06th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090037075 | Control system for plant - A control system for a plant, including a sliding mode controller and a transfer characteristic adjusting module. The sliding mode controller calculates a feedback control input with a sliding mode control so that an controlled output of the plant coincides with a target value. The transfer characteristic adjusting module is connected to an output of the sliding mode controller, and has a transfer characteristic set according to a transfer function of a controlled object model which is obtained by modeling the plant. A control input to the plant is set to an output of the transfer characteristic adjusting module. The transfer characteristic of the transfer characteristic adjusting module is set so that a composite transfer function indicative of a transfer characteristic which is obtained by combining the transfer characteristic of the transfer characteristic adjusting module and a transfer characteristic of the controlled object model, coincides with a desired target transfer function. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037076 | METHOD OF INJECTING FLUID, A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INJECTION OF FLUID, AND AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In a method of injecting a fluid with a liquid-to-gas phase transition, the fluid is injected via a specified path of a change in an isobaric specific heat capacity per volume [Cp/V] of the fluid, the specified path leading from a temperature-pressure condition (i) to a temperature-pressure condition (ii). The condition (i) realizes an equality [Cp/V]=[Cp/V]L, where [Cp/V]L denotes an isobaric specific heat capacity per volume of the fluid in the liquid phase. The temperature-pressure condition (ii) realizes an equality [Cp/V]=[Cp/V]J, where [Cp/V]J denotes an isobaric specific heat capacity per volume of the fluid at timing of injection. The value [Cp/V]J is less than the value [Cp/V]L and included in a temperature-pressure region extending in close proximity to a high-temperature side of a temperature-pressure region corresponding to a temperature-pressure condition (iii) that realizes an isobaric specific heat capacity per volume [Cp/V]C greater than the value [Cp/V]L. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037077 | COMBUSTION CONTROL OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A controller ( | 2009-02-05 |
20090037078 | AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In a system where an air-fuel ratio feedback correction amount is learned when its variation width is within a stable determination value, the stable determination value is set at larger value when a deviation amount of the correction amount becomes larger When the air-fuel ratio feedback correction amount is rapidly changed after the learning is completed, the stable determination value is increased to moderate the learning condition and accelerate the learning speed (update speed of the learning value). Hence, the air-fuel ratio feedback correction amount is immediately learned. Furthermore, when a behavior of the airfuel ratio feedback correction amount is stable, the stable determination value is made small to avoid an erroneous learning of the air-fuel ratio feedback correction amount. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037079 | Air-fuel ratio control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine - When an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders is operating steadily, an index value relating to an actual hydrogen content in exhaust gas downstream of a portion where exhaust passages from the cylinders merge, and upstream of a catalyst is detected. When an index value relating to the actual hydrogen content in the exhaust gas is larger than a determination index value relating to a hydrogen content corresponding to a permissible limit of air-fuel ratio variation, it is determined that there is abnormal air-fuel ratio variation between the cylinders. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037080 | Pressure-maintaining function in a fully hybrid drive - A method for maintaining and/or adjusting a system pressure in a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, in which the internal combustion engine is a part of an hybrid power train, which includes in addition at least one further drive. A system pressure in a reservoir element of the fuel injection system is monitored using a pressure sensor. In operating modes in which the internal combustion engine is shut down and/or is separated from the hybrid power train, the maintaining or the adjusting of the system pressure takes place via a pressure-regulating valve. The activation of the pressure-regulating valve takes place directly or indirectly via a control unit or a vehicle control unit or a clutch control unit. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037081 | ENGINE FUEL INJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS - A fuel injection control apparatus is provided with a supply control section, a stop control section, a timing estimating section and a torque recovery control section. The supply control section controls fuel supplied to an engine based on a detected prescribed vehicle running state. The stop control section stops supplying fuel upon detecting a first prescribed vehicle running state. The timing estimating section estimates a timing at which a drive train transmitting a drive force from the engine to a wheel will change from a non-drive state in which the engine rotates due to a force from the wheel to a drive state in which the wheel rotates due to a drive force of the engine. The torque recovery control section resumes supplying fuel upon detecting a second prescribed vehicle running state and stops resumption of fuel being supplied for a prescribed amount of time based on the timing. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037082 | EXHAUST EMISSION CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust emission control device removes particulate matters contained in exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine and deposited in a particulate filter. The device has a catalyst judging block judging the catalytic activity of catalyst held in the particulate filter, an exhaust gas detecting block detecting a flow rate of the exhaust gas, an injection type selecting block selecting a first fuel injection type or a second fuel injection type according to the catalytic activity and the flow rate of the exhaust gas, and a fuel injection control block controlling fuel injected into the engine to heighten the temperature of the exhaust gas according to the first fuel injection type and to supply unburned hydrocarbons to the particulate filter according to the second fuel injection type. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037083 | Electronic Control Device For Controlling The Internal Combustion Engine In A Motor Vehicle - An electronic control device according to the invention is disclosed for controlling the internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, for fault recognition with an irregular running determination unit and with an injection quantity correction unit, a defined group of cylinders being associated with a lambda probe, the injection quantity of a cylinder to be investigated of the defined group is adjusted in the direction of lean by a differential adjustment value associated with an irregular running differential value, and the injection value of at least one of the remaining cylinders, which are associated with the same lambda probe, is correspondingly adjusted in the direction of rich, so that in total a predetermined lambda value of this group of at least approximately 1 is reached. Homogeneous operation is thus ensured. The differential adjustment values may, for example, relate to the injection quantity itself, the injector stroke or the injection time. In this manner, a differential adjustment value individual to the cylinder is adjusted for each cylinder of the defined group. Correction values individual to the cylinder are then determined in that the differential adjustment values individual to the cylinder are related to one another. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037084 | Method of Operating an Engine Upon Occurrence of Abnormal Combustion and Operation Control Apparatus Therefor - Provided are a method of operating an engine and an apparatus for controlling operation of an engine, which is capable of appropriately controlling the operation of the engine after cutoff of fuel into a cylinder in which heavy knock occurs, without at once stopping the engine upon detection of occurrence of the heavy knock. The method of operating an engine which has a plurality of cylinders, and which is capable of stepwise or continuously correcting a burning state through fuel regulation including cutoff of fuel, upon occurrence of abnormal combustion, executes a stop or an output limit operation of the engine, and is characterized in that a simulated abnormal combustion obtained by calculating an abnormal combustion state of the engine in simulation is beforehand set, and in comparison of a detection signal as to a burning state of a selected cylinder which is sequentially selected among the plurality of cylinders, with the simulated abnormal combustion signal so as to determine occurrence of abnormal combustion in the selected cylinder in order to execute cutoff of fuel into the selected cylinder. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037085 | Starting system and method of internal combustion engine - In a starting system of an internal combustion engine including a fuel injection valve that directly injects fuel into a corresponding cylinder and a spark plug that ignites an air-fuel mixture in the cylinder, injection of the fuel from the fuel injection valve and ignition performed by the spark plug are stopped when engine stop conditions are met. If the engine restart conditions are met during rotation of the engine after the engine stop conditions are met, the fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve into an expansion-stroke cylinder that is in the expansion stroke at the time when the engine restart conditions are met, and the mixture formed in the expansion-stroke cylinder is ignited by the spark plug. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037086 | Method for equalizing traffic flows and for avoiding and resolving congestion - In accordance with 37 C.F.R. §1.125, a substitute specification has been included in lieu of substitute paragraphs in connection with the present Preliminary Amendment. The substitute specification is submitted in clean form, attached hereto, and is accompanied by a marked-up version showing the changes made to the original specification. The changes have been made in an effort to place the specification in better form for U.S. practice. No new matter has been added by these changes to the specification. Further, the substitute specification includes paragraph numbers to facilitate amendment practice as requested by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037087 | TRAFFIC INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TRAFFIC INFORMATION INTEGRATING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention provides a traffic information processing apparatus and method, the apparatus comprises a format unifying device which unifies input traffic information with different formats to traffic information with unified format; and a traffic information integrating device which corrects and/or complements the traffic information with unified format based on a knowledge base to obtain traffic information which is consistent with each other, so as to integrate the traffic information, wherein the knowledge base is external to the apparatus or internal to the apparatus. The traffic information processing apparatus and method according to the present invention can process traffic information with spatial inconsistence, temporal inconsistence and semantic inconsistence so as to integrate effectively the traffic information from a variety of heterogeneous information sources and ensure the accuracy, completeness and reliability of traffic data. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037088 | RUNNING PLAN CREATING APPARATUS - A running plan creating apparatus for creating a running plan including position information of a vehicle at each time comprises road information acquiring means for acquiring road information concerning a running path for the vehicle to run, action predicting means for predicting positions and speeds of other vehicles running about the vehicle at each time by utilizing the road information, characteristic information acquiring means for acquiring characteristic information in each of the other vehicles, risk degree estimating means for estimating respective degrees of risk of the other vehicles by utilizing the characteristic information, risk degree distribution setting means for setting a risk degree distribution at each time on the running path by utilizing the road information and the positions and degrees of risk of the other vehicles, and running plan creating means for creating the running plan of the vehicle by utilizing the risk degree distribution. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037089 | Method for determining traffic information, and a device arranged to perform the method - The present application relates to a method for determining traffic information. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving at least one photograph of a portion of the earth's surface comprising at least one road segment using an input/output device, recognizing a number of vehicles on the at least one road segment in the at least one received photograph using a processor unit, and determining traffic information based on the at least one recognized vehicle. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037090 | Navigation apparatus and program of the same - A navigation apparatus of a vehicle includes: storage means for storing information about the vehicle and a road area; and guide route calculating means for calculating a guide route on the basis of the information stored in the storage means. The navigation apparatus determines whether to avoid an entry of the vehicle into the road area on the basis of the information about the vehicle and the road area. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4D) FLIGHT PLAN - A method and apparatus that generates a 4D flight plan that takes in account weather, metrological data, and safety of flight information for 360 degree horizontal layer at all relevant altitudes and times is disclosed. The method may include receiving a flight plan request from a user, the flight plan including user preferences, receiving meteorological information and safety-of-flight information based on the user's origin, destination and preferences, generating a 4D flight plan based on the meteorological information, safety-of-flight information, and user preferences, and outputting the 4D flight plan for the user. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037092 | Navigation system - In a navigation system, e.g., for a motor vehicle, for determining the route from a location of the navigation system to a destination point, the navigation system includes a display device for displaying the route in a map display or a map-type display, and/or a direction indication that corresponds to the route, and it is possible to simultaneously display a canonically oriented graphic or image of a prominent route point with the aid of the display device. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037093 | Vehicle-Mounted Navigation Apparatus - A vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus includes a traffic information acquiring means | 2009-02-05 |
20090037094 | Method For Operating A Navigation System - A method for operating a navigation system includes the following steps:
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20090037095 | TRANSMODAL AND LOGISTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transmodal and logistics method, comprising generating at least one transportation route for shipping a shipment using one or more different transportation modes and at least two transportation providers, and calculating a cost rate associated with the at least one transportation route. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037096 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE IN RESPONSE TO A PARTICULAR BOUNDARY - A system and method for controlling a vehicle in response to the presence of one or more vehicle boundary. According to various embodiments, a system is provided that automates end-turns and sequence execution in real-time based on approaching boundaries. In various embodiments, no pre-planning is required once boundaries and a turn pattern have been defined. Once these items are defined, the system creates end-turns based on what type of boundary is approaching and the turn path prescribed. The system determines what vehicle functions to execute based on pre-recorded sequences and executes the turns and the sequences automatically based on the location and speed of the vehicle and its relationship to various boundaries. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037097 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - A broadcast receiver and a method of processing data are disclosed. The broadcast receiver includes a receiving unit, a RS frame decoder, a storage unit, and a navigation unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal multiplexed mobile broadcast service data including information on route prediction and main broadcast service data. The RS frame decoder performs CRC-decoding and RS-decoding on the RS frame, thereby correcting errors occurred in the corresponding mobile broadcast service data. The navigation unit uses the information on route prediction and a current position information of the broadcast receiver, thereby predicting at least one route. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037098 | Method and System for Providing Travel Direction Annotations Over a Network - A method and system is provided for providing and storing annotations that pertain to travel directions to a particular destination, the annotations generally including ratings of the accuracy of the directions and errors observed in the directions by prior users. Annotations submitted by users are stored in a central repository, for access by those who subsequently become interested in the directions or the particular destination. A useful embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for providing travel directions over a selected network, wherein a request for directions regarding a specified destination is sent from a requester to a Directions Provider. The Provider retrieves the requested directions and furnishes them to the requester. The method further includes generating annotations associated with the furnished directions in accordance with a set of rules resulting from one or more decisions made by the requester, and sending the annotations to the requester. The requester then selectively provides annotations regarding the furnished directions to a central repository. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037099 | Providing contemporaneous maps to a user at a non-GPS enabled mobile device - An exemplary method for providing contemporaneous maps to a user at a non-GPS enabled mobile device comprises obtaining a request from the mobile device, decoding the request to obtain multimedia data, analyzing the multimedia data to obtain location information, accessing a map database using the location information, generating a map image based on data from the map database, generating a response including the map image, and sending the response to the mobile device to enable a display of the map image at the mobile device. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037100 | Route Search Device and Route Search Method - A route to a destination in which required travel time barely varies depending on weather is searched for without referring to weather forecast or weather information. A route search device comprises following means: a storage medium for storing traffic information including travel times by weather conditions for each link comprising a road on a map; a pointing device which sets a starting point and a destination; a weather condition-based route search module that determines the shortest travel time route from the starting point to the destination by weather conditions using the traffic information stored in the storage medium; a link series-identifying module that extracts link series which vary with weather conditions from link series comprising the shortest travel time route determined by the weather condition-based route search module, determines the required travel time by weather conditions for the each link series that vary with weather conditions by using the traffic information stored in the storage medium, and identifies a link series whose required travel time barely varies depending on weather conditions; and a link series-registering medium that registers the link series identified by the link series-identifying module as a link series comprising a guide route from the starting point to the destination. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037101 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, METHOD OF INPUTTING CONDITIONS FOR SEARCHING FOR POI, METHOD OF DISPLAYING GUIDANCE TO POI, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A map display system has a terminal device having display means for displaying a map image and also has a route search server having a POI database. The map display system has operation/input means for performing predetermined operation on an object image including a POI category or POI information, object image operation detection means for detecting operation on the object image, and POI search means for extracting the POI category or the POI information from the operated object image and searching for a POI while referring to the POI database. The display means displays on a map image the POI searched by the POI search means. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037102 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information processing device includes: a display section that displays a map image based on map data; a face data storage section that stores districts corresponding to specific areas of the map image as faces of the map image; an additional information storage section that stores pieces of additional information associated with the faces; a current position identification section that identifies a current position on the map image; an additional information output section that makes a determination as to whether the current position is inside the face, and if the current position is inside the face, reading out and outputting the piece of additional information associated with the face. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037103 | Method of Operating a Navigation System Using Images - A method of operating a navigation system determines a route between an origin and a destination and provides a photographic image showing a geographic area through which the route passes. The photographic image is obtained from a geographic database, and the photographic image shows the geographic area from a land-based viewpoint. The method overlays a route highlight on the photographic image identifying a path to be traveled. The route highlight extends along the path for a distance visible in the photographic image. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037104 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLIND SPOT IDENTIFICATION AND WARNING UTILIZING PORTABLE AND WEARABLE DEVICES - A method for detecting and alerting a user of objects in their blind spots, includes: tracking movement and relative position of a user to one or more objects; determining a blind spot of the user; determining when at least one of the one or more objects occupies the blind spot of the user; and transmitting a signal to a user mobile device to perform an alarm operation when at least one of the one or more objects occupies the blind spot of the user. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037105 | Positioning Device and Positioning Method for a Satellite Navigation System - A positioning device for a satellite navigation system includes a receiver that receives atmospheric correction data and an evaluation unit that determines a position location and estimates its quality on the basis of a plurality of positioning signals, with inclusion of the atmospheric correction data. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037106 | Collaborative GPS/INS system and method - A real-time integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) system in which each aids the other to offer continuously available navigation information by each GPS and INS subsystem calculating an initial solution, providing the initial solution to the other GPS or INS subsystem, and then each GPS and INS subsystem calculating a collaborative solution based on the initial solution received from the other GPS or INS subsystem. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037107 | INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM ERROR CORRECTION - Methods and apparatus for: (a) the correction of one or more elements determined from a first set of continuous gyro and accelerometer measurements comprising using a second set of discontinuously measured higher accuracy accelerometer measurements doubly integrated in an inertial coordinate system, (b) determining relative movement of a vehicle using a first set of acceleration measurements that do not include components of acceleration caused by the Earth's gravitational field, and a second set of acceleration measurements that do include components of acceleration caused by the Earth's gravitational field; and (c) correcting errors in an inertial navigation system positioned in a vehicle comprising using independently measured changes in position of the vehicle relative to an inertial coordinate frame. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037108 | CROSS-FIBER DIFFUSION MRI - A method for processing MRI data in which a reference direction and a first voxel are selected. A first transverse orientation vector associated with the first voxel is determined. This first transverse orientation vector is normal to the reference direction. On the basis of the first transverse orientation vector, a second voxel is selected. A second transverse orientation vector associated with the second voxel is also selected. This second transverse orientation vector is likewise normal to the reference direction. The method also includes determining whether a relationship between the first and second transverse orientation vectors is consistent with a track normal to the reference direction and extending between the first and second voxels. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037109 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A DEGREE OF SIMILARITY BETWEEN WELL LOG DATA - A computer program product includes machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the instructions for correlating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) well logging data with other well logging data, the product including instructions for: receiving the NMR well logging data; receiving the other well logging data; determining a tendency of the NMR logging data to correlate with the other logging data and providing output including correlation information. A system is also provided. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037110 | WELLBORE SURVEYING - This invention relates to surveying wellbores. In particular this invention provides methods of correcting magnetic surveys for the effects introduced by magnetic mud. The method of the present invention comprises, in broad terms, measuring gravitational and magnetic fields at least one position in the wellbore; comparing the measured fields with theoretical values, and introducing scale factors to adapt the measured values to equal the theoretical values thus making it possible to cope with the effects of magnetic mud. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037111 | System and Method for Automated Data Analysis and Parameter Selection - System and method for automatic analysis and determination of a parameter. Measurement data are obtained from one or more sensors deployed to measure a desired parameter, the data being associated to identified locations. The measured data are processed to parse out the data obtained with at least one sensor configured to provide a measurement of a selected subsurface parameter and examined to automatically output a value determined to be the most accurate value for the selected parameter from the obtained measurement data. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037112 | Methods and systems for evaluating and treating previously-fractured subterranean formations - Methods, computer programs, and systems for evaluating and treating previously-fractured subterranean formations are provided. An example method includes, for one or more of the one or more layers, determining whether there are one or more existing fractures in the layer. The method further includes, for one or more of the one or more existing fractures, measuring one or more parameters of the existing fracture and determining conductivity damage to the existing fracture, based, at least in part, on one or more of the one or more measured parameters of the existing fracture. The method further includes selecting one or more remediative actions for the existing fracture, based, at least in part, on the conductivity damage. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037113 | SUBSURFACE LAYER AND RESERVOIR PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS - Method and system for determining a characteristic of a subsurface formation traversed by a wellbore. A fluid flow rate in the wellbore is established, the flow being associated with fluid movement in one or more layers in the formation. Fluid data is generated from the fluid flow. The fluid flow rate in the wellbore is selectively altered, and fluid data is re-generated pertaining to the altered flow rates. The fluid data is processed to determine desired reservoir parameters and/or characteristics of an identified stratum in the formation. A method identifies inflexion points on a single phase oil only curve plot using the fluid data to determine layer characteristics and flow stability. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037114 | 4D+ PRESTACK SEISMIC DATA STRUCTURE, AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING 4D+ PRESTACK SEISMIC DATA - Methods, apparatus and products for processing 4D+ prestack seismic data having the form of 3D prestack gathers, single fold 3D volumes, and a mapping table to link the gathers and the volumes coherently. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037115 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING SEISMIC DATA QUALITY - The present invention determines seismic data quality for a plurality of locations within a seismic survey for a geologic or geophysical region of interest. The present invention additionally includes generating correlation coefficients which relate to the seismic data quality so that the seismic data quality can be incorporated into geostatistical analyses associated with decisions that are based in part on the seismic survey. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037116 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MACROMOLECULES, BIOMOLECULES, AND THE LIKE - Systems, devices, and methods for analyzing hybridization of target molecules to probes on substrate-bound oligonucleotide, peptide, or protein arrays. In one aspect, the system includes a computer-readable memory medium and a controller. The system may further include a computer-readable memory medium including thermodynamic data configured as a data structure for use in analyzing biological samples. In some embodiments, the data structure comprises a thermodynamic data section having: thermodynamic data representative of dangling ends of two or more bases; thermodynamic data representative of unpaired single strands of two or more bases adjacent to a Watson-Crick base pairing; thermodynamic data representative of unpaired single strands of one or more bases adjacent to a non-Watson-Crick base pairing; thermodynamic data representative of tandem base pair mismatches of two or more bases; thermodynamic data representative of length-dependent terminal mismatches of nucleic acid bases; thermodynamic data representative of terminal base pair mismatches, or combinations thereof. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037117 | Differential Dissociation and Melting Curve Peak Detection - Systems and methods are provided for processing a melting or dissociation curve of a DNA or other sample, for example, during PCR processing. In some embodiments, detection of the melting point and melting curve behavior can be enhanced by taking a derivative of the curve, and detecting peaks in the differential dissociation curve. In some embodiments, the derivative operation can comprise the use of edge-processing, or other detection algorithms. In some embodiments, the dissociation analysis can comprise removing low-frequency (or pedestal) components of the differential dissociation curve. In some embodiments, the differential dissociation curve can exhibit a smoothed or more regular appearance than the raw detected data. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037118 | METHODS FOR PREDICTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES FOR ALPHA HELICAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS AND THEIR USE IN DESIGN OF SELECTIVE LIGANDS - A method for practical prediction of the three-dimensional structure of α-helical membrane proteins (HMPs) is described. The method allows one to predict the binding site and structure for strongly bound ligands. The method combines a protocol of computational methods enabling a complete ensemble of packings to be sampled and systematically reducing this ensemble to progressively more accurate structures until at the end there remain a few that might be functionally relevant and likely to play a role in all binding and activation processes. This method is well suited to automatic operation making it practical to obtain, for example, the ensemble of important structures for all human GPCRs. With this ensemble of all active GPCR structures in the human body, an infimum method is presented to maximize efficacy toward the selected target while minimizing binding to all other GPCRs to eliminate toxicity arising from cross-reacting with other GPCRs (a most common source of drug failure). This infimum method is broadly applicable to any set of proteins where a ligand is desired to be able to modulate the function of one protein while not affecting the function of other proteins. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037119 | System for estimation and control of the concentrations of pollutant gases at the discharge of a gas turbine - System for estimation and control of the concentrations of pollutant gases at the discharge of a gas turbine comprising a unit ( | 2009-02-05 |
20090037120 | GLOW PLUG DEGRADATION DETERMINATION DEVICE - A glow plug degradation determination device energizes a glow plug immediately after an operation of an internal combustion engine is stopped. When a preset energization time elapses, the device senses a sensing value corresponding to resistance of the glow plug. The device determines degradation of the glow plug based on the sensing value. When the device determines that the glow plug is degraded, the device stores a result of the determination and reports the degradation of the glow plug before a next start. The device provisionally determines the degradation of the glow plug based on the sensing value during the operation of the internal combustion engine. After the device provisionally determines the degradation to be present, the device determines the degradation of the glow plug immediately after the operation of the internal combustion engine is stopped. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ROTOR ECCENTRICITY BASELINE SHIFT - A method to determine eccentricity of a rotor in a turbine including: collecting sensor data of rotor eccentricity for a plurality of startup operations; establishing a baseline eccentricity value using the sensor data corresponding to a selected startup operation; determining an eccentricity value using the filtered sensor data for each of a plurality of startup operations subsequent to the selected startup operation; determining a rotor eccentricity difference between the baseline eccentricity value and each of the eccentricity values for the plurality of startup operations subsequent to the selected startup operation, and reporting a rotor eccentricity condition based on the rotor eccentricity difference. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037122 | Prognosis adaptation method - There is provided a method for generating a probability distribution for a desired variable. A hyper parameter density function is provided, from which values are randomly selected. The selected hyper parameter value is used to compute an input variable value. A value is randomly selected from each input variable probability density function. These values are input into a physics model to compute an output value. This process is repeated to generate numerous output values, which are then used to construct an output value probability density function. After the output value probability density function is constructed, output value sensor data is obtained. The output density function is updated using the sensor data and a probabilistic evaluation of the hyper parameters. Improved predictions are iteratively made with the updated output distribution. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037123 | Energy Supply System Evaluation Device, Energy Supply System Evaluation Method and Energy Supply System Evaluation Program - The present invention provides an energy supply system evaluation device evaluating a lifecycle of energy conversion processes to be implemented in a pre-determined order by an energy supply system, an energy supply system evaluation method and an energy supply system evaluation program. According to the present invention, it can reduce a work load on an evaluator when the evaluator performs many-sided evaluations on energy supply systems by using a variety of analytical methods, and enable the evaluator to gain actualized output of the evaluation results desired thereof. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037124 | Battery status detecting method, battery status detecting apparatus, and expression deriving method - A battery status detecting method for detecting a battery status of a secondary battery that supplies power to an electrical load is disclosed. This method includes measuring a discharge current value of the secondary battery, and estimating the dischargeable capacity or the dischargeable time of the secondary battery with the measured discharge current value based on discharge characteristics of the secondary battery indicating the discharge status of the secondary battery when the voltage of the secondary battery drops to a predetermined voltage specified by the electrical load. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037125 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATED BATTERY STATE VECTOR - A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery state vector indicative of a state of a battery are provided. The method determines a first estimated battery state vector indicative of the state of the battery at a first predetermined time based on a plurality of predicted battery state vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a first battery output vector. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037126 | PILEUP REJECTION IN AN ENERGY-DISPERSIVE RADIATION SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM - A method of detecting pileups includes testing an instantaneous slope of a preamplifier signal against a noise trigger value and, after the instantaneous slope has been determined to exceed the noise trigger value, identifying a first subsequent portion of the preamplifier signal wherein the instantaneous slope of the preamplifier signal increases to a maximum. The method further includes, following the first subsequent portion, identifying a second subsequent portion of the preamplifier signal wherein the instantaneous slope still exceeds the noise trigger level but has decreased by more than the noise trigger level from the maximum, and, following the second subsequent portion and before the instantaneous slope declines below the noise trigger level, identifying a third subsequent portion of the preamplifier signal wherein the instantaneous slope of the preamplifier output signal increases by more than the noise trigger value, and, in response thereto, determining that a pileup has occurred. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037127 | POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION CONCERNING MOVEMENT - In a position-measuring device and a method for transmitting movement information from a position-measuring device to sequential electronics, the position-measuring device includes a position-measuring unit, a movement-measuring unit, an arithmetic logic unit and an interface unit. Position values of two objects in a measuring direction are measurable by the position-measuring unit. The movement-measuring unit is used to ascertain a movement value of the two objects. The position values and the movement value are supplied to the arithmetic logic unit which ascertains movement information in the form of a correction value that is suitable for calculating the movement value in sequential electronics from an instantaneous position value, at least one previous position value, a controller cycle time that indicates the time interval between the measurements of position values, and the correction value. The data-word length of the correction value is substantially less than the data-word length of the movement value. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037128 | SURFACE TEXTURE MEASURING INSTRUMENT - A surface texture measuring instrument includes: a movement-estimating unit for estimating a movement condition of a drive mechanism based on a scanning vector command issued by a scanning vector commander to calculate an estimated operation state quantity; and a correction-calculating unit for correcting a detection value of a drive sensor in accordance with the estimated operation state quantity calculated by the movement-estimating unit. The movement-estimating unit includes: a nominal-model setting unit in which a nominal model representing signal transfer function of the scanning vector command from the issuance of the scanning vector command to a reflection on a movement position of the scanning probe is stored. The correction-calculating unit includes a correction-amount calculating unit that calculates a correction amount for correcting a measurement error generated on account of deformation during the drive of the drive mechanism based on the estimated operation state quantity; and a measurement data synthesizing unit that synthesizes the detection value of the drive sensor and a detection sensor and the correction amount calculated by the correction-amount calculating unit to acquire a measurement data. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037129 | Method for the Determination of Long-Term Offset Drifts of Acceleration Sensors in Motor Vehicles - A method for determining long-term offset drifts of acceleration sensors in a motor vehicle has the steps:—the longitudinal vehicle speed Vx is determined in the vehicle's center of gravity;—the share of the driving dynamics in the longitudinal reference acceleration formula (I) and in the transversal reference acceleration formula (II) is calculated from the longitudinal vehicle speed Vx and the yaw rate ω | 2009-02-05 |
20090037130 | Method for recording measured data from a patient by taking movements into account, and associated medical device - A method is disclosed for recording measured data from a patient by taking movements into account by use of a medical device designed both for recording motion-related measured data, in particular measured data with a high temporal resolution and/or measured data which can be interpolated with regard to movements, using an imaging method and/or by use of at least one sensor element and for recording nuclear medicine measured data, in particular with a relatively low temporal resolution. In at least one embodiment, the method includes recording nuclear medicine measured data by use of the medical device; simultaneously recording motion-related measured data by use of the medical device; determining at least one motion information item relating to at least one movement of the patient and/or at least one movement inside the body of the patient during the ongoing measured data recording by evaluating at least a portion of the previously recorded motion-related measured data by use of a computational device of the medical device; and carrying out motion correction for at least a portion of the nuclear medicine measured data in real-time by use of the computational device in parallel with recording the measured data depending on the at least one determined motion information item. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037131 | METHOD AND CONFIGURATION FOR CONNECTING TEST STRUCTURES OR LINE ARRAYS FOR MONITORING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING - A test chip comprises at least one level having an array of regions. Each region is capable of including at least one test structure. At least some of the regions include respective test structures. The level has a plurality of driver lines that provide input signals to the test structures. The level has a plurality of receiver lines that receive output signals from the test structures. The level has a plurality of devices for controlling current flow. Each test structure is connected to at least one of the driver lines with a first one of the devices in between. Each test structure is connected to at least one of the receiver lines with a second one of the devices in between, so that each of the test structures can be individually addressed for testing using the driver lines and receiver lines. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037132 | Parallel Test System - A method and a system for defining groups of tests that may be concurrently performed or overlapped are provided. Channel-independent test groups are determined such that each group includes tests that the input/output channels may be utilized simultaneously without conflicts. The channel-independent test groups are divided into block-under-test (BUT) conflict test groups and total-independence test groups. The total-independence test groups may be performed concurrently. Performance of the BUT-conflict test groups may be overlapped such that the input/output channels are used concurrently, but the execution of the tests by the blocks of the device-under-test (DUT) is performed sequentially. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037133 | DEVICE FOR THOROUGH TESTING OF SECURE ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS - An apparatus including a test circuit, an output circuit and a control circuit. The test circuit may be configured to generate test data in response to one or more test vectors. The output circuit may be configured to present data in a first mode and prevent presentation of data in a second mode. The output circuit may be configured to switch between the first mode and the second mode in response to a control signal. The control circuit may be configured to generate the control signal according to predetermined criteria for protecting secure data within the apparatus while allowing the test data to be presented. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037134 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PROPERTY EXTRACTION, GENERATION, VISUALIZATION, AND MONITORING METHODS - Various methods, carrier media, and systems for monitoring a characteristic of a specimen are provided. One computer-implemented method for monitoring a characteristic of a specimen includes determining a property of individual pixels on the specimen using output generated by inspecting the specimen with an inspection system. The method also includes determining a characteristic of individual regions on the specimen using the properties of the individual pixels in the individual regions. The method further includes monitoring the characteristic of the specimen based on the characteristics of the individual regions. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037135 | Radiation Thermometer - A radiation thermometer comprising a radiation detector and an optical input path arranged to direct radiation from an object of interest to the radiation detector is disclosed. The radiation detector is adapted to output a signal related to the radiation received from the object of interest, and a processor is adapted to generate temperature measurements from the signal. Filtering means are provided in the optical input path which are arranged to block radiation having a wavelength between approximately 0.92 and 0.98 microns. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037136 | Methods of calculating differences of binding affinities between congeneric pairs of ligands by way of a displaced solvent functional - Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037137 | Displacement Detection Method, Displacement Detection Device, Displacement Detection Program, Phase Singularity Matching Method and Phase Singularity Matching Program - The present invention relates to a displacement detection method for detecting a displacement from phase singularities before and after the displacement, a displacement detection device, a displacement detection program, a feature point matching method and a feature point matching program. The displacement detection method for detecting the displacement from the phase singularities before and after the displacement acquires predetermined specifies the phase singularities based on predetermined elements by acquiring the elements from a phase structure of the phase singularities, and detects positions of the phase singularities. Hence, it is possible to reliably specify the phase singularities before and after the displacement, and easily and reliably detect the displacement. Various displacements, including rotary displacement, are detectable. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037138 | Methods, Systems and Formats for Data, Such as Data Used in Laser Projection of Fasteners Used in Manufacturing - A system and method provides data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing involving fasteners. For example, the laser projection process may include projecting a laser image associated with fasteners used to assemble objects. Fastener attribute data may be extracted from an engineer's design data and processed to generate a laser projection output file. This output file may include geometric data used to project a laser image associated with the fasteners. For example, this image may be an outline indicating the location, shape, and orientation of a fastener. The output file may also include non-geometric data associated with attributes of the objects to be assembled. Both the geometric and the non-geometric data can then be displayed in a user interface, such as a display screen of a laser projector control device, in addition to the display of the laser image in three-dimensional space. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037139 | Method and system for fiber properties measurement - A fiber measurement system for precision measurement of individual fiber properties, including length and fiber length distribution is provided. The fiber measurement system includes a fiber introduction system configured to introduce a plurality of individualized fibers. A fiber guidance enclosure is configured to receive the fibers from the fiber introduction system. The fiber guidance enclosure has an enclosed pathway and a viewing area. The viewing area has a height that limits mobility of the fibers in a Z-direction and the viewing area has a width that is wider than the enclosed pathway. A sensing system is provided for detecting the presence of the fibers within the fiber guidance enclosure. An imaging system is positioned proximal the viewing area of the fiber guidance enclosure to capture an image of the individualized fiber as the fibers pass through the viewing area. A controller is provided for analyzing the image data to determine at least one property of the fibers. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037140 | CONTOUR MEASURING METHOD FOR MEASURING ASPECTS OF OBJECTS - An exemplary contour measuring method for measuring aspects of objects includes: (1) providing a measuring device including two contour measuring probes and a processor, the contour measuring probe having a tip extension and a displacement sensor used to sense a displacement of the tip extension, the processor being electrically connected to the displacement sensors; (2) driving two tip extensions to contact two opposite surfaces of an object respectively; (3) driving the two tip extensions to move and contacting the two opposite surfaces of the object respectively, while the displacement sensors sending the displacement information on the tip extensions to the processor; (4) computing a cross-section of the object by the processor according to the displacement information on the tip extensions; (5) repeating the step (3) and (4), the processor computing a plurality of cross-sections of the object, the cross-sections compiled to obtain aspects of object. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037141 | MEASURING DEVICE FOR MEASURING ASPECTS OF OBJECTS - An exemplary measuring device ( | 2009-02-05 |
20090037142 | PORTABLE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING REFRIGERANT-CYCLE SYSTEMS - A portable monitoring system that monitors various aspects of the operation of a refrigerant-cycle system is described. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor that measures power provided to the refrigerant-cycle system and gathers data from one or more sensors and uses the sensor data to calculate a figure of merit related to the efficiency of the system. In one embodiment, the measurements performed by the monitoring system include one or more of: an evaporator input air temperature, an evaporator output air temperature, evaporator air flow, evaporator air humidity, condenser air input temperature, condenser air output temperature sensor, electrical power. In one embodiment, the portable monitoring system receives information about the refrigerant-cycle system from either the system itself or from a computer network. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037143 | COMPRESSOR PERFORMANCE CALCULATOR - A computer program and system for calculating the performance of a compressor includes selecting a compressor from a database, inputting application conditions, comparing data for the selected compressor to the inputted application conditions, defining an operating envelope for the selected compressor by defining a series of points representing lower and upper limits of evaporating and condensing temperatures for the selected compressor, determining whether the selected compressor operates within its operating envelope, and calculating the performance of the selected compressor. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037144 | Electric power generating facility operation remote supporting method and electric power generating facility operation remote supporting system - When an abnormality or a sign of abnormality occurs in an electric power generating facility, an appropriate operating support can be made in a short time. The electric power facility operation remote supporting method in accordance with the present invention is characterized by that an abnormality or a sign of abnormality is judged based on at least one of information on an operating state of the electric power generating facility and information on time-varying characteristics of components in the electric power generating facility, and a service mode is set based on the judged information of the abnormality or the sign of abnormality, preset abnormality corrective data and preset service modes. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037145 | BATTERY LIFE PREDICTING DEVICE AND BATTERY LIFE PREDICTING METHOD - A battery life predicting device and a battery life predicting method capable of accurately predict the lifetime of storage batteries are provided. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037146 | System and methods for testing, monitoring, and replacing equipment - A system and method for testing and replacing equipment are disclosed. The system may include a first memory module configured to store first characteristics of the first equipment; a second memory module configured to store second characteristics of the second equipment; and a portable reader configured to read the first and second memory modules and to compare the second characteristics with the first characteristics to determine if the second equipment is a suitable replacement for the first equipment. The method may include storing first characteristics of a first equipment on a first memory module; transmitting the first characteristics to a portable reader; measuring second characteristics of a second equipment using a measuring device associated with the portable reader; and comparing, with the portable reader, the second characteristics with the first characteristics to determine if one of the first and second equipment is a suitable replacement for the other equipment. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037147 | FAST INTRINSIC MODE DECOMPOSITION OF TIME SERIES DATA WITH SAWTOOTH TRANSFORM - Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for decomposing a signal using a sawtooth, or triangle wave, transform. Specific embodiments transform an input signal into a piecewise-linear sawtooth or triangle wave function, and construct upper and lower envelopes for the input signal in sawtooth space. A component function for the input signal (e.g., an Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF)) is then generated based on the sawtooth or triangle wave function and the upper and lower envelopes. In various embodiments, the results generated in sawtooth space are reversely transformed into the original data space of the input signal. In this manner, an input signal may be decomposed into one or more component functions without the time-consuming and relatively unpredictable sifting process of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037148 | BIODEGRADABLE/BIORESORBABLE TISSUE AUGMENTATION/RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE - A method of manufacturing biodegradable/bioresorbable tissue augmentation/reconstruction devices by defining material density distributions at selected time points during a material degradation lifecycle. These different density distributions are then superposed using general linear and/or nonlinear functions that could include both time and degraded base stiffness weighting factors. The material density distribution may be created using topology optimization, image-based design or computed aided design methods to create a degradable device that retains sufficient physical properties (ie modulus, strength, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity) through the material degradation lifecycle process. Thus, any bulk degrading material can be designed using this process for any tissue augmentation/reconstruction application. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037149 | Visualization of Radio Frequency Coverage - Radio Frequency (RF) coverage models are visualized by displaying three dimensional unity scaled models of antenna performance in a Geographic Information System (GIS), Traditional logarithmic scaled antenna models are converted to linear models and stored as three dimensional representations which are placed and scaled using a GIS to visualize RF coverage. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIATION DOSE CONTROL - A system and method for determining a desired portion of a subject to receive a radiation dose includes iteratively chooses weight vectors to run to gradually build up a Pareto surface (PS). By examining the current points that have been found on the PS along with the weights used to produce those points, a new weight vector is produced and run. This process is repeated until a geometric stop tolerance is met. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BINDING ENERGY FOR POLYMER MOLECULE - Provided is a design method of binding energy for polymer molecule, including: receiving a reference binding structure of a complex including a protein in a hydration state and a compound; setting an optimum structure of an unbound protein in a solution; searching for a local minimum value in a binding energy in a search region after removing the water molecules from the protein, and selecting N | 2009-02-05 |
20090037152 | Mapping Fan Noise Across an Hydraulic Plane - A method and computer program product is presented to map noise levels onto the hydraulic operating plane. Application of this model has the potential to show which fan is quieter, where, and by how much. It is shown how the technique can be applied to a diverse set of comparisons including speed, diameter, type, model, and multiple fans in combination. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037153 | Product design optimization method and system - A method is provided for developing a product. The method may include obtaining data records from a plurality of stages of development of the product; identifying respective objectives of the plurality of stages and corresponding objective factors of the objectives; and determining common variables associated with the objectives based on the objective factors. The method may also include selecting one or more input parameters based on the common variables and one or more output parameters based on the objectives; and updating the data records to generate desired data records indicative characteristics of the one or more input parameters and the one or more output parameters. Further, the method may include generating a computational model indicative of interrelationships between the one or more input parameters and the one or more output parameters based on the data records; and providing a set of constraints to the computational model representative of a design of the product. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037154 | Method Of And A System For Adapting A Geometric Model Using Multiple Partial Transformations - The invention relates to a method ( | 2009-02-05 |
20090037155 | Machine condition monitoring using a flexible monitoring framework - A flexible framework and a corresponding user interface allow a user to configure a machine condition monitoring system. A user-configurable computation framework offers flexibility in designing the machine condition monitoring system. In this framework, every computation based on machine attributes is represented as an input-output system. A simple computation can be easily defined by specifying the computation type, number of inputs, structure, and parameters. The user can use the determined output attributes of computations as input attributes in other computations. Ultimately, the computations are aggregated by the framework configured by the user to produce an output computation attribute that indicates a machine condition or predicts a machine condition. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037156 | Design Support System - The design support system regarding the present invention comprises a node data storage means that stores node data to generate functional models which present a group of function nodes which are functions divided from performance function of apparatus which is an objective to be designed and a group of part nodes which realize the functions in mutual relations, a functional model generating means that generates the functional models in reference to the node data storage means, a node designation receiving means that receives the designation of a node among the functional models, a node selection means that selects a node which has a mutual relation with nodes to which the designation are given, a display unit that displays the node selected by the node selection means. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037157 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Providing Broadband Preconditioning Based on Reduced Coupling for Numerical Solvers - This invention relates to computing numerical solutions of linear systems of equations, specifically to implementing preconditioning of the coefficient matrix of such a system. The preconditioning applies to any coefficient matrix, dense or sparse, based on the solutions of a physical problem of unknown functions, commonly referred to as basis or interpolation functions, where the basis function spans more then one mesh element. Examples of such linear systems can result from, as examples, an electromagnetic analysis of printed circuit boards or field scattering in radar applications, fluid mechanics and acoustics. A method and system to compute a preconditioner for a coefficient matrix A that is compatible with the linear system of equations that provides basis function support over at least two mesh elements. Coupling of the preconditioner between partitions of a portioned mesh representation is only through basis functions at the partition boundaries. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037158 | Block diagram modeling - A modeling process includes providing blocks, each of the blocks representing functional entities that operate on input signal values, output signal values from the blocks, grouping the output signal values as an ordered set in a multiplexer as a first composite signal and outputting the first composite signal. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037159 | Method and System for Developing Lubricants, Lubricant Additives, and Lubricant Base Stocks Utilizing Atomistic Modeling Tools - A method and system for developing lubricant, as well as the lubricant, is provided. According to performance requirements for the lubricant, atomistic modeling tools are used to design a formulation for the lubricant that will substantially meet a set of performance requirements. The formulation comprises lubricant additive(s), lubricant base stock(s), or the combination of lubricant additive(s) and lubricant base stock(s). | 2009-02-05 |
20090037160 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SERVE IBIS DATA - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of serving IBIS data may include determining a circuit specified for signal integrity simulation. IBIS data may be obtained for the circuit specified, from which polynomials may be determined to be representative of at least a portion of the IBIS data. The polynomial information determined may be stored in a file with indexing for enabling its subsequent selective retrieval by way of a request for the IBIS data for the specified circuit. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037161 | Methods for improved simulation of integrated circuit designs - A method of improved simulator processing is provided. The method according to the current invention includes grouping frequently accessed data into one set id to improve memory hierarchy performance. The method further includes simulating predication in a non-predicated architecture to improve CPU performance. The simulated predication includes pseudo-predicated implementation of read-operation vector element access pseudo-predicated implementation of write-operation vector element access, and predicated implementation of multi-way branches with assignment statements having a same left-hand-side (lhs). The method further includes determining a selection path in a multi-sensitive “always” block to reduce taken branches. The multi-sensitive “always” block selection path determination includes generating instance-specific code to save port allocation storage, and generating inlined instance-specific code to combine sensitive actions. The method further includes regenerating code affected by the assignment statement to implement value-change callback. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037162 | DATACENTER WORKLOAD MIGRATION - A method is provided for evaluating workload migration from a target computer in a datacenter. The method includes tracking the number of power cycles occurring for a plurality of computers located within the datacenter and generating power cycling information as a result of the tracking. The method further includes determining whether to power cycle the target computer based on the power cycling information. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037163 | Fast and Flexible Communication System Simulation - A simulation system for a communication system includes a user interface to receive user definition and system configuration parameters of a simulation configuration file that includes a plurality of data structures representing various functional modules of the simulated communication system. A model library is provided to store different implementation models corresponding to different communication standards for each of the functional modules. A parsing module accesses the model library according to the user definition and system configuration parameters to obtain the appropriate implementation model for each of the functional modules, and generates a simulated system program based on the selected implementation models such that the simulated system program is reconfigurable to different implementations and communication standards. A simulation engine runs the simulated system program to simulate the simulated communication system. A simulated system program generation system is also described. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037164 | DATACENTER WORKLOAD EVALUATION - A method is provided for evaluating workload consolidation on a computer located in a datacenter. The method comprises inflating a balloon workload on a first computer that simulates a consolidation workload of a workload originating on the first computer and a workload originating on a second computer. The method further comprises evaluating the quality of service on the first computer's workload during the inflating and transferring the workload originating on either the first or the second computer to the other of the first or second computer if the evaluating the quality of service remains above a threshold. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037165 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Transactions in a Simulation Environment - A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for simulating a plurality of transactions. A first group of transactions with first simulation properties are provided and a second group of transactions with second simulation properties are provided. The first simulation properties are different from the second simulation properties. During software simulation of a hardware model, the first group of transactions and the second group of transactions are issued to the hardware model. The first group of transactions and the second group of transactions are processed using the hardware model. At least a portion of the first group of transactions and the second group of transactions is processed simultaneously using the hardware model. The first simulation properties are used to process the first group of transactions using the hardware model and wherein the second simulation properties are used to process the second group of transactions using the hardware model. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037166 | AUDIO ENCODING METHOD WITH FUNCTION OF ACCELERATING A QUANTIZATION ITERATIVE LOOP PROCESS - An audio encoding method previously estimates better initial iterative values of global-gain and scalefactor for avoiding heavy calculation. The estimating process of the encoding method includes calculating the bit allocation of one frequency sample based on a sampling rate, a bit rate, and the number of audio channels according to an input frame, and the psychoacoustic model, searching one frequency sample having the greatest sample energy in each of a plurality of scalefactor bands, quantizing the frequency sample to comply with the bit allocation and to generate a corresponding scalefactor, searching a maximum scalefactor of all scalefactor bands corresponding to the input frame, and setting initial values of scalefactors and an initial value of global-gain for the quantization iterative loop process according to the corresponding scalefactor and the maximum scalefactor. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037167 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal - In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least first and second channels. The first and second channels have been independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other, and the first and second channels have been synchronously subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are correlated with each other and difference coding is used. The embodiment further includes obtaining subdivision information from the audio data frame. The subdivision information includes first information and second information. The first information indicates whether the first and second channels are independently subdivided or synchronously subdivided, and the second information indicates how the subdividing is performed. The first and second channels are decoded based on the obtained subdivision information. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037168 | Apparatus for Improving Packet Loss, Frame Erasure, or Jitter Concealment - The invention presents a method to improve the recovering from packet loss, frame erasure or jitter concealment during signal communication, especially for VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) applications. A variable delay concept (instead of constant delay) is introduced to guarantee the continuity and periodicity of signal after recovering lost frames, adding frames or removing frames. During the recovering of lost frames or the adding of extra frames, the copy of previous signal from history buffer into missing frame(s) is based on the frame length, onset, and offset information. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING FIXED CODEBOOKS OF SPEECH CODECS AS COMMON MODULE - A method and apparatus for implementing fixed codebooks as a common module are provided. In the method of implementing fixed codebooks of a plurality of speech codecs as a common module, it is possible to include only a part excluding fixed codebooks in a communication terminal or communication system, support various speech codecs without using a chip with high price and high performance, and reduce a memory space that is occupied by the speech codecs by generating a track of a fixed codebook corresponding to a speech codec based on information on the speech codec among the plurality of speech codecs and selecting a codebook vector corresponding to a target signal among codebook vectors constructed with combinations of pulses represented by the generated track. In addition, it is possible to reduce processing complexity as compared with a case of embodying the common fixed codebook module in software by embodying the common fixed codebook module in hardware. In addition, it is possible to improve the entire voice processing performance by applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm only to the common fixed codebook, thereby easily applying the latest fixed codebook searching algorithm to the entire voice codec. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037170 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE COMMUNICATION USING ABBREVIATED TEXT MESSAGES - The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and method for capturing and producing voice using abbreviated text messages, specifically, to translate voice into an abbreviated message text format for transmission in a communication system and to translate abbreviated message text received from a communication system to voice. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037171 | Real-time voice transcription system - The real-time voice transcription system provides a speech recognition system and method that includes use of speech and spatial-temporal acoustic data to enhance speech recognition probabilities while simultaneously identifying the speaker. Real-time edit capability is provided enabling a user to train the system during a transcription session. The system may be connected to user computers via local network and/or wide area network means. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037172 | Method for generating a vector codebook, method and device for compressing data, and distributed speech recognition system - A method for compressing data, the data being represented by an input vector having Q features, wherein Q is an integer higher than 1, including the steps of 1) providing a vector codebook of sub-sets of indexed Q-feature reference vectors and threshold values associated with the sub-sets for a prefixed feature; 2) identifying a sub-set of reference vectors among the sub-sets by progressively comparing the value of a feature of the input vector which corresponds to the prefixed feature, with the threshold values associated with the sub-sets; and 3) identifying the reference vector which, within the sub-set identified in step 2), provides the lowest distortion with respect to the input vector. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037173 | USING SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION SPEECH PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES TO ACTIVATE A PAYMENT CARD - The present invention discloses a payment card that uses speaker identification and verification (SIV) speech processing techniques for activation purposes. For example, the invention can initially identify a payment card in a deactivated state, which is an internal state of the payment card. Speech input can then be received. Speech characteristics of the speech input can be determined and compared against a voice print of an authorized card user. The payment card can be selectively activated based on comparison results. That is, when the voice print and the speech characteristics match, the payment card can be activated. Otherwise, the card will remain deactivated. An activated payment card is one that has undergone an internal state change from the deactivated state. For example, when activated a credit card number can appear in a display and a magnetic strip can contain payment information, neither of which are present in the deactivated state. | 2009-02-05 |
20090037174 | Understanding spoken location information based on intersections - In one embodiment, the present system recognizes a user's speech input using an automatically generated probabilistic context free grammar for street names that maps all pronunciation variations of a street name to a single canonical representation during recognition. A tokenizer expands the representation using position-dependent phonetic tokens and an intersection classifier classifies an intersection, despite the presence of recognition errors and incomplete street names. | 2009-02-05 |