1. A vertical socket connector comprising:
an insulating housing having a top, a bottom, a front, a rear and two opposite sides and further having
a first tongue formed and protruding from the insulating housing and having a top surface and a bottom surface; and
a mounting slot defined in the top;
an insulating bracket mounted in the insulating housing and having
a base mounted in the mounting slot of the insulating housing and having a front end and a rear end; and
a second tongue formed on and protruding from the front end of the base, located above the first tongue and having a top surface, a bottom surface and multiple embedding slots defined in the bottom surface of the second tongue;
multiple first terminals mounted through the first tongue of the insulating housing and each first terminal having
a mounting section mounted in the insulating housing;
a soldering section formed on the mounting section, protruding horizontally backward out of the rear of the insulating housing and paralleling the top and the bottom of the insulating housing; and
a contacting section formed on and protruding forward from the mounting section;
multiple second terminals being horizontal relative to the insulating housing, mounted through the insulating bracket and each second terminal having
a mounting section mounted in the base of the insulating bracket;
a soldering section formed on the mounting section and protruding horizontally backward out of the rear end of the base; and
a contacting section formed on and protruding forward from the mounting section, mounted on the bottom surface of the second tongue and having
a distal end; and
an embedding tab formed on and protruding from the distal end and mounted securely in one embedding slot of the second tongue;
an insulating positioning bracket mounted in a fastening slot at the rear of the insulating housing and having a top, a bottom, a front, a rear and two opposite sides and further having multiple positioning holes defined through the positioning bracket from the front to the rear, paralleling the top and bottom and respectively mounted around and holding the soldering sections of the first and second terminals; and
a conductive shell covering the insulating housing, insulating bracket, first terminals, second terminals and insulating positioning bracket;
wherein the mounting slot of the insulating housing has two opposite inner surfaces corresponding to the sides of the insulating housing; and two positioning notches defined respectively in the inner surfaces; and
the base of the insulating bracket further has two positioning protrusions formed on and protruding forward from the front end of the base and mounted respectively in the positioning notches.
2. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein
the fastening slot of the insulating housing has
two opposite inside surfaces corresponding to the sides of the insulating housing; and
two mounting notches defined respectively in the inside surfaces; and
the positioning bracket further has two mounting protrusions formed respectively on and protruding transversely from the sides of the positioning bracket and mounted respectively in the mounting notches of the insulating housing.
3. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein
the insulating housing further has two locking slots defined respectively in the sides adjacent to the rear of the insulating housing; and
the shell further has a top plate, two side plates and a bottom plate and further has
a cavity defined through the shell; and
two locking tabs formed respectively on the side plates formed respectively on the side plates and mounted in the respectively in the locking slots of the insulating housing.
4. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein
the positioning bracket further has at least one engaging protrusion formed on and protruding upward from the top of the positioning bracket; and
the shell further has at least one engaging hole defined in the top plate and respectively engaging with the at least one engaging protrusion of the positioning bracket.
5. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein
the first terminals are four, two of the first terminals are mounted on the top surface of the first tongue and the other two second terminals are mounted on the bottom surface; and
the second terminals are five and are mounted on the bottom surface of the second tongue.
6. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the positioning bracket further has multiple feet formed on and protruding horizontally backward from the rear of the positioning bracket and paralleling the soldering sections of the first and second terminals.
7. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein
the first terminals are capable of implementing USB 2.0 signal transmission; and
the second terminals are capable of cooperating with the first terminals to implement USB 3.0 signal transmission.
8. The vertical socket connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein
the second terminals are mounted on the insulating bracket by an insert-molding process.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for providing normalized physiological monitoring data of an individual with a measure of the quality of the normalization, comprising;
providing a reference feature based on a physiological attribute of the individual for which an attribute value can be determined;
unobtrusively capturing physiological monitoring data for the individual during a series of capture events and determining the capture conditions present during each capture event;
detecting the presence of the reference feature in the series of captured physiological monitoring data and determining associated attribute values for each capture event;
normalizing the captured physiological monitoring data from each capture event according to differences in the attribute values associated with each event and previously calculated attribute values; and
calculating normalization confidence values for the individual at the series of capture events, based on capture conditions, normalization transforms, or semantic data, wherein the confidence values statistically measure the quality of the normalization.
2. The method as in claim 1 wherein the semantic data related to the individual, that can affect the quality of the normalization, includes the time of day of a capture event, the use of cosmetics, or the tiredness of the individual.
3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the normalization confidence values are tracked over multiple capture events to monitor changes in normalization quality over time.
4. The method as in claim 1 further comprising determining if valid wellness parameters can be derived based on the normalization confidence values, wherein the wellness parameters are associated with the physiological attributes being monitored.
5. The method as in claim 1 wherein the attribute values or normalization transforms are obtained by RGB or spectral color measurements of: the sclera, the skin, the tongue, the ambient light, or the capture light.
6. The method as in claim 1 wherein the physiological monitoring data is obtained by image capture, audio capture or multi-spectral capture.
7. The method as in claim 6 wherein the capture conditions are derived as capture parameters from one or more captured images acquired during a capture event.
8. The method as in claim 6 wherein the face of the individual in the captured images is normalized in each image according to color attributes of one or more facial reference features of the individual.
9. The method as in claim 6 wherein the face of the individual in the captured images is normalized based on the spatial disparity between two or more facial reference features of the individual.
10. The method as in claim 9 wherein the captured images of the individual are normalized based on the spatial disparity between corresponding features of both eyes of the individual.
11. The method as in claim 6 wherein the captured images of the individual are normalized to provide changes in the size or orientation or combinations thereof of the image of the individual.
12. The method as in claim 6 wherein the audio capture is normalized to reduce the noise associated with voice capture under variable capture conditions.
13. The method as in claim 1 wherein the physiological attributes and associated reference features include color, size, weight, posture, gait, motion, or voice.
14. The method as in claim 1 wherein the reference features are related to physiological attributes of one or both eyes, the skin, the tongue, one or more teeth or combinations thereof.
15. A method for providing normalized images of an individual from a physiological monitoring system comprising;
providing a reference feature based on the sclera of one or more eyes of the individual from which color attribute values can be determined
capturing an image of the individual during a first capture event and determining the presence of a reference feature in the captured image and determining a first attribute value;
capturing an image of the individual during a second capture event and determining the presence of the reference feature in the second captured image and determining a second attribute value; and
normalizing the second captured image according to differences between the first and second attribute values.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein the sclera feature is the average color value excluding the blood vessels of at least one eye of the individual.
17. The method of claim 15 wherein the differences in sclera color are due to changes in the capture lighting conditions at the time of capture.