16th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120095675 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND TAKING A DRIVING TOUR - Embodiments of methods for creating and taking a driving tour using information derived from crowd sourcing are disclosed herein. A method includes, but is not limited to accessing an Internet website that is configured to enable a user to compose a driving tour based in part on the information derived from crowd sourcing and in part on a user-specified criterion. The method further includes inputting the user-specified criterion into the Internet website. The method further includes creating the driving tour using the Internet website, the driving tour having a point of interest. The method further includes obtaining an electronic file from the Internet website containing the driving tour. The method further includes loading the electronic file into a mobile device. The method still further includes utilizing the mobile device and the electronic file to take the driving tour. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095676 | ON DEMAND TTS VOCABULARY FOR A TELEMATICS SYSTEM - A driving directions system loads into memory a limited subset of prerecorded, spoken utterances of geographic names from a mass media storage. The subset of spoken utterances may be limited, for example, to the geographic names within a predetermined radius (e.g., a few miles) of the driver's present location. The present location of the driver may be manually entered into the driving directions system by the driver, or automatically determined using a global positioning system (“GPS”) receiver. As the vehicle moves from its present location, the driving directions system loads into memory new names from the mass media storage and overwrites, if necessary, those which are now geographically out of range. Based on the current location of the driving, the driving directions system can audibly output geographic names from the run-time memory. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095677 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING MASS TRANSIT VEHICLES - Disclosed is a system and method for tracking mass transit vehicles, including monitoring a Base Station IDentification (BS ID) of a base station registered with a communication device; identifying a change in said BS ID; determining a current location of said communication device; determining a previous location of said communication device; calculating a distance d between said current location and said previous location; determining a subway exit closest to said current location; determining a distance dc between said current location and said subway exit; when said distance dc is less than an exit threshold, determining a subway entrance closest to said previous location; determining a distance dp between said previous location and said subway entrance; when said distance dp is less than an entrance threshold, determining a direction from said previous location to said current location; and identifying at least one subway train based on said entrance location, said exit location and said direction. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EXPANDED ACCESS TO NAVIGATIONAL SERVICES - An approach is provided for retrieving mapping information of a premise for use by a mobile device upon the mobile device reaching the premise. A prompt is generated for presentation by the mobile device for a destination point within the premise. A determination is made of the position information of the mobile device. Navigation information for guidance to the destination point is generated using the mapping information and the determined position information. Presentation of the navigation information is initiated via the mobile device. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095679 | VEHICLE GUIDANCE AND SENSOR BIAS DETERMINATION - Systems and methods for guiding a vehicle and vehicle sensor bias determination methods are disclosed. A method for guiding a vehicle includes a primary antenna of a primary survey-grade GNSS-receiver and a secondary antenna of a secondary GNSS-receiver mounted to the vehicle, which are at least temporarily receiving GNSS-signals of a global positioning system. A plurality of physical sensors mounted to the vehicle generate physical data indicative of respective measured physical parameters of at least part of the vehicle. The method includes de-biasing the physical data and applying a recursive statistical estimator, such as a Kalman filter, to the de-biased physical data and an output of the primary and secondary GNSS-receivers to determine a position and velocity of the vehicle. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095680 | GPS NAVIGATOR - Disclosed is a method and system for identifying a location of interest between a user and an identified endpoint and creating a user preference profile containing at least one location of interest to the user. A sampling bandwidth is designated based on current distance to the identified endpoint, wherein the navigation unit dynamically expands the sampling bandwidth as the user approaches within a predetermined distance of the endpoint. At least one user preference profile location of interest is selected that is within the sampling bandwidth that is between the user and the indentified endpoint. A sampling vector is computed for the at least one location of interest within the sampling bandwidth, and the user is alerted to the sampling vector for the at least one location of interest within the sampling bandwidth. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095681 | MULTI-USER RELATIONSHIP-BASED NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND NAVIGATION MANAGEMENT METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a multi-user relationship-based navigation apparatus. The multi-user relationship-based navigation apparatus includes a traveling situation information collection unit, a traveling situation information transmitting/receiving unit, a path information extraction unit, and a path display unit. The traveling situation information collection unit collects the traveling situation information of a user. The traveling situation information transmitting/receiving unit receives the common traveling situation information of other users in a multi-user relationship, and transmits the traveling situation information. The path information extraction unit extracts path information, related to paths on which the other users actually traveled, from the common traveling situation information. The path display unit displays a path to a destination of the user, the path being generated using the path information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095682 | Methods and Systems for Creating Digital Street Network Database - In a method for creating a digital representation of a transportation network location measurement data is acquired, and a plurality of maneuvers between choke points are generated from the location measurement data. The digital representation of the transportation network is then created and stored based on the plurality of maneuvers. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OIL SPILL DETECTION - The invention relates to a method for detecting the presence of hydrocarbons near an unmanned offshore oil platform. The method steps include monitoring reflected atmospheric and thermal radiation, detecting the presence of hydrocarbons, and generating an alert based on the presence of hydrocarbons. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095684 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING - The present invention is related to an environmental monitoring and analyzing device. The device contains a plurality of sensors, a control unit and a display unit. The different types of sensor obtain values of different environmental parameters. The control unit receive the obtained values of the environmental parameters and compare the obtained values against predetermined standards and criteria which define parameter ranges of the different environmental parameters. A display unit display a real-time air quality report comprising a user-friendly interpretation of the obtained values and recommendations in response to the obtained values. By implementing this invention into an embodiment, the environmental monitoring analyzing is carried out instantly by considering the interrelationship of the obtained values of the different environmental parameters. The analyzed results are therefore much more accurate. A real-time comprehensive and easily understood by non-technical user air quality report is provided. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095685 | REDUCING ERROR CONTRIBUTIONS TO GYROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS FROM A WELLBORE SURVEY SYSTEM - A method reduces gravity-dependent error contributions to gyroscopic measurements from a first gyroscopic sensor and a second gyroscopic sensor. The method includes receiving a first set of measurement signals and a second set of measurement signals indicative of at least one substantially perpendicular component and indicative of a substantially parallel component of the Earth's rotation. The method further includes receiving one or more measurement signals generated by a triad of accelerometers and calculating a first and second mass unbalance offset error for the first gyroscopic sensor and the second gyroscopic sensor, respectively. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095686 | Method and Apparatus for Removal of The Double Indication of Defects in Remote Eddy Current Inspection of Pipes - The apparatus employs the remote field eddy-current (RFEC) inspection technique to electromagnetically measure physical parameters of a metallic pipe. RFEC devices inserted into and displaced along a cylindrical pipes may be used to measure the ratio of pipe thickness to electromagnetic skin-depth and thus allow for the non-invasive detection of flaws or metal loss. Typically these RFEC thickness measurements exhibit a so-called double-indication of flaws, an undesired artifact due to a double-peaked geometrical sensitivity function of the device. The method describes a means by which this double indication artifact may be removed by an appropriate processing of RFEC measurements performed by an apparatus specifically designed for this purpose. The invention is particularly well designed for applications in the oilfield industry. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095687 | METHOD OF PREDICTING SOURCE ROCK THERMAL MATURITY FROM LOG RESPONSES - A method for estimating a property of an earth formation, the method includes: conveying a carrier through a borehole penetrating the earth formation; performing a measurement of total organic carbon (TOC) within a region of investigation in the earth formation using a logging tool disposed at the carrier; and correlating the measured TOC to the property to estimate the property. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095688 | Radial Waves In A Borehole And Stoneley Waves For Measuring Formation Permeability And Electroacoustic Constant - A Stoneley wave is generated in a borehole in a saturated porous earth formation. Measurements are made of the velocity of motion of the formation and the fluid in the formation. The difference in the velocities is indicative of formation permeability. An additional measurement of the electric field at the borehole wall enables determination of the electroacoustic constant. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095689 | PROCESSING SEISMIC DATA - A method of processing seismic data acquired consequent to actuation of a seismic source is described. The method comprises taking the result of the following process into account when processing the seismic data where the process comprises estimating the effect of uncertainty in the position and/or orientation of the seismic source relative to the measuring receiver on processing the seismic data by estimating a source wavefield from data acquired by a near-field measuring receiver and from a first parameter set including at least one parameter indicative of the position and/or orientation of the seismic source relative to the measuring receiver, varying the value of at least one parameter of the first parameter set, estimating the source wavefield from the data acquired by the measuring receiver and from the varied first parameter set and obtaining information about the uncertainty in the estimate of the source wavefield. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095690 | Methods and computer-readable medium to implement inversion of angle gathers for rock physics reflectivity attributes - The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to determine seismic reflectivity attributes indicating the presence of hydrocarbons in earth. In several embodiments, the methods and computer-readable medium perform the steps of computing seismic reflectivity attributes includes inputting data representing reflected seismic waves and a volume of P-wave velocity, transforming the volume of P-wave velocity into a volume of bulk density, transforming the volume of P-wave velocity into a volume of S-wave velocity using amplitude information from the reflected seismic waves, and using the volume of S-wave velocity and the volume of P-wave velocity to compute the reflectivity attribute. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095691 | HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE HAVING TESTING IN PAIRS BLOOD GLUCOSE TEST - A method for conducting a Testing In Pairs (TIPs) blood glucose (bG) test using a handheld diabetes management device carried by a user. A processing subsystem of the device implements a software module for managing the TIPs test. The software module generates a plurality of predetermined acceptance time windows corresponding to different user defined events. The processing subsystem can identify specific ones of a plurality of bG test values read by the device that are obtained during the predetermined bG acceptance time windows, and which are identified as being related pairs of accepted bG test values that correspond to specific ones of the user defined events. The related pairs of accepted bG test values can then be stored in a database. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095692 | METHOD FOR COMBINING SUB-THERAPEUTIC DOSES - A method is disclosed for selecting ingredient subsets for evaluation. The method receives a selection of at least one primary clinical effect and selects a plurality of ingredients that have the at least one primary clinical effect. In addition, the method scores for each ingredient a strength of the at least one primary clinical effect and each secondary clinical effect for an average therapeutic dose normalized to body mass for each of a group of subjects. The method further selects for evaluation each subset of the plurality of ingredients satisfying the equation | 2012-04-19 |
20120095693 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING POLYMERIC SEQUENCE DATA AND RELATED INFORMATION - Methods and systems for organizing, representing and processing polymeric sequence information, including biopolymeric sequence information such as DNA sequence information and related information are disclosed herein. Polymeric sequence and associated information may be represented using a plurality of data units, each of which includes one or more headers and a payload containing a representation of a segment of the polymeric sequence. Each header may include or be linked to a portion of the associated information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095694 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH CONFIDENCE UTILIZATION OF DATASETS - Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a metric for determining substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives in a data set, applying an optimization technique, and obtaining, from the results of the optimization technique, a value for at least one optimization parameter, the value for at least one optimization parameter resulting in substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives. A number of true positives and a number of false positives are a function of the one or more optimization parameters. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095695 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH CONFIDENCE UTILIZATION OF DATASETS - Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a metric for determining substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives in a data set, applying an optimization technique, and obtaining, from the results of the optimization technique, a value for at least one optimization parameter, the value for at least one optimization parameter resulting in substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives. A number of true positives and a number of false positives are a function of the one or more optimization parameters. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095696 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENETIC EVALUATION - Rapid and definitive bioagent detection and identification can be carried out without nucleic acid sequencing. Analysis of a variety of bioagents and samples, such as air, fluid, and body samples, can be carried out to provide information useful for industrial, medical, and environmental purposes. Nucleic acid samples of unknown or suspected bioagents may be collected, optimal primer pairs may be selected, and the nucleic acid may be amplified. Expected mass spectra signal models may be generated and selected, the actual mass spectra of the amplicons may be obtained. The expected mass spectra most closely correlating with the actual mass spectra may be determined using a joint maximum likelihood analysis, and base counts for the actual mass spectra and the expected mass spectra may be obtained. The most likely candidate bioagents may then be determined. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095697 | METHODS FOR ESTIMATING GENOME-WIDE COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS - Methods for determining the copy number of a genomic region at a detection position of a target sequence in a sample are disclosed. Genomic regions of a target sequence in a sample are sequenced and measurement data for sequence coverage is obtained. Sequence coverage bias is corrected and may be normalized against a baseline sample. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) segmentation, scoring, and output are performed, and in some embodiments population-based no-calling and identification of low-confidence regions may also be performed. A total copy number value and region-specific copy number value for a plurality of regions are then estimated. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095698 | PROCESS FOR EVALUATING CORROSION RESISTANCE OF COATING - The present invention is directed to a process for corrosion resistance evaluation of coated metals substrates, such as autobodies. An anode and cathode coated with protective coating being tested are exposed to an electrolyte in a chamber of a corrosion resistance evaluator. These coatings are provided with predetermined and standardized defects, such as micro-holes to accelerate the corrosion of the underlying metal substrate in a predictable and repeatable manner. The coated cathode/anode pair is subject to a start-up period followed by series preset DC voltages for preset durations that are interspaced with recovery periods. The impedance data collected are then used to arrive at the corrosion performance resistance of the coating applied over the cathode/anode pair. The foregoing evaluator substantially reduces the time required to test corrosion from several days (40 plus days) to few days (about two days). | 2012-04-19 |
20120095699 | Method for Imaging of Nonlinear Interaction Scattering | 2012-04-19 |
