Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and system that may allow a user to facilitate the flow of traffic over contained environments or otherwise. This apparatus and system may improve management for the flow of traffic by providing a lower barrier for entry for municipalities and other entities to collaborate on traffic management. In some embodiments, those in control may create a tiered system for a series of lights within a connected block. In some implementations, those in control may create a tiered system over a larger grid system, such as an entire neighborhood, district, city, or state. In some aspects, the apparatus and system may allow those in control to set priorities for how to handle developing traffic conditions.

Abstract: There is provided a method of operating a reconfigurable differential protection scheme for carrying out differential protection of an electrical power network, the electrical power network comprising terminals, each of the terminals configured to be in communication with each other within a communications network. The method includes controlling the differential protection scheme to deactivate the differential protection, and selecting a terminal to be configured out of or into the differential protection scheme. The method also includes communicating reconfiguration information among the terminals, the reconfiguration information including the selection of the terminal to be configured out of or into the differential protection scheme.

Abstract: A manipulation device has a manipulation body operated by the manipulator in a manipulation direction, a support body freely supporting the operation of the manipulation body, and a movable load imparting mechanism imparting a load to the manipulation body. The movable load imparting mechanism has a movable member engaged with the movable axis of the manipulation body, a magnetism generating mechanism having a coil that generates a magnetic field and a first yoke provided so as to enclose the coil, and a magnetic viscous fluid, its viscosity changing according to the strength of a magnetic field. The magnetic viscous fluid is filled in a first gap between the first yoke and the movable member. In the gap, a first buffering layer not harder than the movable member is provided on at least one of the opposing plane of the first yoke and the opposing plane of the movable member.

Abstract: Data are transmitted and/or received in a communication system by a communication participant, which has a communication device, a microprocessor, and an energy supply. The latter has an electrical variable that changes from an initial value when it supplies the microprocessor and/or the communication device with energy. The microprocessor encodes the data before transmission and/or decodes the data after reception, each using a computing cycle. When the electrical variable changes during the computing cycle, it is interrupted, preferably at any desired point. The encoding and/or decoding are carried out separately during the computing cycle in individual encoding phases in which the value of the electrical variable changes. Regeneration phases for regenerating the electrical variable are provided between and/or within the encoding phases. The duration of a regeneration phase is such that the value of the electrical variable approaches or reaches the initial value during the regeneration phase.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first communication control unit that receives a first signal from one or more terminals carried by one or more detection objects around a vehicle, a detection unit that detects the detection objects in a predetermined range from image data created by photographing the predetermined range that can be seen from the vehicle, a determination unit that determines whether the one or more detection objects can be seen from the vehicle based on a detection result generated by the detection unit and the first signal received by the first communication control unit, and an information providing unit that provides information on a detection object that cannot be seen from the vehicle when the one or more detection objects include the detection object that cannot be seen from the vehicle.

Abstract: A sign-monitoring system includes at least one electronic sign and a controller comprising a processor and memory. The electronic sign includes a pixel array, the pixel array including a plurality of pixels. The electronic sign further includes an embedded controller coupled to the at least one electronic sign. The embedded controller develops diagnostic information for the at least one electronic sign, the diagnostic information including information related to a number of malfunctioning pixels in the plurality of pixels. The controller is communicably coupled to the embedded controller and receives at least a portion of the diagnostic information from the embedded controller. In addition, the controller assesses the at least a portion of the diagnostic information to develop health information. The assessment involves evaluating the information related to the number of malfunctioning pixels.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system capable of effectively preventing a user's failure to take his or her basal body temperature. The base time setter 301 sets, as a base measurement time, a time used as a basis for a user to take the user's body temperature after awakening, based on the times at which the user's body temperatures were measured. The sleep duration estimator 302 estimates the user U's most recent sleep duration. When the user's most recent sleep duration exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the alarm controller 303 causes an alarm to sound at the base measurement time.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of methodologies of obtaining more accurate compliance metrics are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of determining a compliance metric includes determining a number of dispense events and determining a number of opportunities for obtaining dispense events. The number of opportunities for obtaining dispense events is a function of the time between an entry event and a exit event, in addition, the compliance metric is a function of the number of dispense events and the number of opportunities.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a UHF RFID tag physical layer that rectifies a UHF RFID signal acquired through a first antenna using a first rectifier to generate a first DC voltage, an NFC tag physical layer that rectifies an NFC signal acquired through a second antenna to generate a second DC voltage, a microcontroller unit, a non-volatile memory that stores data processed and data to be processed by the UHF RFID tag physical layer, and data processed and data to be processed by the NFC tag physical layer under control of the microcontroller unit, and a detector that detects a voltage input of one of the first DC voltage and the second DC voltage, and supplies the detected DC voltage to one of the UHF RFID tag physical layer and the NFC tag physical layer, the microcontroller unit, and the non-volatile memory.

Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A computing device may receive data for the same road segment from autonomous vehicles, including (i) an indication of a location within the road segment, and (ii) an indication of a condition of the road segment. The computing device may generate, from the data for the same road segment, an overall indication of the condition of the road segment, which may include a recommendation to vehicles approaching the road segment. Additionally, the computing device may receive a request from a computing device within a vehicle approaching the road segment to display vehicle data. The overall indication for the road segment may then be displayed on a user interface of the computing device.

Abstract: Security system devices are configured to retrieve historic first sensor data acquired from a protected area in response to receiving a threat alarm notification from a peer security system that is related to an area monitored by the peer security system, wherein the protected area is different from and geographically separate from the area monitored by the peer security system. The system devise determines that a security threat is indicated for the protected area by assessing the retrieved selection of historic first sensor data as a function of a relation of the threat alarm notification from the peer security system to the protected area, wherein assessing the historic first sensor data without the function of the relation of the threat alarm notification from the peer security system to the protected area results in determining that the security threat is not indicated for the protected area.

Abstract: A system is provided that converts an input into one or more haptic effects using frequency shifting. The system receives an input signal. The system further performs a fast Fourier transform of the input signal. The system further shifts one or more frequencies of the transformed input signal to one or more frequencies within a shift-to frequency range. The system further performs an inverse fast Fourier transform of the frequency-shifted signal, where the inversely transformed signal forms a haptic signal. The system further generates the one or more haptic effects based on the haptic signal.

Abstract: Medical devices are provided, comprising a medical device and a sensor.

Abstract: Automobile ultrasonic detection method and a sensor are provided. Specifically, a plurality of microphones in the sensor are controlled to work cooperatively, and the microphones respectively transmit or receive detection signals to or from the outside by adopting different working frequencies in a mutually spaced working time sequence; and in a detection cycle of a single microphone, the sensor completes multiple times of detection to improve the detection response speed of the sensor. Through specific drive and control of the electronic circuit unit on the microphones with different frequencies, the detection response speed of the ultrasonic sensor can be greatly improved. The sensor applied to an automobile also further improves the driving safety of the automobile.

Abstract: A road toll system comprises a vehicle-mounted unit comprising a satellite navigation system implementing a position tracking function; transmitting means for transmitting position or route information to a remote server; and a unique identification device for attaching to the vehicle, and associated with the satellite navigation receiver. The road toll system function is enabled only when the identification device is present. The identification device comprises an electronic device which is adapted to alter by detachment or attempted detachment such as to prevent the road toll system function being enabled. This system increases the security of this type of system and makes fraudulent use of the system increasingly difficult.

Abstract: A parking place alert system may include an interface, and a controller configured to generate an alert to be displayed via the interface and identifying a set of available park assist features selected in response to an indication that an available parking place is of a user identified type that defines a desired vehicle orientation and position relative to other parked vehicles.

Abstract: Driver misuse of an automatic braking system is determined by comparing the amount of time that a vehicle moves rearwardly until it is stopped, to the amount of time after the last actuation of a brake pedal and when the vehicle is stopped. If the ratio of no brake applied time to the total reverse time is greater than a predetermined value, the automatic braking system is considered to have been misused. Each misuse occurrence increments a counter that is stored in a non-transitory memory device.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat belt system including: webbing that has one end anchored to one seat width direction side surface of a vehicle seat or to a vehicle body, and that restrains an occupant seated in the vehicle seat; a retractor to which another end of the webbing is engaged and that is configured to take up the webbing, the retractor being provided with a pretensioner which, when activated, pulls in the webbing; a buckle, with which a tongue plate attached to the webbing can be engaged; a force limiter that allows the buckle to move to thereby reduce a tensile load acting on the webbing due to activation of the pretensioner; and a warning section that is configured to utilize movement of the buckle resulting from the force limiter to notify the occupant of an abnormality that the force limiter has been activated.

Abstract: Systems and methods to determine motion parameters of physical objects using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to the objects. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a radio frequency identification (RFID) system includes determining a motion parameter of the RFID tag based on detecting a Doppler frequency shift in a radio frequency signal received from the RFID tag.

Abstract: One general aspect of the present disclosure includes a method for warning of collision avoidance. The method may include receiving, with at least one server, position and movement information from a remote client, forming a motion model of the client including a predicted position of the client at a future time, and determining whether an object will be in a proximity of the position of the client at the time. If the object will be in the proximity of the position of the client at the time, the method may include determining a probability of a collision between the client and the object at the time. If the probability meets a threshold, the method may include transmitting a collision avoidance signal to at least one of the client and the object.