Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080309468 | Human-machine-interface (HMI) customization based on collision assessments - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates collision warning. During operation, the system receives information on one or more predicted collisions and determines a utility of issuing a warning for a predicted collision based on the received information. The system further schedules one or more warnings for the predicted collisions based on the utilities of issuing the warnings. | 12-18-2008 |
20080312830 | Using long-range dynamics and mental-state models to assess collision risk for early warning - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that for facilitating assessment of collision between a primary principal and a non-primary principal for early warning. During operation, the system periodically performs the following operations: The system obtains a current observation of the primary principal and non-primary principal. The system then assesses one or more future states for the primary and non-primary principals, respectively, based on: the current observation of the primary and non-primary principals, a dynamics model of the primary principal, and a mental-state model of a person associated with the primary principal. The system further produces one or more results which indicate an assessment of collision between the primary and non-primary principals. | 12-18-2008 |
20080312831 | Two-level grouping of principals for a collision warning system - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that hierarchically groups principals to facilitate collision warning. During operation, the system obtains information on a number of principals and constructs one or more first-level groups of principals. Within a first-level group, the system constructs one or more second-level groups, thereby facilitating an assessment of probability of collision between a second-level group and a primary principal. | 12-18-2008 |
20080312832 | Dual assessment for early collision warning - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates warning of collision between a primary principal and one or more non-primary principals. The system includes a triggering mechanism and a preliminary assessment mechanism. During operation, the triggering mechanism determines whether a trigger condition is met based on the state of the primary principal. When the trigger condition is met, the preliminary assessment mechanism generates one or more collision scenarios associated with the trigger condition, assesses a preliminary probability of collision in a collision scenario, and, based on the preliminary probability of collision in the collision scenario, activates a specialized assessment mechanism to assess a refined probability of collision in the collision scenario. | 12-18-2008 |
20080312833 | Using segmented cones for fast, conservative assessment of collision risk - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates assessment of collision between a primary principal and a non-primary principal for early warning. During operation, the system receives information which indicates a state of the primary principal and a state of the non-primary principal. The system divides future time into a number of time intervals, and estimates a number of possible future states of the primary and non-primary principals, wherein each future state corresponds to a time interval. The system further represents the possible future states of the primary or non-primary principal as one or more geometric objects in a space of which at least one dimension indicates the time. In addition, the system determines a probability of collision between the primary and non-primary principals based on the geometric objects. | 12-18-2008 |
20090204370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING EXTENSIBILITY IN SENSING SYSTEMS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and apparatus for enabling extensibility in sensing systems. The distributed sensing system comprises a number of sensor nodes, a device database, a sensing module registry, a sensing needs monitor, and an automatic composer. The device database is in communication with at least one sensor node and configured to maintain physical information on at least one sensor node. The sensing module registry is configured to maintain a registry of a number of software modules that are available for extracting information from sensor data. The sensing needs monitor is configured to maintain a list of context pairs that represent a number of sensing needs of a sensing application. The automatic composer is configured to generate a composition of software modules, at runtime, to realize the sensing needs of users and applications. | 08-13-2009 |
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20100306587 | COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT TIERED INFERENCE FOR MULTIPLE FAULT DIAGNOSIS - A computer based method and system for tiered inference multiple fault diagnosis is provided. The method includes using a computer processor to dissect a hypothesis space representing a production system having a plurality of production modules into tiers. Production modules in the current tier are partitioned into a group or a set of sub-groups. A fault diagnosis algorithm is applied to the group of each sub-group to identify an acceptable fault diagnosis. When no acceptable fault diagnosis is found, the process moves to the next tier to perform further investigations. The process continues to move to higher tiers until an acceptable fault diagnosis is obtained or the system instructs the process to end. | 12-02-2010 |
20110009996 | PERVASIVE MODEL ADAPTATION: THE INTEGRATION OF PLANNING AND INFORMATION GATHERING IN DYNAMIC PRODUCTION SYSTEMS - A computer-based method and system for pervasive model adaptation are provided. The method includes providing a production plan to a production system, executing the production plan in the production system, collecting observation data produced by at least one sensor in the production system during execution of the production plan into computer memory, calculating changes to be made to a system model in the computer memory based on the collected observation data, dynamically updating the system model according to the calculated changes, creating an updated production plan based at least partially on the dynamically updated system model, and storing the updated production plan within the computer memory. | 01-13-2011 |
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20110063698 | MEMBRANE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR COLOR CHARACTERIZATION - Methods and systems are presented for characterizing a printer, display or other color reproduction device in which a forward color transform having a parametric surface forward color transform and a nonparametric residual forward color transform is updated by adapting the parametric surface forward color transform using an input adaptation data set and a measured adaptation data set, generating a prediction data set in the second color space using the adapted parametric surface forward color transform and the nonparametric residual forward color transform, generating a prediction error data set in the second color space using the input adaptation data set and the prediction data set, generating a membrane forward color transform using the prediction error data set, and updating the forward color transform using the adapted parametric and nonparametric forward color transforms. | 03-17-2011 |
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