20120095700 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING MEMBRANE PROPERTIES RELATING TO DIFFUSION - Exemplary embodiments of a methodology, procedure, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided to obtain particular information relating to at least one transport property of a material containing at least one membrane, and to determine, e.g., a permeability of the membrane of the material and/or a surface area of the membrane of the material, as a function of, e.g., the obtained particular information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095701 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ONLINE STRESS AND LIFE CONSUMPTION OF A HEAT RECOVERY STEAM GENERATOR - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for determining online stress and life of a heat recovery steam generator. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method for assessing components of a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is provided. The method includes receiving HRSG design parameters; monitoring thermal stress data from one or more temperature sensors in communication with one or more HRSG components; and determining cycle-related life consumption data associated with the one or more HRSG components based at least in part on the HRSG design parameters and the monitored thermal stress data. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LANDING GEAR GROUND LOADS - There is provided a system for predicting loading of a landing gear including, a plurality sensors positioned proximate to the landing gear. The plurality of sensors measure strain applied to the landing gear, and each sensor yielding strain data. The system further includes a processor that receives the strain data from the plurality of sensors and predicts at least one ground load based on strain data. There is further provided a method for predicting loading of a landing gear. The method includes powering a plurality of sensors located proximate to a landing gear structure, interrogating the plurality of sensors via data acquisition circuitry to yield strain data, instructing the data acquisition circuitry as to a sampling rate and data resolution to be used for the interrogating, and, finally, processing the strain data to predict a ground load. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095703 | MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR - A system and method for monitoring loads applied to aircraft landing gear structure. The method includes the step of interrogating at least one sensor positioned proximate the landing gear structure by way of data acquisition circuitry to yield strain data. The method further includes the step of instructing the data acquisition circuitry with respect to a sampling rate and data resolution for interrogation. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095704 | FILTERING TECHNIQUES TO REMOVE NOISE FROM A PERIODIC SIGNAL AND Irms CALCULATIONS - Signal filtering removes effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095705 | Method for Determining the Viscosity of a Thin Film - A method is provided for determining the viscosity of thin films which exhibit a viscous behavior at a measurement temperature, notably for polymer resins above their glass transition temperature. A thin layer of material is formed on a substrate, a known geometrical pattern is impressed in the thin layer by molding or etching, the thin layer being in the solid state at the end of the impression step. The initial topography of the impressed pattern is measured over the entire length of the pattern along a determined direction, the film is baked at the measurement temperature Tm for a determined creep time t | 2012-04-19 |
20120095706 | ACOUSTIC APPARATUS AND ACOUSTIC SENSOR APPARATUS INCLUDING A FASTENER - An acoustic sensor apparatus includes a housing, a fastener structured to fasten together the housing and an electrical power conductor, an acoustic sensor structured to detect acoustic noise from the electrical power conductor and output a signal, and a circuit structured to detect an electrical conductivity fault from the signal. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095707 | Method for Identifying Type of Fault on Power Line - A method for identifying the type of faults occurred on a power line, characterized in that it comprises: calculating a fault point voltage on fault points based on terminal voltage and fault locations of the power line; adopting the fault point voltage corresponding to a maximum transition resistance as a setting value; comparing the fault point voltage on fault points with the setting value; and identifying the type of fault as a permanent type or a transient type based on the result of the comparison. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095708 | TOTAL ENERGY QUANTITY CONTROLLING DEVICE AND METHOD - A total energy quantity controlling device has a calculation data generating portion for defining, as calculation data, data for the amount of energy used for a processing energy type at a processing location for a processing month in a processing fiscal year, if this data is confirmed, or substitute data if this data for the amount of energy used is not confirmed; a substitute data determining portion for determining the substitute data; a data calculation processing portion for using the calculation data to calculate an aggregate value for the amount of energy used; a substitution rate calculating portion for calculating a substitution rate that is the use rate of the substitute data or the confirmed data within the aggregate value for the amount of energy used; and a displaying portion for displaying the aggregate value for the amount of energy used and the use rate. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095709 | Method of Estimating Short Circuit Current Available by Analysis of DC Charging Circuit - A system and method of dynamically estimating the short circuit current availability (SCCA) at a node in an alternating current electrical distribution system by examining the spectral composition of current drawn by a direct current charging circuit connected to the node. A correlative relationship between the total harmonic current distortion (THDi) in the current drawn by the charging circuit and the SCCA at the node is established for a particular charging circuit. An estimation of the SCCA at the node is accomplished by taking current measurements of current drawn by the charging circuit, analyzing those current measurements to determine the THDi, and estimating a corresponding value of SCCA based on the determined THDi. A method is also provided for calibrating a particular charging circuit to have a reactance and resistance suitable for use in estimating SCCA. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095710 | INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PARTIAL ELECTRIC DISCHARGES IN AN ELECTRIC APPARATUS - An instrument ( | 2012-04-19 |
20120095711 | APPARATUS FOR IMPARTING PHASE SHIFT TO INPUT WAVEFORM - There is set forth in one embodiment an apparatus and method for imparting a phase shift to an input waveform for output of a converted waveform. In one embodiment, a phase shift can be provided by four wave mixing of an input waveform and a pump pulse. In one embodiment, there is set forth an apparatus and method for generating a high resolution time domain representation of an input waveform comprising: dispersing the input waveform to generate a dispersed input waveform; subjecting the dispersed input waveform to four wave mixing by combining the dispersed input waveform with a dispersed pump pulse to generate a converted waveform; and presenting the converted waveform to a detector unit. In one embodiment a detector unit can include a spectrometer (spectrum analyzer) for recording of the converted waveform and output of a record representing the input waveform. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095712 | ROTATING FIELD SENSOR - An angle detection unit including first to third arithmetic units receives first and second signals that are associated with intensities of components of a rotating magnetic field in mutually different directions. The first arithmetic unit generates a sum of squares signal made up of the sum of squares of the first and second signals. Based on the sum of squares signal, the second arithmetic unit calculates a first error component estimate which is an estimated value of a first error component included in the first signal and a second error component estimate which is an estimated value of a second error component included in the second signal. The third arithmetic unit generates a first corrected signal by subtracting the first error component estimate from the first signal, generates a second corrected signal by subtracting the second error component estimate from the second signal, and calculates a detected angle value based on the first and second corrected signals. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095713 | Method of Calibrating Interleaved Digitizer Channels - In a multi-channel oscilloscope a method of calibrating interleaved digitizer channels initially calibrates each digitizer channel to produce a bandwidth enhanced filter for each digitizer channel to match the respective channel frequency and phase characteristics. The oscilloscope is then configured for interleaved operation whereby an input signal is applied to at least two digitizers via a switch through a common preamplifier to produce a reference digitizer channel and an interleaved digitizer channel where the bandwidth enhanced filter for the interleaved digitizer channel is now not correct. Fast Fourier transforms are performed on the data from the reference digitizer channel and the interleaved digitizer channel, from which are derived a match filter for the interleaved digitizer channel so the interleaved digitizer channel and reference digitizer channel are matched in phase and magnitude at all frequencies. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095714 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device acquires an output value in accordance with a state in which an operating device is held, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined first holding state of the operating device as a first reference value, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined second holding state of the operating device, different from the first holding state, as a second reference value, and calculates a state value indicative of the state in which the operating device is held, which is in accordance with the acquired output value, based on the first reference value and the second reference value. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095715 | In-Situ RC-Calibration Scheme for Active RC Filter - A method of calibrating a filter includes applying an input signal into the filter to generate an output signal, measuring a phase difference between the input signal and the output signal; determining a leading/lagging status of the phase difference; calculating a capacitor code (CAP_CODE) using the leading/lagging status; and calibrating the capacitor using the CAP_CODE. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095716 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MODULATIONS OF MULTIPLE-INSTRUMENTS AND SENSORS - A method for modulating multiple-instruments and multiple-sensors using an electronic device. The electronic device controls an instrument to measure the working parameters of an object, and controls a sensor to detect the working temperature of the object. By comparing the working parameters against a predefined range, and comparing the working temperature against a predefined temperature value, the electronic device determines whether the instrument and the sensor need to be modulated. If any of the working parameters is not within the predefined range or if the working temperature is greater than the predefined temperature value, the electronic device controls the instrument and the sensor to be modulated by using a modulation transfer function and a predetermined direction. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING SERIAL PORTS - In a system and method for testing a serial port of a computing device, the serial port electronically connects to a test fixture. Test data is sent to a receive data (RXD) pin by a transmit data (TXD) pin. A test result is received from the serial port by the RXD pin. The TXD pin and the RXD pin work normally if the test data is identical to the test result. When voltages of a request to send (RTS) pin and a data terminal ready (DTR) pin are set at high level, the RTS pin, a data carrier detect (DCD) pin, the DTR pin, a ring indicator (RI) pin, a data send ready (DSR) pin and a clear to send (CTS) pin work normally, upon the condition that status values of the serial port indicate the voltages of the above six pins are at high level. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095718 | AUTOMATIC TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An automatic testing system includes an equipment group and an electronic device. The equipment group includes plural equipments. The electronic device includes an input unit, a storage unit, a controller, an output unit and an integrated transmission interface. The input unit is used for inputting an instruction. The controller is electrically connected with the input unit and the storage unit for accessing the storage unit according to the instruction, thereby controlling and activating an automatic testing process and issuing a test command. The output unit is connected with the controller. The interface has a first terminal connected with the controller and a second terminal connected with the equipment group for integrating and transmitting the test command to at least one of the equipments of the equipment group, thereby allowing the equipment to perform the automatic testing process. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095719 | MEMORY THERMAL MANAGEMENT BASED ON SLOT INFORMATION - An apparatus comprises a mother board, a memory slot on the motherboard, a thermal sensor, and an embedded controller. The thermal sensor may detect temperature of a memory module on the memory slot. The embedded controller may monitor temperature from the detector. A memory controller may be adapted to receive data from the embedded controller. A computing device comprises a mother board, a basic input/output system (BIOS), and a memory controller. The basic input/output system may be disposed on the mother board. The memory controller may be adapted to receive data from the BIOS regarding a quantity and a quality of memory installed in the computing device. The memory controller may be adapted to regulate bandwidth of memory access of a memory module. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095720 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Unsafe Conditions - A device can be made operable to distinguish between materials impinging on a predefined area based at least in part on differentials within sets of data indicative of measurable characteristics of the materials impinging on the defined area. Such a device can trigger a protection mechanism based at least in part on identification of such differentials. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095721 | ACCELEROMETER BASED ON THE MEASUREMENT OF CASIMIR FORCE FLUCTUATIONS - An accelerometer based on the measurement of Casimir force fluctuations is described. The accelerometer comprises a sealed housing containing a vacuum or a liquid, a piezoelectric plate fixed with the sealed housing, and a mass moveable within the sealed housing located in proximity to the piezoelectric plate. The moveable mass and the piezoelectric plate each have conductive surfaces which are located from each other at a distance which creates a Casimir Effect between the movable mass and the piezoelectric plate. Fluctuations in acceleration of the moveable mass cause fluctuations in the Casimir force on the piezoelectric plate. The acceleration fluctuations cause fluctuations in an electric output of the piezoelectric plate. The fluctuations in electric output are measured and used to calculate an acceleration and direction of movement of the accelerometer or a host device in which the accelerometer is carried. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095722 | FALL PREVENTION - There is provided a method of determining a fall risk of a user, the method comprising collecting measurements of the motion of the user, estimating a value for a parameter related to the gait of the user from the measurements, and determining a fall risk for the user from a comparison of the estimated value with a normal value for the parameter determined from motion of the user in which the user is at their normal risk of falling. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095723 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS RELATING TO A VESSEL AND A SHAFT WITHIN A VESSEL - An apparatus is used for determining at least one parameter relating to an elongate member disposed within a vessel. The apparatus includes at least one measurement unit having a light emitting component and a corresponding light receiving component. The light receiving component is positioned apart from the light emitting component such that the elongate member is positionable between the light emitting component and the light receiving component. Additionally, the light emitting component is adapted to emit light towards the light receiving component, and the light receiving component is adapted to generate a signal corresponding to the light received from the light emitting component. A method for determining at least one parameter relating to the elongate member disposed within the vessel is also provided. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095724 | OPERATING HISTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND OPERATING HISTORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - At least a rotation speed of a rotary shaft and a vibration acceleration in a frequency domain are stored as an operating history, and the operating history is stored not only when the rotation speed of the rotary shaft varies, but also when a maximum value of the vibration acceleration in the frequency domain exceeds a predetermined threshold. Therefore, variation in the rotation speed of the rotary shaft and the chatter vibration occurrence state can be stored in association with each other. Hence, an operator can learn the rotation speed of the rotary shaft and the chatter vibration occurrence state in association with each other. As a result, chatter vibration can be suppressed easily and effectively. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095725 | PROGRAMMING METHOD FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE AND COMPUTING DEVICE THEREOF - In a programming method, a dimension system relating to a product can be embedded into a programming system. The dimension system includes measurement dimensions of measuring points of the product, and the serial numbers preset for the dimensions. The method arranges the serial numbers according to a predefined measuring path, and stores the serial numbers into a dimension list according to the order of the serial numbers presented in the measuring path. After importing the dimensions of the serial numbers into the programming system according to the presented order, the method converts each of the dimensions into a series of codes, and generates a measurement program for the dimensions according to the codes. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095726 | System and Method for Pulse-Echo Ranging - A pulse-echo ranging system and method wherein transmit burst pulses are transmitted to a target at a first repetition frequency, an intermediate frequency signal is generated by sampling the received echo pulses from the target at a second repetition frequency slightly lower than the first repetition frequency, and the intermediate frequency signal is evaluated to determine the target distance. In order to compensate for phase error and thermal drift which may occur when the transmit and sampling instants are generated, the transmit burst pulses are periodically and alternately transmitted at the first and second repetition frequencies while the received echo pulses are simultaneously sampled at the second and first repetition frequencies, and the target distance is determined as half of the distance between echoes appearing in the intermediate frequency signal and resulting from the different clocks. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095727 | WEIGHING APPARATUS WITH SECURED COMMUNICATION MEANS - A weighing apparatus | 2012-04-19 |
