51st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100324802 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD FOR AIR/FUEL RATIO SENSOR - An abnormality detection apparatus includes: an air/fuel ratio control portion that performs a control of fluctuating the air/fuel ratio between rich and lean states; a data acquisition portion that acquires, as data for detecting abnormality, a parameter that corresponds to responsiveness during change of output of the A/F sensor between rich and lean peaks during the control; a straight line setting portion that sets a straight line that represents a tendency of change of the parameter relative to change in intake air amount of the engine based on the data acquired by performing acquisition of the data a plurality of times; and an abnormality determination portion that determines the presence/absence of abnormality of the A/F sensor based on comparison between the gradient of the set straight line and an abnormality criterion value. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324803 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE - Data indicating a sudden change in a bulk modulus of fuel and data indicating a usage state and a usage environment of an injector as of occurrence of an injection abnormality are stored in EEPROM mounted in the injector. Thus, it can be analyzed whether a cause of a defect such as the injection abnormality is use of inferior fuel based on the data related to the bulk modulus. In addition, it can be analyzed whether the cause of the defect such as the injection abnormality is a severe usage state and a severe usage environment based on the data related to the usage state and the usage environment. Thus, the data useful for analyzing the cause of the defect related to the fuel injection can be provided. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324804 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING THE VOLUME OF INFOTAINMENT UNITS OF VEHICLES - A method for controlling a volume of an infotainment unit of a vehicle having an engine having a stop/start capability during operation of the vehicle includes the steps of obtaining information pertaining to a condition of the engine, and controlling the volume based at least in part upon the condition. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324805 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine - An internal combustion engine ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324806 | TRAVEL PATTERN INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE, TRAVEL PATTERN INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD, AND TRAVEL PATTERN INFORMATION OBTAINING PROGRAM - Vehicle speed identification information for identifying vehicle speed of a vehicle on a road is obtained for a plurality of vehicles. Based on a distribution of the vehicle speed identification information, the vehicle speed identification information is classified into groups corresponding to motions of the vehicle. An occurrence probability of a motion of the vehicle is obtained based on the classification. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324807 | AIRPORT TAXIWAY NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A method and system for providing taxiway navigational information to a crewmember of an airplane taxiing at an airport. An airport taxiway navigation system (“ATNS”) that executes on an onboard computer system that displays a map of the taxiways of an airport, receives the name of each taxiway of the taxi route specified by the taxi clearance, and highlights the taxiways on a displayed map to provide a visual indication of the cleared taxi route for the crewmembers. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324808 | MOTORISED VEHICLE WITH CONTROLLED INCLINATION - The motor vehicle of the invention is provided with at least three wheels and includes a driving cab capable of accommodating a single person in the width direction. The motor vehicle comprises a bend-balancing means that acts by the inclination of at least the portion of the chassis that bears the driving cab. According to the invention, the vehicle is also provided with speed, acceleration and/or inclination sensors, and the balancing means are automatically controlled when the information supplied by the sensors is lower than a main predetermined threshold. The invention also provides that the automatic control of the balancing means is deactivated when the information provided by the sensors is higher than said main threshold. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324809 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS OF NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A power supply control apparatus of a navigation system includes a power switch for a user to turn a display screen of the navigation system on or off; a navigation power switching unit to turn an internal function of the navigation system on or off by a power supply connection; a navigation information unnecessary state detecting unit to detect a navigation information unnecessary state where a user does not need navigation information; | 2010-12-23 |
20100324810 | ROUTE CALCULATION METHOD FOR A VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM - Traffic information, including flow information and incident information, obtained through a traffic management system for providing and facilitating the exchange of traffic information between a remote location and a vehicle may be used in route calculation by a navigation device. The navigation device may recalculate a route based on anticipated user error. Alternatively, the navigation device may recalculate a route using received traffic information triggered by the receipt of a traffic information update, or triggered by the passage of an amount of time. The broadcast rate of traffic information updates may vary temporally (providing more frequent updates during peak commute times) or geographically (providing more frequent updates to metropolitan areas with increased traffic information needs). If route calculation is triggered by an elapsed amount of time, the amount of time may vary to be shorter during peak commute times. Additional route calculation techniques allow the incorporation of historical traffic information or the use of the most recent traffic information if incomplete traffic information is available. Still further route calculation techniques may calculate a best route by avoiding zigzagging or evaluating an assigned cost of a potential route. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324811 | Method and Apparatus for Routing Ocean Going Vessels to Avoid Treacherous Environments - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for generating a route for a vessel to travel from a start point to an end point. A start point and an end point for the vessel are identified. A forecast of wave conditions during a period of time is obtained. A model of the vessel is obtained, wherein the model includes parameters used to calculate a response of the vessel to the wave conditions. A route is generated from the start point to the end point for the vessel to travel on using the model of the vessel and the forecast of the wave conditions, wherein the route avoids conditions that may cause a treacherous environment and meets a set of goals. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324812 | Method of short-term rejoining of a flight plan by radar guidance of an aircraft - Method of formulating a lateral flight trajectory for the rejoining by an aircraft ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324813 | ACCURACY ASSESSMENT FOR LOCATION ESTIMATION SYSTEMS - Assessing the accuracy of location estimation systems. A mobile computing device provides location information including a device location (e.g., via GPS) and one or more wireless network beacons accessible by the computing device at the device location. The wireless network beacons accessible by the computing device are compared to stored post information including a plurality of beacon lists. An estimated device location is determined based on the comparison. The estimated device location is compared to the known device location. A difference between the estimated device location and the received device location is determined based on the comparison. An analysis of the determined difference is performed to generate accuracy maps and other insight into the relationship between accuracy and geographic area for the location estimation systems. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324814 | GPS TRACKING SYSTEM - The present invention relates a GPS tracking system, comprising a tracking and positioning device, a server, a positioning display unit, and a database. Since the tracking and positioning device only sends an Internet protocol (IP) data and a verification data once when it is connected to the Internet, and sends a positioning data only when a position of the tracking and positioning device is to be shown on the positioning display unit, the bandwidth can be saved. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324815 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS AND POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM - A position detection apparatus includes a storage unit for storing map information including road information; a detection unit for detecting information for calculating an absolute position of a moving object; a position calculation unit for calculating the absolute position of the moving object and an error variance relating to an error of the moving object from the detected information; a read-out unit for reading out from the storage unit the road information of a road relating to the calculated absolute position; an existence probability calculation unit for calculating an existence probability of the moving object existing on the road from the absolute position, the error variance, and the read-out road information; a selection unit for selecting a position whose existence probability is maximum out of the calculated existence probability; and a map-matching processing unit for making the selected position a position of the moving object on the road. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324816 | PRESENTATION OF NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS USING VARIABLE LEVELS OF DETAIL - A navigation system is provided for instructing an operator of a vehicle. The navigation system includes a navigation processor configured to obtain a destination location, and to generate a proposed route to the destination location. The navigation system also includes a presentation element coupled to the navigation processor, the presentation element configured to provide navigation instructions to the operator. A selection module is coupled to or incorporated into the navigation processor, and the selection module is configured to select a cartographic resolution from a plurality of different cartographic resolutions, resulting in a selected cartographic resolution. The presentation element provides navigation instructions for at least a portion of the proposed route, using the selected cartographic resolution. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324817 | MULTIPLE ROUTE PRE-CALCULATION AND PRESENTATION FOR A VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system and related operating methods are provided for instructing an operator of a vehicle. The navigation system obtains a destination location and generates a proposed route to the destination location. The proposed route is defined by one or more driver decision points and associated driving maneuvers. Before the vehicle reaches an approaching driver decision point, the navigation system pre-calculates alternate routes between the approaching driver decision point and the destination location, and saves the alternate routes for subsequent activation. Pre-calculated alternate routes can also be used to determine and indicate the relative importance of an approaching driving maneuver. The driver can consider the importance of driving maneuvers when deciding whether or not to follow the recommended route. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324818 | PRESENTATION OF NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS USING VARIABLE CONTENT, CONTEXT AND/OR FORMATTING - A navigation system is provided for instructing an operator of a vehicle. The navigation system includes a navigation processor configured to obtain a destination location, and to generate a proposed route to the destination location. The navigation system also includes a presentation element coupled to the navigation processor, the presentation element configured to provide navigation instructions to the operator. The navigation system also has a selection module coupled to or incorporated into the navigation processor. The selection module is configured to select a designated navigation instruction scheme from a plurality of different navigation instruction schemes. For a given navigation instruction, the plurality of different navigation instruction schemes provide different instruction content. During operation, the presentation element provides navigation instructions for the proposed route, using the designated navigation instruction scheme. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF A USER EQUIPMENT - An approach is provided for energy-efficient location tracking. An energy saving module obtains measured location data of the user equipment, and determines a function to forecast locations of the user equipment based on the measured location data to output forecast location data. The energy saving module further receives movement data from a sensor of the user equipment, and converts the movement data to converted location data. The energy saving module then compares the forecast location data with the converted location data for a deviation, and then it either initiates reporting of the deviation when the deviation exceeds a predetermined range, or disables the reporting of the deviation when the deviation is within the predetermined range. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324820 | OBJECT LOCATION - The invention relates to a method of locating an object, comprising a step of locating an object and a step of verifying the existence of a pre-established connection between the location of the object and at least one place associated with the object. In the affirmative, a step of providing an information item dependent on at least one place resulting from the verification step. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324821 | System and Method for Locating Network Nodes - As system for locating a network node may be implemented as a static network device for determining location of a mobile node. The system includes a transceiver for receiving a device identifier over a public network from the mobile node, the device identifier based on a user-configurable parameter and a non-user-configurable parameter of the mobile node, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and to memory containing executable code. When executed, the code effects method steps for: accessing, in response to the transceiver receiving the device identifier, a database of authorized device identifiers corresponding to known mobile nodes, establishing, in response to the device identifier matching one of the authorized device identifiers, a secure private network with the mobile node, and communicating with two additional static network devices, the three static network devices implementing triangulation to determine a location of the mobile node. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324822 | Navigation System Using Hybridization by Phase Measurements - The invention relates to a navigation system for aircraft comprising inertial sensors, a GNSS receiver and potentially a baro-altimeter. The measurements from the inertial sensors are hybridized with the code and phase measurements from the receiver within a main Kalman filter and, possibly, secondary filters. The said measurements are corrected for several types of errors, notably those due to the passage of the satellite signals through the ionospheric layers. The precision of the determination of the position of the aircraft is greatly improved, both in the horizontal plane and in the vertical direction. This is also the case for the corresponding protection radii, which allows margins to be created in order to satisfy the integrity constraints for the navigation solution. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324823 | VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORTING METHOD - When an obstacle on either of the two sides of a vehicle is detected, the future position of the vehicle after a prescribed time is predicted. When the future predicted vehicle position reaches a prescribed lateral position in the width direction of the lane, control start is determined such that obstacle avoiding control is carried out to prevent the approach of the vehicle to the obstacle. When an intention of the driver to enter the lane of the obstacle is detected, the start timing for obstacle avoiding control is shortened. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324824 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP A MOBILE MACHINE - The invention relates to a method for setting up a mobile machine ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324825 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF A DRILL BIT WITH THE EARTH FORMATION - A method of predicting a well trajectory wherein the method utilises a series of parameters to calculate the trajectory. The method is characterised in that the parameters include the angle of a drill bit ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324826 | DETERMINATION OF COMPLEX DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS - A method of determining the dielectric constant of a formation, comprising acquiring phase-related and amplitude-related measurements for electromagnetic signals propagating though the formation from a transmitter to a receiver; deriving a complex-valued quantity comprising terms relating to the phase shift and attenuation of the signals; defining a one-component complex-valued relationship relating the phase shift, attenuation and complex dielectric constant; and using the derived complex-valued quantity in the defined relationship to obtain a calculated value of the complex dielectric constant. An apparatus for determining the dielectric constant of a formation, comprises a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic signals into the formation; a receiver for receiving the electromagnetic signals that have propagated from the transmitter through the formation; and means for determining the dielectric constant of the formation in accordance with a method according to the first aspect of the invention. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324827 | Fluid Responsiveness Measure - A method and system for measuring fluid responsiveness of a patient is disclosed. Information related to fluid responsiveness of a patient may be derived from a PPG signal, for example, by analyzing the PPG signal transformed by a continuous wavelet transform. Other techniques for deriving information related to fluid responsiveness of a patient include, for example, analyzing the amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, and/or baseline changes of a PPG signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324828 | SENSOR DEVICE FOR AND A METHOD OF SENSING MAGNETIC PARTICLES - A sensor device ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324829 | METHOD OF SELECTING HLA-DP4 LIGANDS AND THE APPLICATIONS THEREOF - A method of selecting a test molecule that binds to HLA-DP4 by (i) incubating HLA-DP4 with the test molecule and a labeled peptide of formula (I) Z | 2010-12-23 |
