| 47th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
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| 20120296573 | System and Method for Alkylation Process Analysis - A method and apparatus is provided for determining concentration of components in a liquid hydrocarbon mixture including hydrocarbons and water flowing through an alkylation process. A fluid flow path conveys the liquid continuously from the alkylation process through a first instrument configured for measuring a property of the liquid mixture, and having responsivities to concentration of the components, which are independent of the concentration of the water. A temperature detector generates temperature data for the liquid, and a second instrument measures another property of the liquid mixture. The instruments have mutually distinct responsivities to concentrations of the components. A processor captures data from the temperature detector and instruments, using the data with a model of responsivities of various concentrations of the components at various temperatures, to determine a temperature compensated concentration of the components while the liquid mixture flows continuously through the fluid flow path. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296574 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - The present invention provides an information management system suitable for a construction machine, which drives a solenoid valve separately from normal control to thereby make it possible to perform failure diagnosis for the solenoid valve and each sensor easily and with satisfactory accuracy. A controller has a failure diagnosis mode selected by a control panel of a display device. When the failure diagnosis mode is selected by the control panel and instructions for failure diagnosis related to a specific solenoid valve of a plurality of solenoid valves are given, the controller outputs a failure diagnosis drive signal to the specific solenoid valve, inputs an output value from a sensor related to the specific solenoid valve among a plurality of sensors, and displays, based on the output value from the specific sensor, information as to whether the specific solenoid valve and the specific sensor are normal on a display device. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296575 | DAMAGE TOLERANCE OF A ROTOR ASSEMBLY - A system is provided for improving the damage tolerance of a rotor assembly. The system includes one or more measurement subsystems for measuring the stresses in respective parts of the rotor assembly and issuing respective measurement signals. The system also includes a control subsystem for receiving the measurement signals from the measurement subsystems, determining a response to measured stresses indicative of crack growth, and issuing response signals. The system also includes one or more release subsystems for receiving respective response signals, and activating controlled release of material from respective parts of the rotor assembly to mitigate the effect of the crack growth. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296576 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a defect inspection device which includes: irradiating means for simultaneously irradiating different regions on a sample with illumination light under different optical conditions, the sample being predesigned to include patterns repeatedly formed thereupon, wherein the patterns are to be formed in the same shape; detection means for detecting, for each of the different regions, a beam of light reflected from each region irradiated with the illumination light; defect candidate extraction means for extracting defect candidates under the different optical conditions for each of the different regions, by processing detection signals corresponding to the reflected light which is detected; defect extraction means for extracting defects by integrating the defect candidates extracted under the different optical conditions; and defect classifying means for calculating feature quantities of the extracted defects and classifies the defects according to the calculated feature quantities. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296577 | MAGNETOELASTIC FORCE SENSORS, TRANSDUCERS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING BENDING STRESS - A new type of magnetoelastic device for sensing force is described. It comprises of two elements: a circumferentially magnetized member comprised of magnetoelastically active material mounted as a beam and loaded by the force to be sensed, and a magnetic field sensor mounted at or near the member's surface, preferentially at or near a longitudinal location where the bending moment is maximum and at a circumferential location where the bending stress is zero. Flexural loading causes a variation of the circumferential magnetization with angular position. This variation is the source of free poles, the field from which is a measure of the applied force. Testing demonstrates that the field intensity is a linear analog of the experienced bending stress over a significant range of applied push and pull forces. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296578 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN SITU FASTENER PRELOAD MEASUREMENT - A system for in situ fastener preload measurement. The system includes a length measuring tool adapted to grip a fastener by the axially opposed ends of the fastener, and a computing device coupled to the length measuring tool and comprising a database and a display. The length measuring tool is provided with tips adapted to seat in indentations disposed in the axially opposed ends of the fastener, with the indentations having a shape complementary to the shape of the tips, and the indentations being disposed such that the deepest points of the indentations are axially opposite each other. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296579 | TELEMATIC MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS USING HANDHELD DEVICE - A fluid analyzing system comprises a handheld device and a management system. The handheld device includes a fluid analysis control module and a telematics device. The fluid analysis control module is configured for initiating acquisition of a sample of a fluid and providing the sample to a microfluidic analyzer for conduction of a microfluidic analysis. The telematics device is coupled with the fluid analysis control module and configured with a wireless transceiver. The management system is located remotely from the telematics device, and configured for wirelessly receiving results of the microfluidic analysis transmitted from the telematics device. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296580 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING LEAKS IN LIQUID PIPE CONSTRUCTION - The present invention provides a system for identifying leaks in liquids pipe construction. The system is comprised of: At least one detection unit is positioned in proximity of at least one exit point of said pipe construction comprising an acoustic sensor and a wireless communication unit, an electronically controlled shutoff unit installed on an entrance point of the pipe construction, the unit comprising a valve, an acoustic sensor and wireless communication unit arranged for transmitting data of water flow and receiving control signals, a controller network device for receiving the measurement data from all sensors. The controller is programmed to detect leaks when identifying differences between the measured liquid flow at the entrance point and measured flow at the exit points. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DROP VOLUME - A computer-based apparatus, including: a memory element storing computer readable instructions; a processor; and a source element to expel a first plurality of drops of a substance with a known density through a medium, and under a set of conditions. The processor executes the computer readable instructions to calculate uncalibrated volumes for the first plurality of drops using respective images of drops in the first plurality of drops. The source element expels a second plurality of drops of the first substance through the medium, and under the first conditions. The processor executes the computer readable instructions to: calculate, using a weight for the second plurality of drops and the known density, actual volumes for the second plurality of drops; and generate, using uncalibrated volumes and the actual volumes, an equation to modify the uncalibrated volumes to match the actual volumes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296582 | APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING THE CONDITION OF A MACHINE HAVING A ROTATING PART - A method of operating an apparatus for analysing the condition of a machine having a part rotating with a speed of rotation (f | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296583 | TEST CARD AND MOTHERBOARD MONITORING SYSTEM - An exemplary test card includes a display unit for displaying a real time status of a number of electric power supply modules of a motherboard, and a programmable logic chip. The display unit includes at least one seven segment LED display. The programmable logic chip gains an effective data of the real time status, and drives the display unit to display the real time status based on the effective data. The real time status can indicate a normal working status, or an abnormal working status if one or more of the power supply modules is not working normally. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296584 | MPPT CONTROLLER, SOLAR BATTERY CONTROL DEVICE, SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM, MPPT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MPPT CONTROLLER - Even at an unknown power point, control by estimated maximum power point is carried out. An MPPT controller ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING VIRTUAL MACHINE ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption, and in particular, a method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption in a computer system. The method includes: obtaining system energy consumption of the system hardware resources; obtaining event information of a plurality of functional units into which the system hardware resources are divided, and mapping the event information to the respective virtual machines; and calculating energy consumption of the virtual machines according to a plurality of energy consumption coefficients corresponding to the plurality of functional units and according to the event information mapped to the functional units of the respective virtual machines. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296586 | METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING THE STATE OF HEALTH OF A BATTERY - A method for diagnosing the state of health of a battery includes, determining a first state-of-charge value from the battery voltage during partial discharge at constant current, determining a second state-of-charge value from the open circuit voltage of the battery, and calculating the state of health from the difference between the first and second state-of-charge values. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296587 | SMOOTH CURRENT CALCULATION APPARATUS, SMOOTH CURRENT CALCULATION METHOD AND BATTERY MONITORING MODULE - A smooth current calculation apparatus, which calculates a smooth current of a secondary battery, includes a digital low-pass filter ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296588 | RESISTOR MATRIX OFFSET COMPENSATION - A method of measuring resistance in each of a plurality of resistors in a resistor matrix is provided. Each resistor is located at a different intersection between a column conductor and a row conductor. The, the method includes determining an offset error row current of each row conductor, scanning each row conductor to identify if that row conductor is connected to a column conductor by one of the plurality of resistors, if that row conductor is connected to a column conductor by one of the plurality of resistors, scanning each resistor connected to that row conductor to determining if that resistor is connecting a column conductor to that row conductor, and if that resistor is connecting a column conductor to that row conductor, outputting an offset compensated resistance of that resistor calculated from the row current measured for that resistor less the offset error row current for that row conductor. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296589 | WAVEGUIDE, APPARATUS INCLUDING THE WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE WAVEGUIDE - Provided are a waveguide capable of suppressing strain and defect caused in a semiconductor in an initial stage or during operation due to a manufacturing process or the like to realize improvement and stabilization of characteristics such as oscillation characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the waveguide. A waveguide includes a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer that are composed of a negative dielectric constant medium having a negative real part of dielectric constant with respect to an electromagnetic wave in a waveguide mode, and a core layer that is in contact with and placed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer, and includes a semiconductor portion. At least the first conductor layer has a particular depressed and projected structure extending in an in-plane direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296590 | EVALUATING HIGH FREQUENCY TIME DOMAIN IN EMBEDDED DEVICE PROBING - A method and associated system for evaluating a high-frequency signal (S | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296591 | WAVEFRONT OPTICAL MEASURING APPARATUS - An apparatus for measuring a wavefront of light traveling through test optics includes: a light source; a lenslet array where light from the light source travels through; a detector array configured to acquire a light intensity distribution through the lenslet array; and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit executes data processing with the acquired light intensity distribution, the data processing comprising an estimation process using a beamlet-based propagation model or a ray-based propagation model as a forward propagation model. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296592 | MULTIPLE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT INSPECTS DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS - A multiple inspection system and method that inspects packages filled with at least two different medications that are to be consumed by a patient is described. The method includes filling each package with the at least two different medications. A package that is to be inspected is selected by a process control module. A first automated inspection examines the different medications with a first measurement device. A first measurement result is generated. A first automated inspection result is generated by comparing a first expected inspection value with the first measurement result. A second automated inspection having a second measurement device generates a second measurement result. A second automated inspection result is generated by comparing a second expected inspection value with the second measurement result. An analytical module then proceeds to compare the first automated inspection result and the second automated inspection result. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF ROTATING BLADES HAVING VARIABLE THICKNESS - A method and apparatus is disclosed for correlating signals generated by a sensor with a position of a plurality of rotating blades to determine turbine blade tip clearance and measurements. The sensor may be positioned in the housing of a turbine, and may be used to determine a radial clearance between the tips of a plurality of rotating turbine blades and a housing during turbine testing and/or operation. A method for using a plurality of sensors separated by a known distance is also disclosed. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296594 | PRESSURE DETECTION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a method and a device comprising a controller and a pressure sensor. The controller is configured to calibrate said pressure sensor based on a current position of said device and/or current pressure information received from a source. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296595 | COMPENSATING FOR SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO SPECTROPHOTOMETERS FOR ACCURATE COLOR MANAGEMENT - What is disclosed is a system and method for compensating for differences between two spectrophotometers for accurate color control in a color management system. In one example embodiment, at least one print is generated on the digital color printing system incorporating an inline spectral reflectance measurement sensor. A spectral reflectance of the print is measured using an inline spectral reflectance measurement sensor. Spectral reflectance of the print is measured using a selected offline spectral reflectance measurement sensor. From the measurements, a sensor correction model is determined which transforms spectral measurements obtained from the inline sensor into spectra approximating what the offline sensor would measure. The sensor correction model is used to perform color management on the digital color printing system such that print output of the digital color printing system is accurate when measured on the offline sensor. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296596 | MOBILE DEVICE - Provided is a mobile device including a magnetic sensor and a posture detection sensor for detecting a posture of the mobile device independently of the magnetic sensor, which acquires output data of the magnetic sensor as a plurality of sampling data items in a plurality of states in which the posture detection sensor determines that the mobile device is directed in directions different from one another, the plurality of sampling data items respectively corresponding to the plurality of states, and calculates an offset value which is estimated to be output by the magnetic sensor when the magnetic sensor is not sensing geomagnetism based on the acquired plurality of sampling data items. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296597 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING EQUIPMENT AND ADAPTERS FOR ELECTRICAL HARNESS TESTING - Methods and systems for distributing equipment and adapters for electrical harness testing. Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer aided design (CAD) automated method of arranging test equipment elements and determining test adapter cable lengths based on the physical locations of the test nodes in the unit under test. Using these methods/systems, test setups may be quickly evaluated. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296598 | COMPENSATING FOR JITTER DURING DDR3 MEMORY DELAY LINE TRAINING - A method for compensating for jitter during DDR3 delay line training may include using a computer or processor to perform the steps of executing a plurality of tests for each one of a plurality of delay values for an interconnect delay between a Double-Data-Rate Three (DDR3) memory controller and a DDR3 Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM); accumulating a plurality of test results for each plurality of tests for each one of the plurality of delay values; determining a plurality of final test results, where each final test result is associated with an accumulated plurality of test results; and determining a working window edge for the interconnect delay between the DDR3 memory controller and the DDR3 SDRAM utilizing the plurality of final test results. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296599 | TEMPERATURE SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A temperature sensing system used to test the temperature of a surface of a to-be-tested object includes an image capturing unit to capture an image of a base supporting the to-be-tested object. A host obtains and displays the captured image, and maps the image to a coordinate system. Each point of the image corresponds to a coordinate of the coordinate system. The host further determines the coordinate of a selected point of the displayed image. A temperature sensing unit senses the temperature of the surface of the to-be-tested object according to the coordinate of the selected point of the displayed image. A method for sensing the temperature of surface of a to-be-tested object is also provided. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296600 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING ACOUSTIC COEFFICIENTS AND ACOUSTIC POWER - A method for determining the acoustic absorption coefficient and/or the transmission coefficient at a chosen position in a space in which a certain sound field prevails as a result of the operation of a sound-emitting source. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296601 | Method and apparatus for monitoring motion of a substatially rigid - A method and apparatus for monitoring motion of a substantially rigid body relative to at a first location, in which linear and rotational motions are sensed by one or more motion sensors attached to the substantially rigid body at other locations. The sensed rotation is used to compensate for the angular and centripetal acceleration components in the sensed linear motion. In one embodiment, the components are estimated explicitly from the sensed rotation. In a further embodiment, the sensed rotations are used to estimate the relative orientations of two or more sensors, enabling the linear motions to be combined so as to cancel the angular and centripetal accelerations. A reference sensor may be used for in-situ calibration. When the substantially rigid body is a human head, the reference sensor may be coupled to a helmet or mouthguard. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296602 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes a living body detection unit configured to detect approaching of a living body based on a detection output depending on a distance to the living body, an operation unit configured to receive an operation command from a user, a history recording unit configured to record a history of a detection output of the living body detection unit and a history of an operation performed on the operation unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a threshold value of the detection output, the threshold value being used by the living body detection unit as a determination reference value in determining whether a living body is detected, the determination of the threshold value being made based on the history recorded in the history recording unit as to the detection output of the living body detection unit and as to the operation performed on the operation unit. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296603 | SENSOR ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT WITH RESPECT TO PEDESTRIAN MOTION DIRECTION - Systems and methods are described for measuring orientation of sensors associated with a mobile device with respect to pedestrian motion of a user of the mobile device. An example technique described herein includes obtaining acceleration information associated with the mobile device, partitioning the acceleration information according to respective detected pedestrian steps of the user, identifying a forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device based on the acceleration information and the detected pedestrian steps, and computing a misalignment angle between the forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device and an orientation of the mobile device. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296604 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSING - A sensing device for sensing a substance includes a photonics integrated circuit having a resonator element that supports two different radiation modes, e.g. radiation modes of different polarisation, at a predetermined resonance wavelength. The resonator element is configured to convert a phase change or amplitude change experienced by the two different radiation modes upon formation of a layer of receptor molecules onto a sensing surface of the device into a resonance wavelength shift for the two different radiation modes. The sensing device also includes a detection unit arranged to detect the resonance wavelength shift for the two different radiation modes. The detection unit includes a processor that is configured to derive from the detected resonance wavelength shifts for the two different radiation modes, a layer thickness and refractive index of the layer of receptor molecules. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296605 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION ON SENSOR DATA FOR HIGH SYSTEM AVAILABILITY - Provided is a method applied to a system including a plurality of sensors, a proxy, and a server. The method includes: measuring objects by the plurality of sensors to obtain first measurement values; computing a correlation among the first measurement values by the server based on the first measurement values; computing an actual measurement value of a second measurement value by the proxy based on the first measurement values and a given function; verifying the plurality of sensors by setting one or more sensors as verification target sensors in turn by the server at predetermined timing; computing a predicted value of the second measurement value by the server based on the correlation and the first measurement values obtained from the other sensors; and outputting the predicted value of the second measurement value instead of the actual measurement value thereof at least during the verification of the verification target sensors. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296606 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION ON SENSOR DATA FOR HIGH SYSTEM AVAILABILITY - Provided is a system including sensors to measure objects to obtain first measurement values, respectively. A first server computes a correlation among the first measurement values based on the first measurement values. A proxy computes an actual measurement value of a second measurement value based on the first measurement values and a given function. A second server verifies the sensors by setting one or more sensors as verification target sensors in turn at predetermined timing. The second server computes a predicted value of the second measurement value based on the correlation and the first measurement values obtained from the other sensors except the verification target sensors among the plurality of sensors. The first or second servers and the proxy outputs the predicted value of the second measurement value instead of the actual measurement value thereof during the verification of the verification target sensors if an anomalous sensor is identified. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296607 | INTELLIGENT GRID COMMUNICATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system for communication network management of a utility grid includes a database configured to store a grid information data set, where the grid information data set includes network device information for the utility grid and a network management system executable by a processor to: receive an event message from one or more network devices indicative of one or more failures in a communication network of the utility grid; retrieve the grid information data set; identify one or more network device associated with the one or more failures based on the grid information data set; transmit a request for a response to the identified one or more network devices; determine a response pattern based on responses from the identified one or more network devices in order to identify a cause of the failure based on the response pattern. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296608 | SAMPLING RATE CONVERTING APPARATUS AND SAMPLING RATE CONVERTING METHOD - A sampling rate converting apparatus that performs sampling frequency conversion includes: a sampling-phase detecting unit configured to calculate a sampling phase based on sampling timing after the sampling frequency conversion for each operation reference clock, based on a ratio of a frequency of an operation reference clock and a sampling frequency after the sampling frequency conversion; a sampling-clock detecting unit configured to detect a sampling period based on the sampling phase; a poliphase filter configured to apply filtering to an input signal and generate a signal after the sampling frequency conversion, based on the sampling period; and a filter-coefficient control unit configured to set a filter coefficient in the poliphase filter, based on the sampling phase. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296609 | Systems and methods for displaying a unified representation of performance related data - A system and method for displaying a unified representation of performance related data for a building are disclosed. The system includes a sensor network for collecting data in the building and a computing device for generating and displaying a unified representation of performance related data on a display. The performance related data may include the raw data collected by the sensor network or data generated by simulation programs based on the raw data collected by the sensor network. The computing device displays the performance related data in the context of a graphical representation of a three-dimensional model of the building as defined in a building information model (BIM). The computing device generates the graphical representation using an ambient occlusion rendering technique and then incorporates the performance related data either using a direct rendering technique or a transient geometry technique. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296610 | OCCUPANT CENTRIC CAPTURE AND VISUALIZATION OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE DATA - A computer implemented method for 3-D visualization of a building module and building related data includes receiving attributes of a plurality of building modules from a building information model and receiving data inputs from a plurality of sensors located in at least a subset of the plurality of building modules. The building related data is calculated for each of the plurality of building modules based on the data inputs. A 3-D visualization data of a selected building module in the plurality of building modules is generated for display on a computer screen. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296611 | System and Methods for Structure Design, Analysis, and Implementation - A computer-implemented system for designing a structure and coordinating its implementation is disclosed. The system includes a design workspace, a design engine which receives various inputs and produces a structure design for display in the design workspace, a requirements providing structure design requirement rules to the design engine for producing the structure design, and a cell source providing a definition of a cell that forms a portion of the structure design. The cell is configured to be assembled together with other cells to form the structure design. An attributes engine quantifies measures of various attributes of a structure based on the structure design during the process of designing the structure, and displays the quantified measures in a dashboard user interface. Optimization engines for analyzing the structure design, and proposing alternative designs is provided. The design may be optimized for various criteria, including the attributes quantified by the attributes engine. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296612 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DIGITALLY SHORTENING OF A CAP OF A DENTAL BRIDGE AND A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Computer-implemented method for digitally shortening a cap of a dental bridge comprising steps of (a) loading 3D data of the bridge from a computer-readable storage medium or generating 3D data of the bridge with a modelling software, the 3D data comprising cap data and bar data; (b) determining intersection points of a bar with geometrical features of the cap; and in case that a further bar is attached to the cap, repeating step (b); (c) determining from said intersection points an intersection point with the biggest z value; (d) performing a cut of the cap along a cutting surface, the location of which is based on said intersection point with the biggest z value; (e) defining data of a portion of the cap below the cutting surface as shortened cap. Further disclosed is a computer-readable medium for performing the method steps. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296613 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A DENTAL RESTORATION - A method for designing a dental restoration of a type comprising a dental implant, a dental super structure, and a dental abutment for connecting the implant and the super structure. The method comprises the steps of retrieving a predetermined computer model of an abutment, using a user-created computer representation of a surface of the dental implant for providing a computer representation of an implant receiving surface, and for providing the predetermined abutment model with the implant receiving surface representation to provide a user-adapted abutment model. The method may help minimizing the time and costs in the preparation of a dental restoration. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296614 | METHOD FOR SETTING FUNCTION PARAMETERS - A method for setting function parameters of a control unit for a motor vehicle, in which at least one target variable is predefined in a weighting characteristics map, the target variables representing a behavior of the motor vehicle, and an assignment to a model of optimum parameters being provided in the weighting characteristics map so that predefined target variables are assigned to a set of optimum parameters which are set as the function parameters. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296615 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING FLUID FLOW AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for simulating fluid flow includes: discretizing a space in which a fluid flows into a regular lattice; assuming that fluid particles repetitively move and collide in the lattice; deriving a univariate polynomial equation by comparing the n-th (n is a non-negative integer) order momentum of velocity between the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and the discretized Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; calculating the weight coefficients corresponding to the discrete velocities of the fluid particles based on the univariate polynomial equation; and deriving a lattice Boltzmann model using the weight coefficients. A lattice Boltzmann model with superior stability and accuracy may be derived easily. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296616 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLUID SIMULATION METHOD - A three-dimensional fluid simulation method is disclosed wherein: a first mesh of a flow domain non-uniformly split with respect to each of three degrees of freedom is defined; a second mesh uniformly sprit with respect to only one of the three degrees of freedom but non-uniformly with respect to other two degrees is defined; an object model is set in the first mesh and a motion equation is formed and calculated to obtain fluid velocity; based on the fluid velocity, flow imbalance is computed for each cell; based on the flow imbalance, fluid pressure correction equation is formed; the flow imbalance is mapped onto the second mesh and the fluid pressure correction is computed; the fluid pressure correction is mapped onto the first mesh; and until the flow imbalance and motion equations are converged the computation is repeated. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296617 | Methods For Characterization Of Petroleum Fluid And Application Thereof - An improved method that performs downhole fluid analysis of the fluid properties of a reservoir of interest and that characterizes the reservoir of interest based upon such downhole fluid analysis. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296618 | Multiscale Geologic Modeling of a Clastic Meander Belt Including Asymmetry Using Multi-Point Statistics - Facies modeling with multi-point statistics (MPS) is used for modeling the outline and internal geometry of a sand belt deposited by high sinuosity, meandering river channels, covering all three different scales relevant to describe the heterogeneity of properties affecting fluid flow in the sand belt. The full complexity of real sediments can be modeled if symmetry and geometric opposition are analyzed and used to condition the modeling processes at each of the scales with auxiliary variables to produce realistic results. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296619 | Method and System For Partitioning Parallel Simulation Models - A method is presented for partitioning a simulation model into a plurality of subdomains that may each be assigned to one of a plurality of processors. The method includes creating a representation of a topology graph of a simulation model in a tangible, computer readable medium. The topology graph includes a plurality of computational elements and a plurality of connections between those elements. Each of the plurality of connections is weighted to create a plurality of weights, and each of the plurality of weights is scaled. Optionally, the weights can be mapped to different interval of values. Based on the weights information the topology graph is partitioned into two or more subdomains, wherein a partition boundary follows a local topographical minimum in the topology graph. A subdomain is assigned to each of the plurality of processors. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296620 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLANNING AN ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURE WITH A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A device and a method for planning an endovascular procedure are proposed. A medical instrument, particularly a catheter, is introduced into a vessel and is guided to its place of application via the vessel. Vessel diameters and bend radiuses along a plotted vessel course are automatically determined from the volume data set of the medical imaging and compared with a maximum diameter and minimum bend radius of the medical instrument planned for use. Points or regions within the plotted vessel course which have too low a vessel diameter or bend radius are subsequently highlighted in color in an image display of the vascular tree or vessel course. The user immediately detects critical areas and can if necessary change his or her plan or resort to an instrument with different geometric data. The method and the device make planning the endovascular procedure possible even for inexperienced users. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296621 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF ACUTE HEART FAILURE MORTALITY - Various embodiments are described herein for a device and a method that can be used to determine a Heart Failure (HF) risk score for an individual with a risk of acute heart failure. The technique comprises employing a HF risk model that uses demographic, transportation, vital signs, blood test, medication and pre-existing co-morbid information to determine the HF risk score for the individual. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296622 | SIMULATING APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A device to simulate an integrated circuit (IC) includes a main body, a simulating signal generating module, and a converting module. The simulating signal generating module is positioned on the main body and generates signals indicative of signals of the IC. The converting module is positioned on the main body and converts the signals from digital to analog form. The connecting board is assembled to the main body and sends the converted signals to a printed circuit board (PCB). | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296623 | MACHINE TRANSPORT AND EXECUTION OF LOGIC SIMULATION - A processing architecture and methods are disclosed in which a simulation state vector can be contained in a common memory, formatted in a known form, distributed in a deterministic bus to a sea of logic processors, and returned to the common memory through the deterministic bus. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296624 | Monitoring Enterprise Performance - The techniques provided herein include obtaining a model of an enterprise operation that specifies initiation and one or more evolution milestones of one or more business entities, formulating one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation, wherein the one or more performance metrics are calculated from the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and one or more relevant external events, and using the one or more business entities and one or more performance metrics to automatically create an executable performance monitoring model for the enterprise operation, wherein the executable performance monitoring model processes data in the one or more business entities, the one or more evolution milestones, and the one or more relevant external events to compute the one or more performance metrics for the enterprise operation. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296625 | INPUT/OUTPUT PROCESSOR (IOP) BASED ZSERIES EMULATION - The emulation of a data processing I/O protocol employs a process which obviates the need to consider hardware specific functionality for which emulation is not an optimal solution. The particular protocol described in exemplary fashion herein is the OSA protocol as defined by Open System Adapter standards. The use of this emulation is also seen to leave in place all of the software tools otherwise employed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296626 | INSTRUCTION SET EMULATION FOR GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS - The described implementations relate to virtual computing techniques. One implementation provides a technique that can include receiving a request to execute an application. The application can include first application instructions from a guest instruction set architecture. The technique can also include loading an emulator and a guest operating system into an execution context with the application. The emulator can translate the first application instructions into second application instructions from a host instruction set architecture. The technique can also include running the application by executing the second application instructions. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296627 | UNIVERSAL TEXT INPUT - The universal text input technique described herein addresses the difficulties of typing text in various languages and scripts, and offers a unified solution, which combines character conversion, next word prediction, spelling correction and automatic script switching to make it extremely simple to type any language from any device. The technique provides a rich and seamless input experience in any language through a universal IME (input method editor). It allows a user to type in any script for any language using a regular qwerty keyboard via phonetic input and at the same time allows for auto-completion and spelling correction of words and phrases while typing. The technique also provides a modeless input that automatically turns on and off an input mode that changes between different types of script. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296628 | FEED TRANSLATION FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system and method for translating a social feed is disclosed. The system comprises a communication module, a decoding engine and a re-encoding engine. The communication module receives social feed data and a request from a social network application. The social feed data is configured to cause a client to display a social feed in a first language. The request includes data indicating that the social feed should be displayed in a second language. The decoding engine decodes the social feed data to generate decoded social feed data. The re-encoding engine re-encodes the decoded social feed data to cause the client to display the social feed in the second language based at least in part on the request. The communication module sends the translated social feed data to the client. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296629 | FAST-AND-ENGAGING, REAL-TIME TRANSLATION USING A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - The teachings described herein generally relate to a multilingual electronic translation of a source phrase to a destination language selected from multiple languages, and this can be accomplished through the use of a network environment. The electronic translation can occur as a spoken translation, can be in real-time, and can mimic the voice of the user of the system. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296630 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Software Interface Localization Between Multiple Languages - In one aspect, there is provided a system having a processor and a data storage device coupled to the processor. The data storage device stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a software module, the software module having an interface adapted to display a plurality of first graphemes in a first language, provide at least one look-up table having at least some of the first graphemes and a plurality of second graphemes in a second language associated therewith, said association being based on a phonetic similarly between the first and second graphemes when the first graphemes are vocalized in the first language and the second graphemes are vocalized in the second language, and replace at least one of the first graphemes in the interface with the associated second graphemes such that the interface is adapted to display the second graphemes in the second language, the second graphemes being understandable in the first language when the second graphemes are vocalized. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296631 | DISPLAYING KEY PINYINS - Methods, systems, devices, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon, for displaying key pinyins are provided. Pinyins are words and/or symbols that represent a pronunciation of a character. The character may be a Chinese character. A single page of a user interface of a device may display dynamic updates of key pinyins that are associated with a desired pinyin and dynamic updates of one or more characters that are associated with a desired pinyin. Additional embodiments may provide the associated pinyins and/or characters in a single page that is scrollable at varying speeds depending on a received gesture. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296632 | TECHNOLOGY FOR SELECTING TEXTS SUITABLE AS PROCESSING OBJECTS - There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple texts; an index calculation unit that, with respect to each of the multiple phrases, calculates a larger index for a text having the highest of priorities preset among texts including the phrase, then indexes for other texts; and an output unit that selects texts each having a larger sum of sums of the calculated index for each text and outputs a group of the selected texts. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296633 | SYNTAX-BASED AUGMENTATION OF STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION PHRASE TABLES - Machine translation phrase table augmentation embodiments are described that employ an automatic syntax-based scheme to produce additional phrase pairs and insert them into a phrase table. One general process implementing this augmentation involves inputting one or more syntactic transfer patterns, and for each pattern synthesizing phrases in a source language of the type associated with the pattern using a source language lexicon. Phrases, such as those not found in a monolingual corpus of the source language, are eliminated from the synthesized phrases. Each of the remaining synthesized phrases is then translated into the target language using the syntactic transfer pattern, a bilingual source-to-target language dictionary, and a morphological synthesizer. Those translated phrases not found in a monolingual corpus of the target language are then eliminated. Phrase pairs made up of a remaining translated phrase and its corresponding source language phrase are then added to the phrase table being augmented. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING AND MODERATING USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - Exemplary embodiments provide systems, devices and methods for computer-based categorization and moderation of user-generated content for publication of the content in an online environment. Exemplary embodiments automatically determine a probability value indicating that the user-generated content is either a positive example or a negative example of one or more unsuitable categories. If the user-generated content is determined to be a positive example of any of the unsuitable categories to a predefined degree of certainty, exemplary embodiments may automatically exclude the content from publication in the online environment. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296635 | USER-MODIFIABLE WORD LATTICE DISPLAY FOR EDITING DOCUMENTS AND SEARCH QUERIES - An “Interactive Word Lattice” provides a user interface for interacting with and selecting user-modifiable paths through a lattice-based representation of alternative suggested text segments in response to a user's text segment input, such as phrases, sentences, paragraphs, entire documents, etc. More specifically, the user input is provided to a trained paraphrase generation model that returns a plurality of alternative text segments having the same or similar meaning as the original user input. An interactive graphical lattice-based representation of the alternative text segments is then presented to the user. One or more words of each alternative text segment represents a “node” of the lattice, while each connection between nodes represents a lattice “edge. Both nodes and edges are user modifiable. Each possible path through the lattice corresponds to a different alternative text segment. Users select a path through the lattice to select an alternative text to the original input. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296636 | TAXONOMY AND APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING - Words can be identified in text. Membership numerical values for the words can be determined in categories, or in communication types generated using those categories. The membership numerical values for the words can then be used to generate a signature. The signature can then be used to identify documents with a similar attitude. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING TOPICAL CATEGORIZATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS IN A COLLECTION - A computer implemented method calculates topical categorization of electronic documents in a collection. A processor applies a metric to categorize semantic distance between two sections of a document or between two documents. The processor executes a topic algorithm using the categorization provided by the metric to determine topic boundaries. Topics are extracted based upon the topic boundaries; and the extracted topics are compared for similarity with topics in other documents for organizational and research purposes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296638 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUICKLY RECOGNIZING AND RESPONDING TO USER INTENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUT USING INTELLIGENT HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING AND PERSONALIZED ADAPTIVE SEMANTIC INTERFACE - In embodiments of the present invention, capabilities are described for understanding and responding to the user intent and questions quickly wherein the understanding is based on supervised system learning, Intelligent layered semantic and syntactic information processing and personalized adaptive semantic interface. Supervised system learning creates reference pattern set for the intent repository and possible question categories. Each layer in the layered processing increases the probability of the intent/question recognition. Personalized adaptive voice interface learns from user's interactions over time by enriching the pattern sets and personal index for successfully resolved user intents and questions. Collectively, all these technologies improve the response time for correctly recognizing and responding to user's intents and questions. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296639 | Verification of Extracted Data - Facts are extracted from speech and recorded in a document using codings. Each coding represents an extracted fact and includes a code and a datum. The code may represent a type of the extracted fact and the datum may represent a value of the extracted fact. The datum in a coding is rendered based on a specified feature of the coding. For example, the datum may be rendered as boldface text to indicate that the coding has been designated as an “allergy.” In this way, the specified feature of the coding (e.g., “allergy”-ness) is used to modify the manner in which the datum is rendered. A user inspects the rendering and provides, based on the rendering, an indication of whether the coding was accurately designated as having the specified feature. A record of the user's indication may be stored, such as within the coding itself. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296640 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD - Disclosed are an encoding device and encoding method capable of improving the quality of a decoded signal under very low bit rate conditions using a small amount of computation. A spectrum correction unit ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296641 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR WIDEBAND ENCODING AND DECODING OF INACTIVE FRAMES - Speech encoders and methods of speech encoding are disclosed that encode inactive frames at different rates. Apparatus and methods for processing an encoded speech signal are disclosed that calculate a decoded frame based on a description of a spectral envelope over a first frequency band and the description of a spectral envelope over a second frequency band, in which the description for the first frequency band is based on information from a corresponding encoded frame and the description for the second frequency band is based on information from at least one preceding encoded frame. Calculation of the decoded frame may also be based on a description of temporal information for the second frequency band that is based on information from at least one preceding encoded frame. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296642 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR TEMPORAL SPEECH SCORING - A method and apparatus for speech analysis, comprising detecting an at least one temporal characteristic of an at least one speech of an at least one speaker, and deducing an at least one quantitative score from the at least one temporal characteristic, where the at least one quantitative score indicates an at least one extent of an at least one behavioral aspect of the at least one speaker. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296643 | GEOTAGGED ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIO FOR ENHANCED SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to an utterance recorded by a mobile device, determining a geographic location associated with the mobile device, identifying a set of geotagged audio signals that correspond to environmental audio associated with the geographic location, weighting each geotagged audio signal of the set of geotagged audio signals based on metadata associated with the respective geotagged audio signal, and using the set of weighted geotagged audio signals to perform noise compensation on the audio signal that corresponds to the utterance. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296644 | Hybrid Speech Recognition - A hybrid speech recognition system uses a client-side speech recognition engine and a server-side speech recognition engine to produce speech recognition results for the same speech. An arbitration engine produces speech recognition output based on one or both of the client-side and server-side speech recognition results. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296645 | Distributed Speech Recognition Using One Way Communication - A speech recognition client sends a speech stream and control stream in parallel to a server-side speech recognizer over a network. The network may be an unreliable, low-latency network. The server-side speech recognizer recognizes the speech stream continuously. The speech recognition client receives recognition results from the server-side recognizer in response to requests from the client. The client may remotely reconfigure the state of the server-side recognizer during recognition. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296646 | MULTI-MODE TEXT INPUT - Concepts and technologies are described herein for multi-mode text input. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, content is received. The content can include one or more input indicators. The input indicators can indicate that user input can be used in conjunction with consumption or use of the content. The application is configured to analyze the content to determine context associated with the content and/or the client device executing the application. The application also is configured to determine, based upon the content and/or the contextual information, which input device to use to obtain input associated with use or consumption of the content. Input captured with the input device can be converted to text and used during use or consumption of the content. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296647 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a converting unit; a selecting unit; a dividing unit; a generating unit; and a display processing unit. The converting unit recognizes a voice input from a user into a character string. The selecting unit selects characters from the character string according to designation of the user. The dividing unit converts the selected characters into phonetic characters and divides the phonetic characters into phonetic characters of sound units. The generating unit extracts similar character candidates corresponding to each of the divided phonetic characters of the sound units, from a similar character dictionary storing a plurality of phonetic characters of sound units similar in sound as the similar character candidates in association with each other, and generates correction character candidates for the selected characters. The display processing unit makes a display unit display the generated correction character candidates selectable by the user. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296648 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE N-BEST STRINGS - Systems and methods for identifying the N-best strings of a weighted automaton. A potential for each state of an input automaton to a set of destination states of the input automaton is first determined. Then, the N-best paths are found in the result of an on-the-fly determinization of the input automaton. Only the portion of the input automaton needed to identify the N-best paths is determinized. As the input automaton is determinized, a potential for each new state of the partially determinized automaton is determined and is used in identifying the N-best paths of the determinized automaton, which correspond exactly to the N-best strings of the input automaton. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296649 | Digital Signatures for Communications Using Text-Independent Speaker Verification - A speaker-verification digital signature system is disclosed that provides greater confidence in communications having digital signatures because a signing party may be prompted to speak a text-phrase that may be different for each digital signature, thus making it difficult for anyone other than the legitimate signing party to provide a valid signature. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296650 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VOICE RECOGNITION SERVICES USING A CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and article of manufacture for adjusting a language model within a voice recognition system, based on text received from an external application. The external application may supply text representing the words of one participant to a text-based conversation. n such a case, changes may be made to a language model by analyzing the external text received from the external application. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296651 | USER AUTHENTICATION BY COMBINING SPEAKER VERIFICATION AND REVERSE TURING TEST - Methods and system for authenticating a user are disclosed. The present invention includes accessing a collection of personal information related to the user. The present invention also includes performing an authentication operation that is based on the collection of personal information. The authentication operation incorporates at least one dynamic component and prompts the user to give an audible utterance. The audible utterance is compared to a stored voiceprint. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296652 | OBTAINING INFORMATION ON AUDIO VIDEO PROGRAM USING VOICE RECOGNITION OF SOUNDTRACK - A method for obtaining information on an audio video program being presented on a consumer electronics (CE) device includes receiving at the CE device a viewer command to recognize the audio video program being presented on the CE device. The method also includes receiving signals from a microphone representative of audio from the audio video program as sensed by the microphone as the audio is played real time on the CE device. The method then includes executing voice recognition on the signals from the microphone to determine words in the audio from the audio video program as sensed by the microphone. Words are then uploaded to an Internet server, where they are correlated to at least one audio video script. The method then includes receiving back from the Internet server information correlated by the server using the words to the audio video program. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296653 | SPEECH RECOGNITION OF CHARACTER SEQUENCES - A method of and a system for processing speech. A spoken utterance of a plurality of characters can be received. A plurality of known character sequences that potentially correspond to the spoken utterance can be selected. Each selected known character sequence can be scored based on, at least in part, a weighting of individual characters that comprise the known character sequence. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY IMPROVING USER INTELLIGIBILITY OF SYNTHESIZED SPEECH IN A WORK ENVIRONMENT - Method and apparatus that dynamically adjusts operational parameters of a text-to-speech engine in a speech-based system. A voice engine or other application of a device provides a mechanism to alter the adjustable operational parameters of the text-to-speech engine. In response to one or more environmental conditions, the adjustable operational parameters of the text-to-speech engine are modified to increase the intelligibility of synthesized speech. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296655 | PREDICTIVE PRE-RECORDING OF AUDIO FOR VOICE INPUT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing predictive pre-recording of audio for voice input. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors of a mobile device while the mobile device is operating in an inactive state, determining that a user of the mobile device is interacting with the mobile device based on the sensor data, invoking voice input functionality of the mobile device in response to determining that the user of the mobile device is interacting with the mobile device, detecting a voice input, and activating the mobile device in response to detecting the voice input. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296656 | ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER FOR A CONFIGURABLE AUDIO CODING SYSTEM - An adaptive controller for a configurable audio coding system comprising a fuzzy logic controller modified to use reinforcement learning to create an intelligent control system. With no knowledge of the external system into which it is placed the audio coding system, under the control of the adaptive controller, is capable of adapting its coding configuration to achieve user set performance goals. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296657 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO PROCESSING USING SINGLE-CHANNEL COMPONENTS - Processing multi-channel audio streams using one or more arrangements of single-channel components. Components that only process the near-end, or capture stream, such as noise suppression (NS) components, are limited in how they can be suitably arranged for processing multi-channel streams. However, components that process the near-end stream using one or more inputs from the far-end, or render stream, such as acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and automatic gain control (AGC) components, are arranged in one or more of the ways suitable for use with multiple channels. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296658 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME MULTIDIMENSIONAL ADAPTATION OF AN AUDIO CODING SYSTEM - An adaptive controller for a configurable audio coding system including a fuzzy logic controller modified to use reinforcement learning to create an intelligent control system. With no knowledge of the external system into which it is placed the audio coding system, under the control of the adaptive controller, is capable of adapting its coding configuration to achieve user set performance goals. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296659 | ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, SPECTRUM FLUCTUATION CALCULATION METHOD, AND SPECTRUM AMPLITUDE ADJUSTMENT METHOD - Disclosed is an encoding device whereby it is possible to improve the quality of an encoded signal, even when encoding music signals. In the encoding device, a Code-Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) encoder ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296660 | Method of Limiting Health Care Costs - A method for limiting health care costs is provided. Patient data may be gathered to form a medical metric. The metric may be used to limit a patient's health care so that health care costs do not exceed an allowable threshold. The health care metric may contain limitations based on costs, availability of health care resources, or patient history. The method may also be used to limit anticipated health care costs by first predicting a patient's health care requirements, then controlling the amount or level of the health care used to meet those requirements. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296661 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING HEALTH CARE BILLING AND PAYMENT - Systems and methods for managing health care billing and payment are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes defining a health care billing and payment plan for one or more employees and a health care provider. The employees may be employed by the same corporation. The method also includes providing identification cards to the employees. Further, the method includes using one of the cards to transact with the health care provider for health care service provided to one of the employees. The method also includes conducting a payment transaction between the corporation and the health care provider such that the corporation pays for the health care service in accordance with the health care billing and payment plan. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296662 | HEALTHCARE AND WELLNESS WEB PLATFORM - A method for a healthcare and wellness web platform includes storing a health information document of a user on a web platform in response to a health information request. The stored health information document is controllable by the user. The method includes representing a plurality of healthcare providers as members of a healthcare team on the web platform. The healthcare team may be specific to the user. The method includes granting access to the health information document to the plurality of members of the healthcare team according to configurable criteria. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296663 | POINT OF SERVICE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT FOR SERVICE FACILITIES - The present invention enables the collection by credit/debit card payment of customer co-pay and self-pay charges via an integrated point-of-service transaction management system and method. The system and method of the present invention may assist health care facilities in the collection of co-pay and self-pay charges at the time service is rendered. The present invention can be implemented anywhere cash, checks, credit cards or debit cards are accepted for payment. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296664 | METHOD FOR ORGANIZING CLINICAL TRIAL DATA - A method for creating multiple tagged clinical trial data and a tool therefrom is disclosed. The method comprises receiving clinical trial information from different sources, and removing redundancies from the clinical trial information received from the plurality of sources to form collated clinical trial data. The method further involves baseline tagging of the collated clinical data using non-indication parameters, creating a disease specific list of indication parameters, where indication parameters are classified into at least main indication parameters and sub indication parameters. The method further includes advanced tagging of the collated clinical trial data using indication parameters and creating multiple tagged clinical data using baseline tagging and advanced tagging. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296665 | INCENTIVE PROGRAM - A method of establishing a referral network for the enrollment of individuals in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan comprising identifying an age-eligible population; developing and implementing recruiting strategies to establish a relationship with the age-eligible population; and generating potential members from the age-eligible population for enrollment in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan as senior class members; and engaging senior class members to become ambassadors that represent the geriatric healthcare insurance plan to other potential members. Ambassadors may be remunerated under an incentive program which pays a predetermined bonus for every potential member that enrolls in the geriatric healthcare insurance plan due to the direct or indirect participation of the ambassador prior to the potential member's actual enrollment. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296666 | Method and Apparatus for Verification of Medication Administration Adherence - A system and method of confirming administration of medication is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving information identifying a particular medication prescription regimen, determining one or more procedures for administering such prescription regimen and identifying one or more activity sequences associated with such procedures. Activity sequences of actual administration of such prescription regimen are captured and then compared to the identified activity sequences to determine differences therebetween. A notice is provided if differences are determined. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296667 | Connecting Consumers with Service Providers - A set of answers is received to a series of questions sent to a consumer of services, the set of answers to the series of questions is analyzed in a computer to identify types of service providers that can provide services to the consumer based on the received answers, and an agenda is produced, the agenda including the identified types of service providers and topics for the consumer of services to discuss with a service provider of each type, with the topics determined at least in part based on the answers. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296668 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF AUTOMATED PATIENT CHECK-IN, SCHEDULING AND PREPAYMENT - A system is provided that receives a first message from a patient device containing patient information comprising at least one of demographic, health insurance, medication, and medical history and requesting an appointment with a first health care provider. If the first message does not designate a provider for the requested appointment, the system lists providers for review and selection. The system determines that the first provider one of designated and selected is a subscriber to automated check-in services provided by the system. The system verifies patient health insurance coverage and determines patient deductible balance and insurer copayment requirement, contacts the first provider, provides the patient information, and requests available appointment dates and times and patient account information. The system sends a second message to the device providing available appointment dates and times and requesting payment for an amount owed and receives appointment selection and payment instructions for the amount owed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296669 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED MAPPING AND INTEGRATED WORKFLOW OF A CONTROLLED MEDICAL VOCABULARY - Systems, methods, and apparatus provide clinical terminology services including a controlled medical vocabulary supplemented by local clinical content. An example method includes accessing an initial controlled medical vocabulary including at least one external terminology via a vocabulary management server; processing local clinical content including unstructured local clinical content provided via an importer framework; analyzing and extracting the unstructured local clinical content using a text analyzer and extraction tool to generate one or more proposed terms; identifying one or more synonyms for the one or more proposed terms and placing the one or more synonyms into a queue to be added to the controlled medical vocabulary; reviewing the one or more synonyms; and adding one or more synonyms to the controlled medical vocabulary with placement and relationship based on analyzing unstructured local clinical content to automatically map between the at least one external terminology and the local clinical content. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296670 | LEARNING TOOL FOR A TARGET GROUP - A learning tool for a target group is disclosed. In the exemplary embodiment the target group includes health care professionals. The tool includes a digital library relevant to the target group. The tool further includes a profiler to generate a professional profile for each health care professional. A clustering module is provided in the tool to assign each health care professional to a learning group based on the professional profile. Further the tool includes a content module to provide an adaptive content from the digital library based on the professional profile and the learning group. The tool also includes a user interface to deliver the adaptive content to each health care professional. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296671 | GUIDELINE-BASED PATIENT DISCHARGE PLANNING - A system and method for guideline-based discharge planning of a patient from a facility, comprising determining via a processor whether a patient meets predetermined discharge criteria from the facility, generating a first signal indicative of the patient's risk of re-admission to the facility, generating a second signal indicative of a plan for providing care for the patient, generating a third signal indicative of a status of the patient for a post-discharge care report, and generating a fourth signal indicative of instructions to discharge the patient from the facility. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MOBILE HIE INFORMATION - A method of providing at least an HIE record to a mobile device comprising receiving at least an attribute of an individual; resolving the attribute to the identity of the individual; requesting the individual's HIE record from at least a HIE repository; receiving the HIE record; and transmitting a signal representative of the HIE record is disclosed. Corresponding systems and computer programs are also disclosed. | 2012-11-22 |
