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20110173048 | METHOD FOR COMPUTING REACH OF AN ARBITRARY RADIO ADVERTISING SCHEDULE - A radio station market analysis program extends Cume values for individual stations to multiple stations (for a particular geographic market, a particular demographic, and a particular daypart) according to the formula C=[1−Π | 07-14-2011 |
20140049462 | USER INTERFACE ELEMENT FOCUS BASED ON USER'S GAZE - A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: determine a set of coordinates corresponding to a user's gaze; determine a user interface (UI) element corresponding to the set of coordinates; return that UI element as being detected and again repeating the determination of the set of coordinates corresponding to the user's gaze; determine if the UI element being returned is the same for a predetermined threshold of time according to a started timer; if the UI element is not the same, reset the started timer and again repeating the determination of the set of coordinates corresponding to the user's gaze; and if the UI element is the same, making the UI element active without requiring any additional action from the user and currently selecting the UI element to receive input. | 02-20-2014 |
20140095255 | RADIO STATION MARKET ANALYSIS - A radio station market analysis program extends Cume values for individual stations to multiple stations (for a particular geographic market, a particular demographic, and a particular daypart) according to the formula C=[1−Π | 04-03-2014 |
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20110011716 | Devices and methods related to battery modules - The present invention relates to devices that may be used in conjunction with one or more battery modules and related methods. More particularly, the present invention relates to a devices and related methods allowing one to manually disconnect high voltage and high current devices from a system. In one aspect, the present invention provides a mid pack break. The mid pack break is able to manually disconnect high voltage and high current devices from a system. The mid pack break includes a handle, a pin, a first sleeve, and a second sleeve. Force exerted on the handle causes the pin to insert into the first and second sleeves, thereby completing an electrical connection between the first and second sleeves. | 01-20-2011 |
20110020687 | Battery module with related devices and methods - The present invention relates to a battery module, related devices and methods. More particularly, the present invention relates to a battery module with an improved mechanism of electrically connecting modules to form one or more battery packs and devices and methods that relate to the improved mechanism. In one aspect, the present invention provides a battery module. The module comprises: a top cover that connects to a bottom housing to form a casing; a positive terminal connected to a proximal end of the casing, wherein the end of the positive material is shaped such that it can insert into a sleeve; a negative electrode connected to a distal end of the casing, wherein the negative electrode is housed within the sleeve such that an electrical contact is made when a positive terminal is inserted into the sleeve; and, at least one electrochemical cell connected to the inside surface of the bottom housing. | 01-27-2011 |
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20090098515 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED REWARD-BASED LEARNING USING NONLINEAR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION - The present invention is a method and an apparatus for reward-based learning of policies for managing or controlling a system or plant. In one embodiment, a method for reward-based learning includes receiving a set of one or more exemplars, where at least two of the exemplars comprise a (state, action) pair for a system, and at least one of the exemplars includes an immediate reward responsive to a (state, action) pair. A distance measure between pairs of exemplars is used to compute a Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction (NLDR) mapping of (state, action) pairs into a lower-dimensional representation. The mapping is then applied to the set of exemplars, and reward-based learning is applied to the transformed exemplars to obtain a management policy. | 04-16-2009 |
20090099985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED REWARD-BASED LEARNING USING ADAPTIVE DISTANCE METRICS - The present invention is a method and an apparatus for reward-based learning of policies for managing or controlling a system or plant. In one embodiment, a method for reward-based learning includes receiving a set of one or more exemplars, where at least two of the exemplars comprise a (state, action) pair for a system, and at least one of the exemplars includes an immediate reward responsive to a (state, action) pair. A distance metric and a distance-based function approximator estimating long-range expected value are then initialized, where the distance metric computes a distance between two (state, action) pairs, and the distance metric and function approximator are adjusted such that a Bellman error measure of the function approximator on the set of exemplars is minimized. A management policy is then derived based on the trained distance metric and function approximator. | 04-16-2009 |
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20080247659 | Universal-denoiser context-modeling component and context-modeling method - In various embodiments of the present invention, a context-based denoiser is applied to each noisy-image symbol embedded within a context to determine a replacement symbol for the noisy-signal symbol. The context-based denoiser includes a context-modeling component that efficiently generates context classes and symbol-prediction classes, assigns individual contexts to context classes and symbol-prediction classes, collects symbol-occurrence statistics related to the generated context classes and symbol-prediction classes, and, optionally, generates noisy-symbol predictions. | 10-09-2008 |
20090037795 | Denoising and Error Correction for Finite Input, General Output Channel - Systems and methods are disclosed for denoising for a finite input, general output channel. In one aspect, a system is provided for processing a noisy signal formed by a noise-introducing channel in response to an error correction coded input signal, the noisy signal having symbols of a general alphabet. The system comprises a denoiser and an error correction decoder. The denoiser generates reliability information corresponding to metasymbols in the noisy signal based on an estimate of the distribution of metasymbols in the input signal and upon symbol transition probabilities of symbols in the input signal being altered in a quantized signal. A portion of each metasymbol provides a context for a symbol of the metasymbol. The quantized signal includes symbols of a finite alphabet and is formed by quantizing the noisy signal. The error correction decoder performs error correction decoding on noisy signal using the reliability information generated by the denoiser. | 02-05-2009 |