20100324830 | HANDHELD OPTICAL SENSOR FOR MEASURING THE NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATIVE INDEX IN PLANTS - A handheld sensor is disclosed. The sensor has a microcontroller, a current pulse control unit coupled to a light emitting diode (LED), and a photodiode. The microcontroller controls the current pulse control unit to provide a pulsed illumination of a target plant and the photodiode reads the magnitude of the reflectance from the target plant. The microcontroller accepts the reading from the photodiode and computes a normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI) based at least on the reading. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324831 | Dating Art Objects - In a method of dating paintings in particular from the last two hundred years isotopes of a selected element are detected which are found in living plants and used for making binding agents of artistic paint. In the detection only the relative concentration of the two isotopes in relation to each other has to be determined. One of them can be radioactive suitably having a half-life period smaller than e.g. 1000 years. For accurate determining even isotopes having shorter half-life periods can be used. For dating paintings alleged to have been made in the 20th century e.g. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324832 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MEASURE THE CONCENTRATION OF CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIAL USING LIBS - A system and method to improve the accuracy of the measure of constituent element(s) in a sample containing domains potentially including the constituent element(s) are described herein. For each domain, the volume of the domain is estimated and the concentration of the constituent element(s) in the domain is determined using LIBS. When all the domains have been analyzed, the volumetric concentration of the domains is summed and divided by the total volume of the sample. Accordingly, by limiting the concentration analysis to separate domains, it is possible to improve the accuracy of the concentration analysis. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324833 | MASS ANALYSIS DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A product ion spectrum is created on the basis of MS | 2010-12-23 |
20100324834 | Device and Method for Radiometric Measurement of a Plurality of Samples - The invention relates to an apparatus for radiometrically investigating a plurality of samples, with: a radiation device providing a plurality of radiation elements, a radiation element comprising at least one emitter element, wherein the radiation device preferably provides at least two emitter elements which provide radiation with different radiation spectra, wherein at least two of said emitter elements are adapted to emit radiation during time periods which at least partially overlap, and a control device, controlling said radiation elements, a sample holder member providing a plurality of sample positions for supporting a plurality of samples, wherein device and the sample holder member are preferably at least a part of the radiation adapted to be moved against each other during the investigation procedure and wherein at least one radiation element is adapted to irradiate a sample with radiation via a first optical path which causes the sample to emit sample radiation with at least one sample radiation frequency via a second optical path towards at least one detection device, said at least one detection device being adapted to detect the sample radiation of at least two samples as a sum signal during time periods which at least partially overlap; and an evaluation device which is adapted to evaluate the sample radiation of at least one individual sample from said sum signal. The invention relates further to a method for photometrically investigating sample radiations of at least one sample, which are caused by the radiation of N emitter elements of at least one radiation element wherein said N emitter elements are emitting radiation during time periods which at least partially overlap, to detect the sample radiation of at least two samples as a sum signal during time periods which at least partially overlap and to evaluate the sample radiation of at least one individual sample from said sum signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324835 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURELY STORING DATA - A system for providing secure access to mechanical data associated with the mechanical properties of a concrete mass. The system includes a logger associated with the concrete mass and having at least one sensor adapted to measure physical properties of the concrete mass and generate sensor data indicative of the physical properties of the concrete mass. The logger also has a microprocessor adapted to receive the sensor data and calculate mechanical data associated with the concrete mass and an outbound data transfer device. The system includes a reader adapted to receive the mechanical data associated with the concrete mass from the outbound data transfer device of the logger. Lastly, the system includes a computer receiving the mechanical data from the reader and distributing the mechanical data to one or more users via the Internet, a world-wide network of information sharing computers, or using the world-wide web. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324836 | CORROSION AND EROSION CORROSION TYPE DETERMINATION FROM PARAMETRIC SHAPE REPRESENTATION OF SURFACES - Different types of localized corrosion, erosion corrosion and other types of corrosion may be detected and identified by examining or viewing a solid surface where corrosion is occurring or has occurred to obtain an image therefrom. The image is then represented as a three-dimensional mathematical surface, which is then fit to a parametric surface composed of one or more curved and/or polygonal surfaces. Representative parameters are determined from the parametric surface. The corrosion type is identified by the best fit of the parameters known to be correlated (or caused by) a particular type of corrosive activity or agent for a given substrate. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324837 | TORQUE TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An exemplary torque testing system includes a first screwdriver, a second screwdriver, a height measuring device, and a processor. The first screwdriver turns the first structure into the second structure using a maximum torque until the depth of the first structure turned into the second structure equals a predetermined minimum depth or the first structure is unable to be turned by the maximum torque. The second screwdriver turns the first structure into the second structure using a minimum torque until the first structure is unable to be turned by the minimum torque. The height measuring device measures the height of the combined first structure and second structure. The processor determines that the engagement between the first structure and the second structure is satisfactory, if the height of the combined first structure and second structure is in a range from a minimum height to a maximum height thereof. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324838 | Sensing device with whisker elements - A sensing device includes an elongated whisker element having a flexible cantilever region and a base region where a change in moment or curvature is generated by bending of the cantilever region when it contacts an object. One or more sensor elements cooperatively associated with the whisker element provide one or more output signals that is/are representative of two orthogonal components of change in moment or curvature at the whisker base region to permit determination of object distance, fluid velocity profile, or object contour (shape) with accounting for lateral slip of the whisker element and frictional characteristics of the object. Multiple sensing devices can be arranged in arrays in a manner to sense object contour without or with adjustment for lateral slip. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324839 | VIBRATORY PIPELINE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vibratory pipeline diagnostic system ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324840 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING VALVE CONTROL SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed for testing a valve control system in an aircraft fuel supply system having a plurality of control valves, wherein the control system includes relay means for outputting control signals to each of the plurality of control valves. The method includes providing connection means for electrically connecting a test device to the control system relay means, connecting a test device to the relay means such that the test device is adapted to receive control signals output by the control system to any one of the plurality of control valves, detecting an electrical control signal output from the relay means to any one of the plurality of control valves, and identifying the particular one of the plurality of control valves to which a detected control signal is output by the relay means and identifying the nature of the control signal output to that particular control valve. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324841 | Capacitive Detection Systems, Modules and Methods - Capacitive detection systems, modules, and methods. In one embodiment, time interval measurement(s) are generated that are monotonic functions of the capacitance(s) of capacitive sensor(s) in a capacitive sensing area. In one embodiment, the generated time interval measurement(s), or any other monotonic function(s) of capacitance(s) of capacitive sensor(s) in a capacitive sensing area, may be analyzed to detect the presence of an object near the capacitive sensing area and/or to detect the position of an object near the capacitive sensing area. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING POSSIBLE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SIGNAL PATTERNS - A method for detecting possible correlations between signal patterns of a power signal used by an electronic device during execution of operations, including setting couples of windows including respective pairs of sequences of the sampling values. The method includes computing values of correlations between the respective pairs of sequences. Each values may be determined by computing a maximum value of correlation between one sequence of a couple and a plurality of sequences of sampled values included in corresponding moving windows. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324843 | Method and Device for Measuring the Electric Power of a Universal Electric Motor Powered by Sinusoidal Alternating Voltage - A method of measuring the electric power of a universal electric motor ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324844 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING AN ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORK - A method and system for protecting an electrical power transmission network comprising the steps of: measuring a voltage and a current at a first location in the network other than at a generator in the network; determining positive and negative sequence voltages and currents based on the measured voltage and measured current; determining a negative sequence Thévenin impedance based on the negative sequence measured voltage and negative sequence measured current; defining a positive sequence Thévenin impedance as equal to the negative sequence Thévenin impedance; determining a Thévenin voltage based on the positive sequence measured voltage, positive sequence measured current and the positive sequence Thévenin impedance; determining a load impedance based on the positive sequence measured voltage and positive sequence measured current; and determining the stability of the network using the load impedance and one or more of the Thévenin voltage and positive sequence Thévenin impedance. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324845 | Intelligent electronic device with enhanced power quality monitoring and communication capabilities - An intelligent electronic device (IED) has enhanced power quality and communications capabilities. The power meter can perform energy analysis by waveform capture, detect transient on the front end voltage input channels and provide revenue measurements. The power meter splits and distributes the front end input channels into separate circuits for scaling and processing by dedicated processors for specific applications by the power meter. Front end voltage input channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for transient detection, waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively. Front end current channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324846 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING BATTERY LIFE - Methods and systems for estimating remaining life of an automotive propulsion battery are provided. A total usable capacity of the battery is calculated based on cycling the battery. A first component of degradation is calculated based on driving throughput of the battery. A second component of degradation is calculated based on aging of the battery. The total degradation is calculated based on the sum of the first component and the second component of degradation. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324847 | BATTERY GAS-GAUGE CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF - A battery gas-gauge circuit and method thereof are provided. The battery gas-gauge circuit includes a sensing resistor, a voltage-to-current conversion circuit, a subtractor, a comparator, a logic circuit and a power-management unit. In the voltage-to-current conversion circuit, two conversion circuits thereof obtain two voltage signals according to the two ends of the sensing resistor, respectively, and convert the two voltage signals to two current signals correspondingly. The subtractor generates a current difference signal according to the two current signals. The comparator outputs a comparison signal according to the current difference signal and a current dead-band. The logic circuit outputs a logic signal according to the comparison signal and a predetermined signal. The power-management unit determines battery power according to the logic signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324848 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING STATE OF CHARGE IN BATTERY - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for estimating a state of charge (SOC) in a battery, in which the battery SOC is estimated using a fusion type soft computing algorithm, thereby accurately estimating the battery SOC in a high C-rate environment. The apparatus includes a detector unit for detecting current, voltage and temperature of a battery cell; and soft computing unit for outputting a battery SOC estimation value of processing the current, the voltage and the temperature detected by the detector unit using a radial function based on a neural network algorithm. Especially, the soft computing unit combines the neural network algorithm with any one of a fuzzy algorithm, a genetic algorithm (GA), a cellular automata (CA) algorithm, an immune system algorithm, and a rough-set algorithm, and thereby adaptively updates the parameters of the neural network algorithm. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324849 | AMPLITUDE COMPUTING APPARATUS AND AMPLITUDE COMPUTING METHOD - An amplitude computing apparatus includes: a mean or median value computing unit configured to compute a mean or median value of a distribution of an input signal that changes sinusoidally; a mode value computing unit configured to compute a mode value of the distribution of the input signal; and an amplitude computing unit configured to compute a difference between the mean or median value and the mode value as an amplitude of the input signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324850 | Static Noise Margin Estimation - In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that estimates a total static noise margin of a bit cell of a memory. The method includes determining a correlation coefficient of a left static noise margin of the bit cell as compared to a right static noise margin of the bit cell and estimating a total static noise margin of the bit cell by evaluating an analytical function based on the correlation coefficient. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324851 | Method for Determining the Exhaust Gas Temperature of a Vehicle Engine - The invention relates to a method for determining the exhaust gas temperature of a vehicle motor using a temperature probe comprising a temperature sensor and a protective tube, which surrounds the temperature sensor and projects into an exhaust gas flow. According to the invention, a corrected temperature value is calculated from a plurality of chronologically consecutive temperature measurement values, using a characteristic of the thermal inertia of the temperature probe. The invention further relates to a temperature probe comprising an evaluation unit, which during operation carries out such a method. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324852 | DETERMINING THE RESONANCE PARAMETERS FOR MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS - The prior art describes the application of mechanical oscillators for the measurement of corrosion and/or deposition. Mechanical oscillators employ the use of resonance parameters, frequency and the quality factor Q, for the measurement of corrosion or deposition. However, the prior art does not consider the required precision for measuring frequency or Q in the presence of noise to make these measurements. In particular, the ability of the mechanical oscillator to measure small amounts of metal loss or deposition is not only dependent upon the mechanical design but is limited by the precision in determining the resonance frequency and Q. The present invention discloses methods for measuring these resonance parameters with a high precision in the presence of noise. This degree of precision is required to maximize the utility of these devices as sensitive probes for corrosion and deposition (fouling) measurement. All of the embodiments described herein employ curve fitting consistent with modeling the mechanical oscillator as a simple harmonic oscillator. This curve fitting procedure, combined with averaging and utilizing signal processing parameters to mitigate noise effects, adds considerable precision in measuring resonance parameters. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324853 | REAL-TIME SELF-CALIBRATING SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for calibrating a sensor of a characteristic monitoring system in real time utilizes a self-calibration module for periodic determination of, and compensation for, the IR drop across unwanted resistances in a cell. A current-interrupt switch is used to open the self-calibration module circuit and either measure the IR drop using a high-frequency (MHz) ADC module, or estimate it through linear regression of acquired samples of the voltage across the sensor's working and reference electrodes (Vmeasured) over time. The IR drop is then subtracted from the closed-circuit value of Vmeasured to calculate the overpotential that exists in the cell (Vimportant). Vimportant may be further optimized by subtracting the value of the open-circuit voltage (Voc) across the sensor's working and reference electrodes. The values of Vmeasured and Vimportant are then controlled by respective first and second control units to compensate for the IR drop. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324854 | MEMORY-DAUGHTER-CARD-TESTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A memory daughter card (MDC) is described, having a very high-speed serial interface and an on-card MDC test engine that allows one MDC to be directly connected to another MDC for testing purposes. In some embodiments, a control interface allows the test engine to be programmed and controlled by a test controller on a test fixture that allows simultaneous testing of a single MDC or one or more pairs of MDCs, one MDC in a pair (e.g., the “golden” MDC) testing the other MDC of that pair. Other methods are also described, wherein one MDC executes a series of reads and writes and other commands to another MDC to test at least some of the other card's functions, or wherein one port executes a series of test commands to another port on the same MDC to test at least some of the card's functions. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE ELECTRONICS DEVICE TESTING - Testing systems and methods are operable to perform diagnostic testing of a remote electronic device under test (DUT). An exemplary embodiment establishes a communication link between a diagnostic test device and the electronic DUT, receives a plurality of diagnostic commands from the electronic DUT, each of the plurality of diagnostic commands defined by at least one device diagnostic instruction (DDI) and a corresponding DDI description; generates a diagnostics script based upon selection of at least one of the diagnostic commands, wherein the generated diagnostics script includes at least one return device diagnostic instruction (RDDI) corresponding to the selected at least one diagnostic command; and transmits the at least one RDDI from the diagnostic test device to the DUT. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324856 | Industrial Roll With Sensors Arranged To Self-Identify Angular Location - An industrial roll includes: a substantially cylindrical core having an outer surface; a polymeric cover circumferentially overlying the core outer surface; and a sensing system. The sensing system comprises: a plurality of sensors embedded in the cover, the sensors configured to detect an operating parameter of the roll and provide signals representative of the operating parameter, wherein one of the plurality of sensors is a tracking sensor and the remaining sensors are non-tracking sensors; and a processor operatively associated with the sensors that processes signals provided by the sensors. The sensors are arranged at a substantially equal radial distance from the core outer surface, such that they define a circle when viewed from an end of the roll. Each of the non-tracking sensors is further arranged at a substantially equal first angular distance from its immediate non-tracking sensor neighbors, two endmost non-tracking sensors defining an angular gap. The tracking sensor is disposed in the angular gap, such that a second angular distance defined by the tracking sensor and either of the endmost sensors differs from the first angular distance. In this configuration, the sensing system can identify from which sensor signals are generated without a trigger signal generator or accelerometer. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324857 | METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING AN ACTUATOR FOR A BOOST PRESSURE SYSTEM OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine, in which the actuator is controlled using a triggering signal, and a state variable of the boost pressure system which is at least an indirect function of the triggering signal is detected. The triggering signal is periodic, and a curve of the values of the state variable is analyzed with regard to at least one periodic characteristic. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324858 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CHANGE IN THE FOOTPRINT OF A TIRE - A method for determining a change in the footprint of a tire, on the basis of a signal, which may be assigned to the rotation of the tire, is output by a sensor, and corresponds to an acceleration, the determination being performed by the following: recording at least one acceleration signal g | 2010-12-23 |
20100324859 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REGISTERING THE TIME AND LOCATION OF WEAPON FIRINGS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth an apparatus for registering time and location of a weapon firing of a weapon. The apparatus includes a microcontroller, a pressure sensor located in proximately to the weapon and adapted to determine pressure data based on air pressure in proximity to the weapon and provide the pressure data to a microcontroller, an accelerometer located in proximity to the weapon and adapted to determine acceleration data based on movement of the weapon and provide the acceleration data to the microcontroller; a time device adapted to keep time and provide the time to the microcontroller; a location sensor located in proximity to the weapon and adapted to determine a location of the weapon and provide the location of the weapon to the microcontroller; and a memory coupled to the microcontroller. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324860 | Signal Emitting or Receiving Pointer - A signal emitting or receiving pointer and method for its use to enable the determination of the geometrical center of a rotating gantry. The pointer has emitters or receivers installed on the pointer and the signals sent or received as the gantry is rotated allow the calculation of the geometrical center of a rotating gantry. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIORAL MONITORING AND CALIBRATION - Systems and methods for the analysis of the diverse behaviors of animal subjects in defined areas are provided, including tools for filtering and analysis of high-resolution behavioral data. These systems and methods provide an opportunity to examine behavioral patterns with levels of precision and quantization that have not been previously achieved. Methods and systems for managing and analyzing the very large and unique datasets produced by behavioral monitoring systems, including quality assessment and control, archiving, data query, data reduction, analytical procedures and visualization techniques are provided. Such detailed analyses of spontaneous behavior provide fundamental insights into the neural organization of behavior and enable detection of genetic, pharmacological and environmental influences on brain function with high sensitivity. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324862 | AZIMUTH PROCESSING DEVICE, AZIMUTH PROCESSING METHOD, AZIMUTH PROCESSING PROGRAM, DIRECTION FINDING DEVICE, TILT OFFSET CORRECTING METHOD, AZIMUTH MEASURING METHOD, COMPASS SENSOR UNIT, AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An azimuth processing device is designed for outputting azimuth data based on measurement data sequentially output from a compass sensor. In the device, an accumulation section selectively accumulates substantially new pieces of the measurement data. An offset data updating section updates offset data of the compass sensor based on plural pieces of the measurement data accumulated by said accumulation section. An azimuth data output section outputs the azimuth data based on substantially newest measurement data and the offset data. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRELATING WEAPON FIRING EVENTS WITH SCORING EVENTS - An exemplary embodiment, the present invention sets forth a method for correlating at least one weapon firing event to at least one scoring event. The method comprising: receiving information relating to a first scoring event; receiving information relating to a first weapon firing event; calculating an angle between a reference line, extending from location of the first weapon event to the location of the first scoring event, and the reference direction at the first computing device; comparing the time of the first scoring event to the time of the weapon firing event at the first computing device; comparing the angle of incidence for the projectile to the calculated angle at the first computing device; and identifying whether the weapon firing event and the scoring event are an unambiguous, one-to-one pairings at the first computing device. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324864 | Apparatus and Imaging Method with Synthetic Aperture for Determining an Incident Angle and/or a Distance - The invention relates to an imaging method with synthetic aperture for determining an incident angle and/or a distance of a sensor from at least one object in space, wherein at each of a number of aperture points one echo profile is sensed. Advantageously, for several angles assumed as the incident angle, one phase correction value and/or one distance correction value is calculated, adapted profiles are generated based on the echo profiles by adapting the phase with the phase correction value for each assumed angle and/or by shifting the distance with the distance correction value, for the assumed angle, the adapted profiles are summed or integrated, and a probability distribution is derived, and a probability value for the incident angle and/or for the distance is determined therefrom. A determination of the incident angle is also possible independently of the distance, wherein it is possible to only consider velocities or accelerations. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324865 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PATTERNED STRUCTURES - A method and system are presented for determining a line profile in a patterned structure, aimed at controlling a process of manufacture of the structure. The patterned structure comprises a plurality of different layers, the pattern in the structure being formed by patterned regions and un-patterned regions. At least first and second measurements are carried out, each utilizing illumination of the structure with a broad wavelengths band of incident light directed on the structure at a certain angle of incidence, detection of spectral characteristics of light returned from the structure, and generation of measured data representative thereof. The measured data obtained with the first measurement is analyzed, and at least one parameter of the structure is thereby determined. Then, this determined parameter is utilized, while analyzing the measured data obtained with the second measurements enabling the determination of the profile of the structure. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324866 | TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CHIP - A testing system for a video chip to be tested stores a video file in advance. The testing system uses a sample video chip to play all frames of the video file and outputs first video data. A video chip to be tested is installed into the testing system to play a plurality of determined frames of the video file and outputs second video data. The first video data of corresponding frames and the second video data are compared to determine whether the video chip to be tested is acceptable or not, and a control signal is outputted according to the comparison to control a robotic arm to place the video chip to be tested at a determined place. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324867 | DATA-DRIVEN VISUALIZATION TRANSFORMATION - The rendering of sequential data-driven scenes. Each data-driven scene is constructed using a plurality of view components, each receiving data into its input parameters, and using construction logic to formulate a rendering of corresponding visual item(s). When a transition even is detected, the data-driven scene changes from one scene to the next. For instance, the transition might occur by changing any one or more of the following: changing the data that is applied to the view components, 2) changing the set of view components, 3) changing the dimension set, or 4) changing one or more geometries used to construct the scene. Thus, data-driven scenes may be presented sequentially. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324868 | Core Sample Preparation, Analysis, And Virtual Presentation - Core samples may be easily, quickly, and safely split using a fluid cutter, such as a water jet. Cutting may take place upon exit of the sample from the drill tube, or core samples may be placed in core carriers for cutting. Core samples may also be stored and transported in the core carriers. Assessment of core samples is facilitated by scanning the core samples, with the results stored to produce a virtual core sample. Virtual core samples may be displayed on a computing device, including a core sample display device which simulates the appearance of a section of an actual core. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324869 | MODELING A COMPUTING ENTITY - To model a computing entity, information relating to transactions associated with the computing entity is received. The received information forms a collection of information. The collection is segmented into a plurality of segments, and at least one anomalous segment is identified. A model of the computing entity is built. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324870 | SOLVER-BASED VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK - Visualization frameworks may include solvers. The solvers may be used to determine the properties of view components of view compositions. In some instances, the solvers may be explicitly composed using a relational structure, such as a dependency tree. In some instances, the solvers may be implicitly composed based on property-setters having solvers invoking other property-setters having solvers. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324871 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TIME COURSE OF AN ACCIDENT OCCURRING IN A RISK-PRONE INSTALLATION - A method for determining a time course of an accident which occurs inside an installation in which takes place at least one risk-prone process, characterized in that it comprises: (a) a step (M | 2010-12-23 |
20100324872 | STABLE EQUILIBRIUM POINT (SEP) CALCULATION APPARATUS OF POWER SYSTEM - In the present invention, in a case where a stable equilibrium point calculation is not calculable by using a Newton method, a damping factor of a mechanical system differential equation of a generator is set to be greater than an actual value of the generator of the power system. By applying pseudo-transient simulation to the nonlinear differential algebraic equation of the power system including the mechanical system differential equation of the generator, in which the damping factor is set, a norm of a mechanical system equation is found. If the found norm meets a predetermined condition, variable values of the power system at a time when the norm is found are set as initial values of the nonlinear differential algebraic equation of the power system. A stable equilibrium point is determined by applying the Newton method to the nonlinear differential algebraic equation in which the initial values are set. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324873 | Method and system for estimating three phase fluid flow for individual wells - Method for providing reconciled estimates of three phase fluid flow for individual wells and at individual locations in a hydrocarbon production process facility comprising a plurality of wells. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324874 | Simulating patient-specific outcomes - The invention encompasses systems, methods, and apparatus for predicting and monitoring an individual's response to a therapeutic regimen. The invention includes multiple virtual patients, an associating subsystem operable to associate the subject with one or more of the virtual patients, and a simulation engine operable to apply one or more experimental protocols to the one or more virtual patients identified with the subject to generate a set of outputs. The set of outputs can represent therapeutic efficacy, identify biomarkers for monitoring therapeutic efficacy, or merely report the status of the biological system as it represents a particular individual | 2010-12-23 |
20100324875 | PROCESS FOR ORTHODONTIC, IMPLANT AND DENTAL PROSTHETIC FABRICATION USING 3D GEOMETRIC MESH TEETH MANIPULATION PROCESS - The process for orthodontic, implant and dental prosthetic fabrication using 3D geometric mesh teeth manipulation process is a system for manipulating teeth as a 3D geometric mesh. The system is used to create an efficient and completely digital processing system on top of 3D mesh manipulation tools. Moreover, the process utilizes a monitored interventional technique to allow for teeth movement based on dentist evaluation at each phase and creates custom aligners for each and every visit based on the lab slip. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324876 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND MULTIPLE NODES - A simulation method for a wireless communication system with multiple antennas and multiple nodes is disclosed. The method adopts a separable correlation channel model to simulate a wireless communication system with multiple antennas and multiple nodes, wherein in this model the nodes in the same area are correlated, and the nodes in different areas are not correlated. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324877 | DEVICE PROPERTY OUTPUT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM COMPRISING PROGRAM CODE FOR OUTPUTTING DEVICE PROPERTY - A device property output apparatus includes an input unit configured to accept measured data of a device property, target data of the device property, and first simulation data indicating a simulation result of the device property, a reference data generator configured to generate reference data indicating a relationship between the measured data and the target data, a converter configured to conduct scale conversion of the first simulation data to generate second simulation data based on the reference data, and an output unit configured to output the second simulation data or auxiliary information indicating a difference between the target data and the second simulation data. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324878 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING HOTSPOT DETECTION, REPAIR, AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN - Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing hotspot detection, repair, and optimization of an electronic circuit design, which, in some embodiments, defines, identifies criteria for hotspots/metrics or optimization objective function; performs the initial hotspot or metric prediction; identifies correction candidate(s); applies a correction candidate to the electronic circuit design; and determines whether the outcome of applying the correction candidate is acceptable. The method or the system identifies custom correction candidate(s) or custom command(s) and identifies one or more hints for the predicted hotspots or metrics; provides a single architecture to use a first model for hotspot identification/correction and a second model for design check; and provides the capability to apply a correction for a hotspot or metric, evaluate the effectiveness of the correction on the fly, and revert any changes made to the electronic circuit design by the correction. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324879 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD - A circuit simulation apparatus acquires wiring connection information indicating connection data in an electric circuit, selects a component constituting the circuit based on the wiring connection information, performs a setting of replacing the selected component with each resistor having different resistance values, generates at least one of netlists using the acquired wiring connection information and at least one of the set resistance values, calculates a value of an equivalent power source and a value of an internal resistance thereof for a part of the circuit using the acquired wiring connection information and at least one of the generated netlists, and calculates a resistance value of the selected component and a power consumption for the resistance value using the value of the equivalent power source and the value of the internal resistance. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324880 | Techniques for Processor/Memory Co-Exploration at Multiple Abstraction Levels - Processor/memory co-exploration at multiple abstraction levels. An architecture description language (ADL) description of a processor/memory system is accessed. The ADL description models on one of a plurality of abstraction levels. The abstraction levels may include a functional (or bit-accurate) level and a cycle-accurate level. Further, a communication protocol for the processor/memory system is accessed. The communication protocol is formed from primitives, wherein a memory interface formed from the primitives is useable in simulation at the abstraction levels. A processor/memory simulation model is automatically generated from the description and description of the communication protocol. The processor/memory simulation model comprises a processor/memory interface comprising the primitives and based on the communication protocol. The memory interface allows simulation of the processor/memory on the appropriate abstraction level for the simulation. For example, the processor/memory interface may be a functional interface or a cycle-accurate interface. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324881 | SATISFIABILITY (SAT) BASED BOUNDED MODEL CHECKERS - A method uses a SAT solver operating to cycle k to find bugs in a model having finite computation paths therein, wherein said bugs are on computation paths of less than length k. Another method includes adding an additional state variable to a model to be checked, where a governing state machine of the additional variable has a “sink” state. The method includes having a translation using the additional variable whenever a state indicates a bad state and performing satisfiability solving with the model and the translation. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324882 | ESTIMATING BALL-GRID-ARRAY LONGEVITY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method for generating a service action for a computer system is described. During the method, a longevity index value for a packaging technology (such as solder joints in a BGA) in the computer system is calculated using thermal and vibration telemetry data (which is collected in the computer system) and a longevity model. This longevity model may be based on accelerated failure testing of the packaging technology, field failures of the packaging technology in a group of computer systems (which includes the computer system) and/or thermal and vibration telemetry data for the group of computer systems. Furthermore, using the longevity index value, the service action for the computer system is determined. Based on the longevity index value, remedial action (such as repairs to the computer system) may be scheduled and performed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324883 | TRANS-LINGUAL REPRESENTATION OF TEXT DOCUMENTS - A method of creating translingual text representations takes in documents in a first language and in a second language and creates a matrix using the words in the documents to represent which words are present in which language. An algorithm is applied to each matrix such that like documents are placed close to each other and unlike documents are moved far from each other. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324884 | ENHANCED TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system for dynamically translating a verbal communication from a first language to a second language is disclosed. The system includes a communication device operably connected to a translation module which possesses the capability of converting a verbal communication in the first language into a verbal communication in the second language and a transcript in the second language. The system also includes an operator terminal operably connected to the translation module via a communication link. The operator terminal possesses the capability of generating and transmitting a verbal and/or written communication in the second language to the translation module wherein the verbal and/or written communication is dynamically translated into a verbal communication in the first language. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324885 | INDEXING MECHANISM (Nth PHRASAL INDEX) FOR ADVANCED LEVERAGING FOR TRANSLATION - An inventive indexing scheme to index phrases and sub-phrases for advanced leveraging for translation is presented. The scheme provides ways to match at various levels, and allows approximate matches. The system and method comprises an index structure comprising at least one phrasal marker and/or at least one sub-phrasal marker, the index structure performing advanced leveraging for translation by matching to previously stored index structures. The index structure can be a tree structure. The markers can contain constituent names, values, and a level number. Each marker can be obtained by parsing a target string, so that the parsing identifies the constituents and levels in the target string. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324886 | PARALLEL TRANSLATION INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, PARALLEL TRANSLATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A parallel translation information generation device includes a bilingual dictionary storage portion in which are stored three or more types of bilingual dictionaries that link all two-language combinations of a first language, a second language, and a third language; a trilingual parallel translation information generation portion that generates trilingual parallel translation information that is a set of a word in the first language, a word in the second language, and a word in the third language having a relationship such that all sets of words in two languages among the first-language word, the second-language word, and the third-language word are linked by the bilingual dictionaries, and a trilingual parallel translation information output portion that outputs trilingual parallel translation information. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ONLINE USER-CYCLED WEB PAGE VISION INSTANT MACHINE TRANSLATION - This invention refers to a novel online user-cycled web page vision instant translation (OUWVIT) system and method, which is provided to capture, process and translate the online user-cycled paragraph of web page instantly. The system comprises Setting Module, Cycle and Screen-snapshot Module, Character Recognition Module, Bilingual Translation Module, Translation Result Display Module and Translation Database, wherein the said Setting Module is used to set specific shortcut key; the said Cycle and Screen-snapshot Module is used to capture the user-cycled paragraph of web page after user cycles the paragraph on web page; the said Character Recognition Module is used to recognize and process the text in the captured paragraph and eliminate the non-text information; the said Bilingual Translation Module translates the recognized and processed text to target language instantly; the said Translation Result Display Module displays the translation result in a pop-up independent window. It is noteworthy that the linkages and communications between modules are implemented automatically. The system and method can be applied to various types of wired or wireless Internet accessing equipments including personal computers, embedded or portable systems, system chips, cell phones and other mobile electronic devices. The core values of the present invention are that it is neither restricted by inner design framework format and programming language of web page, nor restricted by outer displaying style, animation and colors. It thoroughly overcomes the fatal shortcomings of existing online translation systems, which are significantly restricted by inner framework layout of web page. Consequently, it translates the user-cycled any paragraph of web page from source language to target language for reading instantly and freely. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324888 | SOLVING CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS FOR USER INTERFACE AND SEARCH ENGINE - A method for interpreting a Natural Language by an artificial construct using constraint satisfaction problem solving, comprises a) providing a plurality of ways suitable to define at least a grammar for at least a Natural Language, b) providing a plurality of constraint satisfaction problem instructions c) providing a plurality of values for solving a plurality of constraints, d) converting said plurality of constraints to at least one constraint satisfaction problem pattern, e) receiving a Natural Language construct, f) unifying said plurality of constraints through said at least one constraint satisfaction problem pattern at execution runtime by the artificial construct to solve theconstraint satisfaction problem, g) interpreting said Natural Language construct according to a plurality of constraint satisfaction problem instructions, and h) answering to a Natural Language construct by a Natural Language construct. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324889 | ENABLING GLOBAL GRAMMARS FOR A PARTICULAR MULTIMODAL APPLICATION - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for enabling global grammars for a particular multimodal application according to the present invention by loading a multimodal web page; determining whether the loaded multimodal web page is one of a plurality of multimodal web pages of the particular multimodal application. If the loaded multimodal web page is one of the plurality of multimodal web pages of the particular multimodal application, enabling global grammars typically includes loading any currently unloaded global grammars of the particular multimodal application identified in the multimodal web page and maintaining any previously loaded global grammars. If the loaded multimodal web page is not one of the plurality of multimodal web pages of the particular multimodal application, enabling global grammars typically includes unloading any currently loaded global grammars. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324890 | Method and Apparatus For Selecting An Audio Stream - An active stream is selected from one of a plurality of audio streams generated in a common acoustic environment by obtaining, for each stream obtaining, at a series of measurement instants t | 2010-12-23 |
