查看更多>>摘要：News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“With the development of modern road networks, the maintena nce and management of pavement hasbecome increasingly prominent. Conventionally , manual detection has been used to evaluate road conditions,such as holes and cracks in roads. In some conventional road condition management approaches, ane ngineer visually checks the number of cracks in the road and calculates a crack ratio, a general estimatefor linear feet of cracks per unit area, for each port ion of road. Later, a crew size of 4 to 7 people workto manually seal cracks fo r several lane miles each day. This sealing is inconsistent, as workers get tired and must make quick decisions on what to seal, and dangerous, as workers are e xposed to traffic andhave to work in close proximity with scalding hot sealant. These approaches suffer from low efficiency andinterference of subjective fact ors, particularly when large road networks are considered.
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“An actuator is a device that causes motion, including linear motion or rotary motion. Actuators arecommonly used in robots to move the robot joints. In such actuators, it is very important to know therelative position a nd/or location of an end-effector of the robot so that useful work can be done i n therobot’s environment. The robotic system needs to be able to appropriately direct the actuator to hold theend-effector in a particular position and/or at a desired location, or to apply a desired force.
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Various embodiments of the present invention address technica l challenges related to performing classificationin hierarchical prediction dom ains. Existing classification systems are ill-suited to efficiently andreliably perform classification in hierarchical prediction domains. Various embodiments of the present inventionaddress the shortcomings of the noted existing classifi cation systems and disclose various techniquesfor efficiently and reliably perf orming classification in hierarchical prediction domains.”
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“In recent years, both popularity and usage of card-character- detection systems have increased. Indeed,the proliferation of web and mobile ap plications has facilitated capturing digital images of, and extractinginformati on from, character-bearing cards, such as payment cards, driver licenses, or gov ernmentidentificationcards. For instance, conventional card-character-detectio n systems can capture a digitalimage of a character-bearing card and can identi fy information contained on the character-bearing card.Despite recent advances, conventional card-character-detection systems continue to suffer from a numberof disadvantages. For example, many conventional card-character-detection system s inaccurately identifyinformation from a character-bearing card by either miss ing digits, letters, or other characters entirely orpredicting such characters incorrectly. As a result, some conventional card-character-detection systems provide user interfaces that require excessive user interaction to correct inaccura te information, such as paymentinformation or driver-license information. Addit ionally, many conventional card-character-detectionsystems are insecure and rel y on inferior authentication techniques to authenticate payment informationfrom a character-bearing card.”
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