44th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130289902 | ANOMALY DETECTION UTILIZING ENERGY FLOW NETWORKS - A fabric of cores can be configured to spontaneously organize internal structure that mirrors the spatial-temporal causal structure of the data stream that is injected into the fabric. The mechanism is that of a self-organizing energy dissipating structure such that the energetic source is the injected signals and the energetic sink is the collisions of signals in cores. An adaptive routing architecture is further possible such that energy is preferentially allocated in the direction of maximal energy sink. By measuring the energy dissipation rate, anomalies may be detected by comparing to a set threshold. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289903 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A collective setting part sets a collective usage permission period for lighting loads, and a separate setting part sets a separate usage permission period for the lighting loads. The relevance information memory stores relevance information that is obtained by relating each of starting times and ending times of the separate usage permission periods to a starting time or an ending time of the collective usage permission period. When the collective usage permission period is modified through a user terminal, the separate setting part modifies the starting times and the ending times of the separate usage permission periods so as to interlock with modified content for the starting time or the ending time of the collective usage permission period related in the relevance information. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289904 | Detecting Anomalies In Power Consumption Of Electrical Systems - A method for detecting power consumption anomalies. The method obtains two different time power series and compares them to generate a dissimilarity matrix. A dimensionality reduction equation is applied to the dissimilarity matrix to obtain a low dimensional embedding of the power data. A probability score of each of the time series being anomalous is then calculated. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289905 | DISTRIBUTION POWER FLOW ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A distribution power flow analysis system and method are provided. A first relationship matrix and a second relationship matrix are used to analyze distribution power flow. The first relationship matrix is a relationship between a node injection current matrix and a branch current matrix. The second relationship matrix is a relationship between a node mismatch matrix and the branch current matrix. The system and method are applicable to cases of adding a new node, impedance or parallel loop. Compared with other conventional methods, the system and method have good robustness, fast execution speed and low memory space requirement in power flow calculation of a distribution power system. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289906 | CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAYING ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A circuit is used for displaying the amount of electrical energy consumed by an electronic device. The circuit includes an analog to digital (A/D) converting circuit, a microprocessor connected to the A/D converting circuit, and a display connected to a microprocessor for displaying the energy consumed by the electronic device. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289907 | DISAGGREGATION APPARATUS - The invention relates to a disaggregation apparatus ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130289908 | BATTERY MONITORING APPARATUS AND WIRELESS FIELD DEVICE - A battery monitoring apparatus is built in a device having a primary battery. The battery monitoring apparatus includes a voltage measuring module configured to obtain an open circuit voltage of the primary battery and an output voltage of the primary battery at the time when a load current flows, a current measuring module configured to obtain the load current, a first resistance value calculating module configured to obtain a first internal resistance of the primary battery based on the open circuit voltage, the load current and the output voltage, a second resistance value calculating module configured to obtain a second internal resistance of the primary battery at which the device can operate normally based on the open circuit voltage, the load current and the minimum drive voltage, and an alarm outputting module configured to output a battery life alarm when the first internal resistance is larger than the second internal resistance. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289909 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING PARAMETER VALUES OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of monitoring the working conditions and states of an electronic device sets a first time-interval to read the parameter values of the electronic device. When the electronic device is working normally, the first time-interval is replaced by a second time-interval, which is longer than the first time-interval, to reduce reading frequency, relieve the load on a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the electronic device, and save power. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289910 | Control of Delivery of Current Through One or More Discharge Lamps - A system includes, in at least one aspect, a first circuit configured to be coupled to a load, and a second circuit configured to perform operations including receiving a digital voltage signal representing a voltage supplied to a first circuit, identifying a first time stamp associated with a voltage value representing an extrema in the digital voltage signal, receiving a digital current signal representing a current drawn by the load in response to the supplied voltage, identifying a second time stamp associated with the digital current signal, the second time stamp being within a threshold time of the first time stamp, and identifying a current value associated with the second time stamp as the current drawn by the load. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289911 | POWER CONVERTER RESONANCE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Power conversion systems and methods are presented for detecting filter capacitor resonance conditions in a power conversion system in which filter currents are measured and filtered using a bandpass filter, and one or more computed mean, RMS, and/or Fourier transform values are computed based on the filtered value(s). The computed measurement value or values are compared with a predetermined threshold and a suspected filter capacitor resonance condition is selectively identified based on comparison result. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289912 | EIGEN-VECTOR APPROACH FOR COIL SENSITIVITY MAPS ESTIMATION - A method for estimating a coil sensitivity map for a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes providing ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130289913 | METHOD FOR MEASURING A MAGNETIC FIELD USING MAGNETOELECTRIC SENSORS - A method for measuring a time-variant magnetic field using a magnetoelectric sensor having mechanical resonant frequency f | 2013-10-31 |
20130289914 | FLEXIBLE EVALUATION OF FREE SPACE OVER THE AIR MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods are directed towards determining a total measurement uncertainty for LME and LEE UEs. Methods include representing the at least one quantity subject to measurement as a function of at least one physically observably quantity. Methods also include obtaining a value of the at least one quantity subject to measurement. Based on the obtained values, values of the sources of uncertainty are derived. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289915 | AUTOMATIC COMPASS SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - An automatic compass system for a vehicle includes compass circuitry having a multi-axis compass sensor and associated circuitry. The multi-axis compass sensor includes first and second magnetoresponsive sensing elements. The magnetoresponsive sensing elements and at least a portion of the associated circuitry are established on a common silicon substrate using CMOS technology. The associated circuitry includes at least one of (i) an A/D converter, (ii) a D/A converter, (iii) signal processing circuitry, (iv) memory, (v) signal filtering circuitry, (vi) a display driver. The compass circuitry (i) determines a directional heading of the equipped vehicle responsive to a sensing of a magnetic field by the magnetoresponsive sensing elements and (ii) automatically compensates for a deviating magnetic field. Responsive to the compass circuitry, an information display of the equipped vehicle may display the directional heading of the equipped vehicle. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A RADIO POSITIONING BASED POSITION FINDING DEVICE - Described is an apparatus for calibrating a position finding device, having a comparer for comparing a received radio signal pattern to a multitude of reference radio signal patterns, a determiner for determining a signal strength difference, and a determiner for determining a calibration value. The comparer for comparing is configured to select a selection subset from the multitude of reference radio signal patterns by means of a measure of matching between the received radio signal pattern and one reference radio signal pattern, respectively. Determination of the calibration value is based on the signal strength difference, and the determiner for determining the calibration value is further configured to provide the calibration value to the position finding device. Also described are a position finding device for radio-based localization, having such an apparatus for calibrating, a method of calibrating a position finding device based on radio-based localization, and a computer program for performing the method are described. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION OF MEASUREMENT MACHINE - A computing device connects with a measurement machine. The measurement machine includes a raster ruler and a measurement unit. The computing device reads environmental temperatures from a temperature sensor. Compensation coefficients of the standard workpiece and compensation coefficients of the raster ruler are calculated. The computing device calculates total compensation coefficients of the standard workpiece and the raster ruler. When the measurement machine measures an object workpiece, the computing device calculates a total error of the object workpiece according to the total compensation coefficients of the standard workpiece and the total compensation coefficients of the raster ruler. Coordinates of the object workpiece are calculated according to the total error and mechanism coordinates of each axis of the measurement machine. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING CALIPER MEASUREMENTS OF SHEET PRODUCTS IN SHEET MANUFACTURING OR PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A method includes measuring a caliper of a sheet of material using a caliper sensor having first and second sensor modules. The method also includes adjusting the caliper measurement based on a transverse displacement between a first sensor component in the first sensor module and a second sensor component in the second sensor module to generate a corrected caliper measurement. Adjusting the caliper measurement can include applying a corrector function that adjusts the caliper measurement based on the measured transverse displacement. The corrector function can be identified by repeatedly creating misalignment between the first and second sensor components, measuring a known distance using the caliper sensor, and identifying an error between the measurement of the known distance and the known distance. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289919 | DETECTOR FOR CLOGGED FILTERS - A clogged filter detector has a transmitter and a sensor which are held in place by a transmitter bracket and a sensor bracket, respectively. The transmitter emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation, and the sensor is positioned in the path of this beam at a point such that the beam travels through a filter between the transmitter and the sensor. The transmitter and sensor are misaligned with the air flow at the point where the beam contacts the filter. The transmitter alternates between a transmitting mode and a dormant mode, and the transmitter emits a plurality of electromagnetic pulses during each transmitting mode. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289920 | MEASURING DEVICE, A CALIBRATION DEVICE, A MEASURING SYSTEM AND A METHOD WITH A DYNAMIC DATA SHEET - A measuring device comprises a signal-processing device, a processor for controlling the measuring device and a communications device. The signal-processing device and the communications device are each connected to the processor. The measuring device further comprises a calibration-parameter store connected to the processor for the storage of calibration parameters. The processor is embodied to communicate calibration parameters, which are stored in the calibration-parameter store, to a calibration device by means of the communications device and to implement calibration measurements by means of the signal-processing device. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289921 | 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. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289922 | POWER SUPPLY BUILT-IN TESTING - A disclosed system includes a switching power supply including a switching circuit and one or more monitoring circuits configured to monitor one or more power characteristics of the switching power supply, and a processing circuit configured to control the one or more monitoring circuits to perform a built-in test (BIT) of the one or more monitoring circuits. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289923 | OPERATION CHECK SUPPORT DEVICE AND OPERATION CHECK SUPPORT METHOD - A device that supports an operator in checking an operation of an electronic circuit mounted on a board includes the following units. A waveform obtainment unit obtains a measured waveform as a signal waveform of a voltage or current measured by the operator bringing a probe into contact with the board. A similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity between the measured waveform and each of simulated signal waveforms which are signal waveforms of a voltage or current at respective nodes on the electronic circuit and are obtained by simulating the operation of the electronic circuit. A position determination unit determines, based on node information indicating positions of the nodes, a node position on the electronic circuit which corresponds to a simulated signal waveform having a maximum similarity. A notification unit notifies the operator of the node position determined on the electronic circuit. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289924 | PLASTIC PACKAGING MATERIALS TESTING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS AND CLOUD TECHNOLOGY - A plastic packaging material testing system and method based on an internet of things and cloud technology including a cloud computing center that achieves data communication, data storage and data processing between customers and testing laboratory, computing center includes a private and public cloud. With the function of the internet of things, the testing system modules achieve the automatic acquisition, storage, parsing and transmission of the testing information and testing data. It combines test methods, testing instruments, modern logistics technology and software system together, which solves the problems that current testing instruments cannot achieve the massive test data storage and internet technology applications and avoids the one-time investment on the instruments purchasing and laboratory construction. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289925 | Plastic Packaging Materials Testing System Based On Internet Of Things And Cloud Technology - The invention discloses a plastic packaging material testing system and method based on internet of things and cloud technology. It includes: cloud computing center, this system module achieves the data communication, data storage and data processing between the customers and testing laboratory. There is public or private cloud for cloud computing center. For the private cloud, data will be stored as a separated group of data in the database server based on the private infrastructure which is provided by the system provider. The system provider provides the most effective control of data, data security and the service quality. For the public cloud, system provider ensures the system running and provides the data service by renting available cloud which is provided by the third party provider. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289926 | Virtual Service Processor Stack - Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a computer system, including: a hypervisor configured to run on a CPU and to provide a first domain; and a virtual baseboard management controller (BMC) stack configured to run in the first domain or as part of the hypervisor. Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions executable by at least one processor, the instructions including loading a virtual baseboard management controller (BMC) stack in a first domain of, or as a part of, a hypervisor running on the processor. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289927 | ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING - A computer-based method includes collecting a sequence of measurements related to a controllable environmental parameter in a monitored space over time, deriving a master curve based on the sequence of collected measurements to characterize normal periodic variations in the controllable environmental parameter over time, collecting one or more subsequent measurements that represent the controllable environmental parameter of the monitored space, and evaluating a likelihood that the controllable environmental parameter will, at some future point in time, exceed an acceptable level by comparing a curve associated with one or more of the subsequent measurements to the master curve. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289928 | RISK-CONTROLLED AMBIENT TEMPERATURE PROFILES - A method of generating a risk-controlled ambient temperature profile including measuring a distribution network and constructing an ambient temperature profile based on results of the measuring by determining a length of the ambient temperature profile, determining a target risk or target failure rate, and generating at least one of hot and cold versions of the ambient temperature profile in accordance with the determined length that facilitate minimization of package expense while achieving the target risk or target failure rate. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289929 | System And Method For Determining Accuracy Of An Infrared Thermometer Measurement - A system and method for determining whether a temperature measurement made with an infrared thermometer is accurate is disclosed. An infrared sensor array is used to detect infrared radiation from a target object. By analyzing the relative values of output signals from the individual sensor elements, a determination can be made whether radiation from the target object sufficiently fills the field of view of the detecting element of the instrument. A temperature measurement is considered accurate if this criteria is met. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289930 | Motion Detecting Device, Method Of Providing The Same, And Method Of Detecting Movement - In some embodiments, a motion detecting device is configured to detect whether one or more movement events have occurred. The motion detecting device can include: (a) a processing module configured to run on a computational unit; and (b) a sensing device having: (1) one or more pressure sensors configured to provide two or more pressure measurements; and (2) a transmitter electrically coupled to the one or more pressure sensors and configured to transmit the two or more pressure measurements to the computational unit. The processing module is configured to use the two or more pressure measurements to determine whether the one or more movement events have occurred. The sensing device can be configured to be placed in at least one of ductwork of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system or an air handler of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289931 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING SPEED OF MOVEMENT OF A DEVICE AND DEVICE POSE CLASSIFICATION - An apparatus for determining a speed of cyclic motion of a device or user and one or more poses of a device may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving one or more determined acceleration values during one or more time periods in response to detected cyclic motion of a user moving with an apparatus. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to transform the acceleration values to one or more corresponding frequency components associated with the acceleration values. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to determine a speed of the cyclic motion of the user based in part on comparing a spectrum of the frequency components to one or more spectrums of distribution associated with respective one or more speeds of training data. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289932 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A MOTION SENSOR AS WELL AS A CONFIGURABLE MOTION SENSOR AND A SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING SUCH A MOTION SENSOR - The present invention provides a method for configuring a motion sensor ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130289933 | DETECTING SHAFT ROTATION WITH SHORT OR MISSING TEETH - An apparatus configured to detect rotation of a shaft includes a sensor configured to detect a first tooth from among a plurality of teeth located circumferentially on a rotating shaft and a processor configured to determined whether the first tooth is located within a predetermined range of a missing tooth, and configured to calculate at least one of shaft position data and shaft rotation speed data having data corresponding to the first tooth omitted based on the determination that the first tooth is located within the predetermined range of the missing tooth. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289934 | ANGLE-BASED SPEED ESTIMATION OF ALTERNATING CURRENT MACHINES UTILIZING A MEDIAN FILTER - A computer-implemented method for estimating a rotor speed of an alternating current (AC) machine is provided. The method includes determining a stator flux signal based on signals of voltage and current inputs to the AC machine, and determining a rotor flux signal of the AC machine based on the determined stator flux signal. The method includes determining an electrical angle signal based on the determined rotor flux signal, and deriving an electrical frequency signal from the determined electrical angle signal. Subsequently, the method includes sampling the derived electrical frequency signal at a predetermined sampling rate, and storing a predetermined number of sample values. The method further includes evaluating a median value of the predetermined set of electrical frequency sample values, determining a slip frequency value of the AC machine, and determining the rotor speed of the AC machine by subtracting the slip frequency value from the electrical frequency median value. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289935 | Control System and Method Using an Ultrasonic Area Array - A computer control system and method is disclosed. Such a system may include a processor and an ultrasonic area-array sensor configured to receive a ridged surface, such as one or more digits of a hand. The processor may be configured to:
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20130289936 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING MULTI-TURN ABSOLUTE ROTATION ANGLE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE SAME - There is provided a method for calculating with high accuracy a multi-turn absolute rotation angle of a motor rotating shaft coupled to a motor output shaft. In a rotation angle detection device according to this invention, a rotation angle θ | 2013-10-31 |
20130289937 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MEASURING SURFACE DIMENSIONS OF OBJECTS - In a method for measuring surface dimension of an object, an enclosing box of a triangular mesh surface of the object is constructed, and divided into sub-boxes. Relationships between the triangles and the sub-boxes are generated according to intersections. A measuring point is selected, and coordinates and a searching vector of the measuring point are obtained. A ray, which starts from the selected measuring point along the direction where the searching vector is directed to, is constructed, and sub-boxes intersecting with the ray are obtained sequentially. One of the obtained sub-boxes is selected and triangles which intersect with the selected sub-box are obtained. An intersection point of the ray and one of the obtained triangles, and a vector of the obtained triangle are recorded into a measuring file. Measurements on the surface of the object are implemented according to the measuring file. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289938 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE - A method of generating a tomographic image includes detecting an interference signal containing cross-sectional information of a target object as raw data of the target object, the raw data being phase-modulated in a first direction with respect to a cross section of the target object; demodulating the raw data by adjusting at least one parameter of a filter function defining filtering using a fixed window size; and generating a tomographic image of the target object by performing signal processing on the demodulated raw data. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289939 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION PARTICIPANTS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for evaluating contact priority for a user. During operation, the system collects statistical information associated with interactions between the user and the user's contacts across multiple communication channels, and evaluates the contact priority for a contact based at least on the collected statistical information. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289940 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A VALVE - A device for monitoring the functionality of a valve includes the valve, a digital diagnostic module and a programming device. The valve has a sensor actuator connected to a valve element for combined reciprocating motion, a distance sensor that interacts with the sensor actuator to generate analog distance values characterizing lift positions of the valve element. The diagnostic module diagnoses switching states of the valve element based on the distance values and, includes an analog input connected to the distance sensor, a downstream A/D converter and a serial communication connected to a digital input/output. The serial communication enables threshold values for the digital distance values that define changes to the switching state to be programmed by the programming device and transmission of diagnosed switching states. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289941 | CALCULATING THE SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLOR RESULTING FROM OVERLAYING COLORANTS - A method of spectrally characterising an ink printed over another ink, and of calculating a spectral measure of reflectance of an overprint of a plurality of inks thus characterized. The method uses spectral measurements of a substrate. For an order of printing an overprint, for each ink, for a respective amount of printing of the ink, the method accepts or determines a respective interaction of absorption and reflection function (“IAR function”) indicative of how the ink interacts with a printed background and includes determining the spectral reflectance by repeatedly multiplying, in the order, for each additional ink added to a current background the spectral measure of the current background by exponentiation of the ratio of the spectral measure of the additional ink on the substrate to the spectral measure of the substrate, by the TAR function of the additional ink. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289942 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND RECOVERING SPARSE SIGNALS - The invention provides two kinds of new compressive sensing technologies. In the first technical solution, there is proposed a permutation-based multi-dimensional sensing matrix and an iterative recovery algorithm with maximum likelihood (ML) local detection, which can fully exploit the digital nature of sparse signals. In the second technical solution, there is proposed a sparse measurement matrix which contains a permutation-based multi-dimensional measurement matrix, and an iterative recovery algorithm which fully utilizes the features of measurement symbols to design simple local recovery in each iteration. The second technical solution can achieve the linear decoding complexity and lower bound of sketch length empirically at the same time. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289943 | MANAGING NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION DATA - Methods manage non-destructive evaluation (“NDE”) data. NDE data for an asset is received and at least one alignment algorithm to align the NDE data to a simulated model associated therewith is determined. The NDE data is automatically aligned to the simulated model, a display representation that visually represents the aligned NDE data on the simulated model is generated, and information about the aligned NDE data is exported. Additionally, second NDE data associated with the at least a portion of the asset may also be received, at least one alignment algorithm to align the data determined, and the second NDE data aligned. Respective indications associated with the first and second NDE data may be determined and visually represented on the simulated model. Moreover, a shot descriptor file may be analyzed to determine whether additional NDE data is required to complete an alignment of NDE data. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289944 | System and method for signal processing - In one embodiment, a method for reducing signal noise and generating features includes the steps of receiving a discrete signal, transforming the discrete signal, using a processor, into a non-linear feature space, classifying the non-linear feature space, using the processor, into a set of non-linear feature sub-spaces, and performing a mathematical operation, using the processor, on the non-linear feature space and the set of non-linear feature sub-spaces, to produce an output feature set. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289945 | System and Method for Space Utilization Optimization and Visualization - Embodiments of the invention may provide the ability for infrastructure managers to readily assess current organizational space allocation, to determine overcrowded and/or underutilized facilities, to propose options for improving and/or optimizing space usage in a facility, and to visualize current and proposed utilization. Embodiments of the invention may also provide the ability to reduce operational costs by more efficiently utilizing available space. Embodiments of the invention may comprise optimization algorithms to help redistribute organizational slots based on a variety of user-defined criteria (e.g., lab/technical space constraints, organizational synergy constraints, move minimizations, etc.). | 2013-10-31 |
20130289946 | CURVE CHAIN CONNECTIONS UNDER SURFACE, DISTANCE, AND SHAPE CONSTRAINTS - Product data management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving a graphic model having a plurality of curves forming a curve chain and defining a distance threshold and angle threshold corresponding to the model. The method includes optimizing the curve chain under shape constraints, identifying a surface associated with the curve chain and optimizing the curve chain with under surface and distance constraints with respect to the identified surface. The method includes storing the graphic model with the optimized curve chain. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289947 | TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A test system for generating an industrial design of an electronic device and a method adapted for the test system are provided. The test system firstly makes a simulation analysis for the visual features of the electronic device to obtain the frequency spectrum of vibration energy of the hard disk of the electronic device. When the frequency spectrum of vibration energy of the hard disk matches the standard frequency spectrum of vibration energy of a standard hard disk, the test system generates a prompt for making a sample of the electronic device, and the sample of the electronic device may satisfy needs of the customer or after minor amendments, thus it is no need to make a sample several times, saving time and development cost. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289948 | FET-BOUNDING FOR FAST TCAD-BASED VARIATION MODELING - A method for analyzing circuits includes identifying one or more device zones in a full device structure. The device zones provide areas of interest to be analyzed. A partial device is generated that representatively includes the one or more device zones. Analytical meshes of the partial device are reduced by employing physical characteristics of the full device structure. The partial device is simulated, using a processor, to obtain device output information in the areas of interest that is representative of the full device structure. Systems are also disclosed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289949 | System and method for tracking components of complex three dimensional structures - A build-out tracking method and application tracks historical changes within a complex and/or repeatedly modified structure and provides for queries about the build-out of the structure over time. The method returns precise installation data from any spatial point the user chooses to query within the structure by creating a ray that pierces the structure and collects data along its path. This returned data is an immediate record of current in situ and legacy configurations of any and all shape geometries, solving the technical problem created when a surface cannot be rendered into the traditional zero-Gaussian developed surface (upon which the prior art relied). Legacy parts, designs and materials can be evaluated for life-cycle service enabling optimization of the design in support of continuous improvement. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289950 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND ACCESSORIES USEFUL FOR PROCEDURES RELATING TO DENTAL IMPLANTS - A system and method for manufacturing a physical model of a dental structure wherein the physical model is configured to allow a dental analog to be inserted into the physical model. A virtual model of the dental structure is provided including a virtual implant spatial disposition with respect to the virtual model corresponding to a physical implant spatial disposition of the dental implant. Using the virtual model, a physical model corresponding to the virtual model is manufactured, the physical model being provided with a physical analog corresponding to the virtual analog. The physical analog installation structure is configured for enabling a dental analog, corresponding to the dental implant, to be inserted. In the installed position, the dental analog has an analog spatial disposition with respect to the physical model corresponding to the physical disposition of the dental implant with respect to the physical dental structure. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED DENTAL GEOMETRY REPRESENTATION - A digital data set representing a pre-scanned tooth geometry, including generic crown data, is merged with data representing a scanned patient tooth crown image, which lacks sufficient data to completely represent a complete tooth crown. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289952 | Estimating Occupancy Of Buildings - A method of determining occupancy of a building using a hidden Markov model. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289953 | SELF-OPTIMIZING, INVERSE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION OF NONLINEAR MATERIAL CONSTITUTIVE MODELS - A self-optimizing, inverse analysis method for parameter identification of nonlinear material constitutive models utilizes the global force and displacement boundary loadings that are experimentally identified to globally search for initial constitutive parameters using a genetic algorithm. The initially identified constitutive parameters are then iteratively optimized by a simplex method in which two nonlinear finite element analyses are conducted in parallel using updated material constitutive parameters under the experimentally measured force and displacement boundary loadings. Stress and strain values for both the force and displacement finite element analyses are then input into an implicit objection function. Finally, the simplex optimization is performed for a number of predetermined number of iterations, whereupon the start of each new iteration utilizes the previously optimized set of constitutive parameters. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289954 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING MEASUREMENT PATH OF PROBE OF MEASUREMENT MACHINE - In a method for simulating a measurement path of a probe using a computing device, a standard ball is constructed by meshing shell surface points. Measurement points from the surface of the standard ball are selected, and a coordinate value of each of the measurement points is calculated. The method calculates a coordinate value of each moving point of the probe, and inserts the coordinate value of each moving point between the two adjacent measurement points into the data array. The method simulates probe movement path of the probe according to coordinate values stored in the data array, and detects any collision between the probe and the standard ball at each point of the probe movement path. A probe calibration program is generated according to the probe movement path when no collisions with the standard ball is found. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289955 | COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS - A method and system is provided for solving for electromagnetic fields by approximating an electromagnetic function as a sum of basis functions multiplied by coefficients to be determined. The set of equations used to determine the coefficients results from taking derivatives of the action integral with respect to the coefficients (and/or other parameters) and setting the derivative equal to zero, thereby extremizing the action integral. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289956 | Methods for Designing Improved Multimode Fiber Optic Cables - Methods for designing improved multimode fiber optic cables are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes measuring a DMD waveform profile of a reference multimode fiber optic cable, where the reference multimode fiber optic cable has a reference refractive index profile. The method of this embodiment further includes designing an improved refractive index profile for the improved multimode fiber optic cable, where the improved refractive index profile comprises the reference refractive index profile modified by a quantity Δn(r), where r is a radius from the center of the core, where the quantity Δn(r) is negative over at least some radial window, and where the quantity Δn(r) follows a function such that the improved multimode fiber optic cable having the improved refractive index profile produces a DMD waveform profile having a shift to the left in radial pulse waveforms for increasing radii. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289957 | Methods For Providing A Bonded-Particle Model In Computer Aided Engineering System - Systems and methods of providing bonded-particle model amongst a plurality of discrete particles representing a physical domain made of brittle material in a time-marching simulation to obtain numerically simulated continuum physical phenomena are disclosed. A physical domain is represented by a plurality of discrete particles. A domain of influence is assigned to each discrete particle and a bonded-particle model is created for the discrete particles. Respective bonds are established to connect each discrete particle to all other discrete particles within its domain of influence. The bonded-particle model further defines a rule for breakage of a bond. Continuum physical phenomena of the physical domain are numerically represented through a set of formula such that a time-marching simulation of the physical domain can be conducted. Physical properties include material properties and fracture energy release rate. Finally, the bonded-particle model allows size and orientation changes of each discrete particle. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289958 | Method and System for Modeling Anomalous Density Zones in Geophysical Exploration - A method for modeling a subsurface anomalous density zone including the steps of forming a density model, computing a response to the density model, inverting the response to arrive at a geometric model of the anomalous density zone, and applying a sharpening function to boundary regions of the geometric model to distinguish between the anomalous density zone and a surrounding region. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM PRODUCT DESIGN - Computer-implemented electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user to integrate user-specific location maps into custom printed products. During the creation of an electronic design of a product intended for subsequent printing, user-provided location information is received by a server computer and used to generate a user map suitable for high quality printing. Lower resolution display and thumbnail versions of the map suitable for displaying to the user of the client system are generated. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289960 | PROCESS FOR CHARACTERISING THE EVOLUTION OF AN OIL OR GAS RESERVIOR OVER TIME - Disclosed is a process for characterising the evolution of a reservoir by co-analyzing the changes in the propagation times and seismic amplitudes of seismic reflections. The method comprises the steps of: providing a base survey of the reservoir with a set of seismic traces at a first time; providing a monitor survey of the reservoir, taken at a second time, with a set of seismic traces associated to the same positions as in the base survey; and characterising the evolution of the reservoir by inversion to obtain an estimate of the changes having occurred during the time interval between base and monitor surveys. The inversion is regularized by the imposition of a sparsity constraint, such as Cauchy sparsity, which favours inversion solutions for which most of the solution values are equal to zero, while large values of said inversion solutions are preserved. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289961 | Methods For Producing Fluids From Geological Formation - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reservoir characterization techniques and methods for accurately predicting scale tendencies of formation fluids, developed with the newly discovered phenomena that extreme downhole conditions affect the properties of reservoir fluids, including both the brine and dense hydrocarbon gas phases. In one aspect, there is disclosed a method for producing fluids from a geological formation. The method comprises inputting at least one property of a geological formation into an equation of state (EOS) model. The EOS model accounts for bound water, a high temperature effect on the brine and a high temperature effect on the dense gas phase. The EOS model is solved to determine a character of fluids contained in the geological formation, and inputting a production condition or a plurality of production conditions into the EOS model. A character of the fluids is determined based on the determined character of the fluids in the geological formation and the input production conditions. The solution can be output to a display device. Planning of the production of fluids from the geological formation can be performed. Production conditions can be controlled or adjusted. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289962 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MECHANICAL EARTH MODELING - A technique includes receiving a first dataset that is indicative of seismic data acquired in a seismic survey of a field of wells and receiving a second dataset that is indicative of wellbore data acquired in a wellbore survey conducted in at least one of the wells. The technique includes determining a mechanical earth model for the field based at least in part on the seismic data and the wellbore data. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289963 | MODELLING OF THE ACTION OF AN OPTICAL FIBRE IN PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY TREATMENT, AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PLANNING OF SAID TREATMENT | 2013-10-31 |
20130289964 | MODELING THE TOTAL PARASITIC RESISTANCES OF THE SOURCE/DRAIN REGIONS OF A MULTI-FIN MULTI-GATE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - In the embodiments, a full resistive network is used to determine resistance contributions to the total parasitic resistance of each source/drain region of a multi-fin multi-gate field effect transistor (MUGFET). These resistance contributions include: a first resistance contribution of end portions of the fins, which are connected in pseudo-parallel by a local interconnect; second resistance contributions of segments of the local interconnect, which are connected in pseudo-series; and any other resistance contributions of any other resistive elements between the end portions of the fins and a single resistive element through which all the diffusion region current flows. The multi-fin MUGFET is then represented in a netlist as a simple field effect transistor with the total parasitic resistances represented as single resistive elements connected to the source/drain nodes of that field effect transistor. This simplified netlist is then used to simulate performance of the multi-fin MUGFET. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289965 | FET-BOUNDING FOR FAST TCAD-BASED VARIATION MODELING - A method for analyzing circuits includes identifying one or more device zones in a full device structure. The device zones provide areas of interest to be analyzed. A partial device is generated that representatively includes the one or more device zones. Analytical meshes of the partial device are reduced by employing physical characteristics of the full device structure. The partial device is simulated, using a processor, to obtain device output information in the areas of interest that is representative of the full device structure. Systems are also disclosed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289966 | Fibre Optic Network Design Method - A system and method of designing a fibre optic network for a plurality of premises in a geographic area that has existing infrastructure is described. They include electronically receiving fibre optic network design inputs that include data indicative of a plurality of nodes in the fibre optic network and data indicative of arcs extending between said nodes in the fibre optic network based on allocated bandwidth for said premises in the geographic area, electronically receiving existing infrastructure design inputs comprising data indicative of said existing infrastructure that can be used as geographic locations for said nodes and said arcs in the fibre optic network, electronically generating design outputs by optimising geographic locations of said nodes and said arcs in the fibre optic network using said fibre optic network design inputs and said existing infrastructure inputs, and electronically outputting the design outputs. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289967 | ENERGY AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDINGS AND CAMPUSES - An elective and private incrementally deployed, incrementally modifiable, relatively inexpensive building information system that provides for a range of energy and environmental capabilities including room and building environment sensing (one or more of temperature, humidity, air quality, etc.), statistical processing software, modeling software, analysis software, information visualization software, decision support software, data logging, storage and recall, control arrangements, and interfacing with existing building systems (HVAC, solar, valves, power systems, etc.), external information systems and networks is disclosed. The invention can be used for various purposes including trial deployment of equipment and software; exploratory or special-purpose information gathering; analysis, modeling, or simulation of current, past, or ongoing energy usage, loss, or waste as well as air temperature and quality distributions, impacts of changes to a building, facilities, policies, or operations; design of optimal control for building operation. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289968 | STATEFUL SIMULATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for generating a stateful simulation program. Generating a stateful simulation program can include arranging a number of recorded request-response pairs in a sequence order to generate a number of tracks. Generating a stateful simulation program can also include assigning a state to each of the number of request-response pairs and calculating a cost for each state based on a number of current requests. Furthermore, generating a stateful simulation program can include generating the stateful simulation program based on a selected state with a desired cost. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289969 | FAULT SUPPORT IN AN EMULATION ENVIRONMENT - An emulator is disclosed that allows for diagnoses of failures or defects within the emulator. A map of faulty resources is generated to identify which resources should be avoided during compilation. Thus, in a transparent and automated manner, defects found during diagnostics are stored in a database of unusable emulator resources. A compiler has access to the database and compiles the design taking into account unusable resources. In another embodiment, the defects of an emulator board are stored on the emulator board itself. This allows each board to store its own maintenance information that can be used at the manufacturing site for changing defective chips. Defects stored on the board itself allow the defects to be obtained independent of a position of a board within the emulator to simplify identification of the faulty resource. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289970 | Global Touch Language as Cross Translation Between Languages - A translation system is provided, enabling translation from one language to another language, and/or translation between any two or more languages by utilizing a focal core of a conceptual language that is independent of vocabulary and syntax and presented in the embodiment of Touch Language. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289971 | Instant Translation System - A method of, and corresponding headset computer for, performing instant speech translation including, establishing a local network including a link between a first and a second headset computer in which preferred language settings of each headset computer are exchanged, transmitting captured speech in a first language from a first headset computer to a network-based speech recognition service to recognize and transcribe the captured speech as text, receiving the text at the first headset computer, broadcasting the text over the local network to at least the second headset computer, receiving the text at the second headset computer, transmitting the received text from the second headset computer to a network-based text translation service to translate the text to a text in a second language, receiving the text in the second language at the second headset computer from the network-based text translation service, and displaying the translated text at the second headset computer. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289972 | Community Translation on a Social Network - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for translating text in a social network. In one embodiment translations of text phrases are received from members of the social network. These text phrases include content displayed in a social networking system, such as content from social networking objects. A particular member is provided with content including a text phrase in a first language, and the member requests translation into another language. Responsive to this request, a translation of the text phrase is selected from a set of available translations. The selection is based on actions by friends of the member in the social network, the actions being associated with the set of available translations. These actions can the viewing of or approval of translations by the friends, for example. The selected translation is then presented to the member requesting the translation. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289973 | TECHNIQUES FOR ASSISTING A USER IN THE TEXTUAL INPUT OF NAMES OF ENTITIES TO A USER DEVICE IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES - A computer-implemented technique includes receiving a first input from a user at a user device, the first input including a first word of a first alphabet-based language, which is a transliteration of a non-alphabet-based language, which is one of a logogram-based language and a syllabogram-based language. The technique then compares the first words to pluralities of potential translated words from one or more datastores associated with a second alphabet-based language and the logogram-based or syllabogram-based languages. The technique may then generate a probability score for each of the pluralities of potential translated words, the probability score indicating a likelihood of an appropriate translation. The techniques may then provide the user with some or all of the pluralities of potential translated words and the user may select an appropriate translated word to obtain a selected word, which may then be displayed via a display of the user device. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289974 | CHINESE CHARACTER INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND CHINESE CHARACTER INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A Chinese character information processing method and a Chinese character information processing device. The method comprises: an application determining a machine code of a Chinese character inputted by a user; determining Chinese character information of the Chinese character inputted by the user according to a correlation between a pre-stored machine code and pre-stored Chinese character information, the Chinese character information comprising a pronunciation of the Chinese character inputted by the user; when determining that the number of pronunciations of the Chinese character is multiple according to the Chinese character information of the Chinese character inputted by the user, determining a current pronunciation of the Chinese character inputted by the user from the multiple pronunciations; and storing the Chinese character information comprising the pronunciation being the determined current pronunciation and the machine code of the Chinese character. With the technical solution, when Chinese character information is stored in an application, a polyphonic character may be distinguished. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289975 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A BIDIRECTIONAL CONTEXT-BASED TEXT DISAMBIGUATION - A system and method for a bidirectional context-based text disambiguation is provided. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289976 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A LOCALLY AND TEMPORALLY ADAPTIVE TEXT PREDICTION - An electronic device is provided, having a locally and temporally adaptive prediction database. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289977 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires a first word input by a user, and a presentation unit that presents second words for replacing the first word when the first word is acquired by the acquisition unit. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289978 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING PIECES OF TEXT ON BASIS OF EVALUATION POLARITY, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COMPUTER - A computer-implemented method, program product, and system, for extracting pieces of text from a plurality of pieces of text. The method includes: primarily evaluating a measure of positive expressions and a measure of negative expressions included in each of pieces of text; secondarily evaluating each of the pieces of text on the basis of a plurality of evaluation functions, where certain evaluation functions among the plurality of evaluation functions include, as variables, the measure of positive expressions and the measure of negative expressions; and extracting a piece of text having an evaluation result with a higher rating in preference to a piece of text having an evaluation result with a lower rating, where the individual evaluation results are based on the same evaluation function among the plurality of evaluation functions. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289979 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT PROVIDING SUPPRESSION OF LOW PROBABILITY ARTIFICIAL VARIANTS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to generate artificial variants in certain circumstances. Each artificial variant is compared with N-gram data on the handheld electronic device and is suppressed from being output if the artificial variant is determined to have a low probability of being the input intended by a user. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289980 | HANDHELD ELECTRIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD EMPLOYING A MULTIPLE-AXIS INPUT DEVICE AND ELEVATING THE PRIORITY OF CERTAIN TEXT DISAMBIGUATION RESULTS WHEN ENTERING TEXT INTO A SPECIAL INPUT FIELD - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. If a field into which text is being entered is determined to be a special input field, a disambiguated result can be sought first from a predetermined data source prior to seeking results from other data sources on the device. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289981 | LOW-DELAY SOUND-ENCODING ALTERNATING BETWEEN PREDICTIVE ENCODING AND TRANSFORM ENCODING - An encoder and a method for encoding a digital signal are provided. The method includes encoding a preceding frame of samples of the digital signal according to a predictive encoding process, and encoding a current frame of samples of the digital signal according to a transform encoding process. The method is implemented such that a first portion of the current frame is also encoded by predictive encoding that is limited relative to the predictive encoding of the preceding frame by reusing at least one parameter of the predictive encoding of the preceding frame and only encoding the parameters of said first portion of the current frame that are not reused. A decoder and a decoding method are also provided, which correspond to the described encoding method. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289982 | RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording medium is provided that records a separating step of separating a mixed sound signal in which a plurality of excitations are mixed into the respective excitations, and a step of performing speech detection on the plurality of separated excitation signals, judging whether or not the plurality of excitation signals are speech and generating speech section information indicating speech/non-speech information for each excitation signal. The recording medium also includes at least one of a step of calculating and analyzing an utterance overlap duration using the speech section information for combinations of the plurality of excitation signals and a step of calculating and analyzing a silence duration. The recording medium further includes a step of calculating a degree of establishment of a conversation indicating the degree of establishment of a conversation based on the extracted utterance overlap duration or the silence duration. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289983 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device are provided. According to an embodiment, the electronic device may recognize a first sound signal output from at least one external device connectable through a communication unit and to control a sound output of at least one of the at least one external device or the sound output unit when a second sound signal is output through the sound output unit. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289984 | Preserving Privacy in Natural Language Databases - An apparatus and a method for preserving privacy in natural language databases are provided. Natural language input may be received. At least one of sanitizing or anonymizing the natural language input may be performed to form a clean output. The clean output may be stored. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289985 | System and Method for Generating User Models From Transcribed Dialogs - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating personalized user models. The method includes receiving automatic speech recognition (ASR) output of speech interactions with a user, receiving an ASR transcription error model characterizing how ASR transcription errors are made, generating guesses of a true transcription and a user model via an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm based on the error model and the respective ASR output where the guesses will converge to a personalized user model which maximizes the likelihood of the ASR output. The ASR output can be unlabeled. The method can include casting speech interactions as a dynamic Bayesian network with four variables: (s), (u), (r), (m), and encoding relationships between (s), (u), (r), (m) as conditional probability tables. At each dialog turn (r) and (m) are known and (s) and (u) are hidden. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289986 | WEARABLE HEADSET WITH SELF-CONTAINED VOCAL FEEDBACK AND VOCAL COMMAND - A headset includes a wearable body, first and second earphones extending from the wearable body, controls for controlling an external communication/multimedia device wirelessly, a microphone for picking up vocal data from a user of the headset system and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit includes circuitry for processing the vocal data into a distinctly audible vocal feedback signal, circuitry for enhancing the vocal feedback signal thereby producing an enhanced vocal feedback signal and circuitry for mixing the enhanced vocal feedback signal with audio signals originating from the external communication/multimedia device, thereby producing a mixed output signal and then sending the mixed output signal to the user via the earphones. The external communication/multimedia device comprises a vocal command application and the headset further comprises a vocal command control for sending vocal commands to the external communication/multimedia device and to the vocal command application. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289987 | Negative Example (Anti-Word) Based Performance Improvement For Speech Recognition - A system and method are presented for negative example based performance improvements for speech recognition. The presently disclosed embodiments address identified false positives and the identification of negative examples of keywords in an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. Various methods may be used to identify negative examples of keywords. Such methods may include, for example, human listening and learning possible negative examples from a large domain specific text source. In at least one embodiment, negative examples of keywords may be used to improve the performance of an ASR system by reducing false positives. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289988 | POST PROCESSING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ASR - A post-processing speech system includes a natural language-based speech recognition system that compares a spoken utterance to a natural language vocabulary that includes words used to generate a natural language speech recognition result. A master conversation module engine compares the natural language speech recognition result to domain specific words and phrases. A voting engine selects a word or a phrase from the domain specific words and phrases that is transmitted to an application control system. The application control system transmits one or more control signals that are used to control an internal or an external device or an internal or an external process. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289989 | Sampling Training Data for an Automatic Speech Recognition System Based on a Benchmark Classification Distribution - A set of benchmark text strings may be classified to provide a set of benchmark classifications. The benchmark text strings in the set may correspond to a benchmark corpus of benchmark utterances in a particular language. A benchmark classification distribution of the set of benchmark classifications may be determined. A respective classification for each text string in a corpus of text strings may also be determined. Text strings from the corpus of text strings may be sampled to form a training corpus of training text strings such that the classifications of the training text strings have a training text string classification distribution that is based on the benchmark classification distribution. The training corpus of training text strings may be used to train an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289990 | System and Dialog Manager Developed Using Modular Spoken-Dialog Components - A dialog manager and spoken dialog service having a dialog manager generated according to a method comprising selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable subdialogs for each application part, developing a subdialog for each application part not having an available subdialog and testing and deploying the spoken dialog service using the selected top level flow controller, selected reusable subdialogs and developed subdialogs. The dialog manager capable of handling context shifts in a spoken dialog with a user. Application dependencies are established in the top level flow controller thus enabling the subdialogs to be reusable and to be capable of managing context shifts and mixed initiative dialogs. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289991 | Application of Voice Tags in a Social Media Context - According to a present invention embodiment, a system utilizes a voice tag to automatically tag one or more entities within a social media environment, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system analyzes the voice tag to identify one or more entities, where the voice tag includes voice signals providing information pertaining to one or more entities. One or more characteristics of each identified entity are determined based on the information within the voice tag. One or more entities appropriate for tagging within the social media environment are determined based on the characteristics and user settings within the social media environment of the identified entities, and automatically tagged. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for utilizing a voice tag to automatically tag one or more entities within a social media environment in substantially the same manner described above. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289992 | VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD AND VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - A voice recognition method includes: detecting a vocal section including a vocal sound in a voice, based on a feature value of an audio signal representing the voice; identifying a word expressed by the vocal sound in the vocal section, by matching the feature value of the audio signal of the vocal section and an acoustic model of each of a plurality of words; and selecting, with a processor, the word expressed by the vocal sound in a word section based on a comparison result between a signal characteristic of the word section and a signal characteristic of the vocal section. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289993 | SPEAK AND TOUCH AUTO CORRECTION INTERFACE - The disclosure describes an overall system/method for developing a “speak and touch auto correction interface” referred to as STACI which is far more superior to existing user interfaces including the widely adopted qwerty. Using STACI a user speaks and types a word at the same time. The redundant information from the two modes, namely speech and the letters typed, enables the user to sloppily and partially type the words. The result is a very fast and accurate enhanced keyboard interface enabling document production on computing devices like phones and tablets. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289994 | EMBEDDED SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL FOOTPRINT SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH USER-DEFINABLE CONSTRAINTS - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods that enable a voice trigger that wakes-up an electronic device or causes the device to make additional voice commands active, without manual initiation of voice command functionality. In addition, such a voice trigger is dynamically programmable or customizable. A speaker can program or designate a particular phrase as the voice trigger. In general, techniques herein execute a voice-activated wake-up system that operates on a digital signal processor (DSP) or other low-power, secondary processing unit of an electronic device instead of running on a central processing unit (CPU). A speech recognition manager runs two speech recognition systems on an electronic device. The CPU dynamically creates a compact speech system for the DSP. Such a compact system can be continuously run during a standby mode, without quickly exhausting a battery supply. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289995 | Method and Device for Voice Controlling - The present invention discloses a method and device for voice control, which are used to solve the problem of low success rate of voice control in the prior art. The method includes: classifying stored recognition information used for voice recognizing to obtain a syntax packet corresponding to each type of recognition information ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130289996 | MULTIPASS ASR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A multipass processing system includes a first grammar-based speech recognition system that compares a spoken utterance to a sub-grammar. The sub-grammar includes keywords or key phrases from active grammars that each uniquely identifies one of many application engines. The first grammar-based speech recognition system generates a first grammar-based speech recognition result and a first grammar-based confidence score. A demultiplexer receives the spoken utterance through an input. The demultiplexer transmits the spoken utterance to one of many other grammar-based speech recognition systems based on the first grammar-based speech recognition-result. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289997 | CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOY - An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289998 | Realistic Speech Synthesis System - A system and method for realistic speech synthesis which converts text into synthetic human speech with qualities appropriate to the context such as the language and dialect of the speaker, as well as expanding a speaker's phonetic inventory to produce more natural sounding speech. | 2013-10-31 |
20130289999 | DUAL MICROPHONE VOICE AUTHENTICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A method of authenticating a user of a mobile device having a first microphone and a second microphone, the method comprising receiving voice input from the user at the first and second microphones, determining a position of the user relative to the mobile device based on the voice input received by the first and second microphones, and authenticating the user based on the position of the user. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290000 | Voiced Interval Command Interpretation - A method is disclosed for controlling a voice-activated device by interpreting a spoken command as a series of voiced and non-voiced intervals. A responsive action is then performed according to the number of voiced intervals in the command. The method is well-suited to applications having a small number of specific voice-activated response functions. Applications using the inventive method offer numerous advantages over traditional speech recognition systems including speaker universality, language independence, no training or calibration needed, implementation with simple microcontrollers, and extremely low cost. For time-critical applications such as pulsers and measurement devices, where fast reaction is crucial to catch a transient event, the method provides near-instantaneous command response, yet versatile voice control. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290001 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, VOICE ACQUIRING APPARATUS, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF AND VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Disclosed are an image processing apparatus, a voice acquiring apparatus, a voice recognition method and a voice recognition system. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor which processes an image signal, a communication unit which communicates with at least one electronic apparatus, and a controller which includes a voice recognition engine to recognize a voice command, and controls the communication unit to transmit a command to the at least one electronic apparatus corresponding to the voice command recognized by the voice recognition engine. | 2013-10-31 |