25th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090157294 | Navigation Device With Adaptive Navigation Instructions - A navigation device is disclosed wherein, in at least one embodiment. navigation instruction are adapted to the driver preferences. The driving behaviour of the driver is recorded (like speed, time to prepare for an exit etc.), and the way he responds to navigation instructions (promptly, or always too late for example). Traffic, weather and time information may be combined with information on the driving behaviour of the driver. This information is examined and used to build up a driver profile. This driver profile is used to adapt future navigation instructions. Alternatively, traffic and weather information may be used to build up route and/or environmental profiles. These profiles can also be used separate from the driver profile to adjust the navigation instruction. The combination of these two techniques, building up a profile (or adapt a pre-defined profile) and adapt the navigation instructions, makes the navigation device a more personal-fit navigation aid. Also, giving the right instructions to a specific driver may contribute to a safer behaviour. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157295 | Navigation Apparatus - A navigation apparatus comprises a route setting unit that sets a route, a route characteristic point setting unit that sets a plurality of route characteristic points to the route set by the route setting unit, a priority setting unit that sets priority to each of the route characteristic points set by the route characteristic point setting unit, a selecting unit that selects any of the route characteristic points based upon the priority set by the priority setting unit, and a display control unit that displays the route and the route characteristic point selected by the selecting unit on a display monitor. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157296 | Navigation Apparatus - A navigation apparatus comprises a map display control unit that displays a map on a display monitor, a voice information outputting unit that outputs voice information related to traveling of a vehicle, and a highlighting unit that highlights a part of the map that corresponds to the voice information in synchronization with output of the voice information by the voice information outputting unit. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157297 | Navigation system - There is a need for providing a navigation system that enhances the freedom of settling time points to determine a destination. The system prompts a user to input only information needed for determining a target region (e.g., a region including several tourist spots or a region including several ski resorts) at a departure time. The system prompts a user to input information needed for determining a specific destination (e.g., a specific tourist spot, or a specific ski resort) halfway through the target region. Accordingly, the user need not determine a specific destination at the departure time. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157298 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information management apparatus storing service information including place information, service content information, and start time information; the information processing apparatus including a communication portion; a position measurement portion for generating positional information; a data acquiring portion for acquiring, based on an input search condition, service information satisfying the search condition from the information management apparatus; and a list generating portion for generating a presentation list recorded with information on a service providing place capable of receiving the service at a provision start time based on the positional information, the place information and the start time information of the acquired service information, and time information defining a time the positional information is generated. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157299 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A navigation system ( | 2009-06-18 |
20090157300 | System and method for entry of taxi route on control display unit - A system and method is provided for receiving and displaying a taxiway navigation route on a control display unit having at least one entry field and a plurality of display lines. A plurality of taxi route segments are received from an entry field. The plurality of taxi route segments include at least a first taxi route segment and a second taxi route segment. The taxi route segments are assigned to separate display lines in the order in which the taxi route segments were received to form a taxiway navigation route. The taxi route segments are displayed on the control display unit in the order in which the taxi route segments were received. The display line in which the first taxi route segment is to be assigned can be selected. In addition, navigation data corresponding to the taxi route segments can be identified, retrieved, and assigned to the respective taxi route segment. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157301 | Intelligent navigation device and method - The invention discloses an intelligent navigation method comprising the following steps of: (a) defining a system circle based on a current position and a target position; (b) searching a plurality of paths between the current position and the target position from the system circle; (c) for each path, calculating a total of directional paths and a total of path-influenced factors; (d) summing up the total of directional paths and the total of path-influenced factors for each path to obtain a plurality of summations; and (e) selecting a path corresponding to the minimum of all summations to be the optimal path. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157302 | PEDESTRIAN ROUTE PRODUCTION - As a pedestrian travels, various difficulties can be encountered, such as traveling through an unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures. A route can be developed for a person taking into account factors that specifically affect a pedestrian. Moreover, the route can alter as a situation of a user changes; for instance, if a user wants to add a stop along a route. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE DELETE ENTRY ON CONTROL DISPLAY UNIT - A method is provided for modifying navigation information on a control display unit which has at least one entry field and a plurality of display lines. The method includes at least receiving a plurality of delete command entries, receiving a display line selection, determining the number of delete command entries, identifying a navigation route segment displayed in the selected display line, wherein the navigation route segment displayed in the selected display line comprises at least a first navigation route segment, deleting the first navigation route segment, deleting navigation route segments which follow the first navigation route segment in sequential order until the number of deleted navigation route segments equals the number of delete command entries received, and displaying the navigation information. A system which executes the method is also provided. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157304 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION, A RELATED GEOGRAPHICAL MAP, AND A RELATED RESOLUTION SERVER - The present invention relates to a system for determining a geographical location and to related devices where the system comprises an auto-ID enabled geographical mapping means that is adapted to represent a plurality of geographical points, each point of said plurality of geographical points of said geographical mapping means being associated with an auto-ID; and an auto-ID reading means that in turn is adapted to read the auto-ID associated to a point of said plurality of geographical points on the geographical map. Then a resolution means is able to resolve a geographical location of said geographical point related to said auto-ID. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157305 | Industrial vehicle fleet management system - Embodiments consistent with the invention are an apparatus for and method of generating data on current utilization of powered industrial vehicles, generating preferred routing assignments for powered industrial drivers, and presenting preferred routing assignments for powered industrial vehicle drivers. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157306 | Location Information Exchange Apparatus and Location Information Exchange Method - A location information exchange apparatus includes an information acquisition means | 2009-06-18 |