20090112897 | DATA SEQUENCE COMPRESSION - In a method of compressing a data sequence, the data sequence is parsed into data segments, where at least one of the data segments includes a match. In addition, the match is compressed using at least one context model that depends upon one or more coded data symbols that are available to a decoder. An encoder includes a coding unit configured to code at least one of a match offset and a match length of a data segment using one or more context models that depend on previously decodeable data symbols. A computer readable storage medium having a computer program for implementing the method of compressing the data sequence. | 04-30-2009 |
20100278447 | Method and system for adaptive context-embedded prediction - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an adaptive context-based predictor that predicts a value {circumflex over (x)} from a context, stored in an electronic memory, corresponding to a noisy-dataset symbol z | 11-04-2010 |
20110026848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBUST UNIVERSAL DENOISING OF NOISY DATA SETS - Embodiments of the present invention provide context-class-based universal denoising of noisy images and other noise-corrupted data sets. Prediction-error statistics for each prediction class, relative to a prefiltered image, are collected to estimate a bias for each prediction class, and prediction-error statistics for each conditioning class, relative to a prefiltered image, are accumulated based on the difference between predicted values and corresponding prefiltered-image symbols. The prediction-error statistics are accumulated using computed prediction-error-statistics vectors, with inversion of a prediction-error vector generated from each prediction prior to accumulation in a prediction-error-statistics vector. Conditional probability distributions are computed for individual contexts, which allow for computing a clean-image-estimated, value for each noisy-image value by minimizing a computed distortion over a range of possible estimated-clean-image symbols. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026850 | CONTEXT-CLUSTER-LEVEL CONTROL OF FILTERING ITERATIONS IN AN ITERATIVE DISCRETE UNIVERSAL DENOISER - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to various enhanced discrete-universal denoisers that have been developed to denoise images and other one-dimensional, two-dimensional or higher-dimensional data sets in which the frequency of occurrence of individual contexts may be too low to gather efficient statistical data or context-based symbol prediction. In these denoisers, image quality, signal-to-noise ratios, or other measures of the effectiveness of denoising that would be expected to increase monotonically over a series of iterations may decrease, due to assumptions underlying the discrete-universal-denoising method losing validity. Embodiments of the present invention apply context-class-based statistics and statistical analysis to determine, on a per-context-class basis, when to at least temporarily terminate denoising iterations on each conditioning class. Each iteration of the iterative methods applies context-based denoising only for those conditioning classes that statistical analysis indicates remain valid for denoising purposes. | 02-03-2011 |
20110129046 | DISCRETE DENOISING USING BLENDED COUNTS - Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a discrete denoiser that replaces symbols in a received, noisy signal with replacement symbols in order to produce a recovered signal less distorted with respect to an originally transmitted, clean signal than the received, noisy signal. Certain, initially developed discrete denoisers employ an analysis of the number of occurrences of metasymbols within the received, noisy signal in order to select symbols for replacement, and to select the replacement symbols for the symbols that are replaced. Denoisers that represent examples of the present invention use blended counts that are combinations of the occurrences of metasymbol families within a noisy signal to determine the symbols to be replaced and the replacement symbols corresponding to them. | 06-02-2011 |
20110298610 | COMPRESSING DATA IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A distinguished node is dynamically selected from a subset of nodes in a wireless network. Data samples from the subset of nodes are received in view of the distinguished node status. At least one estimate is generated from the data samples and the data samples are compressed conditioned on the estimate. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299455 | COMPRESSING DATA IN A WIRELESS MULTI-HOP NETWORK - A first node receives aggregated compressed data and unaggregated data from a second node in a wireless multi-hop network. The first node compresses its own collected data based on the received unaggregated data. The first node aggregates its own compressed data with the aggregated compressed data received from the second node. The first node forwards an unaggregated version of its own collected data along with aggregated compressed data to a next hop in the wireless multi-hop network. | 12-08-2011 |
20120047113 | MULTIPLE-SOURCE DATA COMPRESSION - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for compressing data generated by multiple data sources. The method includes steps of partitioning data generated by the multiple data sources into data partitions, the data included in each data partition containing inter-data-source redundancies and, for each data partition, compressing the data in the data partition to remove the inter-data-source redundancies. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-POWERED DATA TRANSMISSION - One embodiment of the present invention is a sensor comprising one or more sensing devices, data-transmission components that transmit sensor data to a receiving component, and a processing component. The processing component executes routines to record sensing-device output as data for transmission to the receiving entity and to control the data-transmission components to transmit the data to the receiving entity. The processing component executes one or more compressing routines to compress data prior to transmission, when data compression is estimated to result in a lower power cost than transmitting uncompressed data, and controlling the data-transmission components to transmit data without compressing the data when data compression is estimated to result in a higher power cost than transmitting uncompressed data. | 02-23-2012 |