20100324891 | MUTE CONTROL IN AUDIO ENDPOINTS - Architecture that uses near-end speech detection and far-end energy level detection to notify a user when a local microphone and/or speaker that the user is using, are muted. A voice activity detector is employed to detect the presence of near-end speech, sense the existing mute state of the near-end microphone, and then notify the user when the current microphone is muted. Separately or in combination therewith, received far-end voice signals are detected, the associated energy level computed, the existing mute state of the near-end audio speaker is sensed, and the user notified when the speaker is muted and/or at a reduced volume setting. These determinations enhance the user experience when the architecture is employed for communications sessions where participants connect via different communications modalities by automatically notifying the user of the audio device state, without attempting to contribute only to find that a microphone or speaker was muted. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324892 | EXCITATION VECTOR GENERATOR, SPEECH CODER AND SPEECH DECODER - A code excited linear prediction type speech coder, which includes a seed storage that stores seeds used as an initial state of oscillation, and an oscillator that generates different vector sequences in accordance with values of the seeds stored in the seed storage and outputs the vector sequences as excitation vectors. The speech coder also includes a linear predictive coding synthesis filter that receives, as input, the excitation vectors, which are the vector sequences generated in accordance with the values of the seeds, that synthesizes the excitation vectors, and that outputs a synthesized speech. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING ROBUSTNESS OF SPEECH RECOGNITION USING VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION CODEBOOKS - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech recognition. The method embodiment comprises selecting a codebook from a plurality of codebooks with a minimal acoustic distance to a received speech sample, the plurality of codebooks generated by a process of (a) computing a vocal tract length for a each of a plurality of speakers, (b) for each of the plurality of speakers, clustering speech vectors, and (c) creating a codebook for each speaker, the codebook containing entries for the respective speaker's vocal tract length, speech vectors, and an optional vector weight for each speech vector, (2) applying the respective vocal tract length associated with the selected codebook to normalize the received speech sample for use in speech recognition, and (3) recognizing the received speech sample based on the respective vocal tract length associated with the selected codebook. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324894 | Voice to Text to Voice Processing - Technologies are generally described for voice to text to voice processing. An audio signal can be preprocessed and translated into text prior to being processed in the textual domain. The text domain processing or subsequent text to voice regeneration can seek to improve clarity, correct grammar, adjust vocabulary level, remove profanity, correct slang, alter dialect, alter accent, or provide other modifications of various oral communication characteristics. The processed text may be translated back into the audio domain for delivery to a listener. The processing at each stage may be driven by a set of objectives and constraints set by the speaker, the listener, a third party, or any combination of explicit or implicit participants. The voice processing may translate the voice content from a specific human language to the same human language with various improvements. The processing may also involve translation into one or more other languages. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324895 | SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DOCUMENT NARRATION - Disclosed are techniques and systems for synchronizing an audio file with a sequence of words displayed on a user interface. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324896 | TURN-TAKING CONFIDENCE - A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another embodiment, the likelihood value can be dependent on a model of a desire of the user for specific items, a model of an attention of the user to specific items, or a model of turn-taking cues. The values can be used to determine a mode confidence value that is used by the system to determine the nature of prompts provided to the user. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324897 | AUDIO RECOGNITION DEVICE AND AUDIO RECOGNITION METHOD - Acoustic models and language models are learned according to a speaking length which indicates a length of a speaking section in speech data, and speech recognition process is implemented by using the learned acoustic models and language models. A speech recognition apparatus includes means ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100324898 | VOICE RECOGNITION WITH DYNAMIC FILTER BANK ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SPEAKER CATEGORIZATION - Voice recognition methods and systems are disclosed. A voice signal is obtained for an utterance of a speaker. The speaker is categorized as a male, female, or child and the categorization is used as a basis for dynamically adjusting a maximum frequency f | 2010-12-23 |
20100324899 | VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND VOICE RECOGNITION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A speech recognition system for rapidly performing recognition processing while maintaining quality of speech recognition in a speech recognition device, are provided. A speech recognition system includes a speech input device which inputs speech and displays a recognition result, and a speech recognition device which receives the speech from the speech input device, performs recognition processing, and sends back the speech to the speech input device. The speech input device includes a user dictionary section which stores words used for recognizing the input speech, and a reduced user dictionary creation unit which extracts words corresponding to the input speech from the user dictionary and creates a reduced user dictionary. The speech recognition device has a speech recognition unit which inputs the input speech and the reduced user dictionary from the speech input/output device and recognizes the input speech based on the reduced user dictionary and a system dictionary provided beforehand. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324900 | Searching in Audio Speech - A computerized method of detecting a target word in a speech signal. A speech recognition engine and a previously constructed phoneme model is provided. The speech signal is input into the speech recognition engine. Based on the phoneme model, the input speech signal is indexed. A time-ordered list is stored representing n-best phoneme candidates of the input speech signal and phonemes of the input speech signal in multiple phoneme frames. The target word is transcribed into a transcription of target phonemes. The time-ordered list of n-best phoneme candidates is searched for a locus of said target phonemes. While searching, scoring is based on the ranking of the phoneme candidates among the n-best phoneme candidates and based on the number of the target phonemes found. A composite score of the probability of an occurrence of the target word is produced. When the composite score is higher than a threshold, start and finish times are output which bound the locus. The start and finish times are input into an algorithm adapted for sequence alignment based on dynamic programming for aligning a portion of the phoneme frames with the target phonemes. | 2010-12-23 |
20100324901 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Various methods and apparatus are described for a speech recognition system. In an embodiment, the statistical language model (SLM) provides probability estimates of how linguistically likely a sequence of linguistic items are to occur in that sequence based on an amount of times the sequence of linguistic items occurs in text and phrases in general use. The speech recognition decoder module requests a correction module for one or more corrected probability estimates P′(z|xy) of how likely a linguistic item z follows a given sequence of linguistic items x followed by y, where (x, y, and z) are three variable linguistic items supplied from the decoder module. The correction module is trained to linguistics of a specific domain, and is located in between the decoder module and the SLM in order to adapt the probability estimates supplied by the SLM to the specific domain when those probability estimates from the SLM significantly disagree with the linguistic probabilities in that domain. | 2010-12-23 |