20090157307 | ADDITIONAL CONTENT BASED ON INTENDED TRAVEL DESTINATION - When users travel to an intended destination, a plurality of information can be beneficial to assist their travel. If a person is traveling to a crowded event, then information can be provided such that congested traffic areas can be provided. There can be financial opportunities available in relation to providing information concerning an intended destination. An advertiser can pay money to have information played about the advertiser when it relates to the intended destination. Furthermore, a user can pay money for detailed data concerning an intended location, such as where cheapest parking is located. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157308 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION METHOD - It is an object of this invention to provide a navigation apparatus capable of appropriately guiding a user in an intersection and an interchange point. The navigation apparatus is preferably applicable to a navigation apparatus of a movable body such as a vehicle, and includes a display unit and a control unit. The display unit displays map information on a display screen. The control unit allocates a number to passage points in an order from the passage point near a guide point to the passage point far from the guide point, and displays the allocated number in a vicinity of the passage point on the display screen. The guide point indicates a place necessary for a user to turn right or left, and the passage point indicates a place at which turning right or left is possible and which exists between a present position of the user and the guide point. Thereby, the navigation apparatus can appropriately guide the user at the intersection and the branch point. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157309 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING MESSAGES IN A NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS - Method and device for exchanging messages in a VLC navigation system is provided, in which a map server generates a provision message in the form of visible light signals through all lamps in an area, using a PLC network, where a navigation service is provided, a terminal that wants to implement the navigation service among terminals that have received the provision message transmits a registration request message to the map server, the map server transmits a registration response message for the registration request message to the terminal, the terminal transmits a map request message including information about a destination to the map server, the map server transmits a map response message including information about a path to the destination to the terminal, and the terminal displays map information and the path. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157310 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRAVEL TIME INFORMATION - Location technologies are combined with other information systems to provide augmented information for individuals such as a traveler in an automobile. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157311 | FEDERATED ROUTE PRODUCTION - A route can be generated through utilization of a conventional manner, such as a portable electronic device accessing a database with roads, traffic information, weather data, and the like. As a user approaches a private area, the route can be augmented with travel information concerning the private area. Artificial intelligence techniques can be used to determine if a route should be augmented, to infer what augmentations to make, etc. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157312 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ROUTES - A route can be generated that considers social networking information. For instance, a user can be traveling on vacation and individuals designated by a user can add comments to a route. In addition, previous journeys of user contacts can be evaluated and based upon the evaluation results, portions of a route can be constructed. Further functionality can include transferring rewards between parties for disclosing information as well as posting information on various social networking profiles. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157313 | METHOD OF LOADING 3-D IMAGE DATA - The present invention relates to a method of loading 3-D image data in a navigation system. In the method, whether a vehicle enters an intersection while traveling is determined. A mask array based on a travel path of the vehicle is selected. An object to be displayed at the intersection is selected and a level-of-detail array of the object is selected according to a distance between the vehicle and the object. The level-of-detail array of the object overlaps the mask array. The object is displayed according to a level of detail of the object obtained from the level-of-detail array overlapping the mask array. According to the method, real-time 3-D image data can be loaded in a simple and efficient manner. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157314 | METHOD FOR MEASURING LATERAL MOVEMENTS IN A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - Method for determining a dynamic variable representative for a lateral movement of a located object in a driver assistance system for motor vehicles, which has two angle-resolving distance sensors situated laterally offset to one another for locating the object, using which a radial component of the relative velocity of the object along the particular line of sight is also measurable, wherein the dynamic variable is calculated on the basis of the radial components of the relative velocity measured by the two distance sensors. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157315 | Apparatus And Methods For Estimating Downhole Fluid Compositions - An apparatus and method for estimating a property of a species of the hydrocarbon in a downhole fluid are provided. In one aspect, the method may include: imparting a magnetic field on the fluid to align nuclei of the fluid with a direction of the primary magnetic field; imparting a perturbing radio frequency signal on the fluid to excite the nuclei of the fluid; detecting a radio frequency signal emitted by the excited nuclei of the fluid; estimating a frequency shift between the perturbing radio frequency and the detected radio frequency; and estimating using the frequency shift a property of one or more species of the hydrocarbons in the fluid. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING EFFECTS OF CONDUCTIVE CASINGS AND WELLBORE AND SURFACE HETEROGENEITY IN ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING SURVEYS - Characterizing a reservoir with electromagnetic imaging surveys includes normalizing measured voltage data by transmitter moment, sorting the normalized voltage data into common receiver profiles, densely resampling transmitter locations using common positions for the receiver profiles, coarsely resampling the data at discreet transmitter locations, defining a starting model for inversion, weighting the data by a factor, converting the normalized voltage data to ratios, calculating a conductivity image using a ratio inversion method, and verifying that an inversion has converged and the image is geologically reasonable. The image can then be displayed. The invention can be used for cross-well, surface-to-borehole, borehole-to-surface, and single-well (borehole-to-borehole) measurements by which the effects of steel casing are reduced. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157317 | RADIAL DENSITY INFORMATION FROM A BETATRON DENSITY SONDE - An apparatus and a method for determining characteristics of earth formations traversed by a borehole that compensates the mudcake and standoff effects with fewer than usual detectors. The apparatus includes an radiation source effective to generate first and, spatially as well as temporally separate, second X-rays for irradiating earth formations from first and second entrance angles, one or more X-ray detectors capable of generating a first and a second signal indicative of the intensity of the first and second X-rays returned from earth formations to the detectors and a housing accommodating the radiation source and the detectors. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157318 | SIGNAL THRESHOLDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include selecting a plurality of signal thresholds T(i)=i*(TMAX/N) for i=2 to N comprising a positive integer greater than one. TMAX may be equal to AMAX/R, where AMAX=a maximum peak amplitude of a signal, such as an acoustic borehole signal, and R=a root-mean-square amplitude of the signal. Applying the plurality of signal thresholds T(i) to the signal to determine a corresponding plurality of peak amplitudes A(i) and signal travel times for selected ones of the plurality of signal thresholds T(i) may also be included. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157319 | Systems and Methods for Modeling Wellbore Trajectories - Systems and methods for modeling wellbore trajectories, which can be used to model corresponding drillstring trajectories and transform the torque-drag drill string model into a full stiff-string formulation. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157320 | CHARACTERIZING AN EARTH SUBTERRANEAN STRUCTURE BY ITERATIVELY PERFORMING INVERSION BASED ON A FUNCTION - To characterize an earth subterranean structure using a measurement assembly including electromagnetic (EM) receivers and one or more EM sources, measured voltage data collected by EM receivers in response to transmission by one or more EM sources is received. Based on a model, predicted EM data is computed. Inversion is iteratively performed according to a function that computes a difference between the measured voltage data and a product of a term containing the predicted EM data and a term containing distortion data that accounts at least for distortion effect by an environment of the measurement assembly. The inversion is iteratively performed to solve for parameters of the model and the distortion data. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157321 | Determining Wellbore Position Within Subsurface Earth Structures and Updating Models of Such Structures using Azimuthal Formation Measurements - A method for determining structure in the Earth's subsurface includes generating an initial model of the structure. The initial model includes at least one layer boundary. A wellbore is drilled along a selected trajectory through the Earth's subsurface in a volume represented by the initial model. At least one formation parameter is measured azimuthally along the wellbore. A distance is determined from the wellbore at selected positions therealong to the at least one layer boundary using the azimuthal formation parameter measurements. The initial model is adjusted using the determined distances. In one example, the parameter is resistivity. In one example, the parameter is acoustic velocity. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157322 | Systems and Methods For Enhancing a Seismic Data Image - Systems and methods for enhancing the resolution of a seismic data image displayed on a face of a sampling probe. The enhanced image represents a maximum resolution of at least a portion of the seismic data image. The seismic data image is enhanced by extracting seismic data that are perpendicular to a reflection surface that is closest to a center of the sampling probe and positioning the extracted seismic data in a visible planar face of the sampling probe. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157323 | Methods and systems for specifying an avatar - Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out presenting at least one characteristic to at least one member of a population cohort; measuring at least one physiologic activity of the at least one member of the population cohort, the at least one physiologic activity proximate to the at least one presented characteristic; associating the at least one physiological activity with at least one mental state; and specifying at least one avatar attribute based on the at least one mental state. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157324 | Method for Analyzing Gene Expression Data - The invention provides a method for selecting one or more genes from among a predetermined group of genes whose expression level is significantly different among a first group of individuals in a population in comparison with a second group within the population. The first group of individuals may be, for example, a group of individuals suffering from an illness that responded to a predetermined treatment. The second group of individuals may be a group of individuals suffering from the same illness that did not respond to the treatment. In accordance with the method of the invention, for each of one or more selections of m individuals from the first subset and n individuals from the second subset, the statistical significance of each gene i in the up group of the genes, and in the down group of genes are determined, where the up group is a group of genes for which the expression level in the first group is greater than an expression level in the second group and the down group is a group of genes for which the expression level in the first group is less than an expression level in the second group. The genes in the up and the down groups are ranked according to the number of times each gene received the highest statistical significance among the one or more selections of individuals. A subset of genes in the up group having the highest rankings and a subset of genes in the down group having the highest rankings are then selected. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157325 | BIOSIGNAL MEASURING APPARATUS - A biological signal measuring apparatus includes a first biological signal measuring sensor attached to an earphone used for a mobile phone; and a biological signal receiver for receiving a biological signal from the first biological signal measuring sensor to thereby generate first raw data. The apparatus may further include a second biological signal measuring sensor attached to one of the mobile phone and an adaptor connected to the mobile phone, wherein the biological signal receiver receives a biological signal from the second biological signal measuring sensor to thereby generate second raw data. The apparatus is provided with a controller for detecting whether the mobile phone is used, wherein the controller drives the first and the second biological signal measuring sensor to measure the biological signal when the mobile phone is being used, and stops measuring the biological signals when the use of the mobile phone is finished. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157326 | Diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer patients - The present invention relates to genetic markers whose expression is correlated with breast cancer. Specifically, the invention provides sets of markers whose expression patterns can be used to differentiate clinical conditions associated with breast cancer, such as the presence or absence of the estrogen receptor ESR1, and BRCA1 and sporadic tumors, and to provide information on the likelihood of tumor distant metastases within five years of initial diagnosis. The invention relates to methods of using these markers to distinguish these conditions. The invention also relates to kits containing ready-to-use microarrays and computer software for data analysis using the statistical methods disclosed herein. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157327 | Electronic Device, Arrangement, and Method of Estimating Fluid Loss - There is provided an electronic device comprising: a processing unit configured to receive skin temperature data generated by a measuring unit, to receive performance data from a measuring unit, and to determine a theoretical fluid loss value on the basis of the received performance data. The electronic device further comprises: a processing unit configured to determine a relation between a predetermined perspiration threshold and a skin temperature value deduced from the received skin temperature data; and to determine a real fluid loss value on the basis of the theoretical fluid loss value and the determined relation between the predetermined perspiration threshold and the skin temperature value. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157328 | METHOD OF DETERMING EXCRETION OF SODIUM AND OTHER ANALYTES - Methods and kits of the invention are useful for calculating 24-hour excretion of sodium without the need to collect urine for 24 hours. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157329 | Determining Solid Content Concentration in a Fluid Stream - A method for determining solid content concentration in a fluid flow includes measuring a noise signal generated by a fluid flow and correlating the noise signal to the solid content. The noise signal may be correlated to represent the solid content concentration such as by applying one or more filters to the noise signal or applying one or more physical or numerical methods to the noise signal. For example, the fluid flow may be pressurized to a selected level to collapse gas bubbled entrained in the fluid flow, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing a component of the noise signal unrelated to the solid content. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157330 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AN ANALYTE IN A BODY FLUID - The invention relates to a method for monitoring an arrangement for determining a concentration of an analyte in a body fluid. The determination of the concentration of the analyte by means of the arrangement involves a procedure in which the analyte from the body fluid passes through an interface and is transported in a stream of liquid into a flowmeter chamber, in which a measurement is carried out to determine the concentration of the analyte. The evaluation of the measurement takes place in a signal processor. The monitoring of the arrangement comprises the following steps: measurement of measured values of at least two correlated system parameters of the arrangement by means of a sensor system, and comparison of the measured values with limit values stored for each of the system parameters in a storage unit, to obtain a combination of at least two comparison results. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157331 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING ONE OR MORE PARAMETERS OF A SOURCE OF A POTENTIAL-ENERGY FIELD - A sensor system for determining parameters of a source of a potential-energy field. The system has a sensor array for sensing a property of the potential-energy field generated by the source, with a first sensor at a first position and a second sensor at a second position. The first and second sensor each have a sensor output for outputting a sensor signal representing the sensed property. A signal processor can determine the sensed property as a function of the position of the at least one first sensor and the at least one second sensor. A correlator is connected to the signal processor and arranged to correlate the determined result to a predetermined result derived for a template source positioned at a predetermined position and/or orientation with respect to the sensor array. A calculator is connected to the correlator. The calculator can determine the parameter from the correlation result. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157332 | INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMER AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AN AMOUNT OF POWER USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an instrument transformer detecting an amount of power supplied to a load via a high voltage line, wherein the instrument transformer is integrally configured with a current level converter, a voltage level converter and a power amount calculating module so that it detects an amount of power supplied via the high voltage line and transmits the detected amount of power to a power amount management unit as a digital signal to correctly detect the amount of power. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157333 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED ENERGY USAGE MONITORING WITHIN A DATA CENTER - An automated method and system are provided for facilitating monitoring of energy usage within a data center. The method includes automatically determining energy usage of one or more electronics racks of a data center by automatically ascertaining time-based energy usage of the electronics racks. The automatically ascertaining includes obtaining multiple measurements of instantaneous energy usage by each of the electronics racks in the data center over a period of time, and then separately averaging the multiple measurements for each electronics rack to obtain the time-based energy usage of each electronics racks. The method also includes outputting the time-based energy usage of the electronic(s) racks to facilitate monitoring of the data center. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157334 | MEASUREMENT OF POWER CONSUMPTION WITHIN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An apparatus and method for measuring power consumed during operation of an integrated circuit. The apparatus including: a data processing circuit having an input and an output, the data processing circuit configured to generate an output data signal on based on an input data signal; a power measurement circuit configured to measure an amount of electrical power consumed by the processing circuit in generating the output signal from the input signal, the power measurement circuit connected between the processing circuit and a power supply for the processing circuit; and a memory element configured to store a tag containing a value representing the amount of electrical power consumed by the processing circuit in generating the output data signal from the input data signal and either (a) the input data of the input data signal or (b) a pointer to the input data of the input data signal. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157335 | TELEMATICS-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BATTERY PARASITIC LOAD VALIDATION FOR A VEHICLE FLEET - Parasitic loads on a vehicular battery are evaluated based on an estimated reduction in the state of charge of the battery over the course of an engine-off state. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157336 | STATIC MEASURING METHOD OF ELECTRICAL REFERENCES OF THREE-PHASE PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A method for measuring a resistance and an inductance of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) in a static state includes inputting a rated current of the PMSM and 150% of the rated current at a state of locking an axle of the PMSM, recording corresponding voltages V | 2009-06-18 |
20090157337 | System for determining electrical status of patient attached leads - A system determines electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring. The system includes a repository of data indicating multiple predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring. An impedance measurement processor automatically successively determines whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of multiple electrical leads attached to a patient is within a particular impedance value range of multiple predetermined impedance value ranges. An output processor automatically communicates data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of the multiple electrical leads by deriving status information from the repository in response to a determination the impedance value of the particular patient attached lead is within the particular impedance value range. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157338 | MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POTENTIOMETRIC MEASURING PROBES - A method and device are disclosed for measuring potentiometric measuring probes. An exemplary method includes feeding two test voltages comprising a harmonic wave U | 2009-06-18 |
20090157339 | ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE STRUCTURE AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - An electrode material for a lithium secondary battery which includes particles each having a central portion and a surface portion covering the surface of the central portion. The central portion occupies 80 to 99% of a distance from a center to an outermost surface of the particle and the surface portion occupies 20 to 1% of the distance. The central portion includes LiM | 2009-06-18 |
20090157340 | Method and system for yield enhancement - Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for calibrating a circuit performance. The method can stabilize the circuit performance over time, and maintain the circuit performance substantially in a specification independent of various variation sources. Therefore, chip reliability can be improved and high product yield can be achieved. The method for calibrating the circuit performance can include assigning levels to a set of circuit parameters of a circuit, measuring values of the circuit parameters during operation of the circuit, generating a control signal that corresponds to the measured circuit parameters weighted according to the assigned levels, and adjusting a feedback relationship of a feedback loop circuit of the circuit in a close loop feedback system according to the control signal so as to change the circuit performance. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157341 | Methods of Correcting Accelerometer and Magnetometer Measurements - A method of correcting accelerometer and magnetometer measurements made in a well, comprising:
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20090157342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USING DRIVE TEST DATA FOR PROPAGATION MODEL CALIBRATION - A method using drive test data for propagation model calibration includes: step | 2009-06-18 |
20090157343 | METHOD OF CORRECTING SYSTEMATIC ERROR IN A METROLOGY SYSTEM - A method for correcting systematic errors in an optical measurement tool in which a first diffraction spectrum is measured from a standard substrate including a layer having a known refractive index and a known extinction coefficient by exposing the standard substrate to a spectrum of electromagnetic energy. A tool-perfect diffraction spectrum is calculated for the standard substrate. A hardware systematic error is calculated by comparing the measured diffraction spectrum to the calculated tool-perfect diffraction spectrum. A second diffraction spectrum from a workpiece is measured by exposing the workpiece to the spectrum of electromagnetic energy, and the measured second diffraction spectrum is corrected based on the calculated hardware systematic error to obtain a corrected diffraction spectrum. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157344 | CONTROL AND CALIBRATION SOLUTIONS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Control and calibration solutions are described that provide control and calibration data that is recognized by a test meter allowing the meter to segregate the control and calibration data from regular test data. Recognition and segregation of the control and calibration data can occur automatically with no additional input from the meter's user. Methods for use of the solutions are also provided. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157345 | Detector device for detecting component density contained in mixture fuel - A detector device of the present invention detects densities of components, such as gasoline and ethanol, contained in mixture fuel even when some water is included in the mixture fuel. The detector device includes a sensor having a pair or electrodes, an electronic device for calculating the densities and a memory device for storing permittivities of pure components including water measured beforehand. Alternating current having two different frequencies f | 2009-06-18 |
20090157346 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING METHOD - A temperature sensor for measuring temperature in accordance with a time-of-life of a fluorescent light that is produced by a fluorescent material, and is provided with a light source for imaging an excitation light, a fluorescent material for producing fluorescent light by the excitation light, a photoreceptor element for detecting the fluorescent light and outputting a fluorescent light signal in accordance with the fluorescent light intensity, and a signal processing circuit for calculating a temperature based on the fluorescent light signal from the photoreceptor element, where the signal processing circuit calculates integral values for the fluorescent light signals in the respective intervals A through C that have identical time durations, and then, based on the integral values, for two intervals, calculates a difference value, and then calculates a ratio of two difference values, to be a variable that varies in accordance with the temperature, and then references the relationship between the temperature and the ratio between difference values, stored in advance, to convert the calculated variable into the temperature. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157347 | Communications system for position detector - A communications system for a position detector comprises a position detector for detecting the amount of movement of a table, an A/D converter connected to the position detector, a numerical control device connected to the A/D converter and receiving a position signal converted by the A/D converter, and an information processor connected to the A/D converter via a USB capable of bidirectional communication. The information processor includes a storage section for preserving data and a program, a computing section for computationally operating the program, and a display section for indicating the results of computational operation by the computing section, and the data. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157348 | Method and Apparatus for Calculating Effective Volume of Diesel Particulate Filter - A method for calculating the effective volume of a diesel particulate filter invention may include: determining whether regeneration efficiency exists; determining, if regeneration efficiency exists, whether a learning condition of the ash coefficient is satisfied; detecting an exhaust flow amount Q | 2009-06-18 |
20090157349 | Method of quantifying paint and bodywork on automobiles and other painted objects using coating thickness gauges - A method is disclosed for a test and data retrieval method that not only provides an illustration of an object point condition but also provides a linear numerical data point, that gives the user a quantifiable number to determine the extent of body work and over paint for a pointed object that is being appraised, up for bid, or sold in a private treaty sale or auction. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157350 | OBTAINING A PROTON DENSITY DISTRIBUTION FROM NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA - A computer-implemented method enables a proton density distribution to be obtained. In one embodiment, the method comprises acquiring nuclear magnetic resonance data from porous media; inverting the nuclear magnetic resonance data via a global optimization algorithm to determine a proton density distribution within the porous media; and outputting the determined proton density distribution. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157351 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PRINT SHOP OPERABILITY - A computer implemented system for segmenting data collected from a document production environment is provided. The system includes determining, with a computer implemented data processing platform, that a set of document production related data should be represented as a non-normal distribution. A first test is performed and it is determined that the non-normal distribution should not be analyzed pursuant to a first analytic category. A second test is performed and when it is determined that the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to a second analytic category, an output, indicating that the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to the second analytic category is provided. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157352 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING MOBILE CODE FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA FUSION IN NETWORKED SENSING SYSTEMS - A sensing system includes a set of sensors and a data-fusing mechanism coupled to at least one of these sensors. In the set of sensors, at least one sensor is configured to store one or more measurement models for one or more phenomenon states. Furthermore, at least one sensor in the set of sensors is configured to sample a measurement value and generate a likelihood function based on the sampled measurement and the measurement models. The data-fusing mechanism coupled to a respective sensor in the set of sensors is configured to collect one or more likelihood functions generated by the one or more sensors and use the collected likelihood functions to compute an aggregate probability of a phenomenon state. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157353 | Ethernet service testing and verification - A method of testing a service connection within a container in an Ethernet network comprises coupling a test device to a port on a node in a path that includes the container, switching traffic of the service connection to the port, measuring selected parameters of the switched traffic in the test device, and using the measured parameters to evaluate the performance of the service connection. In one implementation, the switching uses service and container identifications, and switching the traffic to the test device is based on the service and container identifications. The test device may be capable of inserting traffic within the service connection, and the container may be a tunnel. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157354 | LABELING METHODS AND DEVICES - Disclosed are methods and electronic devices | 2009-06-18 |
20090157355 | Method and device for diagnosing an ascertainment of a performance quantity of an internal combustion engine - A method and a device for diagnosing an ascertainment of a performance quantity of an internal combustion engine. Within the scope of a first diagnostic process a first value which is characteristic of a first performance quantity of the internal combustion engine ascertained at a first point in time after switching off the internal combustion engine is compared to a predefined value, and an error is identified when in the comparison it is detected that the absolute value of a first difference between the first value and the predefined value exceeds a predefined first threshold value for the first point in time. The predefined first threshold value is predefined to be smaller the longer the time since the internal combustion engine has been switched off. An identified error is cleared in a subsequent second diagnostic process when, for a second difference between the first value and the predefined value for a second point in time, it is detected within the scope of the subsequent second diagnostic process that the absolute value of the second difference does not exceed a second threshold value predefined for the second point in time. An error identified within the scope of the first diagnostic process is cleared within the scope of the subsequent second diagnostic process only when the predefined second threshold value does not exceed a predefined limiting value. The predefined limiting value is formed as a function of the predefined first threshold value. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157356 | Hardware test and diagnosis system and method - There is provided a hardware test and diagnosis system comprising a diagnostic computer and a test device. The test device comprises a peripheral chipset and a baseband controller configured to execute an agent software. The agent software is configured to be coupled to the diagnostic computer, and the agent software is further configured to be coupled to the peripheral chipset of the test device. The agent software is further configured to provide a virtual channel between the diagnostic computer and the peripheral chipset. In one embodiment, the agent software comprises a driver configured for communication with the peripheral chipset, and is further configured to receive additional software from the diagnostic computer. In another embodiment, the agent software is further configured to be embedded in a boot code of the test device. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157357 | DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSES - A method for use in a system for diagnosing the causes of manufacturing defects involves process characterization. A set of forms is identified for a workpiece and for a piece of manufacturing equipment that acts upon the workpiece. The forms for the workpiece are preferably a hierarchic set of geometric forms. Each such geometric form corresponds to an aspect of the action of the manufacturing equipment upon the workpiece. A plurality of measurements is made on a defective workpiece following the hierarchical order of forms. The measurements are compared to a reference datum, and a deviation from the datum is computed. If the deviation exceeds a preselected threshold, an alert condition results, attributable to the action of the manufacturing equipment. Targeted adjustment corresponding to the action that caused the defect can then be made to the equipment. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157358 | System for diagnosing and monitoring structural health conditions - Systems for diagnosing/monitoring structural health conditions of objects. The system, which monitors structural health conditions by use of a plurality of patch sensors attached to an object, includes at least one bridge box and at least one relay switch array module having a plurality of switches. Each of the patch sensors is adapted to perform at least one of generating a wave upon receipt of an actuator signal and developing a sensor signal. The bridge box includes an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for converting the sensor signal to a digital signal. The switches are adapted to establish a channel between a selected one of the patch sensors and the ADC. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157359 | MECHANISM FOR PROFILING PROGRAM SOFTWARE RUNNING ON A PROCESSOR - A processor having one or more processor cores includes execution logic that may execute instructions including one or more processes. Each process may include one or more execution threads. The processor also includes a profiling mechanism that includes monitor logic and a monitor process. The monitor logic may monitor the one or more processes and provide access to performance data associated with the one or more processes without interrupting a flow of control of the one or more processes being monitored. The monitor process may gather the performance data. In addition, the monitor process may include program instructions executable by the one more processor cores while operating in user mode. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157360 | Methods and system for lithography process window simulation - A method of efficient simulating imaging performance of a lithographic process utilized to image a target design having a plurality of features. The method includes the steps of determining a function for generating a simulated image, where the function accounts for process variations associated with the lithographic process; and generating the simulated image utilizing the function, where the simulated image represents the imaging result of the target design for the lithographic process. In one given embodiment, the function for simulating the aerial images with focus and dose (exposure) variation is defined as: | 2009-06-18 |
20090157361 | METHOD OF WELL PLACEMENT MODELING AND GEOSTEERING - The present invention is a method of establishing a geographical model of a wellbore that includes receiving a first geographical model of the wellbore and receiving measured log data and a trajectory of the wellbore. A first simulated tool response is simulated along the trajectory based on the first geographical model. A measured tool response is determined based on measured log data. A first portion of the first simulated tool response corresponding to a second portion of the measured tool response is found wherein the first portion and the second portion have substantially a same interval of length along the trajectory. The first portion and the second portion are compared to generate a second geographical model. The second geographical model can be used to geosteer a bottom hole assembly. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157362 | MODEL MODIFICATION METHOD FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A model modification method for a semiconductor device comprises the steps of: analyzing the electrical properties of a goal semiconductor device, in detail, to build a goal model that can be used to describe the behavior of the goal semiconductor device; and modifying the goal model according to the results of the WAT to obtain a modified model that can be used accurately to describe the behavior of produced semiconductor devices. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157363 | System, method, and computer program product for predicting cruise orientation of an as-built airplane - Illustrative computer-executable methods, systems, and computer software program products predict cruise orientation of an as-built airplane. In illustrative embodiments, nominal orientation of an as-built airplane is input. Deviation from the nominal orientation of the as-built airplane is automatically computed, and the computed deviation from the nominal orientation of the as-built airplane is applied to the nominal orientation of the as-built airplane. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157364 | Method and system for a quick calculation of aerodynamic forces on an aircraft - A computer-aided method suitable for assisting in the design of an aircraft by providing the dimensioning aerodynamic forces and other relevant values comprising the following steps: a) Selecting a set of parameters of the aircraft, being said aerodynamic forces and other relevant values dependant of said parameters; b) Performing flow field CFD RANS computations for a number N1 of different combination of values of said parameters; c) Obtaining said aerodynamic forces and other relevant values for whatever combination of values of said parameters through a reduced-order model, generated by computing the POD modes of the flow variables, expanding the flow variables using said POD modes and obtaining the POD coefficients of said expanded flow variables using a genetic algorithm that minimizes the error associated to the expansion of the Navier-Stokes equations. The invention also refers to a system for carrying out said method. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157365 | Simulation device and simulation method - Provided is a simulation device including: a simple model computing portion for generating simulation information by correcting measured information sampled on a real vehicle on the basis of control information input from an electronic control unit; and an outputting portion for outputting the simulation information generated by the simple model computing portion to the electronic control unit. The simulation device generates the simulation information generated by the simple model computing portion as new measured information. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157366 | System for simulating digital watercolor image and method therefor - A method for simulating digital watercolor image includes: receiving a background texture on a virtual canvas where a watercolor image will be painted; receiving parameters for fluid simulation; and creating brushstrokes by a mouse pointer's movement on the virtual canvas. Further, the method includes converting coordinates of the brushstrokes on the virtual canvas to fit into simulation grids; calculating movement of colors and water through the fluid simulation by using the parameters and the brushstrokes; and simulating the watercolor image based on the brushstrokes by using the calculated movement of the colors and water. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157367 | Optimizing Drilling Operations Using Petrotechnical Data - A method for optimizing drilling operations. The method includes providing an earth model of a volume having a well, obtaining petrotechnical data about the volume while drilling the well, comparing the petrotechnical data with the earth model, updating the earth model with the petrotechnical data based on the comparison, and modifying a drilling plan of the well using the updated earth model. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157368 | COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE CONTRIBUTION OF MUTATIONS TO THE DRUG RESISTANCE PHENOTYPE EXHIBITED BY HIV BASED ON A LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF THE LOG FOLD RESISTANCE - The present invention concerns methods and systems for analysis of drug resistance in HIV-1. More specifically, the invention provides methods for predicting drug resistance by correlating genotypic information with phenotypic profiles. The methods allow the identification of primary and secondary resistance-associated mutations for new and existing drugs and for calculating the contribution of mutations and combinations of mutations to resistance and hyper-susceptibility. The invention allows the design, optimization and assessment of the efficiency of a therapeutic regimen based upon the genotype of the disease affecting a patient | 2009-06-18 |
20090157369 | Fast and High-Throughput Search Engine for Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Quantum Simulations - Provided are methods and systems for determining the structure of a composite or solid solution material for an electrode in lithium-ion batteries. In one embodiment, a method is presented where a building-block database of hypothetical structures containing only one transition metal atom is constructed by use of quantum simulation. Then, a composite model set of structures containing two or more transition metal atoms is constructed by calculating a linear average of parent components from the building-block database of hypothetical structures to determine lattice constants and atomic coordinates of candidates. The composite model set is screened with a local order matrix to subclassify composite models into a subset, such that the composite models share the same property in local transition metal ordering. Still yet, a representative from each subset is selected and a quantum simulation on the representative models is performed to determine the structure of the material. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157370 | COMPUTING METHOD OF MOTOR MODEL, MOTOR SIMULATION METHOD, MOTOR SIMULATION APPARATUS, MOTOR-MODEL COMPUTING PROGRAM, SIMULATION METHOD AND SIMULATION PROGRAM - This is to provide a computing method of motor model, a motor simulation method and a motor simulation apparatus in which high-speed real-time simulation is made feasible while saving computer resources. A motor model is formulated, motor model which uses a motor model of alternate-current motor which virtually includes the inverse matrix of an inductance matrix L(θ), which is a predetermined function whose variable is a rotary angle θ, and, in the computation of this motor model, the value, which is obtained by computing a matrix λ(θ) which is equal to the inverse matrix of the inductance matrix L(θ), is used as the value of the inverse matrix of the inductance matrix L(θ). | 2009-06-18 |
20090157371 | Multi-layered Model for Survivability Analysis of Network Services - A system and method of using a multi-layered network model for analyzing the survivability of network services. The model is defined in terms of layers, connections, entities, physical processing elements, physical network elements, and physical infrastructure elements. Network services are modeled by sets of communicating entities at the application layer that are connected by connections at the underlying layers. The generality of the model constructs enable the construction of models of complex networks and services that can involve multiple layers of communication protocols, network elements, processing elements, and failover/backup mechanisms. The service survivability of a network is analyzed by projecting the failure of a set of physical elements onto the model and then determining the proportion of service affected at the application layer. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING SOURCE-DRAIN CURRENT OF THIN FILM TRANSISTOR - Provided are a method and apparatus for modeling source-drain current of a TFT. The method includes receiving sample data, the sample data including a sample input value and a sample output value; adjusting modeling variables according to the sample data; calculating a current model value according to the adjusted modeling variables; when a difference between the calculated current model value and the sample output value is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, fitting a current model by applying the adjusted modeling variables to the current model; applying actual input data to the fitted current model; and outputting a result value corresponding to the actual input data, wherein the current model is a model for predicting the source-drain current of the TFT. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157373 | Analyzing model creating apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium - An analyzing model creating apparatus includes an interval acquiring part to acquire intervals of a plurality of parts that are mounted on a PCB for an electronic equipment, from design data of the PCB, a comparing part to compare a minimum part interval between the parts and a first mesh size which is preset, and a computing part to compute a value which is ½ the minimum part interval between the parts as a second mesh size if the minimum part interval between the parts is less than 2 times the first mesh size. A generating part is provided to generate an analyzing model of the printed circuit board based on the second mesh size. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157374 | SIMULATION TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING VEHICLE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - Disclosed is a simulation test system and method for testing a vehicle electronic component capable of easily testing performance of the electronic component anytime regardless of location without repeating the same driving test. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157375 | POWER INDEX COMPUTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF COMPUTING POWER INDEX, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A power index computing apparatus that computes a power index for a circuit having one or more modules includes an obtaining unit that obtains estimated power consumption for a module in the circuit and a first computing unit that computes entropy based on a transition probability of an output signal of the module during a simulation period. The entropy is indicative of an expected value of a data volume output from the module, and the output signal is output to a destination that is external to the module. The power index computing apparatus further includes a second computing unit that computes a power index based on the estimated power consumption and the entropy, where the power index concerns power consumption for output of the output signal with respect to the estimated power consumption. An output unit of the power index apparatus outputs a result of the second computing unit. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157376 | Techniques for Incorporating Timing Jitter and/or Amplitude Noise into Hardware Description Language-based Input Stimuli - Methods for generating waveforms with realistic transitions, controllable timing jitter, and controllable amplitude noise in a computer-based simulation environment are disclosed. A first method includes obtaining signal information for one or more parallel data signals. In one embodiment, signal information for the one or more parallel data signals is mapped from an HDL format to a new time scale, and during this operation, timing jitter is added independently to the parallel data signals. These jittery parallel data signals may then be returned to the original HDL format, or another format, for simulation. In another embodiment, rather than mapping to a single time vector, information from each signal is modified to have a time scale commensurate with noise and jitter to be added. Timing jitter is superimposed onto each transition, rise and fall times are incorporated, and missing voltage and timing information for each data signal is interpolated into vectors representing the signals. Each data signal may additionally be scaled to one or more true voltage values and filtered. Finally, amplitude noise is added to each signal, and one or more final signals are output to a desired format for simulation. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPROCESSOR EMULATION ON A MULTIPROCESSOR HOST SYSTEM - A method (and system) for executing a multiprocessor program written for a target instruction set architecture on a host computing system having a plurality of processors designed to process instructions of a second instruction set architecture, includes representing each portion of the program designed to run on a processor of the target computing system as one or more program threads to be executed on the host computing system. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157378 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Intelligent Workload Control of Distributed Storage - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a multiple-input, multiple output (MIMO) workload model of a distributed storage environment on a plurality of predictive controller devices. The MIMO models can then be utilized by the predictive controller to manage storage resources on a distributed storage system. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157379 | Language Converter With Enhanced Search Capability - A weighted search program is disclosed. The weighted search program may be integrated into a translation program, or the weighted search program may be used independently with an available search engine. When integrated with the translation program, setting and weighting may be combined in a single search. In one embodiment, the weighting would be used in conjunction with a Pin Yin translation program so that a user could set some terms, and allocate a search weight to the remaining terms. The invention may be applied independently in Internet searching so that a user can apply weights to multiple elements of a search term. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157380 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HYBRID AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION - The present invention provides a Korean-English hybrid automatic translation method for providing translation from Korean to English, includes: performing a morpheme analysis and a syntactic analysis on a Korean input source text; segmenting the Korean input source text into at least two source text segments, based on the results of the morpheme analysis and the syntactic analysis; and generating a PBMT (pattern-based machine translation) translated text segment and a SMT (statistical machine translation) translated text segment with respect to each of the source text segments. Further, the method includes determining, as final translation result, one of the PBMT translated text segment and the SMT translated text segment with respect to each source text segment, based on predetermined weight information; and composing the translated text segments with respect to the source text segments of the Korean input source text into one English translated text by using the determined final translation results. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157381 | WEB TRANSLATION PROVIDER - A web translation server discovers a document address for a document. The document is accessed and parsed for text data in a first language. The parsed text data is translated into text data in a second language and stored in a database. A client accesses the document and sends a request including the document address to the web translation server. The translated text data in the second language is retrieved from the database based on the document address and sent to the client. The client renders the translated text data in the second language. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157382 | Decision-support expert system and methods for real-time exploitation of documents in non-english languages - A method for real-time exploitation of documents in non-English languages includes processing an input document in into a processed input document, extracting ontology elements from the processed input document to obtain a document digest (DD), statistically scoring each DD to obtain a DD with category scores, refining the DD and the category scores to obtain a summary of each document in the form of a refined DD with refined category scores. The summary allows a user to estimate in real-time if the input document warrants added attention. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157383 | VOICE QUERY EXTENSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A voice query extension method and system. The voice query extension method includes: detecting voice activity of a user from an input signal and extracting a feature vector from the voice activity; converting the feature vector into at least one phoneme sequence and generating the at least one phoneme sequence; matching the at least one phoneme sequence with words registered in a dictionary, extracting a string of the matched words with a linguistic meaning, and selecting the string of the matched words as a query; determining whether the query is in a predetermined first language, and when the query is not in the first language as a result of the determining, converting the query using a phoneme to grapheme rule, and generating a query in the first language; and searching using the query in the first language. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157384 | SEMI-SUPERVISED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING - A word is selected from a received text and features are identified from the word. The features are applied to a model to identify probabilities for sets of part-of-speech tags. The probabilities for the sets of part-of-speech tags are used to weight scores for possible part-of-speech tags for the selected word to form weighted scores. The weighted scores are used to select a part-of-speech tag for the word and the selected part of speech tag is stored or output. The scores for the possible part-of-speech tags are based on variational approximation parameters trained from a sparse prior over probability distributions describing the probability of a part-of-speech tag given a word. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157385 | Inverse Text Normalization - Embodiments are directed to efficient multilingual inverse text normalization (ITN) of text in spoken form to produce normalized text for display. Embodiments are directed to preprocessing the multilingual text into a language-independent representation, tokenizing text in spoken form, segmenting the tokenized text into ITN items by grouping consecutive words using an ITN lexicon, classifying the ITN items into ITN categories by using the ITN lexicon or tagged information from language model, applying one or more ITN rules that are selected based on the ITN categories into which ITN items have been classified to rewrite the ITN items; and post processing the ITN item and outputting inversely normalized text in written form for display. The ITN lexicon may include ITN lexicon entries that are each located within an ITN category in the ITN lexicon. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157386 | DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF MACHINE TRANSLATORS - A system for evaluating translation quality of a machine translator is discussed. The system includes a bilingual data generator configured to intermittently access a wide area network and generate a bilingual corpus from data received from the wide area network. The method also includes an example extraction component configured to receive an ontology input indicative of a plurality of ontological categories of evaluation and to extract evaluation examples from the bilingual corpus based on the ontology input. The system further includes an evaluation component configured to evaluate translation results from translation by a machine translator of the evaluation examples and to score the translation results according to the ontological categories. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157387 | Connected Text Data System - A connected text data system for efficiently and accurately translating connected text. The connected text data system includes inputting or receiving connected text, transmitting the connected text to a text iterator, scanning the connected text, identifying a plurality of words in the connected text, and translating the connected text to separated text by adding a space between each of the plurality of words. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157388 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING INFORMATION AND/OR STATUS MESSAGES, USING SPEECH - In a method and device for outputting information and/or messages from at least one device using speech, the information and/or messages required for vocal output are provided in a voice memory, the information and/or messages are read by a processing device according to a demand, and the information and/or messages are output via acoustic output device. The information and/or messages are output with a varying intonation according to their relevance. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZED PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER AND MEDIA GENERATED COMMUNICATIONS TO PRODUCE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT, INDICATIONS AND WARNINGS OF DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR, ASSESSMENT OF MEDIA IMAGES, AND PERSONNEL SELECTION SUPPORT - At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The categories of information are processed with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of information in each category. A first output communication is generated regarding the at least one computer-mediated communication, describing the psychological state, attitudes or characteristics of the author of the communication. A second output communication is generated when a difference between the quantification of at least one type of information for at least one category and a reference for the at least one category is detected involving a psychological state, attitude or characteristic of the author to which a responsive action should be taken. The content of the second output communication and the at least one category are programmable to define a psychological state, attitude or characteristic in response to which an action should be taken and the action that is to be taken in response. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157390 | Method and Apparatus for Discovering and Classifying Polysemous Word Instances in Web Documents - A method and apparatus for discovering polysemous words and classifying polysemous words found in web documents. All document corpi in any natural language have words that have multiple usage contexts or words that have multiple meanings. Semantic analysis is not feasible for classifying all word occurrences in all documents on the web, which contain trillions of words in total. In addition, semantic analysis typically cannot distinguish multiple usages of a given meaning of a given word. In one embodiment of this invention, polysemous words in natural languages can be discovered by analyzing the co-occurrence of other words with the polysemous word in web documents. In one embodiment, the multiple meanings and usages of a polysemous word can be determined by analyzing the co-occurrences of other words with the polysemous word. No semantic analysis is used in discovering or classifying polysemous words. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157391 | Extraction and Matching of Characteristic Fingerprints from Audio Signals - An audio fingerprint is extracted from an audio sample, where the fingerprint contains information that is characteristic of the content in the sample. The fingerprint may be generated by computing an energy spectrum for the audio sample, resampling the energy spectrum logarithmically in the time dimension, transforming the resampled energy spectrum to produce a series of feature vectors, and computing the fingerprint using differential coding of the feature vectors. The generated fingerprint can be compared to a set of reference fingerprints in a database to identify the original audio content. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157392 | PROVIDING SPEECH RECOGNITION DATA TO A SPEECH ENABLED DEVICE WHEN PROVIDING A NEW ENTRY THAT IS SELECTABLE VIA A SPEECH RECOGNITION INTERFACE OF THE DEVICE - The present invention discloses a solution for providing a phonetic representation for a content item along with a content item delivered to a speech enabled computing device. The phonetic representation can be specified in a manner that enables it to be added to a speech recognition grammar of the speech enabled computing device. Thus, the device can recognize speech commands using the newly added phonetic representation that involve the content item. Current implementations of speech recognition systems of this type rely internal generation of speech recognition data that is added to the speech recognition grammar. Generation of speech recognition data can, however, be resource intensive, which can be particularly problematic when the speech enabled device is resource limited. The disclosed solution offloads the task of providing the speech recognition data to an external device, such as a relatively resource rich server or a desktop device. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157393 | ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE - An encoding device ( | 2009-06-18 |