20120095728 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION/ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION/ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data processing apparatus is provided which allows easy identification of a correspondence relationship between a trace packet and a performance packet. The data processing apparatus includes: a measurement trigger generation unit that generates a measurement trigger; a performance monitor unit that measures a performance measurement event collected from a central processing unit (CPU) and outputs a measurement value; and a CPU trace unit that generates a trace packet sequence of trace information including an operation record of the CPU. Upon receipt of the measurement trigger, the performance monitor unit starts or ends measurement of performance metrics or outputs the measurement value, while, upon receipt of the measurement trigger, the CPU trace unit generates a trigger packet indicating generation of the measurement trigger and inserts the trigger packet, at a position corresponding to timing with which the measurement trigger is generated, into the trace packet sequence. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095729 | KNOWN INFORMATION COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING SOUND SOURCE - A known information compression apparatus and method for reducing a size of known information without missing information required to separate a sound source are provided. The known information compression apparatus may include a segment dividing unit to divide known information including sound source information of each musical instrument into a plurality of segments, and a compressed information generating unit to downmix the segments and to generate compressed information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND DESIGNING AN ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE - According to various embodiments of the invention, systems and methods are provided for analyzing and designing architectural structures. Such embodiments may be utilized by architects as tools that assist in designing architectural structures that achieve specific design goals, such as those related to sustainability. For example, an embodiment may comprise a system that: (i) provides a sustainability analysis on an architectural structure design created using a computer-assisted design (CAD) tool, and then (ii) apples a design option to that design (e.g., changes to orientation of building on a project site, size of fenestrations on the structure, choice of wall insulation, etc.) to improve its sustainability. In addition, various embodiments may be accessed through a web-based platform, which provides a user with easier access and better collaboration between and among design team members. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095731 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING GROWTH OF VOID OF RESIN IN A POROUS MATERIAL - The present invention provides a method for analyzing growth of void of resin in a porous material which comprising the steps of inputting data of the shape of a porous material filled with a resin material, and dividing the shape of the porous material into three-dimensional solid elements; inputting physical properties of the porous material, and boundary conditions including a pressure that is applied to the porous material; obtaining a resin-density distribution in the porous material through fluid analysis using a database obtained by experimentally measuring in advance a temporal change in a volume of gas generated from the resin material and porous material during heating, changes in a compressive force and compressive displacement respectively occurring when the porous material impregnated with the resin is compressed, and a change in a flow resistance of the resin; and comprehensively grasping production, growth, and distribution of voids deriving from gas generation. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVE PLANNING, VISUALIZATION, AND OPTIMIZATION OF DENTAL RESTORATIONS - Disclosed is a method for planning, visualizing, and/or optimizing dental restoration on at least a part of the pre-prepared teeth of a patient, wherein said method comprises the steps of:
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20120095733 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS FOR INTEGRATED PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION - A method, system, and computer readable storage medium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, may (a) provide a non-linear deterministic model representing the production system, the model including one or more inputs and one or more outputs, and associating a PDF with one or more of a first input and a first output, wherein the first input and the first output are not measured and not deterministically known; (b) linearize the model, and obtain a measurement of one or more of a second input and/or a second output; (c) determine, using a joint mean and covariance, a joint uncertainty related to one or more of the inputs and outputs; and (d) determine, using the joint mean and covariance and the measurement, a conditional mean and covariance for the one or more of the first input and first output. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095734 | OPTIMIZING BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT MODELS - A method of optimizing a Business Process Management (BPM) model, where the model is associated with a plurality of key performance indicators depending on a control parameter vector that includes a plurality of control parameters, may include separating the plurality of control parameters into a linear control parameter vector and a non-linear control parameter vector. A set of candidate values may be iteratively calculated for the control parameter vector. Each candidate value may be determined for a preselected value of a non-linear control parameter belonging to the non-linear control parameter vector from execution of a mixed integer program model associated with the BPM model, the key performance indicators and the preselected value of the non-linear control parameter vector. The method may further include adjusting the BPM model based on at least one of the candidate values. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095735 | Method of Integration of Molecular Pathway Models - A method for integrating molecular pathway models provides a computational architecture to integrate multiple molecular pathway models. The present invention utilizes a number of systems for communicating mathematical models between servers to a main database for the derivation of an integral solution. The present invention provides a method for the creation of a complex model such as a whole cell. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095736 | EXTENSION OF COSMO-SAC SOLVATION MODEL FOR ELECTROLYTES - An extension of COSMO-SAC to electrolytes (eCOSMO-SAC) combines the COSMO-SAC term for short range molecule-molecule, molecule-ion and ion-ion interactions with the extended symmetric Pitzer-Debye-Hückel term for long range ion-ion interactions. The extension recognizes that like-ion repulsion and local electroneutrality govern the surface segment contacts, and introduces a dual sigma profile concept for electrolyte systems. The eCOSMO-SAC formulation predicts activity coefficients of several representative electrolyte systems. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095737 | POWER ESTIMATOR AND POWER ESTIMATION METHOD - In a power estimator, a power coefficient-calculating section acquires an average value of the number of signal changes per unit time in each circuit range to thereby calculate a power coefficient for each circuit range or calculate a power coefficient for each circuit range when the average value of the number of signal changes per unit time is equal to 1, a correction coefficient-calculating section calculates a ratio of an average value of the number of signal changes per unit time at signal lines included in the circuit range to an average value of the number of signal changes per unit time at observing points designated in the circuit range, as a correction coefficient, and a power value-calculating section calculates a power value for each circuit range based on the correction coefficient and the power coefficient calculated for each circuit range. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095738 | CALCULATION METHOD FOR PHYSICAL VALUE, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS METHOD, CALCULATION PROGRAM FOR PHYSICAL VALUE, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM, CALCULATION DEVICE FOR PHYSICAL VALUE, AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE - A calculation method for physical value for calculating physical values in a numerical analysis method for numerically analyzing a physical phenomenon, comprises a physical value calculation step of calculating physical values in an analysis domain divided into a plurality of divided domains, wherein in the physical value calculation step, the physical values are calculated by using: a discretized governing equation that uses values not requiring coordinates (Vertex) of vertices of the divided domains and connectivity information (Connectivity) of the vertices and that is derived on the basis of a weighted residual method; and a calculation data model in which volumes of the divided domains and characteristic values of boundary surface indicating characteristics of boundary surfaces of adjacent ones of the divided domains are provided as the values not requiring coordinates (Vertex) of vertices of the divided domains and connectivity information (Connectivity) of the vertices. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095739 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE EFFICACY OF A COMBINATION THERAPY - The present invention concerns the determination of weighted phenotypic sensitivity score (wPSS) for a combination therapy as being the combination of information about the inherent anti-viral potency of each drug, as determined through statistical analysis of response to anti-retroviral therapy combination regimens, with resistance information on the individual patient's virus to each anti-retroviral drug as well as the use of this wPSS for predicting the efficacy of a patient's therapy or for evaluating or optimizing a therapy. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095740 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SIMULATION PROGRAM - A simulation device is accessible to a recording unit in which simulation data including status data and environmental data is recorded. The simulation device comprises: a plurality of status updaters to refer to the simulation data, and to execute a process of hierarchies into which a status updating process updating the status data is divided, the plurality of status updaters, in accordance with reference range information, referring to simulation data and updating the status data of the movable body for each of the hierarchies; and a drive decision unit to instruct the status updaters to update the status data according to update control information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095741 | Predicting Downhole Formation Volumetric Sand Production Using Grain-Scale Rock Models - A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for estimating sand production from an earth formation is disclosed. A grain-scale formation model of the earth formation is created, wherein a value obtained from the grain-scale formation model compares to a value of a measured property of the earth formation. A fluid parameter of the grain-scale formation model is determined and a movement of at least one grain of the grain-scale formation model is determined due to the determined fluid parameter. The sand production is estimated from the determined movement of the at least one grain. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS FOR THE REAL-TIME DETECTION OF A FUNCTIONAL CYCLIC ACTIVITY - A system and method for processing signals for the real-time detection of a functional cyclic activity, include: elements for simultaneously receiving signals acquired by a sensor array having at least two sensors; elements for recording and preprocessing the acquired signals during a plurality of consecutive cycles; elements for identifying event combinations from the recordings of the acquired signals, enabling a calibration to be carried out, including: elements for identifying a plurality of events in the acquired signals, each signal including an identified event; elements for defining a model of the functional activity, consisting of a time order of the events and the mean delays between the events, and elements for defining a detection time window from the functional activity model. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095743 | MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND MODELING - The invention generally relates to computational analysis and modeling of molecular structures and intermolecular interactions. More particularly, the invention concerns methods for determining the conformation of molecules including biomolecules, and methods for determining the molecular structure of complexes comprising such molecules. The invention may generally involve a reiterative communication between a docking and side-chain packing simulation on the one hand and a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation on the other hand. This allows to analyze backbone conformation changes that may arise due to intermolecular interactions upon the formation of a complex, yielding information more representative of the actual conformational events in and/or state of the complex. The invention may be used inter alia for analyzing and modeling the structure of proteins, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, and for protein and ligand design and engineering. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095744 | Telemetry Optimization in an Implantable Medical Device System to Achieve Equal and Maximal Distances in Bidirectional Communications - Methods for optimizing telemetry in an implantable medical device system are disclosed, with the goal of equating and maximizing the communication distances between devices in the system, such as the external controller and the Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG). The method involves computerized simulation of maximum communication distances in both directions between the two devices while varying at least two parameters of the telemetry circuitry, such as the number of turns in the telemetry coils in the two devices. This results in a simulation output comprising a matrix in which each element comprises the bidirectional distance values. An element is determined for which the distances are equal (or nearly equal) and maximized (or nearly maximized), and the optimal values for the parameters are then chosen on that basis, with the result that the communication distance in one direction equals the communication distance in the other direction, and is maximized. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095745 | EFFECT-DRIVEN SPECIFICATION OF DYNAMIC LIGHTING - A method and a device for simulating the realization of lighting effects in an environment are disclosed. The method may receive environment data, user input indicative of lighting effects, and data indicative of what installable devices exist. Based thereon, the method may generate at least one implementation option for each lighting effect and select one implementation option for each lighting effect. As a result, realization data based on the environment data and selected implementation options options can be generated. A simulator for simulating realization of lighting effects is adapted to communicate, on the one hand, with a user or other provider of environment and lighting effect data, and, on the other, with a source of information on installable hardware device. The simulator can be operable in a design mode, an implementation mode, a selection mode and a realization mode. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095746 | NOVEL MODELING APPROACH FOR TIMING CLOSURE IN HIERARCHICAL DESIGNS LEVERAGING THE SEPARATION OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL ASPECTS OF THE DESIGN FLOW - A method of designing an integrated circuit and a model of an integrated circuit block, an electronic design automation tool, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method of designing an integrated circuit includes: (1) generating a timing budget for the integrated circuit employing designer input of the integrated circuit, (2) establishing design constraints for a block of the integrated circuit employing the timing budget, (3) creating an input and output timing budget for the block employing the design constraints, (4) combining implementation information for the integrated circuit based on designer knowledge with the input and output timing budget to generate an updated input and output timing budget and (5) generating a model of the block based on the updated input and output timing budget. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095747 | IN-CONTEXT EXACT (ICE) MATCHING - Methods, systems and program product are disclosed for determining a matching level of a text lookup segment with a plurality of source texts in a translation memory in terms of context. In particular, the invention determines any exact matches for the lookup segment in the plurality of source texts, and determines, in the case that at least one exact match is determined, that a respective exact match is an in-context exact (ICE) match for the lookup segment in the case that a context of the lookup segment matches that of the respective exact match. The degree of context matching required can be predetermined, and results prioritized. The invention also includes methods, systems and program products for storing a translation pair of source text and target text in a translation memory including context, and the translation memory so formed. The invention ensures that content is translated the same as previously translated content and reduces translator intervention. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095748 | Language Identification in Multilingual Text - Methods, systems, and media are provided for identifying languages in multilingual text. A document is decoded into a universal representative coding for easier tag manipulation, then broken into plain-text content sections. The sections are identified and assigned a weight, wherein more informative sections are given a higher weight and less informative sections are given a lesser weight. A language likelihood score is determined for each word, phrase, or character n-gram in a section. The language likelihood scores within a section are combined for each language. The combined section scores are then summed together to obtain a total document score for each language. This results in a document score for each language, which can be ranked to determine the primary language for the document. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095749 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOVIE THEATERS AND OTHER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VENUES - Audiovisual presentation methods, systems and apparatus for improving and enhancing the listening experience of attendees of audiovisual presentations. An exemplary audiovisual presentation system includes an audio processing and distribution unit (APDU) configured to generate and broadcast a wireless audio service containing audio of an audiovisual presentation (e.g., soundtrack and dialogue audio of a movie, in the case of a movie presentation) throughout an audiovisual presentation room or space (e.g., a movie theater, in the case of a movie presentation). The wireless audio service is received by mobile receiving devices (MRDs) having or comprising headsets, headphones or earbuds, through which MRD users listen to the audio of the audiovisual presentation provided by the wireless audio service while viewing images of the audiovisual presentation. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095750 | PARSING OBSERVABLE COLLECTIONS - Parsing technology is applied to observable collections. More specifically, a parser, such as combinator parser, can be employed to perform syntactic analysis over one or more observable collections. Further, multiple observable collections can be combined into a single collection and time can be captured by annotating collection items or generating time items. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095751 | TEXT SEGMENTATION AND LABEL ASSIGNMENT WITH USER INTERACTION BY MEANS OF TOPIC SPECIFIC LANGUAGE MODELS AND TOPIC-SPECIFIC LABEL STATISTICS - The invention relates to a method, a computer program product, a segmentation system and a user interface for structuring an unstructured text by making use of statistical models trained on annotated training data. The method performs text segmentation into text sections and assigns labels to text sections as section headings. The performed segmentation and assignment is provided to a user for general review. Additionally, alternative segmentations and label assignments are provided to the user being capable to select alternative segmentations and alternative labels as well as to enter a user defined segmentation and user defined label. In response to the modifications introduced by the user, a plurality of different actions are initiated incorporating the re-segmentation and re-labeling of successive parts of the document or the entire document. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095752 | LEVERAGING BACK-OFF GRAMMARS FOR AUTHORING CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS - A system and method of refining context-free grammars (CFGs). The method includes deriving back-off grammar (BOG) rules from an initially developed CFG and utilizing the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to recognize user utterances. Based on a response of the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to the user utterances, at least a portion of the derived BOG rules are utilized to modify the initial CFG and thereby produce a refined CFG. The above method can carried out iterativey, with each new iteration utilizing a refined CFG from preceding iterations. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095753 | NOISE POWER ESTIMATION SYSTEM, NOISE POWER ESTIMATING METHOD, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNIZING METHOD - A noise power estimation system for estimating noise power of each frequency spectral component includes a cumulative histogram generating section for generating a cumulative histogram for each frequency spectral component of a time series signal, in which the horizontal axis indicates index of power level and the vertical axis indicates cumulative frequency and which is weighted by exponential moving average; and a noise power estimation section for determining an estimated value of noise power for each frequency spectral component of the time series signal based on the cumulative histogram. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL USING LAYERED SINUSOIDAL PULSE CODING - Provided are a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. A method for encoding an audio signal includes receiving a transformed audio signal, dividing the transformed audio signal into a plurality of subbands, performing a first sinusoidal pulse coding operation on the subbands, determining a performance region of a second sinusoidal pulse coding operation among the subbands on the basis of coding information of the first sinusoidal pulse coding operation, and performing the second sinusoidal pulse coding operation on the determined performance region, wherein the first sinusoidal pulse coding operation is performed variably according to the coding information. Accordingly, it is possible to further improve the quality of a synthesized signal by considering the sinusoidal pulse coding of a lower layer when encoding or decoding an audio signal in an upper layer by a layered sinusoidal pulse coding scheme. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095755 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing system including a time-frequency conversion unit which converts an audio signal in time domain into frequency domain in frame units so as to calculate a frequency spectrum of the audio signal, a spectral change calculation unit which calculates an amount of change between a frequency spectrum of a first frame and a frequency spectrum of a second frame before the first frame based on the frequency spectrum of the first frame and the frequency spectrum of the second frame, and a judgment unit which judges the type of the noise which is included in the audio signal of the first frame in accordance with the amount of spectral change. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095756 | Apparatus and method for determining weighting function having low complexity for linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients quantization - Proposed is a method and apparatus for determining a weighting function for quantizing a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient and having a low complexity. The weighting function determination apparatus may convert an LPC coefficient of a mid-subframe of an input signal to one of a immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient and a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient, and may determine a weighting function associated with an importance of the ISF coefficient or the LSF coefficient based on the converted ISF coefficient or LSF coefficient. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095757 | AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH EXTENSION IN CELP-BASED SPEECH CODER - A method for decoding an audio signal having a bandwidth that extends beyond a bandwidth of a CELP excitation signal in an audio decoder including a CELP-based decoder element. The method includes obtaining a second excitation signal having an audio bandwidth extending beyond the audio bandwidth of the CELP excitation signal, obtaining a set of signals by filtering the second excitation signal with a set of bandpass filters, scaling the set of signals using a set of energy-based parameters, and obtaining a composite output signal by combining the scaled set of signals with a signal based on the audio signal decoded by the CELP-based decoder element. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095758 | AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH EXTENSION IN CELP-BASED SPEECH CODER - A method for decoding an audio signal in a decoder having a CELP-based decoder element including a fixed codebook component, at least one pitch period value, and a first decoder output, wherein a bandwidth of the audio signal extends beyond a bandwidth of the CELP-based decoder element. The method includes obtaining an up-sampled fixed codebook signal by up-sampling the fixed codebook component to a higher sample rate, obtaining an up-sampled excitation signal based on the up-sampled fixed codebook signal and an up-sampled pitch period value, and obtaining a composite output signal based on the up-sampled excitation signal and an output signal of the CELP-based decoder element, wherein the composite output signal includes a bandwidth portion that extends beyond a bandwidth of the CELP-based decoder element. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095759 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY THROUGH HIGH FREQUENCY COMPRESSION - A speech enhancement system that improves the intelligibility and the perceived quality of processed speech includes a frequency transformer and a spectral compressor. The frequency transformer converts speech signals from the time domain to the frequency domain. The spectral compressor compresses a pre-selected portion of the high frequency band and maps the compressed high frequency band to a lower band limited frequency range. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095760 | APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CODING - Various embodiments of the invention provide scalable and distributed input signal coding activity detection and coding thereof (e.g. VAD/DTX) processing framework. An apparatus comprising an encoder is shown. The apparatus can be a terminal, for example a mobile phone, computer or the like. The apparatus may act as transmitter etc. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095761 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNIZING METHOD - A speech recognition system and a speech recognizing method for high-accuracy speech recognition in the environment with ego noise are provided. A speech recognition system according to the present invention includes a sound source separating and speech enhancing section; an ego noise predicting section; and a missing feature mask generating section for generating missing feature masks using outputs of the sound source separating and speech enhancing section and the ego noise predicting section; an acoustic feature extracting section for extracting an acoustic feature of each sound source using an output for said each sound source of the sound source separating and speech enhancing section; and a speech recognizing section for performing speech recognition using outputs of the acoustic feature extracting section and the missing feature masks. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095762 | FRONT-END PROCESSOR FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION, AND SPEECH RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A method of recognizing speech is provided. The method includes the operations of (a) dividing first speech that is input to a speech recognizing apparatus into frames; (b) converting the frames of the first speech into frames of second speech by applying conversion rules to the divided frames, respectively; and (c) recognizing, by the speech recognizing apparatus, the frames of the second speech, wherein (b) comprises converting the frames of the first speech into the frames of the second speech by reflecting at least one frame from among the frames that are previously positioned with respect to a frame of the first speech. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095763 | DIGITAL METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTHENTICATING A PERSON - Digital method for authentication of a person by comparing a current voice profile with a previously stored initial voice profile, wherein to determine the relevant voice profile the person speaks at least one speech sample into the system, this speech sample is conveyed to a voice-profile calculation unit and thereby, on the basis of a prespecified voice-profile algorithm, the voice profile is calculated, such that the overall size of the speech sample and/or parameters of its evaluation to determine the relevant voice profile are established dynamically and automatically as the sample is spoken, in response to the result of an evaluation of a first partial speech sample. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095764 | METHODS FOR CREATING AND SEARCHING A DATABASE OF SPEAKERS - A method of performing a search of a database of speakers, includes: receiving a query speech sample spoken by a query speaker; deriving a query utterance from the query speech sample; extracting query utterance statistics from the query utterance; performing Kernelized Locality-Sensitive Hashing (KLSH) using a kernel function, the KLSH using as input the query utterance statistics and utterance statistics extracted from a plurality of utterances included in a database of speakers in order to select a subset of the plurality of utterances; and comparing, using an utterance comparison equation, the query utterance statistics to the utterance statistics for each utterance in the subset to generate a list of speakers from the database of utterances having a highest similarity to the query speaker. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095765 | AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING A USER WITH SUBSTITUTES FOR POTENTIALLY AMBIGUOUS USER-DEFINED SPEECH COMMANDS - A method for alleviating ambiguity issues of new user-defined speech commands. An original command for a user-defined speech command can be received. It can then be determined if the original command is likely to be confused with a set of existing speech commands. When confusion is unlikely, the original command can be automatically stored. When confusion is likely, a substitute command that is unlikely to be confused with existing commands can be automatically determined. The substitute can be presented as an alternative to the original command and can be selectively stored as the user-defined speech command. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095766 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A speech recognition apparatus is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a primary speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on input speech and thus to generate word lattice information, a word string generation unit configured to generate one or more word strings based on the word lattice information, a language model score calculation unit configured to calculate bidirectional language model scores of the generated word strings selectively using forward and backward language models for each of words in each of the generated word strings, and a sentence output unit configured to output one or more of the generated word strings with high scores as results of the speech recognition of the input speech based on the calculated bidirectional language model scores. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095767 | VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION DEVICE, VOWEL INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION SYSTEM - A device includes: an input speech separation unit which separates an input speech into vocal tract information and voicing source information; a mouth opening degree calculation unit which calculates a mouth opening degree from the vocal tract information; a target vowel database storage unit which stores pieces of vowel information on a target speaker; an agreement degree calculation unit which calculates a degree of agreement between the calculated mouth opening degree and a mouth opening degree included in the vowel information; a target vowel selection unit which selects the vowel information from among the pieces of vowel information, based on the calculated agreement degree; a vowel transformation unit which transforms the vocal tract information on the input speech, using vocal tract information included in the selected vowel information; and a synthesis unit which generates a synthetic speech using the transformed vocal tract information and the voicing source information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095768 | Lips blockers, headsets and systems - Systems and methods for inhibiting access to the lips of speaking person including a sound receiving device for receiving speech of a person speaking, the person having lips that move when the person speaks, a blocker connected to the device for blocking the lips of the person speaking while the person is speaking; and, in some aspects, such a blocker with a material addition apparatus to provide added material for the breath of a person speaking, e.g., for preventing the spread of disease or to freshen a speaker's breath. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b). | 2012-04-19 |
20120095769 | AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND AUDIO DECODER - Embodiments of the present invention disclose an audio decoding method, including: determining that bitstreams to be decoded are monophony coding layer and first stereo enhancement layer bitstreams; decoding the monophony coding layer to obtain a monophony decoded frequency-domain signal; reconstructing left and right channel frequency-domain signals in a first sub-band region by utilizing the monophony decoded frequency-domain signal after an energy adjustment; and reconstructing left and right channel frequency-domain signals in a second sub-band region by utilizing the monophony decoded frequency-domain signal without the energy adjustment. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095770 | Defining Marketing Strategies Through Derived E-Commerce Patterns - A mechanism, in a data processing system, is provided for defining marketing strategies. The mechanism dynamically obtains information related to customer interactions associated with a plurality of customers, analyzes the information to identify patterns, selects patterns to define a marketing strategy for a marketer, and defines a marketing strategy based on the selected patterns. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING, RECEIVING AND UPDATIING BUSINESS CARD BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system for updating, sending and receiving a business card between electronic devices is provided. The system includes an input unit for a user to fill contact information, an identifying module, a template creating module, a verifying module, a first and second updating modules and a comparing module. The identifying module identifies whether an electronic device is used for the first time and whether a SIM card is being used for the first time with the electronic device. The template creating module creates the template of the business card. The verifying module prompts to input a password and verifies it. The first updating module prompts the sender to update contact information and creates the business card. The comparing module determines whether the communication list comprises a contact number which is the same as the old contact number in the business card. The second updating module updates the communication list. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095772 | PORTABLE DEVICE, BATTERY PACK, REPORTING METHOD AND REPORTING PROGRAM - A portable device which is driven by a chargeable and dischargeable secondary battery mounted on a battery pack having a memory circuit, in which identification information of the secondary battery is stored, the portable device including a defective battery information receiving unit configured to receive defective battery information which is delivered from a defective battery ID information delivering organization; a requesting unit configured to request obtaining the identification information of the secondary battery stored in the memory circuit; a determining unit configured to determine whether the identification information of the secondary battery is included in the defective battery information; and a report controlling unit configured to report a defect of the secondary battery if it is determined by the determining unit that the identification information of the secondary battery is included in the defective battery information. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095773 | HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR OBTAINING THREE DAY BLOOD GLUCOSE PROFILE - A method is disclosed for managing a three day profile blood glucose (bG) measurements that are provided by a user using a handheld diabetes management device. The method may involve configuring a database carried by the device to store a plurality of bG test values input by a user for each day of a three day test period. The bG test values are required to be provided by the user in accordance with a predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during each day of the three day test period. If two or more windows are open concurrently when a given bG test value is obtained, the system allows the user to select the appropriate time window that the given bG test value should be associated with. A processing subsystem of the device determines if at least a predetermined minimum plurality of the stored bG test values has been provided by the user during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows for each day of the three day test period and, if so, the processing subsystem accepts the bG test values provided by the user when compiling results for a three day bG profile. | 2012-04-19 |
20120095774 | METADATA TAGGING SYSTEM FOR A DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF DEVICES - A diabetes management system having a reliable data management scheme is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of devices, each device performing a different function relating to treatment of diabetes. Each device has a device identifier and each device generates data records relating to the function of the device. Each device includes a metadata generator configured to generate a metadata tag for a data record generated by the device. A metadata tag includes the device identifier of the corresponding device, a record identifier, and a source identifier indicating whether the record was originated by a human or the device. The system further includes a diabetes management device in communication with the plurality of devices and configured to manage records received from the plurality of devices. When a first device of the plurality of devices generates a new record to be communicated to the diabetes management device, the metadata generator of the first device generates a new unique record identifier and a new metadata tag based on the new unique record identifier and the device identifier of the first device, and the first device propagates the new record and the new metadata tag to the second device. | 2012-04-19 |