20120201462 | JOINT IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A joint image compression system ( | 08-09-2012 |
20130127637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING BITPLANES BASED ON BIT POSITION - A technology is provided for compressing digital discrete node data to reduce overall power consumption. Node data can be represented by a plurality of data units with a specified data width and can also be viewed as a plurality of bit planes corresponding to data at each bit position for the data units. A threshold bit position value may be selected for data units using an achievable compressibility estimate relative to an estimated energy consumption. The threshold bit position value can represent a boundary where an estimated energy consumption for compressing and transmitting a bit plane is less than an estimated energy consumption for transmitting the bit plane uncompressed. A bit plane is selected in the plurality of bit planes with a bit position value greater than the threshold bit position value. The bit plane is compressed using a compressor in the networked node. | 05-23-2013 |
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20130225884 | PROCESS FOR SEPARATING HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS - Disclosed herein are processes for producing and separating ethane and ethylene. In some embodiments, an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) product gas comprising ethane and ethylene is introduced to a separation unit comprising two separators. Within the separation unit, the OCM product gas is separated to provide a C | 08-29-2013 |
20140012053 | NATURAL GAS PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS - Natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks. | 01-09-2014 |
20140018589 | NATURAL GAS PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS - The present disclosure provides natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks. | 01-16-2014 |
20140107385 | OXIDATIVE COUPLING OF METHANE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods conducive to the formation of one or more alkene hydrocarbons using a methane source and an oxidant in an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction are provided. One or more vessels each containing one or more catalyst beds containing one or more catalysts each having similar or differing chemical composition or physical form may be used. The one or more catalyst beds may be operated under a variety of conditions. At least a portion of the catalyst beds may be operated under substantially adiabatic conditions. At least a portion of the catalyst beds may be operated under substantially isothermal conditions. | 04-17-2014 |
20150321974 | OXIDATIVE COUPLING OF METHANE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods conducive to the formation of one or more alkene hydrocarbons using a methane source and an oxidant in an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction are provided. One or more vessels each containing one or more catalyst beds containing one or more catalysts each having similar or differing chemical composition or physical form may be used. The one or more catalyst beds may be operated under a variety of conditions. At least a portion of the catalyst beds may be operated under substantially adiabatic conditions. At least a portion of the catalyst beds may be operated under substantially isothermal conditions. | 11-12-2015 |
20150368167 | PROCESS FOR SEPARATING HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS - Disclosed herein are processes for producing and separating ethane and ethylene. In some embodiments, an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) product gas comprising ethane and ethylene is introduced to a separation unit comprising two separators. Within the separation unit, the OCM product gas is separated to provide a C | 12-24-2015 |
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20100099203 | Substrates with surfaces modified with PEG - Compositions and methods of modifying surfaces using hydroxyl terminated PEG are described herein. The surfaces so modified are useful in detection of synthetic and natural product organic molecules, organometallics, biomolecules, particles, or cells. | 04-22-2010 |
20100184056 | Sample collection and measurement in a single container by back scattering interferometry - This invention provides a device and method for collection and analysis of heterogeneous samples in a single sample container by back scattering interferometry. The sample container is configured to allow collection of a heterogeneous sample, such as blood, from a subject, separation of insoluble materials, such as blood cells by, for example, centrifugation, and mounting on a back scattering interferometer for analysis. In certain embodiments the container is a capillary tube and the interferometer comprises a mounting to hold the capillary tube in position for analysis. The device and method allow point-of-care analysis of samples. | 07-22-2010 |
20100291700 | Analysis of membrane component interactions - Devices and methods for detecting interaction between components associated with lipid membranes and analytes are described herein. In certain methods, a surface of a compartment of a device is coated with a material that attaches to lipid membrane from a sample. An analyte is introduced and interaction is detected, for example, by back scattering interferometry. In another method, a surface is passivated with a material that does not bind a lipid membrane. A sample is introduced that contains a membrane comprising a component for testing and an analyte. Interaction is detected. In a third method, a channel is filled with a first liquid that does not comprise a lipid membrane. A bolus of a second liquid that comprises a membrane comprising a component for testing and an analyte is introduced under laminar flow conditions so that a leading edge of the second liquid does not completely displace the first liquid in a sensing area that is interrogated by optical methods, for example, a laser. Interaction between the analyte and the component is detected. | 11-18-2010 |
20140065640 | Interferometric Detection Using Nanoparticles - This invention provides methods and systems for detecting interaction between members of a binding pair. The method involves associating one member of the binding pair with a nanoparticle and detecting the interaction between the two molecules by back-scattering interferometry. | 03-06-2014 |