33rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110202242 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - A sensor arrangement for an electronic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission accommodated in a transmission housing. The sensor arrangement comprises first and second pick-up arrangements for detecting various positions of an actuator system of the automatic transmission. The first pick-up arrangement is provided for monitoring a first position range of the actuator system remote while the second pick-up arrangement is provided for monitoring a second position range of the actuator system different from the first position range. The first and the second pick-up arrangements are connected to a common evaluation unit which, via a single common interface, connects with the electronic transmission control unit for transmitting the position signals of the first and second position range. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202243 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYDRAULIC TRANSMISSION VEHICLE - A control device controls a hydrostatic transmission vehicle having a hydrostatic transmission with a variable displacement pump and a variable displacement hydraulic motor. The control device is configured to set a set vehicle speed based on a forward/rearward travel command and a gear stage command instructed by an operator, to set an upper limit of the engine speed with respect to the set vehicle speed for limiting the upper limit of the engine speed to a predetermined partial engine speed set to be lower than a high idle engine speed when the set vehicle speed is in a preliminarily set low and intermediate speed range, and to control respective displacements of the variable displacement pump and the variable displacement hydraulic motor based on the set vehicle speed for allowing a vehicle speed to reach the set vehicle speed even when the engine is rotated at the partial engine speed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202244 | METHOD FOR OPERATING THE TORQUE CONVERTER LOCK-UP CLUTCH IN A POWER TRANSMISSION OF A MOBILE MACHINE COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE HYDRAULICALLY ACTUATED LIFTING DEVICE - A method of operating the torque converter lock-up clutch in a power transmission of a working machine comprising at least one hydraulically actuated lifting device. The torque converter lock-up clutch is actuated for disengagement when a predefined limit value for the position of the lifting hydraulic mechanism of the at least one lifting device is exceeded. When the position of the lifting hydraulic mechanism falls below a predefined limit value and when the turbine rotational speed exceeds a predefined threshold value, the torque converter lock-up clutch is reengaged. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202245 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING WITH HILL STARTS - A method for assisting a motor vehicle with a hill start, the motor vehicle having previously been held stationary when parked by a brake. The method measures inclination of the vehicle, previously establishes a map between engine torque and engine speed, defines, within the map, an authorized zone and a forbidden zone, provides a vehicle engine speed value, provides a vehicle engine torque value, deduces from these coordinates of the engine operating point within the map, and releases the brake automatically only if the coordinates of the operating point lie within the authorized zone of the map. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202246 | VEHICLE PARKING BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM - A system for controlling a parking brake for a motor vehicle includes a first operator control arrangement and a control unit. The control unit puts the parking brake into a disengaged position by actuating a first electrical actuator when it recognizes a release request on the first operator control arrangement. In order to release the parking brake at least in the event of a fault in the first operator control arrangement and/or in the first electrical actuator, provision is also made for the control unit to put the parking brake into the disengaged position by actuating a second electrical actuator, which is independent of the first electrical actuator, redundantly when it recognizes an emergency release request on a second operator control arrangement. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202247 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AVOIDING INTERFERENCE WITH TRAVELING VEHICLE - A traveling vehicle is equipped with an obstacle sensor to detect a distance to an obstacle and an orientation relative to the obstacle. A map of a travel route of the traveling vehicle is stored. A detection area where deceleration of the traveling vehicle is required if there is any obstacle in the detection area is repeatedly generated based on the position of the traveling vehicle from the map. Among obstacles detected by the obstacle sensor, an obstacle in the detection area is detected. Deceleration control of the traveling vehicle is implemented to prevent interference with the detected obstacle. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202248 | METHOD AND CONTROL/REGULATION SYSTEM FOR BRAKING A VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE - A method and a control/regulation system for braking a vehicle having a regenerative braking system and a nonregenerative braking system, and a vehicle employing the same. The method includes detecting a position and/or a motion of an accelerator pedal and then determining whether the detected position and/or motion corresponds to a specifiable position or to a specifiable motion which is associated with a deceleration request. The regenerative braking system is correspondingly activated when the result of the check is positive. The nonregenerative braking system is additionally activated for a deceleration request which exceeds a braking capability of the regenerative braking system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202249 | METHOD OF RELEASING THE BRAKES OF A MOTOR VEHICLE FITTED WITH AN ASSISTANCE DEVICE FOR STARTING ON A SLOPE, SUCH AN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING IT - A method of releasing brakes of a motor vehicle including: if no vehicle start command takes place, after manual application of the vehicle brakes in a position to immobilize the vehicle when at rest is over, an assistance device progressively releases the brakes according to a suitable control scheme configured to make the vehicle move under its own weight, generally tending towards predetermined non-zero speed and acceleration conditions, and then, when the predetermined conditions are considered to have been reached, the assistance device stops releasing the brakes. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202250 | Brake Control Apparatus - Disclosed is a brake control apparatus which includes a brake booster for augmenting deceleration, and which addresses the problem in conventional brake control apparatuses that deceleration and pedal reaction force depend on driver brake pedal input, and thus the pedal response and the ride comfort from the feeling of deceleration are affected by the manner in which the brake pedal is actuated by the driver. The brake control apparatus comprises a pedal reaction force generation unit for generating a pedal reaction force on the brake pedal, and a brake control unit for controlling the brake force in such a way as to suppress driver brake input fluctuations, wherein the pedal reaction force generation unit suppresses pedal reaction force fluctuations in accordance with specific deceleration and pedal reaction force characteristics. The brake control apparatus further comprises a calculation unit for calculating a target deceleration on the basis of lateral acceleration information in the left-to-right direction of the vehicle, wherein the brake control unit suppresses the brake force in such a way that the target deceleration is produced and, when the amount by which the brake pedal is depressed reaches a specific amount in respect of the target deceleration, the pedal reaction force generated by the pedal reaction force generation unit may be increased. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202251 | Apparatus and method for reducing aircraft fuel consumption - A method and apparatus for improving fuel efficiency in an aircraft having a digital avionics system and at least first and second engines. The avionics system includes first and second full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) systems and corresponding first and second engines. At least one processor is provided that is programmed with a differential specific fuel consumption (DSFC) algorithm and first and second engine optimization algorithms. The DSFC algorithm adjusts the throttle of the first and second engines to substantially equalize the differential specific fuel consumption of the engines and thereby improve the fuel efficiency of the aircraft. The first and second engine optimization algorithms adjust at least one operating parameter of the first and second engines respectively to improve the fuel efficiency of the first and second engines. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202252 | COMPANION CHIP FOR ENGINE CONTROL SIGNAL PROCESSING - A companion chip for engine control signal processing. The companion chip includes a signal pre-processing circuit which is developed for the computation of an interpolation and a tangential slope of an engine control signal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202253 | FUEL EFFICIENT AMMONIA GENERATION STRATEGY FOR LEAN-BURN ENGINES UTILIZING PASSIVE NH3-SCR FOR THE CONTROL OF NOX - A method and system for operating an ammonia generation cycle in an internal combustion engine and a connected aftertreatment system includes monitoring a parameter of engine operation, comparing the parameter of engine operation to a threshold delineating operation of the engine in one of a stoichiometric operation and rich operation, and operating the ammonia generation cycle based upon the comparing indicating the parameter of engine operation exceeding the threshold. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202254 | ENGINE AUTOMATIC-STOP/RESTART SYSTEM - In an engine automatic-stop/restart system according to the present invention, in the case where an engine self-restoration determination unit determines that an engine can autonomously be restored, fuel supply by a fuel injection control unit is resumed so that the engine is autonomously restored; and in the case where the engine self-restoration determination unit determines that the engine cannot autonomously be restored, the fuel supply by the fuel injection control unit is resumed, and based on an engine rotation speed detected by the engine rotation speed detection unit, a pinion gear rotation speed detected by the pinion gear rotation speed detection unit, and the result of determination by the engine self-restoration determination unit, there is performed the energization or de-energization of the pinion gear driving unit and the starter motor. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202255 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING INJECTION QUANTITIES AND/OR TIMES OF A FUEL INJECTOR - In a method for individually correcting injection quantities and/or times (mf | 2011-08-18 |
20110202256 | DISTRIBUTED FUEL DELIVERY SYTEMS FOR ALTERNATIVE GASEOUS FUEL APPLICATIONS - A control system includes an engine control module that generates fuel injector command signals for fuel injectors of an engine and engine parameter signals that indicate operating characteristics of the engine. A fuel injector control module communicates with the engine control module via a network. The engine control module transmits the engine parameter signals to the fuel injector control module via the network. The fuel injector control module generates compensated fuel injector signals based on the fuel injector command signals and the engine parameter signals. The engine control module may generate fuel injector command signals for a gaseous fuel mode based on signals received from the fuel injector control module. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202257 | AIR/FUEL RATIO CONTROL APPARATUS FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE ENGINE - In an apparatus for controlling an air/fuel ratio of a general-purpose internal combustion engine using mixed fuel containing alcohol and gasoline and operated at a desired engine speed inputted by the operator while a throttle opening is regulated such that a detected engine speed converges to the inputted desired engine speed, a fuel injection amount for mixed fuel determined based on fuel injection amount characteristics is increased/decreased when a load is kept constant and the output air/fuel ratio (at which an output of the engine becomes maximum) is estimated. And the fuel injection amount is corrected based on the estimated air/fuel ratio, thereby enabling to estimate the output air/fuel ratio without using an expensive air/fuel ratio sensor and to feedback-control the fuel injection amount such that the engine is operated at the output air/fuel ratio. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202258 | AIR/FUEL RATIO CONTROL APPARATUS FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE ENGINE - In an apparatus for controlling an air/fuel ratio of a general-purpose internal combustion engine using mixed fuel containing alcohol and gasoline and operated at a desired engine speed inputted by the operator while a throttle opening is regulated such that a detected engine speed converges to the inputted desired engine speed, a fuel injection amount prepared for mixed fuel is increased/decreased when a load is kept constant and the output air/fuel ratio (at which an output of the engine becomes maximum) is estimated. A rate of alcohol contained in the fuel is estimated from the estimated air/fuel ratio and the fuel injection amount is corrected based on the estimated alcohol rate, thereby determining the fuel injection amount appropriately in accordance with the estimated alcohol rate. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202259 | AIR/FUEL RATIO CONTROL APPARATUS FOR GENERAL-PURPOSE ENGINE - In an apparatus for controlling an air/fuel ratio of a general-purpose internal combustion engine using mixed fuel containing alcohol and gasoline and operated at a desired engine speed inputted by the operator while a throttle opening is regulated such that a detected engine speed converges to the inputted desired engine speed, a fuel injection amount determined for mixed fuel based on fuel injection amount characteristics is increased/decreased when a load is kept constant and the output air/fuel ratio is estimated to correct the fuel injection amount by the estimated air/fuel ratio, while a switch (knob) is installed to be manipulated by the operator to switch the fuel injection amount characteristics. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202260 | SPARK PLUG DEGRADATION DETECTION - Methods and systems are provided for identifying and indicating degradation of an engine cylinder spark plug. In response to a cylinder misfire event during selected engine operating conditions, followed by an occurrence of a threshold number and/or rate of pre-ignition events in the same cylinder, a controller may determine that the spark plug is degraded. The controller may limit combustion in the cylinder in response to the degradation. Additionally, cylinder pre-ignition mitigating steps may be taken. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202261 | Engine RPM Control Device - Provided is an engine rpm control device which gradually reduces the output speed of an engine drive object when reducing the engine rpm. The engine rpm control device ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110202262 | METHOD FOR STARTING AN ENGINE - A method for improving starting of an engine that may be repeatedly stopped and started is presented. In one embodiment, the method skips combustion in at least one cylinder, according to the engine combustion order, to control engine speed when an engine is automatically restarted. The skipped combustion event may be related to a level of IMEP when combustion in a cylinder occurs under an operating condition. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202263 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ON-VEHICLE STARTER FOR STARTING ENGINE - A control apparatus for controlling a starter used to start an engine mounted on a vehicle, the starter generating a torque and having a first gear mechanically engaged with a second gear of the engine to start the engine. The control apparatus includes a trigger circuit adapted to output a trigger signal in response to a start request; a detection circuit adapted to detect an electrical state and a mechanical state of the starter while the starter is powered on; and a controller adapted to control power on and off of the starter. The controller powers on the starter in response to the trigger signal outputted by the trigger circuit, and powers off the starter when the controller detects that a predetermined condition is satisfied based on the state of the starter. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202264 | METHOD AND CONTROLLER FOR A STARTER DEVICE OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method for controlling a starter device is described, having a starter motor, a meshing device and a starter pinion for meshing into a ring gear of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, the meshing device for meshing the starter pinion being activated by the controller, in particular for a starting/stopping operating strategy. In order to improve vehicle comfort, in that the internal combustion engine may be restarted significantly more quickly, at least one meshing value of the meshing device for meshing the starter pinion is detected by a detecting device, stored in the controller as a reference value, and evaluated. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202265 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FORDING-CAPABLE MOTOR VEHICLE, AND FORDING-CAPABLE MOTOR VEHICLE - A motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, a differential pressure sensor or two pressure sensors for detecting a pressure difference, which may be in an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine, and an evaluation unit for evaluating the detected pressure difference. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle. A controlling arrangement is provided for controlling an automatic start-stop system or an ignition system of the motor vehicle as a function of the result of the evaluation of the detected pressure difference used to detect immersion or submersion of a tailpipe of the exhaust tract in water, sludge, or a similar liquid medium in order to prevent the internal combustion engine from shutting off when the tailpipe is immersed or submerged. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202266 | REPRESENTATIVE ROAD TRAFFIC FLOW INFORMATION BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA - Techniques are described for automatically analyzing historical information about road traffic flow in order to generate representative information regarding current or future road traffic flow, and for using such generated representative traffic flow information. Representative traffic flow information may be generated for a variety of types of useful measures of traffic flow, such as for average speed at each of multiple road locations during each of multiple time periods. Generated representative traffic flow information may be used in various ways to assist in travel and for other purposes, such as to determine likely travel times and plan optimal routes. The historical traffic data used to generate the representative traffic flow information may include data readings from physical sensors that are near or embedded in the roads, and/or data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202267 | Constructing Travel Itineraries from Tagged Geo-Temporal Photographs - One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202268 | PORTABLE FITNESS SYSTEMS, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - In at least one embodiment, a method includes receiving a description of a route of interest to a user, in response to receiving the description, generating a prospective route based on the description, providing a graphical element corresponding to the prospective route to the user, and scheduling a traversal of the prospective route in a user training plan. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202269 | MOBILE GAMING, HOSPITALITY AND COMMUNICATIONS APPLIANCE - Methods and systems provided herein provide a user device that is capable of offering its user an extraordinary experience while staying at a hospitality vendor. In particular, the user is allowed to interact with the user device and have access to a number of applications either stored on the user device or made accessible to the user device. Moreover, the applications made available to the user may be controlled, based on the device's location, the user's presence information, or both, to heighten the user experience and/or ensure compliance with applicable regulations. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202270 | Delivery of advertisments over broadcasts to receivers with upstream connection and the associated compensation models - A system to add metadata to downstream broadcasts to devices such as smart phones, MP3 music players, tablet computers, etc. equipped with receivers to receive said downstream broadcasts and a full time or part time upstream digital data communication path. The devices are controlled to display or playback advertisements, images etc. in the metadata, detect click events indicating interest by a user in something in the metadata and communicate that click event upstream over a full time or part time internet or an SMS data path connection. Upstream communications to implement user interest such as visit web pages, make a phone call, start an e-commerce transaction are implemented by the client devices. The Transmitters have structure to insert metadata in band or out of band with the broadcast program content and can be coupled to ad servers. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202271 | Reporting Of Changes In Navigation Map Data For Navigation System - A method, navigation unit and map update server for updating navigation map data are disclosed. Navigation map update data is received from a navigation unit using mobile communications. The navigation map update data is obtained by detecting the position of a vehicle, calculating a route for the vehicle to a destination using the navigation map data and detecting when the calculated route to the destination is left. If so, the method begins storing position data until the vehicle is back on the calculated route, on a recalculated route to the destination from an actual position, or when it has reached the destination. Furthermore, the method comprises evaluating the stored position data to obtain navigation map update data. Navigation map update data is kept local for a geographically limited area corresponding to an area serviced by a network node in the cellular communication network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202272 | SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING A VEHICLE OPERATOR'S ORIENTATION AND ABILITY TO NAVIGATE - A system for enhancing a vehicle operator's orientation and ability to navigate a vehicle includes, but is not limited to, a display unit, a data storage unit, a position determining unit and a processor communicatively connected to the display unit, the data storage unit and the position determining unit. The processor is configured to obtain a position and heading of the vehicle from the position determining unit, to obtain terrain data from the data storage unit, and to control the display unit to display a three-dimensional representation of a terrain representative of an actual terrain proximate the vehicle. The processor controls the display unit to overlay a three-dimensional compass onto the three-dimensional representation of the terrain to display both the heading of the vehicle and the location of the vehicle with respect to the actual terrain. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202273 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MAP DATA - A navigation system compresses original map data to generate compressed map data. The navigation system compares a size of the original map data with a size of the compressed map data and selectively transmits the original map data or the compressed map data based on the comparison. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202274 | Navigation Device and Map Data Product - A navigation device includes: a storage unit that stores map data divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range; an acquisition unit that acquires map updating data for updating the map data; an extraction unit that extracts at least one file from among the map data files; and an updating unit that updates the map data by storing new map data files based upon the map updating data in the storage unit, after having deleted the map data files from the storage unit with the exception of the file extracted by the extraction unit. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202275 | DETERMINING FLUID PRESSURE - A wellbore fluid pressure measurement system includes a densometer adapted to measure a fluid density of a fluid flowing in a tubing system; and a monitoring unit communicably coupled to the densometer. The monitoring unit is adapted to receive a plurality of values representative of the fluid density from the densometer and includes a memory adapted to store the plurality of values representative of the fluid density; and one or more processors operable to execute a fluid pressure measurement module. The module is operable when executed to determine a fluid pressure of the fluid based on at least a portion of the values representative of the fluid density. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202276 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOWNHOLE FLUID TYPING WITH PULSED NEUTRON LOGGING - Downhole fluid typing with pulsed neutron logging. A method comprises obtaining gamma count rates at a particular borehole depth; calculating a fluid type indicative response value for the borehole depth; determining at least one fluid type based on the response value for the particular borehole depth; and producing a display of the at least one fluid type corresponding to the borehole depth. A system comprises a downhole tool comprising a neutron source and at least one gamma detector; gamma count rates produced due to gamma arrivals at the gamma detector(s); and a processor coupled to a memory, wherein the memory stores a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: calculate a fluid type indicative response value for a particular borehole depth based on the gamma count rates; and determine at least one fluid type based on the response value for the particular borehole depth. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202277 | Derivative Imaging for Subsurface Object Detection - A series of scans is generated for a subsurface and a derivative image is created using the series of subsurface images. One or more tests are performed on the derivative image, and a subsurface object is detected based on the one or more tests. A sensor is configured to generate a series of scans for a subsurface and a processor is coupled to the sensor. The processor is configured to execute stored program instructions that cause the processor to generate a series of images of the subsurface using the series of scans, create a derivative image using the series of subsurface images, perform one or more tests on the derivative image, and detect a subsurface object based on the one or more tests. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202278 | MULTI-FUNCTION BROADBAND PHASED-ARRAY SOFTWARE DEFINED SONAR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A software defined platform is provided for subsea acoustic applications that utilizes a broadband phased array transducer and a configurable, multi-function software defined transducer that is configurable on the fly to enable various subsea acoustic systems to be achieved in a single unit thus reducing the space required on the vessel and the cost of having such multiple functions. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202279 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAIT EVALUATION THROUGH QUANTITATIVE GENOTYPING - Method for determining in a mixed population of biological organism percentage of individuals originated from two or more contributing populations by quantitative genotyping of the mixed population or samples thereof, without the need to identify or separate the individuals. Also disclosed are methods of determining the survival rate of individuals, growth rate of individuals, and increase in biomass of each of the contributing populations, and the impact of environmental conditions on the survival or growth or increase in biomass of the contributing populations. Also disclosed are methods to study population dynamics in mixed populations of microbes. In addition methods are disclosed to trace chromosomal segments back to founder populations or individuals. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202280 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN DNA SEQUENCING - Disclosed are systems and methods for polynucleotide sequencing where detection and correction of base calling errors can be achieved without reliance on a reference sequence. In certain embodiments, redundant information can be introduced during measurement so as to allow such detection of errors. Such redundant information and measurements can be facilitated by encoding of nucleotide sequence being measured. Various examples of such encoding, redundancy introduction, and decoding are provided. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202281 | ADAPTIVE BIOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES - The present invention is related to methods of generating adaptive biochemical signatures in live cells and the use of said signatures to identify diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for human disease. The methods described herein comprise contacting a provocative agent to live cells and measuring and analyzing adaptive readouts. The methods of the invention may be used for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202282 | Multi-Stage Search for Microbe Mass Spectra in Reference Libraries - Microbes in a sample are identified by calculating similarities between a mass spectrum of the sample and reference mass spectra in a spectral library. The spectral library is divided into a hierarchy of sub-libraries where each sub-library contains reference mass spectra of microbes which are statistically the most prevalent in the samples, but are not included in other sub-libraries and all additional reference mass spectra in the library that have substantial similarity to the reference mass spectra of these microbes. Only if the search in a sub-library does not provide a hit with sufficient certainty of identification, is the search carried out in sub-libraries of higher stages. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202283 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN MOLECULAR NETWORKS - The present disclosure provides advantageous systems and methods for identifying molecular vulnerabilities in biological pathways and networks. The present disclosure generally involves conceptualizing a disease/disorder at the molecular level as a faulty physiological system, wherein one or more molecules in the complex intracellular signaling network are dysfunctional. This is accomplished by modeling a given physiological system as a digital logic circuit. More particularly, in exemplarily embodiments, binary logic equations are derived by analyzing the interactions between the input and output nodes of a target biological system. These equations are then used to produce a digital circuit representation for the system. Once a digital circuit representation is created, this circuit may advantageously be analyzed, using fault analysis techniques, in order to determine the vulnerability levels of the molecules of the targeted system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202284 | NOVEL GROUPS OF BIOMARKERS FOR DIAGNOSING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - The inventors have discovered sets of proteinaceous biomarkers which can be measured in biological fluid samples to diagnosis or aid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and distinguish AD samples from non-demented samples. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202285 | NMR METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING COMPLEX MIXTURES - A method for differentiating complex mixtures each having one or more chemical species is provided. The method comprises producing a sample NMR spectrum by subjecting a mixture to a selective spectroscopy process, wherein the NMR spectrum has individual spectral peaks representative of the one or more chemical species within the mixture. The one or more chemical species within the mixture are identified by analyzing the individual spectral peaks, and the individual spectral peaks are then subjected to a multivariate statistical analysis. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202286 | Optical System Determination According to Advanced Criteria - A method implemented by computer means for calculating by optimization an optical system for example an ophthalmic lens according to at least one criterion among the following list consisting of: ocular deviation, object visual angular field in central vision, image visual angular field in central vision, pupil field ray deviation, object visual angular field in peripheral vision, image visual angular field in peripheral vision, prismatic deviation in peripheral vision, magnification in peripheral vision, lens volume, magnification of the eyes, temple shift, or a variation of preceding criteria. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202287 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF MASS SPECTROMETRY - Systems and methods are used to predict intensities of a saturated peak using a peak predictor. A set of data is selected from the plurality of intensity measurements that includes a saturated peak. Confidence values are assigned to each data point in the set of data producing a plurality of confidence value weighted data points. A peak predictor is selected. The peak predictor is applied to the plurality of confidence value weighted data points of the saturated peak producing predicted intensities for the saturated peak. The confidence values can include system confidence values, predictor confidence values, or a combination of system confidence values and predictor confidence values. The peak predictor can be a theoretical model, a dynamic model, an artificial neural network, or an analytical function representing a best fit of a plurality of probability density functions to a first set of measured data that includes a representative non-saturated peak. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202288 | LIFETIME ASSESSMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OIL-FILLED ELECTRICAL DEVICE, AND DEGRADATION SUPPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OIL-FILLED ELECTRICAL DEVICE - An initial concentration of the residual concentration of a causative substance contained in an insulating oil is compared with a reference value. The causative substance reacts with a conductor forming a winding of an oil-filled electrical device to generate an electrically conductive compound. The reference value is defined as a value for determining whether a main determinant that determines the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is generation of the electrically conductive compound or degradation of insulating paper. Based on the initial concentration of the causative substance and the reference value, the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is assessed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING AND WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER ON CONDUCTIVE BODY - A system is provided for monitoring one or more parameters of a structure. The system includes a first sensor, a second sensor and a processing portion. The first sensor can detect the parameter of a first portion of the structure at a first location and can wirelessly transmit a first detected signal based on the detected parameter of the first portion of the structure at the first location. The second sensor can detect the parameter of a second portion of the structure at a second location and can wirelessly transmit a second detected signal based on the detected parameter of the second portion of the structure at the second location. The processing portion has an electromagnetic energy radiation portion. The processing portion can receive a first signal and a second signal and can wirelessly transfer energy to the first sensor and the second sensor. The first signal is based on the first detected signal, whereas the second signal is based on the second detected signal. The processing portion is operable to wirelessly transfer electromagnetic energy to enable the first and the second sensors. In cases that the structure has a metal or electrically conductive body, the processing portion uses the metal body to wirelessly transfer electromagnetic energy to the first and the second sensors. The first sensor and the second sensors are operable to synchronize the times that they detect the parameters of the structure. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202290 | MULTI-DIMENSION DETECTOR WITH HALF BRIDGE LOAD CELLS - A multi-dimension detector with half bridge load cells, which includes an analog to digital converter (ADC), a plurality of half bridge load cells, an analog multiplexer and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU controls the analog multiplexer to form a plurality of full bridge load cells by selecting either two of the half bridge load cells and detect a plurality of measures corresponding to an object. The ADC converts analog signals corresponding to the plurality of measures into digital signals. The CPU determines all dimension values of the object according to the plurality of measures corresponding to the digital signals. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202291 | AIRCRAFT DYNAMIC PRESSURE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatus are provided for estimating aircraft dynamic pressure. The load on the flight control surface actuator that is coupled to a flight control surface is measured. An estimate of the aircraft dynamic pressure is calculated from the measured load. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202292 | SENSOR-POWERED WIRELESS CABLE LEAK DETECTION - Techniques for leak detection are described. A leak detection module may include a plurality of wires comprising one or more collection points. The leak detection module may further include a capacitor configured to store a charge for powering the module during a power-off state and a plurality of switches to be controlled by a processor. The processor may initiate a predetermined switching sequence when a power-off state has been detected. During the switching sequence, leak detection data may be collected at the one or more collection points. The collected leak detection data may be stored in a set of registers. The leak detection module may transmit the stored leak detection data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202293 | DIAGNOSTICS USING SUB-METERING DEVICE - A system and method for performing diagnostics on a device, such as an appliance, using a sub-meter device that measures power characteristics related to usage of the appliance within a HEM network and provides such data to a home energy controller or the like. The sub-meter device can include one or more sensors, such as a current transformer, Rogowski coil, shunt resistor, or hall effect sensor, for collecting data relating to at least one of real power consumption, reactive power consumption, line frequency, line voltage, power factor, leading/lagging voltage-current comparison, and apparent power, etc. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202294 | High voltage impulse test system with a correction algorithm - A correction algorithm is used in order to reduce the systematic measurement error arising from the evaluation device of an impulse voltage test system. It is advantageous to install the high-voltage divider as intermediate circuit. This arrangement requires only one high-voltage connection between the components of the test system and the device under test. The correction function u | 2011-08-18 |
20110202295 | CURRENT MEASURING DEVICE - A current measuring device includes a conductor in which detection target current flows, at least two magnetic sensors that detect change of magnetic field generated when the detection target current flows in the conductor, and a calculation unit that calculates magnitude of the detection target current from an output of the magnetic sensor. At least two magnetic sensors are provided at different distances from the conductor, and the calculation unit acquires distances between the magnetic sensors and the conductor to calculate magnitude of the detection target current using the distances. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202296 | TEST APPARATUS AND TEST METHOD - A data signal is transmitted synchronously with a clock signal, and contains n phases (n represents an integer of 2 or more) of data for each cycle of the clock signal. A first time to digital converter generates clock change point information which represents the change timing of the clock signal. A second time to digital converter receives a data sequence in increments of cycles of the clock signal, and generates data change point information items which represent the change timing of the data in increments of phases of the data. A calculation unit calculates difference data between the change timing represented by the data change point information and the change point timing represented by the clock change point information in increments of phases. A judgment unit judges a DUT based upon the difference data received from the calculation unit. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202297 | PRODUCT SORTING METHOD BASED ON QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL FAILURE - Provided is a product sorting method based on the quantitative evaluation of a potential failure. The product sorting method manufactures a plurality of independent products with a manufacture device. The product sorting method obtains test records for the respective products by testing the products with a test device. The product sorting method determines whether the products are good products or fail products by analyzing the test records with a failure determination device. The product sorting method calculates a quality index which defines the possibility of potential failure of a population comprising the tested products as one value, by analyzing the test records with a quality index calculation device. The product sorting method determines whether to perform a subsequent operation for products which are determined as the good products by analyzing the quality index with a product sorting device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROCESS TOOL CORRECTABLES USING AN OPTIMIZED SAMPLING SCHEME WITH SMART INTERPOLATION - The present invention may include performing a first measurement on a wafer of a first lot of wafers via an omniscient sampling process, calculating a first set of process tool correctables utilizing one or more results of the measurement performed via an omniscient sampling process, randomly selecting a set of field sampling locations of the wafer of a first lot of wafers, calculating a second set of process tool correctables by applying an interpolation process to the randomly selected set of field sampling locations, wherein the interpolation process utilizes values from the first set of process tool correctables for the randomly selected set of field sampling locations in order to calculate correctables for fields of the wafer of the first lot not included in the set of randomly selected fields, and determining a sub-sampling scheme by comparing the first set of process tool correctables to the second set of correctables. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202299 | Method and Apparatus for Testing RFID Tags for Mass Production - A testing system and method for testing glass-mounted RFID tags such as tags mounted on vehicle windows. A testing carrier for use in a test chamber simulates the effect on the tag of the mounting glass. The test chamber and carrier are calibrated by first mounting the tag on the test carrier and making sensitivity measurements and then mounting the tag on glass that is representative of the actual production environment. Comparisons are made between the two measurements and calibration factors are derived to compensate for differences between the actual mounting glass and the test carrier. The test carrier is designed to provide uniform pressure against the tag to minimize any distortions that would alter the sensitivity of the tag. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202300 | METHOD FOR CREATING CORRECTION PARAMETER FOR POSTURE DETECTING DEVICE, DEVICE FOR CREATING CORRECTION PARAMETER FOR POSTURE DETECTING DEVICE, AND POSTURE DETECTING DEVICE - A turntable ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110202301 | MIDDLEWARE TEST COMPONENT OPERATING METHOD AND DEVICE - The present invention relates to middleware test component operating method and device. It is possible to improve the system capacity and the efficiency of an SDR (Software Defined Radio) system through the reconfiguration of the system according to a user's request by reconfiguring a test component for the capacity measurement of installation and test of a software component and capacity measurement of the communication port using the SDR system in a wireless communication system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202302 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN HUMAN BEING AND ANIMAL USING SELECTIVE STIMULI - An apparatus and method for identifying a human being and an animal are disclosed to properly identifying whether or not a target is a human being or an animal. The apparatus for distinguishing between a human being and an animal includes: a target stimulation unit generating a stimulation signals for selectively stimulating the senses of a human being and an animal and providing the generated stimulation signal to a target; and a target identifying unit detecting the reaction of a target to the simulation signal to identify whether or not the target is a human being or an animal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202303 | Method for determining loads in clothes washing machines - The present invention refers to a method for determining loads in clothes washing machines which comprises the following steps: method for measuring loads in clothes washing machines, characterized by comprising the following steps: (E1) Acceleration of the mobile assembly of the washing machine until the mobile assembly reaches a low rotation speed; (E2) Acceleration of the mobile assembly until the mobile assembly reaches a medium rotation speed faster than the speed in the first step (E1); (E3) Deceleration, whereby the engine which turns the mobile assembly is shutdown; (E4) Acceleration of the mobile assembly and measurement of the engine current, whereby the speed of the engine which turns the mobile assembly is increased up to a pre-determined rotation speed limit; (E5) Measurement, whereby parameters regarding the engine are measured; (E6) Shutdown of the engine and measurement of the deceleration time, whereby the said engine is turned off and turns via inertia, with the time spent from the shutdown until a pre-determined minimum speed limit is reached, being measured; (E7) Repetition, whereby the forth (E4), fifth (E5) and sixth (E6) steps are repeated at least once before the performance of the eighth step (E8); (E8) Calculation of the average of each one of the parameters measured in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh steps; and (E9); Obtainment of clothes load value based on the values obtained by the eighth step (E8) through the application of a neural network or from an empirical equation. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202304 | MOTION STATE DETECTION METHOD AND MOTION STATE DETECTOR - A motion state detection method which uses a pair of electrodes, facing each other to fix mutual positional relationship, and a movable spherical conductor disposed between the pair of electrodes, putting the pair of electrodes into either a conduction state or a non-conduction state, includes: defining a plurality of level values determined by the proportion of a duration of the conduction state in a unit time period and calculating a level value in the unit time period among the plurality of level values as a first level value; adding a second predetermined value to the first level value to calculate a second level value; and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of first level values in a plurality of consecutive unit time periods as a first detection value and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of second level values as a second detection value. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202305 | Monitoring Aggressive Driving Operation of a Mobile Asset - The acceleration of a mobile asset is sensed and compared to threshold acceleration levels when the speed of the mobile asset is above a threshold speed. When the acceleration exceeds a threshold a report is created allowing aggressive driving behavior to be logged. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202306 | Adjustable Virtual Reality System - Disclosed are virtual reality systems, in particular immersive virtual reality systems, their parts, construction and use. The systems and/or parts thereof may be used by adults or children, and may be adapted to support, often within a single device, a large range of users of different sizes and medical condition. Users with physical disabilities have difficulties using existing immersive technologies such as those using accessories like head-mounted displays and data gloves. Such users are provided with immersive virtual reality outputs that allow them to see virtual representations of their body parts which appear in a correct spatial position relative to the users' viewpoint. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202307 | Method and System for Recognizing the Working Range of a Mobile Tool - A method for recognizing the operating range of a mobile, autonomous implement, in which the operating range assigned to the implement is limited by a border which can be used as an electrical conductor loop, and the implement recognizes the operating range by detecting signals from the conductor loop, wherein an additional, non-wired, external signal is used for controlling the implement. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202308 | ENCODER SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION AND OUTPUT DEVICE - An encoder system includes: a first single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a first signal corresponding to an angular position of a first rotatable shaft; a power transmission device that transmits the power of the first shaft to a second rotatable shaft with a predetermined transmission ratio; a second single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a second signal corresponding to an angular position of the second shaft; and a signal processing section that generates data related to the rotation count of the first shaft based on at least the first signal and the second signal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202309 | Apparatus and Method for Determining a Distance Measure on Wound-up Materials - A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202310 | DEPTH SENSOR, DEPTH ESTIMATION METHOD USING THE SAME, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A depth estimation apparatus and method are provided. The depth estimation method includes grouping a plurality of frame signals generated by a depth pixel into a plurality of frame signal groups which are used to estimate a depth to an object without a depth estimation error caused by an omission of a frame signal, the grouping of the a plurality of frame signals based on whether an omitted frame signal exists in the plurality of frame signals and based on a continuous pattern of the plurality of frame signals; and estimating the depth to the object using each of the plurality of frame signal groups. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING VEHICLE OCCUPANT - A system and method for classifying a vehicle occupant is disclosed. A base is installed in each of leg frames of a seat of a vehicle. A cover is installed above the base to be spaced apart from the base. Two weight sensors are installed between the base and the cover to support the cover, and configured to measure a load transmitted to the cover by the weight of a vehicle occupant sitting in the seat. A control unit receives load values measured by the weight sensors, and determines whether the vehicle occupant sitting in the seat is an adult or a child based on the received load values. A shock absorption member is interposed between the weight sensors and the base. A stopper is interposed between the base and the cover in order to limit a downward movement range of the cover in a case of overload. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202312 | OPERATION SOUND COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a system includes a first operation sound collector, a second operation sound collector, a database, a receiver, and controller. The first operation sound collector is provided in a movable part of equipment, and transmits first data including inclination angle data and first operation sound data. The second operation sound collector is provided in a fixed part of the equipment, and transmits second data including second operation sound data being collected simultaneously with the first operation sound data. The database stores operation sound data in normal operation. The receiver simultaneously receives the first data and the second data. The controller determines whether an operation sound is abnormal based on the first data, the second data, and the operation sound data of the database. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202313 | Method and System for Program Execution Integrity Measurement - The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems and methods for measuring the integrity of an operating system's execution and ensuring that the system's code is performing its intended functionality. This includes examining the integrity of the code that the operating system is executing as well as the data that the operating system accesses. Integrity violations can be detected in the dynamic portions of the code being executed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202314 | REMOTE WITNESS TESTING SYSTEM - A master testing control system includes at least one remote computer with one or more communications lines for communicating over a communications network and a plurality of remote sensors, a two way real-time digital video system, a two-way real-time digital audio system. A set of instructions is on each remote computer for sending and receiving data over one or more data lines and for remote display. A set of instructions is on each remote computer for displaying data. At least one local computer is located geographically distant from the remote computer and able to monitor and control the display, storage, and transmission of data acquired by the remote computer. The remote computer collects data from the plurality of sensors and transmits this data to the local computer, under the control of the local computer, for permanent recording. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202315 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OFFSET COMPENSATION BASED ON HYSTERESIS TRACKING - A signal processor for removing at least one unintended signal component from an input signal (ua) is proposed. The signal processor includes a filter device ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110202316 | SPECTRUM ANALYZER USING MULTIPLE INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES AND MULTIPLE CLOCK CONFIGURATIONS FOR RESIDUAL, SPURIOUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL REDUCTION - A spectrum analyzer for measuring an RF signal over a selected frequency span configured to use multiple Intermediate Frequencies (IFs) for residual, spurious and image signal reduction. The spectrum analyzer has both a primary IF path and a secondary IF path configured to provide band pass filtering of the IF signals. A master clock synthesizer is configured to reduce residual noise by providing from a single Voltage Controlled Oscillator, a master clock signal and a Local Oscillator (LO) signal. The spectrum analyzer has a microcontroller configured to change the frequency of the master clock signal and the LO signal if the center frequency of the selected span is sufficiently close to a known spurious signal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202317 | Information Technology Infrastructure Architecture Design - Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses support the design and building of an information technology infrastructure. Build information may be extracted from an architecture diagram so that an automation engine can build and configure the infrastructure solution. The architecture diagram contains custom property lists that are associated with corresponding infrastructure components. Build data is then generated from the architecture diagram so that the automation engine can build a specified information technology infrastructure. The architecture diagram may represent each infrastructure component with an icon that is selected from a collection of icons, where each icon has a custom property template. Configuration data is populated in entries of the custom property template in accordance with the associated infrastructure component. Build data may be verified by determining whether different custom property lists in an architecture diagram are consistent and may be passed to the automation engine only when an approval indication is received. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202318 | INTERFERENCE DETERMINATION DEVICE, INTERFERENCE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A dividing unit | 2011-08-18 |
20110202319 | ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC OR SEMI-AUTOMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN METHOD - Electronic data processing (EDP) system for automatic or semi-automatic design, including of at least one storage unit, at least one computer unit, a user interface, and at least one interface to other EDP systems, characterised in that:
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20110202320 | Computer-readable medium storing design support program, design support method, and design support apparatus - In a design support apparatus, a storage unit stores location data of an assembly including a first member long and flexible and a second member connected to the first member and having a larger cross-sectional shape than that of the first member within a product, and respective positions of installed objects. A geometric center calculation unit virtually extends straight lines from a point on a route along which the first member passes, radially in directions normal to a tangential direction of the route, virtually positions points where the straight lines come into contact with the installed objects, and calculates a geometric center from the positioned points. A route change unit changes the route such that the first member passes the calculated geometric center. A verification unit verifies whether or not the assembly interferes with any of the installed objects during passage of the first member along the changed route. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202321 | METHOD FOR OPTIMISING THE SHAPE OF AN AEROFOIL - A method for defining the shape of an edge of an aerofoil comprises the following steps: obtaining a starting value for the thickness of the edge; defining a distance from the edge of the aerofoil in terms of the thickness; over the defined distance, defining a space S in terms of normalised camberline and normalised thickness; transforming the space S to a new space S′; parameterising the new space S′ to obtain new values for normalised camberline and normalised thickness; defining a new shape for the edge using the new parameter values. In a preferred embodiment, the transforming step comprises applying a parabolic function to the space S. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202322 | Computer Implemented Method for Discovery of Markov Boundaries from Datasets with Hidden Variables - Methods for Markov boundary discovery are important recent developments in pattern recognition and applied statistics, primarily because they offer a principled solution to the variable/feature selection problem and give insight about local causal structure. Currently there exist two major local method families for identification of Markov boundaries from data: methods that directly implement the definition of the Markov boundary and newer compositional Markov boundary methods that are more sample efficient and thus often more accurate in practical applications. However, in the datasets with hidden (i.e., unmeasured or unobserved) variables compositional Markov boundary methods may miss some Markov boundary members. The present invention circumvents this limitation of the compositional Markov boundary methods and proposes a new method that can discover Markov boundaries from the datasets with hidden variables and do so in a much more sample efficient manner than methods that directly implement the definition of the Markov boundary. In general, the inventive method transforms a dataset with many variables into a minimal reduced dataset where all variables are needed for optimal prediction of some response variable. The power of the invention was empirically demonstrated with data generated by Bayesian networks and with 13 real datasets from a diversity of application domains. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202323 | PHOTODETECTORS USING RESONANCE AND METHOD OF MAKING - An infrared photodetector comprising a thin contact layer substantially transparent to infrared light; an absorption layer positioned such that light admitted through the substantially transparent thin contact area passes through the absorption layer; the absorption layer being configured to utilize resonance to increase absorption efficiency; at least one reflective side wall adjacent to the absorption layer; the at least one reflective side wall being substantially non-parallel to the incident light; the at least one sidewall operating to reflect light into the absorption layer for absorption of infrared radiation; a top contact layer positioned adjacent to the active layer. A method for determining the efficiency of a photodetector configuration using a three-dimensional finite element electromagnetic computer simulation comprising: determining a design configuration geometry, calculating the electromagnetic field distributions, determining a quantum efficiency spectrum at the desired wavelength or wavelength range; whereby to determine the optical effectiveness, a 3-dimensional finite element electromagnetic simulation is carried out to calculate the quantum efficiency of the detector configuration geometry. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202324 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULATION OF RADIATION TREATMENT - A method for estimating a radiation dose and distribution for a target volume is provided. The method includes receiving a simulated dose array ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110202325 | Methods and Systems for Dynamic Wrinkle Prediction - Systems and methods for predicting a dynamic wrinkle property are provided. In one embodiment, a method of predicting a dynamic wrinkle property of a material for incorporation with an upholstered article includes selecting a plurality of material property categories and determining a material property for each selected material property category of a material. A dynamic wrinkle factor is assigned for each material property category based at least in part on the material property associated with the material property category. A dynamic wrinkle weight value is applied to each dynamic wrinkle factor to generate a weighted dynamic wrinkle factor for each material property category. The method further includes determining a predicted dynamic wrinkle score based at least in part on the weighted dynamic wrinkle factors and altering one or more material properties of the material if the predicted dynamic wrinkle score is below a benchmark value. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202326 | MODELING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS IN A VOXEL DATABASE - A set of digital products of a real-world volumetric space comprising a population of humans can be received. The digital products can be analyzed to determine a set of social characteristics and cultural conditions for the population. The determined social characteristics and cultural conditions can be stored in a voxel database. The social characteristics and cultural characteristics can be recorded with geospatial metrics for the real-world volumetric space in which they occurred. A computer model can be generated for a geospatially bound simulation space from the voxel database data. The computer model can include the social characteristics and cultural characteristics of the geospatially bound simulation space. The computer model can be used by a simulation device to model behavior of a simulated culturally linked population corresponding to the population for the real-world volumetric space. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202327 | Finite Difference Particulate Fluid Flow Algorithm Based on the Level Set Projection Framework - Using a level set projection method improves simulation of particulate fluid flow. The level set values are used to identify the particle-fluid boundary. The level set function is also used to evaluate the particle linear and angular momenta for the rigid particle projection. Governing fluid equations are solved in the solution domain, including in the region occupied by the rigid solid particle. The obtained velocity is rendered incompressible in the solution domain by doing the projection. The incompressible velocity field in the region occupied by the particle is further corrected to represent rigid body motion. This technique is further extended to embrace a particle collision scheme in a particulate fluid flow simulation. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202328 | System for the determination of selective absorbent molecules through predictive correlations - A method for determining absorbent molecules that are effective for the property of acid gas removal from feedstreams comprising a) determining a set of known molecules that are effective for acid gas removal, b) defining descriptive parameters (descriptors) that correlate with the structure of molecules with known acid gas removal, c) assigning a value to each descriptor for each of the known molecules and developing a quantitative structure and property relationship (QSPR), and d) generating molecular structures that will be effective for acid gas removal from the structure and property relationship. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202329 | Scenario State Processing Systems And Methods For Operation Within A Grid Computing Environment - Systems and methods are provided for generating multiple system state projections for one or more scenarios using a grid computing environment. A central coordinator software component executes on a root data processor and provides commands and data to a plurality of node coordinator software components. A node coordinator software component manages threads which execute on its associated node data processor and which perform a set of matrix operations. Stochastic simulations use results of the matrix operations to generate multiple state projections. Additional processing can be performed by the grid computing environment based upon the generated state projections, such as to develop risk information for users. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202330 | Compound Splitting - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for decompounding compound words are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a token that includes a sequence of characters, identifying two or more candidate sub-words that are constituents of the token, and one or more morphological operations that are required to transform the sub-words into the token, where at least one of the morphological operations involves a use of a non-dictionary word, and determining a cost associated with each sub-word and a cost associated with each morphological operation. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202331 | METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR EXTRACTING CHEMICAL DATA - Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and software for processing text documents and extracting chemical data therein. Preferred method embodiments comprise: (a) identifying and tagging one or more chemical compounds within a text document; (b) identifying and tagging physical properties related to one or more of those compounds; (c) translating one or more of those compounds into a chemical structure; (d) identifying and tagging one or more chemical reaction descriptions within the text document; and (e) extracting at least some of the tagged information and storing it in a database. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202332 | Knowledge System Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202333 | Knowledge System Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202334 | Knowledge System Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202335 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING A LEARNING FUNCTION TO FACILITATE CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS TEXT ENTRY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning function which facilitates providing proposed corrected output by the device in certain circumstances of erroneous input. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202336 | FIXED CODEBOOK SEARCHING APPARATUS AND FIXED CODEBOOK SEARCHING METHOD - A fixed codebook searching apparatus, includes a convolution operator, implemented by at least one processor, that convolves an impulse response of a perceptually weighted synthesis filter with an impulse response vector that has values at negative times, to generate a second impulse response vector that has values at negative times. A matrix generator, implemented by at least one processor, generates a Toeplitz-type convolution matrix using the second impulse response vector generated by the convolution operator. A searcher, implemented by at least one processor, performs a codebook search by maximizing a term using the Toeplitz-type convolution matrix. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202337 | Method and Discriminator for Classifying Different Segments of a Signal - For classifying different segments of a signal which has segments of at least a first type and second type, e.g. audio and speech segments, the signal is short-term classified on the basis of the at least one short-term feature extracted from the signal and a short-term classification result is delivered. The signal is also long-term classified on the basis of the at least one short-term feature and at least one long-term feature extracted from the signal and a long-term classification result is delivered. The short-term classification result and the long-term classification result are combined to provide an output signal indicating whether a segment of the signal is of the first type or of the second type. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNITION OF ALPHANUMERIC PATTERNS INCLUDING LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS - Voice recognition technology is combined with external information sources and/or contextual information to enhance the quality of voice recognition results specifically for the use case of reading out or speaking an alphanumeric identifier. The alphanumeric identifier may be associated with a good, service, person, account, or other entity. For example, the identifier may be a vehicle license plate number. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202339 | SPEECH SOUND DETECTION APPARATUS - A speech sound detection apparatus receives an input audio signal (as a sound reception unit), and computes input power that indicates a magnitude of the sound represented by the audio signal (as an input power computation unit). The apparatus estimates a correction function that is a continuous function defining a relation between a certain frequency and a correction coefficient used to approximate the input power computed at that frequency to the reference power predetermined for that frequency (as a correction function estimation unit). The apparatus corrects the input power at every frequency, based upon the correction coefficient that is obtained in accordance with the relation defined by the estimated correction function (as an input power correcting unit). The apparatus further determines whether or not the sound represented by the received audio signal is speech sound, based upon the corrected input power (as a speech sound detection unit). | 2011-08-18 |
20110202340 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION - A speaker verification method is proposed that first builds a general model of user utterances using a set of general training speech data. The user also trains the system by providing a training utterance, such as a passphrase or other spoken utterance. Then in a test phase, the user provides a test utterance which includes some background noise as well as a test voice sample. The background noise is used to bring the condition of the training data closer to that of the test voice sample by modifying the training data and a reduced set of the general data, before creating adapted training and general models. Match scores are generated based on the comparison between the adapted models and the test voice sample, with a final match score calculated based on the difference between the match scores. This final match score gives a measure of the degree of matching between the test voice sample and the training utterance and is based on the degree of matching between the speech characteristics from extracted feature vectors that make up the respective speech signals, and is not a direct comparison of the raw signals themselves. Thus, the method can be used to verify a speaker without necessarily requiring the speaker to provide an identical test phrase to the phrase provided in the training sample. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202341 | GRAMMAR WEIGHTING VOICE RECOGNITION INFORMATION - A device receives a voice recognition statistic from a voice recognition application and applies a grammar improvement rule based on the voice recognition statistic. The device also automatically adjusts a weight of the voice recognition statistic based on the grammar improvement rule, and outputs the weight adjusted voice recognition statistic for use in the voice recognition application. | 2011-08-18 |