an array of RF antennas. A first sensing module is coupled to the capacitive sensing electrode array and is configured to detect both an increase and a decrease of capacitance between electrodes in the array. A second sensing module is coupled to the array of RF antennas and is configured to selectively tune and detune one or more of the RF antennas in the array of RF antennas.

Abstract: A short-range wireless tag has a conductive footprint which is not rotationally symmetric where this footprint is formed from an antenna within the short-range wireless tag and optionally one or more additional conductive areas within the short-range wireless tag. The orientation of such a short-range wireless tag may be determined by a sensing surface when the tag is placed on the surface and where the surface comprises an array of RF antennas and/or a capacitive sensing electrode array.

Abstract: A flexible multi-layer sensing surface comprises a first flexible layer and a second flexible layer. The first flexible layer is a sensing layer and the second sensing layer is another sensing layer or an output layer. The sensing surface also comprises a calibration module which is configured to use the first flexible sensing layer to detect the relative position of the first and second flexible layers and this detected relative position is then used to update one or more stored operating parameters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacotherapeutics, and in particular to compounds of general formula I, racemates, R-isomers, S-isomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and their mixtures, and the preparation methods thereof and a pharmaceutical composition containing the compounds and uses thereof as an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor.