05th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130030729 | MOTHERBOARD ALARM SYSTEM TEST CIRCUIT - A motherboard alarm system test circuit includes an infrared emitter, a memory, and a circuit board. The circuit board includes a memory slot, many edge connectors, an infrared receiver, a single chip computer, and a switch circuit. The memory slot includes many spaced metal sheets. One end of each metal sheet is electrically connected to one of the first golden fingers of the memory. Each edge connector is electrically connected to the other end of each metal sheet. The second golden fingers of the circuit board are electrically connected to the memory slot. The signal chip computer includes an input pin electrically connected to the infrared receiver. The switch circuit is electrically connected to the signal chip computer. The switch circuit controls an electrical connection between the plurality of metal sheets and the plurality of first golden fingers of the memory. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030730 | NON-INVASIVE LEAKAGE POWER DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS USING DEVICE GROUPING AND COMPRESSIVE SENSING - Techniques are generally described for non-invasive, post-silicon characterization of—leakage power for devices of an integrated circuit (IC). A system of sparse leakage power equations may be developed for the devices (e.g. gates) within the IC to be solved using compressive sensing (CS) techniques. Input Vectors (IV) may be applied at input terminal of the IC, and power of the IC may be measured. The measurements may be used in conjunction with the set of sparse equations to determine leakage power values for individual devices, not directly accessible. Pre-processing and post-processing techniques may be employed to make the system of equations more sparse and further improve the efficiency of applying CS techniques to solve the equations. Example processing may include variable splitting, device grouping, IV and equation selection, measurement under elevated IC temperature, and bootstrapping. Other aspects may be disclosed and claimed. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030731 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT ELECTRIC QUANTITY MEASURING APPARATUS AND ALTERNATING-CURRENT ELECTRIC QUANTITY MEASURING METHOD - According to a present alternating-current electric quantity measuring apparatus, a voltage amplitude calculated by a square integral operation of at least three continuous voltage instantaneous values sampled at a sampling frequency twice or higher than a frequency of an alternating-current voltage to be measured is normalized. A voltage chord length calculated by the square integral operation of three voltage chord length instantaneous values representing an end-to-end distance between two adjacent voltage instantaneous values in at least four continuous voltage instantaneous values including the three voltage instantaneous values, which are sampled at the sampling frequency and used in calculating the normalized voltage amplitude, is normalized. A rotation phase angle in one period time of sampling is calculated using the normalized voltage amplitude and the normalized voltage chord length. A frequency of the alternating-current voltage is calculated using the calculated rotation phase angle. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030732 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR OCCUPANCY DETECTION - Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device embodiment includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine energy consumption data associated with a structure at a point in time, and determine whether the structure is occupied at the point in time based, at least in part, on the determined energy consumption data. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030733 | UTILITY METERS CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE MULTIPLE COLLECTION AGENTS - Utility meters configured to execute multiple collection agents are provided. In this regard, communication may be facilitated with a plurality of utility providers. A utility meter that includes one or more computer processors may be configured to execute a first software agent configured to collect utility usage data on behalf of a first utility provider. Additionally, the utility meter may be configured to execute a second software agent concurrently with the first software agent. The second software agent may be configured to collect utility usage data on behalf of a second utility provider. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030734 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CURRENT AND VOLTAGE MONITORING - A cable for monitoring current and voltage includes a plug, a socket, first and second conductors extending from the plug to the socket, a current and voltage monitoring module, a transceiver, and a housing. The current and voltage monitoring module is coupled to the first and second conductors, and is configured to measure current and voltage usage levels of the conductors. The transceiver is coupled to the current and voltage monitoring module and is configured to receive data related to the current and voltage levels and transmit the data related to the current and voltage levels. The housing is configured to house the current and voltage monitoring module, the transceiver and one of the socket and the plug. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030735 | RACK SERVER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A rack server system and a control method thereof are provided. The rack server system establishes a communication link for communicating with a battery backup unit. The battery backup unit is connected to a power input port of the rack server system, and includes a number of battery modules connected with each other in parallel. The rack server system controls the battery backup unit to perform validity test on a first battery module during a first period and to perform validity test on a second battery module during a second period, wherein the first period and the second period are not overlapped with each other. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030736 | BATTERY DEGRADATION DETERMINATION DEVICE, BATTERY DEGRADATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND BATTERY DEGRADATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM - A battery degradation determination device includes a fitting module configured to fit AC impedance measurement data into an equivalent circuit model including at least one circuit block in which a resistance and a constant phase element are connected in parallel, and to obtain circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model, a P-value saving module configured to save P values being index of the constant phase element obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a reference battery to the equivalent circuit model, and a degradation determination module configured to perform degradation determination for a battery as a determination target based on circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of the battery as a determination target to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values, with reference to correlations between degrees of battery degradation and the circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030737 | DEVICE FOR CALCULATING IMPEDANCES OF BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY IMPEDANCE MEASURING SYSTEM - There is provided a device for calculating impedances of a battery cell for respective frequency domains. The device includes: a Fourier transformation calculator configured to perform Fourier transformation on voltage waveform data and current waveform data, which are output from the battery cell, and calculate an impedance of the battery cell by dividing a Fourier transformation data of the voltage waveform data by a Fourier transformation data of the current waveform data; a circuit constant estimator configured to estimate circuit constants of a predetermined equivalent circuit model of the battery cell, based on the impedance calculated by the Fourier transformation calculator; and an impedance estimator configured to estimate impedances of the battery cell for respective frequency domains, based on the estimated circuit constants and the equivalent circuit mode. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030738 | Converging algorithm for real-time battery prediction - A method predicts the battery state in “real-time”, which is based on a nodal algorithmic model. Under this method, the battery is modeled as a network mesh of both linear and non-linear electrical branch elements. Those branch elements are inter-connected through a set of nodes. Each node can have several branches either originating or ending into it. The branch elements may represent loosely some particular function or region of the battery or they may serve a pure algorithmic function. The non-linear behavior of the elements may be described either algorithmically or through lookup tables. Kirchhoff's laws are applied on each node to describe the relationships between currents and voltages. The system may be connected with a battery so that it can receive measured values at the battery, and the system yields state-of-charge, state-of-health, and state-of- function signals. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030739 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DETERIORATION OF SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery is implemented as an assembly of a plurality of battery modules. An ECU calculates a deterioration indicator quantitatively indicating a degree of deterioration of a battery module for each of the plurality of battery modules, and detects as a module to be replaced, a battery module of which deterioration indicator has reached a prescribed replacement level. The ECU further extracts a module to additionally be replaced, which should be replaced simultaneously with the module to be replaced above, from battery modules of which deterioration indicator has not reached the replacement level, among the plurality of battery modules. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030740 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOLTAGE GRADIENT SENSOR DEVICES - A processing system for an input device includes a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a determination module. The transmitter module including transmitter circuitry, and is configured to drive a first end of a transmitter electrode such that the transmitter electrode exhibits a first voltage gradient extending from the first end of the transmitter electrode toward a second end of the transmitter electrode, wherein the first voltage gradient comprises a set of substantially discrete voltage values. The receiver module includes receiver circuitry, the receiver module configured to receive a first resulting signal with a first receiver electrode while the transmitter module is driving the first end of the transmitter electrode. The determination module is configured to compute a first measurement of a change in capacitive coupling between the transmitter electrode and the receiver electrode based on the first resulting signal, and determine positional information for an input object based on the first measurement. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE IMPEDANCE OF THE POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK IN PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE APPLICATIONS - On-die measurement of power distribution impedance frequency profile of a programmable logic device (PLD), such as field programmable gate array (FPGA) or complex programmable logic device (CPLD), is performed by configuring and using only logic blocks resources commonly available in any existing programmable logic device, without the need of built-in dedicated circuits. All measurements are done inside the programmable logic device without the need of external instruments. The measurement method can be used during characterization to select decoupling capacitors or for troubleshooting existing systems, after which the programmable logic device may be reconfigured to perform any other user-defined function. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030742 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE - A method for monitoring a synchronous machine is described. The method includes injecting a narrowband sinusoidal signal at a first end of a field winding of the synchronous machine. The method further includes monitoring a voltage at a second end of the field winding with respect to ground. The method then identifies a resonant frequency based on the monitored voltage, and generates a winding health indicator based on the identified resonant frequency and an expected resonant frequency. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030743 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING HIGH-SPEED FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF MULTIRATE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - There is provided with a method of identifying a frequency response of a controlled object at a sampling period of control input in a multiplexed-input multirate system in which a sampling period of control output is even “P” multiples of the sampling period of control input wherein the control object is represented by FIR filter, an M-series signal corresponding to an acquisition data length Mp×P−1 is generated, the Mp indicates a period of the M-series signal, an impulse response value of the controlled object is estimated based on the M-series signal and output data outputted from the controlled object by inputting the M-series signal thereto, and the frequency response of the controlled object is identified by performing a discrete Fourier transform on the impulse response value. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030744 | MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A PACKAGING SYSTEM - A monitoring system for a packaging system comprising a plurality of machine units comprises an output sensor for measuring packages output from the packaging system, a number of pairs of machine unit sensors, each pair of sensors comprising an input sensor and an output sensor, wherein the number of pairs of machine unit sensors is arranged at a number of machine units, respectively, a processing apparatus configured to receive information from the sensors, and a communications network configured to send information from the sensors to the processing apparatus. Based on the information from the number of pairs of machine unit sensors a number of wasted packages may be determined, which in turn imply that a reliable efficiency measure may be determined. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030745 | Processing Data for Calibration - A method including switching hardware into a pre-calibration mode; and using the hardware to selectively pre-store measured data for calibration. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030746 | Calibration Method - A method of calibrating a measurement device, during which at least one given value of a quantity to be measured by the device is provided by a corresponding reference or standard. The indicated measurement indications and the corresponding given values of the measured quantity are recorded, at least one predefined characteristic property of at least one of the measurement indications is determined and compared to corresponding threshold range. Each threshold range was previously determined based on a statistically representative distribution of the values of the respective property determined based on measurement indications derived during execution of a statistically representative number of performances of measurements according to the respective operation procedure with measurement devices of the same type as the device under calibration. A potentially impaired measurement property of the device under calibration is indicated if at least one determined characteristic property exceeds the respective threshold. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING A LIGHT BASED POSITIONING SYSTEM - In one aspect the present disclosure relates to a method for manually calibrating a light based positioning system in a location. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a map of positions of a plurality of light sources in the location; while positioned under one of the plurality of light sources on the map, receiving an identification code from the light source, wherein the identification code identifies the light source; and updating the map with the identification code for the light source. In some embodiments, the light source can be a light emitting diode. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030748 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DOSED, OR METERED, VOLUME OF AN AUTOMATIC PERISTALTIC SAMPLE TAKER - A method for determining a dosed, or metered, volume of an automatic peristaltic sample taker, in the case of which a measured, dosed, or metered, volume of the peristaltic sample taker is corrected by means of a calibration map. In order to improve accuracy in the determining of the dosed, or metered, volume, during a calibration phase, the calibration map is corrected by means of a correction curve, which depends on a negative pressure arising in the suction region of the peristaltic sample taker. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030749 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer and Method of Magnetic Field Correction - In a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, a sample spins about an axis tilted at a magic angle, a corrective magnetic field generating portion produces a corrective magnetic field, and a control portion controls the operation of the corrective magnetic field generating portion. An arithmetic unit included in the control portion uses at least one of B | 2013-01-31 |
20130030750 | ROBOT CLEANER AND SELF TESTING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed are a robot cleaner and a self testing method thereof. The robot cleaner performs a self test when being initially operated or when required by a user. This may prevent malfunctions or breakdowns of the robot cleaner. Furthermore, the robot cleaner senses a state of an operation sensing unit provided at a body, based on a sensing signal of the operation sensing unit. This may prevent accidents or errors which may occur as the robot cleaner operates. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030751 | Methods and systems for off-line control for simulation of coupled hybrid dynamic systems - Systems and methods are provided for controlling the simulation of a coupled hybrid dynamic system. A physical test rig configured to drive the physical structure component of the system and to generate a test rig response as a result of applying a test rig drive signal. A processor is configured with a virtual model of the system. The processor receives the test rig response and generates a model response of the system based on the received test rig response and a virtual drive input. The system is driven with a random input. The processor compares the test rig response with the model response, the difference being used to form a system dynamic response model for generating the test drive signal. An inverse of the system dynamic response model is used to iteratively reduce the difference between the model response and the test rig response below a defined threshold. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030752 | OPERATION CHECK TEST METHOD, PROGRAM AND CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT - A method to perform an operation check test of a phase control circuit of a clock distribution circuit is disclosed that includes shifting one of the phases of the first differential signals and the second differential signals with reference to the other of the phases; obtaining an output data signal of the differential DFF to which the first differential signals and the second differential signals are input, one of the phases being shifted by the shifting; and comparing first values of the plural output data signals with first expected data values, the first values of the plural output data signals being obtained by performing the shifting and the obtaining repeatedly until phase differences of the first differential signals and the second differential signals reach one cycle of the first differential signals and the second differential signals. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030753 | TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SAME - A remote server in electronic communication with a data center for testing one or more different types of electronic devices and method automatically tests one or more electronic devices. The data center stores a plurality of test programs correspondingly designed to test different types of electronic device. The remote server download one or more specified test programs corresponding to the electronic devices from the data center according to an identification code of each electronic device. The remote server tests the electronic devices by running the corresponding test programs. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTITUDE OF AN OBJECT - A method and apparatus for determining the attitude of an object is provided herein. The method for determining the attitude of the object comprises: receiving a gravity acceleration signal and a geomagnetic field signal, the gravity acceleration signal and the geomagnetic field signal changing with the attitude of the object accordingly; determining a gravity field representation in an object coordinate system according to the gravity acceleration signal, and determining a geomagnetic field representation in the object coordinate system according to the geomagnetic field signal; calculating a conversion parameter of coordinate system between to the object coordinate system and a terrestrial coordinate system according to the gravity field representation and the geomagnetic field representation in the object coordinate system; and determining the attitude of the object according to the conversion parameter of coordinate system. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030755 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVE OF THE POSITION OF A REAL TOOTH ON A TOOTHED TARGET RIGIDLY ATTACHED IN ROTATION TO A SHAFT OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A method an device for determining information representative of the position of a real tooth of a toothed target rigidly attached in rotation to a shaft of an internal combustion engine, the toothed target including n real teeth and m missing teeth forming a reference area and the engine being equipped with a sensor for detecting the passage of the real teeth of the toothed target in front of the sensor and with a unit capable of measuring, for each tooth k, the period of time, called period (T(k)) of the tooth k, separating the tooth k from the preceding tooth k−1. For the tooth k, the following ratio is calculated: | 2013-01-31 |
20130030756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANGLE MEASUREMENT - An apparatus for angle measurement that includes a graduation carrier with a code track disposed concentrically to a center point of the graduation carrier. The apparatus includes a first scanning unit having a first interface and a second scanning unit having a second interface, wherein the first and second scanning units ascertain angle values of the graduation carrier by scanning the code track. The apparatus further includes a control unit having: 1) a device interface that is in communication with a follower electronics unit, 2) a control unit interface that is in communication with the first and second interfaces and 3) a processing unit. By which the processing unit, angle values of the first and second scanning units can be requested and processed into a corrected angle value, and the corrected angle value can be transmitted to the follower electronics unit via the device interface. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030757 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A SAMPLE BODY BY MEANS OF REFLECTION AND SCATTERING SIGNALS - One aspect of the invention relates to a method for reconstructing the spatial distribution of a reflection coefficient for waves in a sample body, comprising the following steps: parameterizing the sample body by means of N volume elements; determining M different measurement configurations of an emitting device and an associated receiving device; defining the number T of measurement points; setting up M path matrices | 2013-01-31 |
20130030758 | SHAPE MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR MACHINE TOOL WORKPIECE - Disclosed is a shape measurement device for a machine tool workpiece that is capable of measuring in a short period of time in comparison to cases using a high precision sensor exclusively and is capable of measuring a prescribed spot with high precision, which is equipped with a wide range sensor ( | 2013-01-31 |
20130030759 | SMOOTHING A TIME SERIES DATA SET WHILE PRESERVING PEAK AND/OR TROUGH DATA POINTS - Implementations disclosed herein relate to smoothing a time series data set while preserving at least one of peak or trough data points. In one embodiment, a processor recursively identifies at least one of a peak or trough point outside of a threshold distance from a connecting line connecting a beginning and ending point within the time series data set. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030760 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF INTEGRATED TOOL-RELATED AND MATERIAL-RELATED DATA AND METHODS THEREFOR - Integrated yield/equipment data processing system for collecting and analyzing integrated tool-related data (cause data) and material-related data (effect data) pertaining to at least one material processing tool and at least one material is disclosed. In an embodiment, the tool-related data is correlated with the material-related data, and the correlated tool-related data and material-related data is employed by logic to perform at least one of root-cause analysis, prediction model building and tool control/optimization. By integrating cause-and-effect data in a single platform, the data necessary for performing, for example, automated problem detection (e.g., automated root cause analysis) and prediction, is readily available and correlated, which for example shortens the cycle time to detection and facilitates efficient and timely automated tool management and control. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030761 | STATISTICALLY-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION IN UTILITY CLOUDS - Systems and methods for detecting anomalies in a large scale and cloud datacenter are disclosed. Anomaly detection is performed in an automated, statistical-based manner by using a parametric Gini coefficient technique or a non-parametric Tukey technique. In the parametric Gini coefficient technique, sample data is collected within a look-back window. The sample data is normalized to generate normalized data, which is binned into a plurality of bins defined by bin indices. A Gini coefficient and a threshold are calculated for the look-back window and the Gini coefficient is compared to the threshold to detect an anomaly in the sample data. In the non-parametric Tukey technique, collected sample data is divided into quartiles and compared to adjustable Tukey thresholds to detect anomalies in the sample data. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030762 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING DOSES DEPOSITED BY IONIZING RADIATION - A method for calculating loads deposited by an ionizing radiation, for example to be used by a radiotherapy therapeutic treatment device. The method includes at least one first step of calculating a function of the distribution of the load in the meshes of a mesh phantom. The method includes a second step of calculating the load deposited in a voxel assembly, the value of the deposited load for one voxel being given by the function of the distribution of the load particular to the mesh to which the voxel belongs. The invention can be used in particular for radiotherapy by intensity modulation. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030763 | SPECTROMETER INCLUDING A GEIGER-MODE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE - A spectrometer including: a photodiode having a depleted region and generating an electrical detection signal indicating instants of detection of optical pulses; a converter generating an electrical delay signal, indicating delays between the instants of detection and corresponding instants of emission of the optical pulses; a memory, storing a theoretical function corresponding to the probability of triggering an avalanche by a charge carrier generated in the depleted region; and a computing stage which determines a statistical distribution of the delays between the instants of detection and the corresponding instants of emission; selects a Gaussian portion of the statistical distribution; calculates the ratio between the sum of the number of delays of the Gaussian portion and the sum of the number of delays of the statistical distribution; and determines an estimate of the wavelength of the optical pulses on the basis of the theoretical function and of the sample value. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030764 | APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING - Systems and methods related to performance measurement and reporting are described. In one method, a first application is profiled in a first profiling session to generate a first parameter dataset related to performance of segments of the first application. A session report is created based on the first parameter dataset. Further, based in part on the session report, comments for one or more of the segments of the application are received. A consolidated report is then generated based on the first parameter dataset and the comments. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN MONITORING MACHINES - A system for monitoring a machine includes a memory device operatively coupled with a processor. The memory device stores a plurality of operational measurements of the machine and is programmed with computer instructions that instruct the processor to record a first plurality of operational measurements of the machine, perform a full spectrum analysis thereof, and generate a first full spectrum data set therefrom. The instructions also instruct the processor to transmit the first full spectrum data set to a model stored within the memory device. The instructions further instruct the processor to determine variations between the first full spectrum data set and a second full spectrum data set. The second full spectrum data set is different from the first full spectrum data set. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030766 | CALIBRATION SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present invention discloses a calibration system for electronic devices comprising an electronic calibration device and an electronic device and having a space configured to connect to the electronic calibration device. The electronic calibration device has a calibration parameter storage module configured to pre-store a first standard parameter of a plurality of calibration items of the electronic device. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030767 | HIGH SPEED DATA TESTING WITHOUT HIGH SPEED BIT CLOCK - System and method for testing a high speed data path without generating a high speed bit clock, includes selecting a first high speed data path from a plurality of data paths for testing. Coherent clock data patterns are driven on one or more of remaining data paths of the plurality of data paths, wherein the coherent clock data patterns are in coherence with a low speed base clock. The first high speed data path is sampled by the coherent clock data patterns to generate a sampled first high speed data path, which is then tested at a speed of the low speed base clock. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030768 | KALMAN FILTERING AND INFERENTIAL SENSING FOR A SYSTEM WITH UNCERTAIN DYNAMICS - A method and system include a system with uncertain parameters having a deterministic input, a noise calculator coupled to an output of the uncertain system to generate an equivalent noise covariance matrix, and a stochastic system with known parameters coupled to receive the deterministic input and the equivalent noise covariance matrix to provide an output. The process noise with equivalent process noise covariance matrix provides additional input to the system with known parameters to provide the same output uncertainty as in the system with uncertain parameters. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030769 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADAR APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a signal processing apparatus configured to calculate an angle of a detection point corresponding to an object on the basis of received signals of a plurality of array antennas. A beat signal is generated by a difference between a transmitted signal and a received signal. Digital data is derived through AD conversion of the beat signal. The digital data is divided into a plurality of data groups. A fast Fourier transform is performed on the data groups to acquire a plurality of transformed data corresponding to the number of the data groups. The transformed data are divided into a plurality of sets, correlation matrices for the respective sets are acquired, and an average value of the correlation matrices is calculated. The angle of the detection point is calculated on the basis of the average value of the correlation matrices. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PLACEMENT OF DEVICES BASED ON A BUILDING LAYOUT - A method and apparatus for determining placement of one or more devices using a building layout is disclosed. The method may include generating a map layer based on the building layout. A zone definition that includes identification of available zones and access characteristics of each of the available zones is received. A density definition that includes identification of available density levels and usage characteristics of each of the density levels is received. The placement of the one or more devices in the available zones is enabled based on associating the zone definition and the density definition with the map layer. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030771 | MODAL ASSURANCE CRITERION FOR COMPARING TWO MODE SHAPES OF A MULTI-COMPONENT STRUCTURE - An improved Modal Assurance Criterion for comparing two mode shapes obtained from modal analysis of a multi-component structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first mode shape vector and second mode shape vector for a first mode shape and second mode shape of the multi-component structure, respectively, are formed by grouping modal displacement at each node associated with each component in the multi-component structure. Further, modal assurance criterion (MAC) between the first mode shape vector and second mode shape vector is computed by dividing a square of sum of magnitudes of correlation of the modal displacement at each component for the first mode shape vector and second mode shape vector in the multi-component structure with a product of squared magnitudes of the first mode shape vector and second mode shape vector. Furthermore, the first mode shape and second mode shape of the multi-component structure are compared using the MAC. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030772 | Optimisation of a wind turbine - A method of optimising a construction of a basis of a wind turbine is provided. A local load environment situation of a construction location is analysed, which results in local load-relevant environment data, based on which construction instructions are generated. These are further based on a set of predefined rules for processing the local load-relevant environment data, such that in a first selected region of the basis along a circumference of the tower and/or in a first selected region of the foundation the carrying structure of the basis is weakened in at least one selected horizontal cross-section with respect to possible maximum loads in comparison with a second region of the basis in the selected cross-section. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030773 | COORDINATE MEASURING SYSTEM DATA REDUCTION - Coordinate measurement data such as point cloud data associated with coordinate measurement machine data is reduced in a strategic and systematic manner by segmenting and/or reducing data based on nominal geometric information contained in an electronic file such as a CAD model or a coordinate measurement machine inspection plan. For example, in one embodiment, a software application is used to identify geometric features and tolerances within a CAD model of an object, and to segment coordinate measurement data of a physical object based on the identified geometric features and tolerances from the CAD model. The various segments of coordinate measurement data may be assigned different data requirements, and the data may be reduced in different manners on a feature-by-feature basis. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030774 | Modeling Gate Transconductance in a Sub-Circuit Transistor Model - A method for modeling a transistor includes providing a transistor model having at least a source node, a drain node, and a gate node, simulating operation of a device using the transistor model in a computing apparatus, and generating an offset voltage at the gate node depending on a magnitude of a current passing through the device. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030775 | Method for Determining the Position of a Mobile Body at a Given Instant and for Monitoring the Integrity of the Position of Said Mobile Body - A method for determining the position of a mobile body at a given instant and for monitoring the integrity of the position of said mobile body includes a step of determining a sustained position at the given instant by adding the integral of the hybrid speed between the preceding instant and the given instant to the position of the mobile body at the preceding instant; a step of determining the sustained protection radius associated with the sustained position by adding the integral of the hybrid speed protection radius between the preceding instant and the given instant to the position protection radius of the preceding instant; a step of determining a better position at the given instant, the better position being: when information from the first positioning device is available, the position associated with a better protection radius, the better protection radius being selected by comparing the intermediate protection radius with the sustained protection radius according to a predetermined selection criterion; and, when information from the intermediate positioning device is unavailable, the sustained position. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030776 | INTAKE PARAMETER-CALCULATING DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND METHOD OF CALCULATING INTAKE PARAMETER - To provide an intake parameter-calculating device and intake parameter-calculating method for an internal combustion engine, which are capable of accurately calculating intake parameters in a case where an intake throttle valve is provided. The intake parameter-calculating device | 2013-01-31 |
20130030777 | Cluster 3D Petrophysical Uncertainty Modeling - Reservoir properties or attributes such as water saturation, porosity and permeability are determined directly at each cell of a three dimensional grid of a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir. Input parameters based on original data from petrophysical measurements and other attributes of the reservoir and its subsurface features are generated over a range of uncertainties for the individual cells. The predicted input parameters for the individual cells are provided as processing inputs for petrophysical algorithms. The input parameters at different measures of possible uncertainties for the cells of the reservoir are processed using cluster computers to determine on a cell-by-cell basis a number of possible scenarios or results for the reservoir attributes of interest. The determinations made for the different scenarios can then be assembled as postulated models for sections of interest of the reservoir grid, and the postulated models evaluated to more accurately obtain reservoir attributes over the reservoir, even for areas where no well intersects the reservoir. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030778 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Predicting Impact on a Pipeline Delivery Infrastructure - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for predicting impact on a pipeline delivery infrastructure. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided that can include simulating a pipeline delivery infrastructure; identifying one or more sections in the infrastructure; and forecasting an impact of the infrastructure based on one or more modifications to the infrastructure or on one or more new demand points wherein the forecasting comprises estimating pressures in each of identified one or more sections. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030779 | PREDICTIVE AND CLOSED LOOP CHANGE MANAGEMENT OR INNOVATION ACCEPTANCE PLATFORM - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for accelerating or improving the success rate of a behavior change in an organization, group or community. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method for accelerating or improving the success rate of a behavior change, the method including gathering primary and secondary relationship data of an informal network of individuals and behavior change constructs for a plurality of individuals within the informal network of individuals; performing social network analysis of the informal network; and performing statistical perception analysis of the individuals within the informal network. In an embodiment, the invention includes a system for accelerating or improving the success rate of a behavior change initiative in an organization, group or community. Other embodiments are also included herein. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030780 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Simulating a Scenario by Updating Events Over a Time Window Including the Past, Present, and Future - A scenario is simulated by providing an agent that is an object in the scenario, providing a time window for the scenario that spans the farthest reachable past time and the farthest reachable future time with respect to a present time for the agent and/or at least one player that interacts with the simulated scenario, providing at least one event that represents a change in at least one attribute of the agent, and updating a state of the scenario by applying the at least one event to the agent within the time window. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030781 | PROCESSING STIMULATION METHOD, DEVICE FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD - When a material shape model is separated in shear through processing, a shape model of a material in a state of being suspended remains in mid-air, and thus, interference is detected excessively. In order to prevent the excessive detection of interference, in a processing simulation method for generating a shape model of a processed material from a shape model of a material and a shape model of a tool processing area which is defined from a shape model of the tool and a movement path of the tool, the shape model of the material being separated into a plurality of shapes by processing is detected; a material shape to be cut-off is extracted from the separated material shapes; and the extracted material shape to be cut-off is excluded from subject of simulation. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030782 | N-PHASIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR CALCULATING A FULLY COUPLED RESPONSE OF MULTIPHASE COMPOSITIONAL FLUID FLOW AND A SYSTEM FOR UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION OF THE CALCULATED RESERVOIR RESPONSE - In an exemplary embodiment, a method is disclosed for developing an N-phasic finite element model for performing fully coupled analyses of multi-phase compositional fluid flow and heat flow in nonlinearly deforming porous solid media with time-dependent failure. The method can include formulating a finite element model of the behavior of a coupled solid-fluid formation, having complex geometry and behavior, and applying the model to derive the response of the formation in the form of one or more displacement fields for the solid phases and one or more pressure fields for the fluid phases in a zone of interest in a formation. In an exemplary embodiment, a system is disclosed for estimating the uncertainties in the derived displacement and pressure field solutions for the response of the fully coupled solid-fluid phases. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030783 | PARAMETER DETERMINING METHOD AND DEVICE - An approximated objective function value calculator calculates individual estimated values for an evaluation parameter corresponding to individual values of a controlled parameter where the value of a non-controlled parameter is held constant at the current value in an approximated objective function estimated by an approximated objective function estimator. A proximity distance calculator calculates, as a proximity distance s for each individual value for the controlled parameter, a distance from each individual value for the controlled parameter, in a case where the value of the non-controlled parameter is held constant, to the analysis data having the nearest distance when projected onto an input variable space defined by the controlled parameter and the non-controlled parameter. An additional measurement point determining indicator calculator calculates an additional measurement point determining indicator P corresponding to each individual value of the controlled parameter as P=estimated value−α×s. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030784 | RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFIGURATOR - Embodiments for determining an optimal configuration for a renewable energy power plant are provided. The power plant, which may be a virtual power plant, includes one or more generator devices and one or more energy storage devices that may be operated to undertake one or more operating applications. Data indicative of the power output of the power plant and the voltage level at the energy storage system connection point is received as an input. Using this data, combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications stored on a database are processed and, for each energy storage and operating application pair, a value indicative of the profitability of undertaking the operating application is determined. These values are used to rank the combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications according to their profitability, which in turn is used to select the most efficient or profitable application/energy storage pair. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030785 | Computer resource utilization modeling for multiple workloads - Computer resource utilization modeling for multiple workloads includes a computer obtaining resource utilization data, the resource utilization data having groups of computer resource utilization measurements made during time intervals for a plurality of workloads. The computer determines parameters representing a distribution of the computer resource utilization measurements for each of the groups to generate a baseline of distributions across the time intervals for each of the plurality of workloads. The computer sums the baselines of distributions for the plurality of workloads to generate a combined baseline of distributions across the time intervals for a combination of the plurality of workloads. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030786 | EMULATING INPUT/OUTPUT COMPONENTS - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to emulating an input/output component of a device. The device includes an external connection to connect the device to another device. The device also includes multiple input/output components. One of the input/output components is selected. The selected input/output is emulated for the other device. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTIVE GENERATION OF COMPOUND WORDS IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION - A method and a system for making merging decisions for a translation are disclosed which are suited to use where the target language is a productive compounding one. The method includes outputting decisions on merging of pairs of words in a translated text string with a merging system. The merging system can include a set of stored heuristics and/or a merging model. In the case of heuristics, these can include a heuristic by which two consecutive words in the string are considered for merging if the first word of the two consecutive words is recognized as a compound modifier and their observed frequency f | 2013-01-31 |
20130030788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING BILINGUAL WEB SITES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for bootstrapping a language translation system. A system configured to practice the method performs a bidirectional web crawl to identify a bilingual website. The system analyzes data on the bilingual website to make a classification decision about whether the root of the bilingual website is an entry point for the bilingual website. The bilingual site can contain pairs of parallel pages. Each pair can include a first website in a first language and a second website in a second language, and a first portion of the first web page corresponds to a second portion of the second web page. Then the system analyzes the first and second web pages to identify corresponding information pairs in the first and second languages, and extracts the corresponding information pairs from the first and second web pages for use in a language translation model. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030789 | Universal Language Translator - A universal language translator automatically translates a spoken word or phrase between two speakers. The translator can lock onto a speaker and filter out ambient noise so as to be used in noisy environments, and to ensure accuracy of the translation when multiple speakers are present. The translator can also synthesize a speaker's voice into the dialect of the other speaker such that each speaker sounds like they're speaking the language of the other. A dialect detector could automatically select target dialects either by auto-sensing the dialect by listening to aspects of each speaker's phrases, or based upon the location of the device. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030790 | TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE TRANSLATION ENGINES - Disclosed is a translation apparatus and method using multiple translation engines. The translation apparatus using the multiple translation engines may include a structure analysis unit to analyze a structure of an original sentence, a sentence receiver to receive, from translation engines, translations of the original sentence, and a sentence determining unit to determine one of the received translations to be a translation result based on performance information for the translation engines corresponding to the structure of the original sentence. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030791 | SYNTAX ANALYSIS INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, TRANSLATION APPARATUS, TRANSLATION SYSTEM, SYNTAX ANALYSIS INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | 2013-01-31 |
20130030792 | Customization of a Natural Language Processing Engine - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for customizing a natural language processing engine. The method includes enabling selection of one or more parameters of a desired natural language processing task, the one or more parameters intended for use by a trained and an untrained user, mapping the one or more selected parameters to a collection of one or more intervals of an input parameter to an optimization algorithm, and applying the optimization algorithm with the collection of one or more intervals of an input parameter to a model used by a natural language processing engine to produce a customized model. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030793 | LINGUISTIC ERROR DETECTION - Potential linguistic errors within a sequence of words of a sentence are identified based on analysis of a configurable sliding window. The analysis is performed based on an assumption that if a sequence of words occurs frequently enough within a large, well-formed corpus, its joint probability for occurring in a sentence is very likely to be greater than the same words randomly ordered. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030794 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING SPEAKERS, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a speaker clustering apparatus includes a clustering unit, an extraction unit, and an error detection unit. The clustering unit is configured to extract acoustic features for speakers from an acoustic signal, and to cluster utterances included in the acoustic signal into the speakers by using the acoustic features. The extraction unit is configured to acquire character strings representing contents of the utterances, and to extract linguistic features of the speakers by using the character strings. The error detection unit is configured to decide that, when one of the character strings does not fit with a linguistic feature of a speaker into which an utterance of the one is clustered, the utterance is erroneously clustered by the clustering unit. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030795 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An encoding method of an encoder is provided. The encoder generates first MDCT coefficients by transforming an input signal, and generates MDCT indices by quantizing the first MDCT coefficients. The encoder generates second MDCT coefficients by dequantizing the MDCT indices, and calculates MDCT residual coefficients using differences between the first MDCT coefficients and the second MDCT coefficients. The encoder generates a residual index by encoding the MDCT residual coefficients, and generates gain indices corresponding to gains from the first MDCT coefficients and the second MDCT coefficients. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030796 | AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS AND AUDIO ENCODING METHOD - An audio encoding apparatus that allows a decoded signal exhibiting an excellent sound quality to be obtained on a decoding side. In the audio encoding apparatus ( | 2013-01-31 |
20130030797 | EFFICIENT TEMPORAL ENVELOPE CODING APPROACH BY PREDICTION BETWEEN LOW BAND SIGNAL AND HIGH BAND SIGNAL - This invention provides a more efficient way to quantize temporal envelope shaping of high band signal by benefiting from energy relationship between low band signal and high band signal; if low band signal is well coded or it is coded with time domain codec such as CELP, temporal envelope shaping information of low band signal can be used to predict temporal envelope shaping of high band signal; the temporal envelope shaping prediction can bring significant saving of bits to precisely quantize temporal envelope shaping of high band signal. This prediction approach can be combined with other specific approach to further increase the efficiency and save mores bits. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030798 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO CODING AND DECODING - An encoder and decoder for processing an audio signal including generic audio and speech frames are provided herein. During operation, two encoders are utilized by the speech coder, and two decoders are utilized by the speech decoder. The two encoders and decoders are utilized to process speech and non-speech (generic audio) respectively. During a transition between generic audio and speech, parameters that are needed by the speech decoder for decoding frame of speech are generated by processing the preceding generic audio (non-speech) frame for the necessary parameters. Because necessary parameters are obtained by the speech coder/decoder, the discontinuities associated with prior-art techniques are reduced when transitioning between generic audio frames and speech frames. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030799 | ACOUSTIC SHOCK PROTECTION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An acoustic shock protection device includes a prediction gain estimator and an audio compressor. The prediction gain estimator is configured to analyze a plurality of linear prediction coefficients of an audio signal and determine a category of the audio signal. The audio compressor is coupled to the prediction gain estimator, and the audio compressor is configured to adjust a signal level of the audio signal according to the category of the audio signal. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030800 | ADAPTIVE VOICE INTELLIGIBILITY PROCESSOR - Systems and methods for adaptively processing speech to improve voice intelligibility are described. These systems and methods can adaptively identify and track formant locations, thereby enabling formants to be emphasized as they change. As a result, these systems and methods can improve near-end intelligibility, even in noisy environments. The systems and methods can be implemented in Voice-over IP (VoIP) applications, telephone and/or video conference applications (including on cellular phones, smart phones, and the like), laptop and tablet communications, and the like. The systems and methods can also enhance non-voiced speech, which can include speech generated without the vocal track, such as transient speech. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030801 | Off-Axis Audio Suppressions in An Automobile Cabin - The suppression of off-axis audio in an audio environment is provided. Off-axis audio may be considered audio that does not originate from a region of interest. The off-axis audio is suppressed by comparing a phase difference between signals from two microphones to a target slope of the phase difference between signals originating from the region of interest. The target slope can be adapted to allow the region of interest to move with the location of a human speaker such as a driver. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030802 | MAINTAINING AND SUPPLYING SPEECH MODELS - Maintaining and supplying a plurality of speech models is provided. A plurality of speech models and metadata for each speech model are stored. A query for a speech model is received from a source. The query includes one or more conditions. The speech model with metadata most closely matching the supplied one or more conditions is determined. The determined speech model is provided to the source. A refined speech model is received from the source, and the refined speech model is stored. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030803 | MICROPHONE-ARRAY-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A microphone-array-based speech recognition system combines a noise cancelling technique for cancelling noise of input speech signals from an array of microphones, according to at least an inputted threshold. The system receives noise-cancelled speech signals outputted by a noise masking module through at least a speech model and at least a filler model, then computes a confidence measure score with the at least a speech model and the at least a filler model for each threshold and each noise-cancelled speech signal, and adjusts the threshold to continue the noise cancelling for achieving a maximum confidence measure score, thereby outputting a speech recognition result related to the maximum confidence measure score. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030804 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF A TRANSCRIPTION USING AUXILIARY DATA SUCH AS PERSONAL DATA - A method is described for improving the accuracy of a transcription generated by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine. A personal vocabulary is maintained that includes replacement words. The replacement words in the personal vocabulary are obtained from personal data associated with a user. A transcription is received of an audio recording. The transcription is generated by an ASR engine using an ASR vocabulary and includes a transcribed word that represents a spoken word in the audio recording. Data is received that is associated with the transcribed word. A replacement word from the personal vocabulary is identified, which is used to re-score the transcription and replace the transcribed word. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030805 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a transcription support system supports transcription work to convert voice data to text. The system includes a first storage unit configured to store therein the voice data; a playback unit configured to play back the voice data; a second storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string; a text creating unit that creates the text in response to an operation input of a user; and an estimation unit configured to estimate already-transcribed voice positional information indicative of a position at which the creation of the text is completed in the voice data based on the voice indices. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030806 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD - In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030807 | WIRELESS SPEECH RECOGNITION TOOL - The wireless voice recognition system for data retrieval comprises a server, a database and an input/output device, operably connected to the server. When the user speaks, the voice transmission is converted into a data stream using a specialized user interface. The input/output device and the server exchange the data stream. The server uses a programming interface having an engine to match and compare the stream of audible data to a data element of selected searchable information. A data element of recognized information is generated and transferred to the input/output device for user verification. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030808 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Scoring Concatenated Speech Responses - Systems and methods are provided for scoring non-native speech. Two or more speech samples are received, where each of the samples are of speech spoken by a non-native speaker, and where each of the samples are spoken in response to distinct prompts. The two or more samples are concatenated to generate a concatenated response for the non-native speaker, where the concatenated response is based on the two or more speech samples that were elicited using the distinct prompts. A concatenated speech proficiency metric is computed based on the concatenated response, and the concatenated speech proficiency metric is provided to a scoring model, where the scoring model generates a speaking score based on the concatenated speech metric. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030809 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION METHODS AND APPARATUS - One aspect includes determining validity of an identity asserted by a speaker using a voice print associated with a user whose identity the speaker is asserting, the voice print obtained from characteristic features of at least one first voice signal obtained from the user uttering at least one enrollment utterance including at least one enrollment word by obtaining a second voice signal of the speaker uttering at least one challenge utterance that includes at least one word not in the at least one enrollment utterance, obtaining at least one characteristic feature from the second voice signal, comparing the at least one characteristic feature with at least a portion of the voice print to determine a similarity between the at least one characteristic feature and the at least a portion of the voice print, and determining whether the speaker is the user based, at least in part, on the similarity. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030810 | FRUGAL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING SPEECH CORPUS - The present invention provides a frugal method for extraction of speech data and associated transcription from plurality of web resources (internet) for speech corpus creation characterized by an automation of the speech corpus creation and cost reduction. An integration of existing speech corpus with extracted speech data and its transcription from the web resources to build an aggregated rich speech corpus that are effective and easy to adapt for generating acoustic and language models for (Automatic Speech Recognition) ASR systems. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030811 | NATURAL QUERY INTERFACE FOR CONNECTED CAR - Sensors within the vehicle monitor driver movement, such as face and head movement to ascertain the direction a driver is looking, and gestural movement to ascertain what the driver may be pointing at. This information is combined with video camera data taken of the external vehicle surroundings. The apparatus uses these data to assist the speech dialogue processor to disambiguate phrases uttered by the driver. The apparatus can issue informative responses or control vehicular functions based on queries automatically generated based on the disambiguated phrases. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030812 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EMOTION INFORMATION, AND FUNCTION RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS BASED ON EMOTION INFORMATION - Provided is an emotion information generating apparatus that is capable of recognizing a user's emotional state for each function of a terminal. The emotion information generating apparatus detects a user's emotional state and maps the user's emotional state to a function of the terminal, thus creating emotion information. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030813 | QUALITY OF USER GENERATED AUDIO CONTENT IN VOICE APPLICATIONS - Methods and arrangements for improving quality of content in voice applications. A specification is provided for acceptable content for a voice application, and user generated audio content for the voice application is inputted. At least one test is applied to the user generated audio content, and it is thereupon determined as to whether the user generated audio content meets the provided specification. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF USER GENERATED AUDIO CONTENT IN VOICE APPLICATIONS - Methods and arrangements for improving quality of content in voice applications. A specification is provided for acceptable content for a voice application, and user generated audio content for the voice application is inputted. At least one test is applied to the user generated audio content, and it is thereupon determined as to whether the user generated audio content meets the provided specification. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030815 | MULTIMODAL INTERFACE - Provided is a multimodal graphical user interface. The multimodal graphical user interface includes a menu with at least one menu item, wherein the at least one menu item is displayed as command name along with a unique hand shape, wherein the at least one menu item is configured to receive a combination of cursor and selection gesture input. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030816 | OFFLINE DELIVERY OF CONTENT AVAILABLE IN VOICE APPLICATIONS - Methods and arrangements for facilitating offline delivery of content available in voice applications. User access to a voice application is permitted, and the user is accorded a capability to select content in the voice application for offline delivery. The selected content is stored in a holding arrangement, and the selected content is availed for delivery to the user. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030817 | MDCT-Based Complex Prediction Stereo Coding - The invention provides methods and devices for stereo encoding and decoding using complex prediction in the frequency domain. In one embodiment, a decoding method, for obtaining an output stereo signal from an input stereo signal encoded by complex prediction coding and comprising first frequency-domain representations of two input channels, comprises the upmixing steps of: (i) computing a second frequency-domain representation of a first input channel; and (ii) computing an output channel on the basis of the first and second frequency-domain representations of the first input channel, the first frequency-domain representation of the second input channel and a complex prediction coefficient. The method comprises applying independent bandwidth limits for the input channels. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030818 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD, DECODER AND DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030819 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS USING COMPLEX PREDICTION - An encoder, based on a combination of two audio channels, obtains a first combination signal as a mid-signal and a residual signal derivable using a predicted side signal derived from the mid signal. The first combination signal and the prediction residual signal are encoded and written into a data stream together with the prediction information. A decoder generates decoded first and second channel signals using the prediction residual signal, the first combination signal and the prediction information. A real-to-imaginary transform may be applied for estimating the imaginary part of the spectrum of the first combination signal. For calculating the prediction signal used in the derivation of the prediction residual signal, the real-valued first combination signal is multiplied by a real portion of the complex prediction information and the estimated imaginary part of the first combination signal is multiplied by an imaginary portion of the complex prediction information. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030820 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM SCALABLY ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO/SPEECH - A method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech. The method includes splitting an input signal into a low frequency band signal that is lower than a predetermined frequency and a high frequency band signal that is higher than the predetermined frequency, scalably encoding the split low frequency band signal into a core layer and one or more extension layers and then decoding the encoded core layer and the encoded extension layers, generating an error signal by using the split low frequency band signal and a decoded signal of the encoded core layer and the encoded extension layers, and encoding the error signal and the high frequency band signal into a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement layer and a bandwidth extension layer. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030821 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUFFERING AUDIO DATA TO ALLOW LOW POWER STATES IN A PROCESSING SYSTEM DURING AUDIO PLAYBACK - An audio data stream from a processing system may be buffered to allow low power states in the processing system during audio playback. An audio buffer may be provided external to the processing system and between the processing system and an audio codec. The audio buffer may also shift to an alternate audio data interface mode when the processing system is in the low power state. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING REPLACEMENT ITEMS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving a signal from a radio frequency identifier tag carried by a first item, identifying from the signal information about the first item, determining from the identified information a measure of wear and tear of the first item, determining a strategy to replace the first item according to a monitored behavior of a user of the first item, and identifying at least one replacement item according to the strategy. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030823 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT MANAGEMENT - A receipt management system, method and article of manufacture. The article of manufacture can include a storage medium configured to store receipt data from multiple disparate vendors, communications logic for establishing a communicative link between the system and receipt data processing logic disposed within individual ones of the multiple disparate vendors, and a receipt management processor programmed to moderate access to the storage medium. Importantly, the storage medium can be a portable mass storage device. Notably, each of the storage medium, communications logic and receipt management processor can be disposed in a pervasive device, or in a personal article. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030824 | Mobile pharmacy - The present document describes a mobile pharmacy comprising: motorized vehicle; Pharmacist, pharmacy Technician, an inventory of healthcare products; a computer system connected to the internet. There is also described the use of a mobile pharmacy to provide pharmacist counseling to various remote areas where it reaches a specific sheltered place in the village to facilitate providing the pharmaceutical and health services to village population. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED TRIAGE AND SCHEDULING IN AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods for automated triage and scheduling in an emergency department are described. An example computer-implemented method of automatically triaging and scheduling patients in an emergency department includes associating a patient with an identification bracelet and processing the patient using a patient evaluation device. The processing includes obtaining patient data with the patient evaluation device and dynamically determining a risk level associated with the patient based on the patient data obtained. The method also includes automatically prioritizing and scheduling the patient with a healthcare practitioner based on the risk level determined. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030826 | AUTOMATED PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for making the process of registering at and receiving treatment in a healthcare facility more efficient and safe has been developed. The system utilizes computer communications network-based systems, software, various input and output stations, and a patient identification card (e.g., Loyalty Card) that work together to allow (a) providers to direct, track, and optimize the efficiency of patient activity and (b) patients to have ready access to their status and, in some cases, control of the healthcare process. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030827 | Semantic Interoperability System for Medicinal Information - A system for managing and exchanging electronic information provides a rules management component for executing conceptual rules, an ontology management component, an information model management component, and a system configuration management component. The ontology management component manages at least one ontology and mappings between members of different ontologies. The ontologies may include a code system and a terminology. The ontology management component may manage a value set that is a subset of the terminology. The information model management component manages one or more information model schemas, each defining an information model and comprising information defining at least one slot within the information model. The system configuration management component manages configuration information on the configuration of each system component. The system configuration component utilizes services of the rules management component, information model management component and ontology management component to dynamically bind value sets to slots of the information model. | 2013-01-31 |
20130030828 | HEALTHCARE INCENTIVE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The HEALTHCARE INCENTIVE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (hereinafter “H-INC”) transforms patient insurance information, and healthcare procedure schedule information inputs via H-INC components into medical claim settlement outputs. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving an indication of healthcare service interest from a user; querying for a healthcare provider based on the indication of healthcare service interest; obtaining a cost estimate of the healthcare service for the healthcare provider; obtaining a reward amount based on the cost estimate; providing the healthcare provider to the user as a recommended provider; receiving a user redemption request including healthcare payment information related to healthcare service performed at the healthcare provider; verifying the healthcare payment information related to healthcare service performed at the healthcare provider; and providing the reward amount to the user. | 2013-01-31 |