Abstract:
A process for preparing low melting copolymers comprising contacting a mixture of olefin monomers with a CpFlu-type metallocene catalyst under reaction conditions sufficient to form a copolymer. The copolymers thus prepared desirably display melt temperatures from about 100° C. to about 140° C. and may be produced with reduced amounts of ethylene. The copolymers may also exhibit reduced levels of undesirable xylene solubles, relatively narrow molecular weight distribution, and other improved optical and physical properties.
Abstract:
Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex with optionally substituted phenyl or cyclohexyl on nitrogen catalyzes highly syndiospecific polymerization of propylene. Syndiotactic polypropylene with defects of the type rmr having [rrrr] content greater than 0.70 and block copolymer containing block(s) of the syndiotactic polypropylene and block(s) of poly(ethylene-co-propylene) and/or poly(alpha-olefin-co-propylene) are obtained. Certain of the catalysts provide living polymerization. Living olefin polymers and olefin terminated oligomers and polymers are also products.
Abstract:
The tendency of copolymer fluff grains of propylene and ethylene to agglomerate is reduced by injecting at least one olefin comonomer, such as ethylene monomer, into more than one point along the length of the reactor, rather than injecting all of the ethylene at one point. This process reduces the tendency of copolymer fluff grains to agglomerate and cause processing problems as compared with injecting the comonomer at only one point. Copolymer made by this process is expected to have lower substantially amorphous polypropylene content and better organoleptics than copolymer made where the ethylene is injected at only one point. In one non-limiting embodiment the copolymerization reactor is a loop-type reactor.
Abstract:
Bis(salicylaldiminato)titanium complex with optionally substituted phenyl or cyclohexyl on nitrogen catalyzes highly syndiospecific polymerization of propylene. Syndiotactic polypropylene with defects of the type rmr having [rrrr] content greater than 0.70 and block copolymer containing block(s) of the syndiotactic polypropylene and block(s) of poly(ethylene-co-propylene) and/or poly(alpha-olefin-co-propylene) are obtained. Certain of the catalysts provide living polymerization. Living olefin polymers and olefin terminated oligomers and polymers are also products.
Abstract:
A method for realizing route discovery in a network includes: classifying a level of a node in the network; receiving a route request packet from a node adjacent to the node; comparing a node level indicated by node level information contained in the received route request packet with the level of the node; updating, in a case where the level of the node is higher than the node level indicated by the node level information contained in the route request packet, the node level indicated by the node level information contained in the route request packet to be the level of the node; and forwarding the updated route request packet to other nodes adjacent to the node.
Abstract:
A wireless communication network, a communication method and a node for the wireless communication network are disclosed. The wireless communication network includes a plurality of peer nodes communicating with each other through a control channel and a plurality of data channels. The communication method may include: transmitting available data channel information via a routing request signal; modifying available data channel information received by the source node or the other intermediate nodes, and transmits the modified available data channel information via a routing request signal; determining an agreed data channel for communication between the destination node and the source node or between the destination node and the intermediate node, according to the available data channel information transmitted from the source node or the intermediate node; and notifying an intermediate node as a previous hop and/or the source node of an identification of the agreed data channel via a routing response signal.
Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of watermarking encoded video frames includes electronically receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of encoded video frames that are divided into a plurality of macro-blocks, determining macro-block dependencies based on prediction information in the received bitstream, determining a set of macro-blocks having a minimal number of macro-block dependencies, and embedding a watermark in a plurality of macro-blocks selected from the set of macro-blocks having the minimal number of macro-block dependencies.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for embedding watermark data into a data stream using the insertion of low frequency carriers modulated by the watermark data into selected spatio-temporal volumes having equal total luminance values
Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of authenticating images includes electronically receiving an anchor image and a query image, performing a feature point extraction of an anchor image, and performing a feature point extraction of a query image. The method also includes clustering feature points of the anchor image and feature points of the query image, where clustering includes determining matching feature points, determining outlier feature points, and excluding outlier feature points. Whether the anchor image is similar to the query image is determined based on a distance between the feature points of the anchor image and the feature points of the query image. If the anchor image is similar to the query image, possible tampered areas of the query image based on the outlier feature points are identified.
Abstract:
An image processing method can be performed on a video image that includes an initial frame and a plurality of subsequent frames. An object is located within the initial frame of the video image and a histogram related to the object is generated. A foreground map that includes the object is also generated. For each subsequent frame, a mean shift iteration is performed to adjust the location of the object within the current frame. The histogram related to the object and the foreground map can then be updated.