| 27th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
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| 20130173194 | OPTICAL EIGENMODE IMAGING - A method of optimising at least one measure that is a quadratic function of a wavefunction, such as the spot size of a laser, the method comprising: superimposing a plurality of wavefunctions; determining a relationship between the superimposed wavefunctions and the quadratic measure, and using the determined relationship to identify the superimposed wavefunctions that provide a desired or optimised quadratic measure. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173195 | CALIBRATION METHOD OF MODULATION POWER FOR DVB-H TEST APPARATUS - This invention relates to a calibration method of modulation power for DVB-H test apparatus for reducing the calibration time for the power loss in the RF cable to half through calibration using the expected power loss of the modulated wave at an arbitrary frequency based on the measured power losses of the continuous wave over frequencies in the RF cable. The calibration method of modulation power for DVB-H test apparatus that is performed by the computer with installed calibration program therein and connected to the power meter of the DVB-H test apparatus, comprises and includes the steps of: commanding DVB-H test apparatus to output continuous waves having frequencies from the start frequency to the stop frequency with increment of frequency step in accordance with the preset power level; storing CW power offset, that is the difference between the actual power level and the preset power level, to the table after receiving actual power level of continuous waves having frequencies from the start frequency to the stop frequency with increment of frequency step from the power meter; commanding DVB-H test apparatus to output a modulated wave that carries data on a continuous wave having an arbitrary frequency between the start frequency and the stop frequency, thereafter receiving actual output power level from the power meter, and calculating the modulation power offset between the continuous wave and the modulated wave at the corresponding arbitrary frequency, thereafter commanding DVB-H test apparatus to output the preset power level added with the power offset of the continuous wave and the power offset of the modulated wave when transmitting the modulated wave. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173196 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR - The invention is directed to the provision of a physical quantity sensor that can suppress noise caused by external vibrations, while also suppressing variations in output signal caused by variations in reference voltage. The physical quantity sensor includes an oscillator which converts an externally applied physical quantity into an electrical signal, a reference signal generating circuit which outputs a reference signal; an oscillator circuit which causes the oscillator to oscillate by applying an oscillator signal produced based on the reference signal, and a detector circuit which detects an output signal of the oscillator by multiplying the output signal by the oscillator signal and dividing the reference signal. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173197 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING DIAL INDICATORS USING THE COMPUTING DEVICE - In a dial indicator correcting method, a first command is sent to a single drive shaft for controlling a push rod to move toward dial indicators. The method records a first indicated value of each dial indicator when the push rod contacts with one of the dial indicators, and records a second indicated value of each dial indicator when the push rod has contacted all the dial indicators. The method further sends a second command to the single drive shaft for controlling the push rod to move when a distance of the push rod equals a measuring range, and records a third indicated value of each dial indicator when the push rod moves with each moving step. By subtracting the third indicated value from the second indicated value, a forth indicated value of each dial indicator is obtained and is corrected by a running deviation of the single drive shaft. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173198 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A DSP IN THE CONTEXT OF A SAFETY-CRITICAL APPLICATION - The invention relates to a circuit arrangement of a sensor-triggered control and/or display system in the context of a safety-critical application with a DSP and a method for monitoring the DSP, characterized-in-that the position and/or attitude signals transferred to the DSP are reduced in terms of their information content, the reduced information content is delivered to a position and attitude computation instance and checked as to whether the unambiguous position and/or attitude determined by the DSP agrees with the inaccurate and/or ambiguous position and/or attitude determined by the position and attitude computation circuit within the scope of the accuracy and/or ambiguity, and a sensor fault signal is output if the check is negative. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173199 | METHOD OF CALIBRATION OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE FOR THE COMPENSATION OF DYNAMIC ERRORS DUE TO DEFORMATION - A method of calibration of a mathematical model for the compensation of errors due to dynamic deformation of a measuring machine equipped with a mobile unit able to move a stylus probe in un measuring volume, wherein the model provides, in response to at least one input quantity correlated with a control signal of said drive means, a plurality of output quantities comprising at least one component of the measurement error introduced by the deformation and at least one quantity detected by a laser sensor and correlated with the deformation. In the calibration step, the mobile unit is subjected to a movement cycle constituted by small-amplitude oscillations of variable frequency, following the law of sinusoidal motion, keeping the tip of the probe blocked; during the movement cycle, the input and output quantities are sampled and supplied to an algorithm for model identification. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173200 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING SENSORS - The invention relates to a method for synchronizing sensors in a sensor array, including at least one electronic control unit and at least one sensor, which are connected to each other by a first and a second line, wherein the sensor is supplied with electric power by the first and second lines, and additionally at least one data signal (a) is transmitted by the first and second lines from the sensor to the electronic control unit, wherein the electronic control unit transmits a defined supply voltage signal having varying polarity as a synchronization signal (b, c) to the sensor, whereupon the sensor transmits at least one data signal (a) to the electronic control unit, after the polarity of the synchronization signal has been reversed. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173201 | MACHINE SENSOR CALIBRATION SYSTEM - A sensor calibration system for a mobile machine is disclosed. The sensor calibration system may have a first machine mounted sensor disposed on the mobile machine and configured to sense a characteristic of an offboard object and to generate a corresponding signal, and a second machine mounted sensor disposed on the mobile machine and configured to sense the characteristic of the offboard object and to generate a corresponding signal. The sensor calibration system may also have a controller in communication with the first and second machine mounted sensors. The controller may be configured to compare the characteristic of the offboard object as sensed by the first machine mounted sensor to the characteristic of the offboard object as sensed by the second machine mounted sensor, and to correct subsequent signals received from the first machine mounted sensor based on the comparison. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173202 | Systems and Methods for Dynamic Prognostication of Machine Conditions for Rotational Motive Equipment - Methods and systems for prognosticating high efficiency machine conditions, and testing thereof such as with machine condition assay agenda recommendations, sequenced machine condition assay schematic recommendations, a machine maintenance exigency prognosticator, or the like perhaps responsive to valued information indicia, extrinsic influential information, or the like. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173203 | HARDWARE-EFFICIENT ON-CHIP CALIBRATION OF ANALOG/RF THROUGH SUB-SAMPLING - A digital on-die-test engine (OTE) is disclosed to generate stimuli signals for an analog/RF circuit, where the OTE is embedded within the circuitry. The stimuli signals are injected into the circuit, feed through the circuit, and are received back into the OTE for analysis. The OTE includes an input subsystem to receive signals from various locations throughout the circuit. The received signals are sub-sampled before being tested. The OTE includes memory-aware and memory-less algorithms for testing the signals. The OTE is capable of changing the configuration of the circuit, where needed, following the tests. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TRACE WIDTH OF PCB - A measuring system executable by a computer for measuring a PCB is provided. A layout information obtaining module obtains layout information of the PCB. A parameter setting interface display module display a parameter setting interface on a display screen. A measuring parameter setting module determines customized parameters in response to an operator's operation on a parameter setting button provided by the parameter setting interface. A measurement analyzing module obtains the customized parameters and measures the widths of the selected traces, determines whether the measured widths matches with the width parameters. A measuring result obtaining module obtains a measuring result provided by the measurement analyzing module, and identifying the traces of which the measured widths do not match with the width parameters associated therewith. A related method is also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173205 | THERMAL ENERGY METERING BY MEASURING AVERAGE TANK TEMPERATURE - Apparatus and methods are provided for thermal energy metering by measuring the average temperature of fluid in a tank, such as a hot water storage tank. Average temperature is measured with an elongated temperature sensor spanning the vertical height of the tank. A controller collects measurements from the temperature sensor and computes changes in thermal energy, from which the system can more accurately attribute gains of thermal energy to sources such as thermal, electric, or gas production, or losses of thermal energy to ambient losses and consumption. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173206 | Elevator Rope Sway Estimation - A method determines a sway of an elevator rope during an operation of an elevator system. The method includes acquiring at least one measurement of a motion of the elevator rope during the operation of the elevator system; and determining the sway of the elevator rope connecting an elevator car and a pulley based on an interpolation between boundaries of the elevator rope based on the measurement of the motion. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173207 | Miniaturized Inertial Measurement Unit and Associated Methods - An inertial measurement unit includes a base having a plurality of physically distinct sectors, upon which are positioned thereon groups of orthogonally oriented angle rate sensors, each group positioned on a different sector of the base. High-G and Low-G orthogonally oriented accelerometers are also positioned on the base. A processor is positioned on the base having software resident thereon for receiving signals from the angle rate sensors and the accelerometers. Software is also resident on the processor for calculating from the received signals one or more of the following: a change in attitude, a change in position, a change in angular rate, a change in velocity, and a change in acceleration of the unit over a plurality of finite time increments. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173208 | ROAD SURFACE INSPECTION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The road surface inspection process includes acquiring, calculating, and determining. The acquiring includes acquiring a deterioration candidate position at which a deterioration candidate of a road surface is detected by a process of detecting an abnormality on the road surface of a road. The calculating includes calculating a frequency at which an acceleration outside an allowable range is measured at the deterioration candidate position by referring to an acceleration at a measurement position corresponding to the deterioration candidate position among the accelerations stored in a driving data storage. The determining includes determining, when the calculated frequency is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, that the deterioration candidate position at which the frequency is calculated is a position at which the road surface is deteriorated. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173209 | ACCELERATION SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - In an acceleration sensor, it has been difficult to realize a circuit which has no current consumption at all during OFF of a system and is capable of activating a sensor main body when applied with vibration. Provided is an acceleration switch having one terminal connected to one of a positive power supply or a negative power supply, and another terminal connected to an interrupt input terminal of a microcomputer. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173210 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN AVERAGE ROTATIONAL SPEED OF A ROTATING TRANSMISSION SHAFT OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method for determining an average rotational speed of a rotating transmission shaft of an internal combustion engine to a rotational position is described, the rotating transmission shaft taking on various rotational positions and having an actual instantaneous rotational speed at a first time in the rotational position. At a first approximation in a first step, an approximated average rotational speed is determined, as the difference of the actual rotational speed at the first time and in the rotational position, and the product of a weighted amplitude and an angle-dependent amplitude factor. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LOW GROUND MASS CONDITIONS IN SENSOR DEVICES - A processing system for an input device includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry and is configured to acquire a first plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of a first set of sensor electrodes and a second set of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is further configured to acquire a second plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of the second set of sensor electrodes and an input object. The determination module is configured to determine a first combined measurement based on the first plurality of measurements, determine a second combined measurement based on the second plurality of measurements, and determine positional information for the input object based on a low ground mass parameter. The low ground mass parameter is based on the first combined measurement and the second combined measurement. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173212 | MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD AND MOTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A motion analysis apparatus includes a sensor that is attached to an object and detects a physical value of the object, a holder that holds the object and sets the sensor in a first position, and a motion analyzer that acquires an output from the sensor and analyzes the motion of the object based on the output, the output including first output data from the sensor set in the first position and second output data from the sensor produced after the object is separated from the holder and the sensor is set in at least one known second position. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173213 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING DISCRETE AXIAL CLEARANCE DATA USING RADIAL CLEARANCE SENSORS - A method and apparatus for determining axial clearance data between a rotor and a stator are disclosed. At least one radial clearance sensor is positioned on the stator and is configured to gather radial clearance data, i.e., measurements of a radial distance between the rotor and the stator taken at discrete time intervals. A computing device is operably connected with the at least one radial clearance sensor and is configured to use the radial clearance data to determine axial clearance data, i.e., an axial distance between the stator and the rotor. In one embodiment, the computing device uses, among other data points, an indication of a loss of signal from at least one radial clearance sensor to extrapolate the axial clearance data. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173214 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR INLINE ELECTRICAL FIN CRITICAL DIMENSION MEASUREMENT - A method and test circuit for electrically measuring the critical dimension of a fin of a FinFET is disclosed. The method comprises measuring the resistance of a first gate test structure, measuring the resistance of a second gate test structure, computing a linear equation relating sheet resistance to gate width, computing a Y intercept value of the linear equation to derive an external resistance value, computing a sheet resistance value for the first gate test structure based on the external resistance value, measuring the resistance of a doped fin test structure, and computing a critical dimension of a fin based on the sheet resistance value. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173215 | ADAPTIVE TREND-CHANGE DETECTION AND FUNCTION FITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptively detecting trend changes in data. An initial set of data points is collected and a curve fit thereof is computed. A set of new data points is collected, and whether or not a trend change has occurred is detected. If a trend change has not occurred, the set of new data points is made part of the initial set of data points, and the steps of computing a curve fit, collecting new data points, and detecting whether or not a trend change has occurred are repeated. If, however, a trend change has occurred, a determination is made as to where the trend change was initiated, a curve fit for all data collected from where the detected trend change was initiated is computed, and the steps of collecting new data points and detecting whether or not a trend change has occurred are repeated. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A POINT CLOUD USING A COMPUTING DEVICE - In a method for processing a point cloud using a computing device, a straight line fitted by the point cloud comprising border points is determined as a benchmark line. An inflection point in the point cloud of the benchmark line is determined. If the vertical distance of the inflection point is not greater than the preset filtration value, needless border points in the point cloud are deleted and a remainder point cloud is obtained. If the vertical distance between the inflection point and the benchmark line is greater than a filtration value, the point cloud is divided into two sub-point clouds, and the one sub-point cloud having border points less than the preset number is deleted, and the other sub-point cloud is set as a remainder point cloud. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173217 | DEVICE TO VERIFY SEQUENCE OF EVENTS DATA COLLECTION IN A CONTROL SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes embodiments of a control system and a switch simulation device for use in the control system. The switch simulation device provides diagnostic capabilities that verify the accuracy and operability of sequence of events (SOE) data and SOE detection functions of the process control system. In one embodiment, the switch simulation device includes a pair of switches (e.g., metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETS)) that are anti-parallel to one another. A drive circuit operates the switches at a pre-determined frequency to generate an output signal that simulates the position of switches that are coupled to components on the asset. The output signal impresses on contact inputs, which are coupled to the switches, and which are useful to generate the SOE data. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173218 | Malfunction Detection Method and System Thereof - To allow early sensing of anomalies in a manufacturing plant or other infrastructure (plant), provided is a method that acquires data of runtime status of said plant from a plurality of sensors of said plant, makes a model from training data that corresponds to the regular runtime status of said plant, employs the training data thus modeled in computing a anomaly measure of the data acquired from the sensors, and detects anomalies. In computing the anomaly measure, the anomaly is detected by recursively carrying out: a derivation of a residual error from the training data thus modeled acquired from the plurality of sensors, a removal of a signal having a residual error that is greater than a predetermined value, and a computation of the anomaly measure for the data that is acquired from the plurality of sensors whereupon the signal having the large residual error is removed. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF AN APPLIANCE - A computer program product and apparatus measure performance of an information appliance. The computer program product comprises code for: a test module receiving, from a client, and recording a request for processing of a sample data by an information appliance. The test module sends the sample data received from the client to the information appliance for processing. If a request to a backend application is present, the test module also sends the request to the backend application for processing and receives and records a response from the backend application. The test module sends the response from the backend application to the information appliance for processing. A generated correlation ID is used to update a performance data table with start time and a stop time of a response for transaction sample data processed by the information appliance. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173220 | Radiation Analysis System and Method - A radiation analysis system/method that automatically optimizes the efficiency calibration of a counting system based on benchmark data and variable parameters associated with radiation source/sensor/environment (RSSE) combinations is disclosed. The system/method bifurcates RSSE context (SSEC) model parameters into WELL-KNOWN (fixed) parameters (WNP) and NOT-WELL-KNOWN (variable) parameters (NWP). The NWP have associated lower/upper limit values (LULV) and a shape distribution (LUSD) describing NWP characteristics. SSEC models are evaluated using randomized statistical NWP variations or by using smart routines that perform a focused search within the LULV/LUSD to generate model calibration values (MCV) and calibration uncertainty values (UCV) describing the overall SSEC efficiencies. Sensor measurements using the MCV/UCV generate a measurement value and uncertainty estimation value. An exemplary embodiment optimizes geometry models of radiation sources by benchmarking with respect to measurement data from spectroscopy detectors and/or dose rate detectors. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173221 | RADIATION SENSOR SYSTEM - A radiation detector system includes a photosensor configured to detect a radiation level, a processor configured to process the radiation level, and a wireless interface configured to transmit the processed radiation level to a network. A method of determining a radiation value using the radiation detector includes receiving a new radiation event data, maintaining a record of the new radiation event data among a record of previously received radiation events data, calculating a user-configured average value radiation level based on the record of the radiation events data, calculating a radiation level on the basis of the record of the received new radiation event data and the record of previously received radiation events data, and outputting the radiation value and the user-configured average value radiation level. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173222 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MAP - A method of constructing an EP map is provided. The method comprises obtaining a first surface model of an anatomic structure, the first model comprising an alpha shell of a cloud of location data points. The method further comprises obtaining a second surface model of the structure, the second surface model comprising an alpha shell of a cloud of measurement points. The method further comprises processing the first and second models to identify, for at least one of the location data points, a point on the second surface model that is closest in distance to the location data point, wherein said identified point has a value of said EP parameter associated therewith. The method still further comprises assigning a visual indicator to the location data point based on the EP parameter value associated with the identified point and in accordance with a visualization scheme corresponding to the EP parameter. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173223 | Automated And Intelligent Structure Design Generation And Exploration - Computational systems and methods are disclosed that learn about and assist with appropriate structure-based design choices. The systems and methods autonomously explore design states, and suggest to a user one or more optimize design states. Constraints are provided to limit exploration to valid design states. Systems and methods are disclosed that assist groups of users with coordinating their efforts in producing a cohesive design. Systems and methods are disclosed for learning from past optimizations in order to provide more rapid convergence on an optimized design, avoid local maxima and other hurdles to optimization, avoid undesired optimizations, and so on. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173224 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADE BALANCING - Methods and systems for balancing helicopter rotor blades are disclosed. In some examples, density data of a rotor blade may be acquired by scanning the rotor blade. In some examples, a three-dimensional model of a rotor blade may be merged with density data of the rotor blade. In some examples, simulations may be performed to predict flight data associated with a modeled rotor blade. In some examples, a database may be referenced to predict a desired weight balance of a rotor blade. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173225 | METHOD FOR SAMPLING MESH MODELS AND APPARATUS FOR SAMPLING MESH MODELS - Common 2D or 3D mesh models comprise redundancy in the form of symmetries, such as repetitive structures. For complexity reduction, the redundant structures must be detected. An improved method for sampling mesh models comprises sampling the model ( | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173226 | GARMENT MODELING SIMULATION SYSTEM AND PROCESS - The present invention is directed to a system and method of simulating modeling a garment, comprising the steps of providing a dictionary having a plurality of two dimensional figure frameworks, the plurality of two dimensional figure frameworks comprising varying body characteristics and measurements, with each of the two dimensional figure frameworks comprising an image and body reference data. The system providing a garment database comprising images and pairing data for a plurality of garments. It receives a user image and a garment selection and selects a two dimensional figure framework in response to user input and garment selection. It renders a three dimensional user model from the user image and the selected two dimensional figure framework to form a user model. It overlays and scales the selected garment on the user model, whereby the user model simulates the user wearing the selected garment. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173227 | THERMAL POWERLINE RATING AND CLEARANCE ANALYSIS USING LOCAL THERMAL SENSOR - A method for modeling of an overhead electrical conductor, includes: collecting 3-dimensional location data of the conductor; substantially simultaneous with said collecting, acquiring a thermal measurement of the conductor with a local thermal sensor; and generating a CAD model of the conductor using the collected 3-dimensional location data of the conductor and the thermal measurement of the conductor. The CAD model facilitates thermal line analysis of the conductor, thermal rating of a power line that includes the conductor, clearance analysis relative to the conductor, and vegetation management relative to the conductor. Apparatus for determining temperature of the overhead electrical conductor, includes: a local thermal sensor that acquires thermal measurements of the conductor; and a data processor that extracts thermal readings from the thermal measurement, and processes the thermal readings and remotely collected 3-dimensional location data of the conductor to determine the temperature of the conductor. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173228 | METHOD OF DESIGNING A SURGICAL KIT FOR CARTILAGE REPAIR IN A JOINT - A design system for a surgical kit includes surgical tools and an implant. The design system includes the basic blocks of: I. Determining physical parameters for cartilage damage in a joint; II. Generating design parameters of a medical implant; and III. Generating design parameters of a set of tools for implanting the implant. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173229 | COMPUTER AIDED MODELING - A solution is introduced in which, instead of providing an object with all information, some of the information is provided by means of one or more group definitions. This is achieved by performing a grouping operation during which an object having object data defining at least one property of the object is assigned to a group having at least one group definition defining at least one feature shared by objects assigned to the group; and storing as mapping information a grouping time indicating the time the grouping operation was performed to the object and a link between the object and the group. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173230 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE MODEL OF A GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE - A method of generating a multi-dimensional surface model of a geometric structure is provided. The method comprises acquiring a set of location data points comprising a plurality of location data points corresponding to respective locations on the surface of a region of the geometric structure. The method further comprises defining a bounding box containing each location data point of the set of location data points, and constructing a voxel grid based on the bounding box, wherein the voxel grid comprises a plurality of voxels. The method still further comprises extracting a multi-faceted surface model from certain of the plurality of voxels of the voxel grid using, for example, an alpha-hull approximation technique. The method may further comprise one or more of decimating and smoothing the surface of the multi-faceted surface model. A system comprising a processing apparatus for performing the aforedescribed method is also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING FAILURE ESTIMATES FOR A HEAT RECOVERY STEAM GENERATOR - A method of forming a failure estimate for one or more components of a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) includes forming from failure models and at least one of fired hours and fired starts, factored hours and factored starts. The factored hours and/or starts are applied to failure equations for the one or more components to form the failure estimate. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173232 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE COURSE OF THE ROAD FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for determining the course of the road for a moving motor vehicle having a surroundings sensor system. Sensor data generated by the surroundings sensor system are evaluated to detect lane-relevant features. A lane model having at least one lane model parameter that determines the course of the lane is generated for the road, structures of at least one distance range that are parallel to the road are detected in the sensor data, the tangential direction of at least the one structure that is parallel to the road is determined, and the value of the tangential direction of the structure that is parallel to the road is adopted as the value of the direction of the tangent line at the point of contact with the structure that is parallel to the road to determine at least the one lane model parameter by predictive estimation in the lane model. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173233 | Enhanced Neutronics Systems - Illustrative embodiments provide for the operation and simulation of the operation of fission reactors, including the movement of materials within reactors. Illustrative embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, including modular nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and reactor modules, modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and modules, methods of operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, methods of simulating operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, and the like. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173234 | ANTENNA DESIGNING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An antenna designing method, performed by a computer, includes: inputting a first antenna characteristic of an antenna; creating an antenna model that includes the antenna and a matching circuit which is connected to the antenna and is formed by a matching element including parasitic reactance and loss resistance; calculating a second antenna characteristic of the created antenna model by using the first antenna characteristic; determining whether or not the calculated second antenna characteristic satisfies a desired standard value; and displaying a determined result. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173235 | PREDICTION OF POST-PROCEDURAL APPEARANCE - The present invention relates to a method of predicting appearance after undergoing a medical procedure. The present invention may be utilised to assist a patient in deciding whether to undergo a procedure, or in selecting a particular procedure to produce a desired post-procedural appearance. The present invention identifies one or more precedent cases, where the same or a similar procedure was performed. These precedent cases are then analysed to calculate an observed change for each precedent case. The observed changes are then averaged to produce a final change function. This change function can then be applied to a pre-procedural model of the relevant body part of the patient, to produce a predicted post-procedural model of the patient's body part. In this way, the post-procedural appearance of the body part can be accurately predicted, based on a statistical analysis of historical data. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173236 | SCORE FUSION BASED ON THE DISPLACED FORCE OF GRAVITY - Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer-program products for fusing at least two scores. In various embodiments, each of the scores predicts the probability of an outcome associated with a particular unit and an angle with respect to a horizon at which an object would rest at a point on a frictionless spherical surface is calculated based on the scores. The object comprises characteristics of the particular unit at said point on the spherical surface and the scores represent a downward force of gravity that would be exerted upon the object. In particular embodiments a displaced force is calculated based on the angle and the downward force of gravity interacting according to laws of physics. The displaced force is that which would need to be exerted upon the object to compel the object to move down the spherical surface and is used as a fused score. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173237 | SCORE FUSION BASED ON THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE BETWEEN TWO OBJECTS - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer-program products for fusing at least two scores. In various embodiments, at least two scores are received in which each score predicts the probability of an outcome associated with a particular unit. In particular embodiments, A mass and a distance are calculated between two objects based on the at least two scores in which the first of the two objects is a constant and the second of the two objects comprises one or more characteristics of the particular unit. Further, in particular embodiments, a gravitational force between the two objects is calculated based on the mass and the distance and this gravitational force is used as a fused score for the at least two scores. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173238 | METHOD FOR THE MODELING OF CRYOGENIC SPILLS AND POOL FIRES ON THE MARITIME TRANSPORTATION OF LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) - Mathematical modeling of the flow and spreading mechanics of a cryogenic fluid poured into the sea forming a pool, and the subsequent thermal plume coming from fires of turbulent diffusion, with conservative integral formulation considering the balance between the quantity poured from the ship and that which vaporizes in the pool. The contributions of the mechanisms of heat transfer at the interface between the substrate and the cryogenic film and the radiative feedback coming from the combustion in the lowest region of the thermal plume and the pool are taken into account. The modeling provides a scheme for the development of dimensionless scale parameters, allows correlation and extrapolation of the length or height of the visible flame with the slope of said flame, the emissive power of its surface, and mass flow rate of vaporization of the liquid fuel in the pool. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173239 | GENERATING DEVICE FOR CALCULATION DATA, GENERATING METHOD FOR CALCULATION DATA, AND GENERATING PROGRAM FOR CALCULATION DATA - Provided are a section for defining voxel data obtained by dividing an analysis domain including an object into plural rectangular parallelepipeds, giving voxel attributes to respective voxels, and storing the voxel attributes in a voxel data storage section; a section for generating initial point data which are smaller in number than the voxels using center points of the voxels, and storing the generated initial point data in an initial point data storage section; a section for defining divisional regions which are plural ones of the voxels based on the voxel attributes and the initial point data, and storing divisional region data of the defined divisional regions in divisional region data storage section; and a section for generating boundary surface data of each divisional region on the basis of the divisional region data, and storing the generated boundary surface data in calculation data storage section as calculation data. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173240 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING THE POSITION AND ORIENTATION OF THE BONE ELEMENTS OF THE SPINE - A method for dynamically determining the position and orientation of the bone elements of the spine of a person by internal imaging, includes: calculating in a first stage t, the relationships of the vertebrae to one another and relative to the surface of the back; determining equations for a dynamic mechanical model of the spine and for internal stresses on the spine and interactions between the spine and the surface of the back; producing in a second stage t+1, 3D images of the outer surface of the back of the person; and determining for stage t+1, the position and orientation of each of the vertebrae from data acquired from 3D images of the outer surface of the back during stage t+1 and from static position and orientation of data calculated for each of the vertebrae as well as for the shape of the surface of the back during stage t. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173241 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for the Finite Element Analysis of Frequency Dependent Behavior of Nonlinear Materials and Contacts - An analysis method, apparatus and computer software are disclosed for the analysis for the frequency behavior of assemblies containing nonlinear materials, and contacts between a plurality of components comprised in the assemblies. The frequency behavior of assemblies containing nonlinear materials, and contacts between components comprised in the assemblies is analysed by dividing a volume and a contact area of the assemblies into finite elements characterized by frequency and displacement dependent matrices, linearizing an equation characteristic for the frequency behavior of the assemblies, solving the characteristic equation in a frequency domain, performing a first stage projection in a time domain to reduce a number of degrees of freedom of said finite elements from a number of said finite elements to a number of relevant modes, performing a second stage projection in the frequency domain, and calculating Fourier series coefficients describing the frequency behavior of the assemblies. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173242 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING AND CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR OF ANIMATRONICS UNITS - A method for determining behavior of an animatronics unit includes receiving animation data comprising artistically determined motions for at least a portion of an animated character, determining a plurality of control signals to be applied to at least the portion of the animatronics unit in response to the animation data, estimating the behavior of at least the portion of the animatronics unit in response to the plurality of control signals by driving a software simulation of at least the portion of the animatronics unit with the plurality of control signals, and outputting a representation of the behavior of at least the portion of the animatronics unit to a user. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173243 | Virtual Mass Emulator - The present invention is directed to a system and method for emulating smart grid devices in a smart grid for demand-response program analysis and optimization. Smart grid devices may be emulated in a virtual environment on a server, and can also be emulated individually on smart grid devices themselves. Demand-response programs can be simulated in a virtual environment with virtual emulated smart grid devices, or they can be simulated in a hybrid real-virtual environment with both real smart grid devices and virtual emulated smart grid devices. Demand-response programs can be simulated serially or in parallel. Additionally, such hybrid demand-response program simulations can be enhanced and optimized by including data obtained from the real smart grid devices into the simulation feed-back loop. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173244 | Suppress Newer Facilities When Simulating An Older Machine - Suppressing enabled newer facilities of an older simulated machine. This makes the native machine appear just like the corresponding older simulated machine. The invention creates the Allowed Facilities Table (AFT) that includes all the facilities of each simulated machine that needs to be supported and queries all the installed facilities of the simulated machine. It reads each machine facility of the simulated machine and checks the AFT that includes the state of all the facilities that are allowed to be enabled for the simulated machine to see if this installed facility is also enabled in the AFT. If the installed facility is also enabled in the AFT, then this facility may be used by the software without any problems. Otherwise, this facility should not be used. A system and program product for carrying out the method are included. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173245 | DETERMINING LARGE-SCALE FINITE STATE MACHINES USING CONSTRAINT RELAXATION - A computer-implemented method of finite state machine using constraint relaxation. A first expression having a plurality of variables is accessed. A second expression is accessed that describes a constraint with respect to a first variable of the plurality of variables. At least one of the variables from the second expression is eliminated to create a third expression with the constraint relaxed. The third expression is applied to the first expression to determine a finite state machine for the first expression. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173246 | Voice Activated Translation Device - A voice activated translation device comprising: a housing, where the housing comprises, a microprocessor to translate a message; a screen to display one or more languages to be translated; a speaker positioned by the screen, where the speaker plays a translated message; a microphone positioned by the speaker, where the microphone receives the message to be translated; and a plurality of buttons positioned on the housing, where the plurality of buttons operate the housing; and an earpiece worn by a first user, where the earpiece comprises, an earbud to enable the first user to hear the translated message; a hook to securely attach the earpiece to the first user's ear; and a mouthpiece, where the mouthpiece receives the message to be translated. The voice activated translation device processes and plays translated messages to enable people of different speaking languages to converse. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173247 | System and Method for Interactive Auromatic Translation - Embodiments of the invention relate to computerized systems and methods for automatically translating text between natural languages. Text for translation may be broken into segments, which may themselves be templates including placeholders. If an exact match for a segment is found in a translation database, the segment may be matched with its translation from the database. Otherwise, alternate source language text, corresponding to the segment, for which an exact translation is available, may be identified and presented to the user for selection. Text selected by the user may replace the original segment and be matched with its translation. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173248 | LEVERAGING LANGUAGE STRUCTURE TO DYNAMICALLY COMPRESS A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) MESSAGE - A message within a message queue can be identified. The message queue can be within a software entity of a computing device. The message can be analyzed to determine an encoding scheme to apply to the message. The message can be encoded using the encoding scheme to create an encoded message. The encoding scheme can be a word level encoding scheme, a language-based encoding scheme, or a grammar encoding scheme. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173249 | Natural Language Processing ('NLP') - Natural language processing (‘NLP’) including: receiving text specifying predetermined evidence; receiving a text passage to process, the text passage including conditions and logical operators, the text passage comprising criteria for evidence; decomposing the text passage into coarse grained text fragments, including grouping text segments in dependence upon the logical operators; analyzing each coarse grained text fragment to identify conditions; evaluating each identified condition in accordance with the predetermined evidence and predefined condition evaluation rules; evaluating each coarse grained text fragment in dependence upon the condition evaluations and the logical operators; and calculating, in dependence upon the evaluations of each text fragment, a truth value indicating a degree to which the evidence meets the criteria of the text passage. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173250 | STATISTICAL STEMMING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suffix rewriting rules. A method includes obtaining a plurality of canonical suffix-rewriting rules each associated with one or more words, generating a suffix tree from the words, selecting a minimum colored subset of the nodes and leaves in the suffix tree, and generating a plurality of final suffix-rewriting rules from the nodes in the minimum colored subset. Another method includes receiving applicable and non-applicable words for a suffix-rewriting rule, generating a suffix tree from the applicable words and the non-applicable words, selecting a minimum colored subset of the nodes and leaves in the suffix tree, and generating a plurality of suffix-rewriting rules, wherein each rule corresponds to a node in the minimum colored subset with a valid status. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173251 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A natural language analysis method for an electronic device is provided. The language analysis method includes the steps of: receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textual information; segmenting the textual information into a number of vocabulary segments, each vocabulary segment including a number of separated vocabularies; retrieving the use frequency of each of vocabulary, sorting the vocabulary segments, and obtaining a first sorting of the number of vocabulary segments into descending order; segmenting the textual information into a number of sentence segmentations; obtaining a second sorting of the vocabulary segmentations, according to the number of sentence segmentations and the number of vocabulary segment results; and determining a reply to the textual information, according to the topmost result after the second sorting. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173252 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A language analysis method for an electronic device storing a basic corpus and a temporary corpus is provided. The language analysis method includes steps of receiving user inputs and generating signals; converting signals into textualized information; analyzing the textualized information; obtaining a first understanding result according to the basic corpus, the vocabulary segmentation results, and the sentence segmentation results; determining whether the first understanding result is an appropriate understanding according to the context; determining one or more anaphoric vocabularies when the first understanding result is an inappropriate understanding; determining a temporary understanding result of the one or more anaphoric vocabularies and a second understanding result of the textualized information according to the context; and determining a reply for the textualized information, according to the second understanding result, the basic corpus, and the temporary corpus. An electronic device using the language analysis method is also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173253 | SPEECH EFFECTS - A method of complementing a spoken text. The method including receiving text data representative of a natural language text, receiving effect control data including at least one effect control record, each effect control record being associated with a respective location in the natural language text, receiving a stream of audio data, analyzing the stream of audio data for natural language utterances that correlate with the natural language text at a respective one of the locations, and outputting, in response to a determination by the analyzing that a natural language utterance in the stream of audio data correlates with a respective one of the locations, at least one effect control signal based on the effect control record associated with the respective location. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173254 | Sentiment Analyzer - A sentiment analysis tool receives a t-gram from an electronic device. The t-gram comprises gram(s), each of the gram(s) representing a word in a collection of words. A polarity is set for the t-gram. Possible smaller-gram combinations are generated from the t-gram. Until a condition is met, iterative actions are taken. A likelihood ratio is calculated for the largest of the smaller-gram combinations employing the training set. A determination is made of whether the likelihood ratio meets a minimum replication threshold. If satisfied: the smaller-gram combinations most distant from an undefined polarity value are selected, the smaller-gram combinations employed in calculating the likelihood ratio are excluded; the polarity value for the t-gram is increasing proportional to the likelihood ratio; and the training set is reduced to v-grams that include the t-gram. Otherwise, the size of the smaller-gram is reduced by 1. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173255 | Methods for Creating A Phrase Thesaurus - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). More specifically, the invention concerns a phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction and use of these models for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173256 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ('NLP') - Natural language processing (‘NLP’) including: receiving text specifying predetermined evidence; receiving a text passage to process, the text passage including conditions and logical operators, the text passage comprising criteria for evidence; decomposing the text passage into coarse grained text fragments, including grouping text segments in dependence upon the logical operators; analyzing each coarse grained text fragment to identify conditions; evaluating each identified condition in accordance with the predetermined evidence and predefined condition evaluation rules; evaluating each coarse grained text fragment in dependence upon the condition evaluations and the logical operators; and calculating, in dependence upon the evaluations of each text fragment, a truth value indicating a degree to which the evidence meets the criteria of the text passage. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173257 | Systems and Processes for Identifying Features and Determining Feature Associations in Groups of Documents - Systems and computer-implemented processes for identification of features and determination of feature associations in a group of documents can involve providing a plurality of keywords identified among the terms of at least some of the documents. A value measure can be calculated for each keyword. High-value keywords are defined as those keywords having value measures that exceed a threshold. For each high-value keyword, term-document associations (TDA) are accessed. The TDA characterize measures of association between each term and at least some documents in the group. A processor quantifies similarities between unique pairs of high-value keywords based on the TDA for each respective high-value keyword and generates a similarity matrix that indicates one or more sets that each comprise highly associated high-value keywords. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173258 | Broad-Coverage Normalization System For Social Media Language - A method for identification of a standard text token in a dictionary that corresponds to a non-standard token identified in text includes identification of a first standard token that is associated with the non-standard using a predetermined conditional random field (CRF) model and identification of a second standard token that is associated with the non-standard token using a spell checker. The method further includes identification of noisy channel scores using data from the CRF model and the spell checker for the first standard token and the second standard token, respectively. The method further includes presentation of one of the first and second standard tokens having the greatest identified noisy channel score to a user with a user interface device. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173259 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Audio Frames to Transition Between Different Codecs | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173260 | DEVICE FOR ASSESSING ACCURACY OF STATEMENTS AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A device receives voice and/or data from a speaker, such as a politician, and presents a signal indicative of the accuracy of the speaker's statements. The device maybe a mobile device, such as a smart phone, or a fixed device, such as a TV set. The device compares a speaker segment, automatically selected from the speaker statement, with a factual segment, automatically selected from a database comprising stored facts, and presents the accuracy of the speaker statement to the user of the device. The device may be configured so that the user may manually select the speaker segment to be assessed by the device. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173261 | AUDIO QUANTIZATION CODING AND DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure provides an audio quantization coding and decoding device and a method thereof. In the method, before a quantization coding process is performed on a digital signal, the signal is pre-processed, the digital signal is split into multiple frames based on positive and negative half periods of the signal, and all audio data between two adjacent zero-crossing points belongs to the same positive and negative half periods, so as to have the same sign-bit. A pre-processing module groups the numeric data belonging to the same positive and negative half periods into the same frame. When coding, an audio quantization coding module only needs to record a sign-bit of the frame at a head of the frame, so the sign-bit of each batch of voice data in the frame may be omitted to reduce a data amount or improve a resolution of each batch of voice data. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173262 | VOICE CLARIFICATION APPARATUS - The voice clarification apparatus includes a plurality of band-pass filters that respectively extract a plurality of band components, which are included in a voice band, from an input audio signal; a gain determination unit that determines a gain according to the level of a signal of a band component which is extracted by at least one band-pass filter of the plurality of band-pass filters; a level adjustment unit that adjusts the levels of signals of the plurality of band components which are extracted by the plurality of band-pass filters using the gain; and a first addition unit that adds a signal which is based on the audio signal to a signal in which the gain is adjusted by the level adjustment unit, and outputs a signal obtained through the addition. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173263 | QUANTIZATION DEVICE AND QUANTIZATION METHOD - Provided are a quantization device and quantization method which reduce coding distortion with a small degree of calculation, and achieve adequate coding performance thereby. A multistage vector quantization unit ( | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173264 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SENTIMENT DETECTION ON A DEVICE - An apparatus for utilizing textual data and acoustic data corresponding to speech data to detect sentiment may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including evaluating textual data and acoustic data corresponding to voice data associated with captured speech content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze the textual data and the acoustic data to detect whether the textual data or the acoustic data includes one or more words indicating at least one sentiment of a user that spoke the speech content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign at least one predefined sentiment to at least one of the words in response to detecting that the word(s) indicates the sentiment of the user. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173265 | Speech-to-online-text system - Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, is software that lets you talk to the computer in some form and have the computer react appropriately to what you are saying. This is totally different to text-to-speech software, which is software can read out text already in the computer. Speech-to-online-text software allows you to speak words into the webpage of an Internet capable device. Speech-to-online-text software will also support the capabilities provided by speech-to-text software. The hardware required to support this technology is an Internet capable device and a compatible microphone. This capability will be especially useful for communicating in different languages and dialects around the world. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173266 | VOICE ANALYZER AND VOICE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A voice analyzer includes a first voice acquisition unit provided in a place where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of a user is a first distance, plural second voice acquisition units provided in places where distances of sound wave propagation paths from the mouth of the user are smaller than the first distance, and an identification unit that identifies whether the voices acquired by the first and second voice acquisition units are voices of the user or voices of others excluding the user on the basis of a result of comparison between first sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and second sound pressure calculated from sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by each of the plural second voice acquisition units. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173267 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A apparatus includes: a storage unit to store a model representing a relationship between a relative time and an occurrence probabilities; a first detection unit to detect first speech period of a first speaker; a second period detection unit to detect second speech period of a second speaker; a unit to calculate a feature value of the first speech period; a detection unit to detect a word using the calculated feature value; an adjustment unit to make an adjustment such that in detecting a word for a reply by the detection unit, the adjustment unit retrieves an occurrence probability corresponding to a relative position of the reply in the second speech period, and adjusts a word score or a detection threshold value for the reply; and a second detection unit to re-detect, using the adjusted word score or the adjusted detection threshold value, the detected word by the detection unit. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173268 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION IN A HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM - A method for verifying that a person is registered to use a telemedical device includes identifying an unprompted trigger phrase in words spoken by a person and received by the telemedical device. The telemedical device prompts the person to state a name of a registered user and optionally prompts the person to state health tips for the person. The telemedical device verifies that the person is the registered user using utterance data generated from the unprompted trigger phrase, name of the registered user, and health tips. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173269 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR JOINT USE OF SPEECH AND TEXT-BASED FEATURES FOR SENTIMENT DETECTION - An apparatus for generating a review based in part on detected sentiment may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including determining a location(s) of the apparatus and a time(s) that the location(s) was determined responsive to capturing voice data of speech content associated with spoken reviews of entities. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze textual and acoustic data corresponding to the voice data to detect whether the textual or acoustic data includes words indicating a sentiment(s) of a user speaking the speech content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to generate a review of an entity corresponding to a spoken review(s) based on assigning a predefined sentiment to a word(s) responsive to detecting that the word indicates the sentiment of the user. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173270 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a voice command; and if the voice command is a first voice start command, changing a mode of the electronic apparatus to a first voice task mode in which the electronic apparatus is controlled according to further voice input, and if the voice command is a second voice start command, changing the mode of the electronic apparatus to a second voice task mode in which the electronic apparatus is controlled according to the further voice input received via an external apparatus which operates with the electronic apparatus. Therefore, providing efficiency and flexibility in controlling the electronic apparatus by using a microphone of the electronic apparatus or a microphone of the external apparatus. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173271 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF QUANTIZATION-INDUCED BLOCK-DISCONTINUITIES AND GENERAL PURPOSE AUDIO CODEC - A method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities arising from lossy compression and decompression of continuous signals, especially audio signals. One embodiment encompasses a general purpose, ultra-low latency, efficient audio codec algorithm. More particularly, the invention includes a method and apparatus for compression and decompression of audio signals using a novel boundary analysis and synthesis framework to substantially reduce quantization-induced frame or block discontinuity; a novel adaptive cosine packet transform (ACPT) as the transform of choice to effectively capture the input audio characteristics; a signal-residue classifier to separate the strong signal clusters from the noise and weak signal components (collectively called residue); an adaptive sparse vector quantization (ASVQ) algorithm for signal components; a stochastic noise model for the residue; and an associated rate control algorithm. The invention further includes corresponding computer program implementations of these and other algorithms. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173272 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF QUANTIZATION-INDUCED BLOCK-DISCONTINUITIES AND GENERAL PURPOSE AUDIO CODEC - A method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities arising from lossy compression and decompression of continuous signals, especially audio signals. One embodiment encompasses a general purpose, ultra-low latency, efficient audio codec algorithm. More particularly, the invention includes a method and apparatus for compression and decompression of audio signals using a novel boundary analysis and synthesis framework to substantially reduce quantization-induced frame or block discontinuity; a novel adaptive cosine packet transform (ACPT) as the transform of choice to effectively capture the input audio characteristics; a signal-residue classifier to separate the strong signal clusters from the noise and weak signal components (collectively called residue); an adaptive sparse vector quantization (ASVQ) algorithm for signal components; a stochastic noise model for the residue; and an associated rate control algorithm. The invention further includes corresponding computer program implementations of these and other algorithms. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173273 | APPARATUS FOR DECODING A SIGNAL COMPRISING TRANSIENTS USING A COMBINING UNIT AND A MIXER - An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal including a transient separator, a transient decorrelator, a second decorrelator, a combining unit and a mixer, wherein the transient separator is adapted to separate an input signal into a first signal component and into a second signal component such that the first signal component includes transient signal portions of the input signal and such that the second signal component includes non-transient signal portions of the input signal. The combining unit and the mixer are arranged so that a decorrelated signal from a combination unit is fed into the mixer as an input signal. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173274 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DECORRELATED SIGNAL USING TRANSMITTED PHASE INFORMATION - An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal having a receiving unit for receiving phase information, a transient separator, a transient decorrelator, a second decorrelator and a combining unit, wherein the transient separator is adapted to separate an input signal into a first signal component and into a second signal component such that the first signal component has transient signal portions of the input signal and such that the second signal component has non-transient signal portions of the input signal. The transient decorrelator is adapted to apply the phase information received by the receiving unit to a transient signal component. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173275 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE AND AUDIO DECODING DEVICE - Provided is an audio encoding device that can suppress degradation of audio quality. Spectral coefficients of synthesized signal from CELP core layer are utilized to fulfill spectral gaps in error signal spectrum coefficients from a transform coding layer. By both spectral coefficients, decoded signal spectral coefficients are generated. The decoded signal spectral coefficients and the input signal spectral coefficients are divided into a plurality of sub bands. In each sub band, the energy of the input signal spectral coefficient corresponding to a zero decoded error signal spectral coefficient is calculated, and the energy of the decoded signal spectral coefficient corresponding to the zero decoding error signal spectral coefficient is calculated, and their energy ratio is calculated and is quantized and transmitted. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173276 | Animal Operations Data Management System and Method - A server is disclosed comprising a storage device, a processors, a memory, and communication hardware components. Said server is capable of receiving an animal operations data record event from a client device related to a concentrated animal feeding operation; recording to said storage device said animal operations data record; transmitting a first portion of said animal operations data record to a device application; processing said animal operations data record into a user disposition data with said device application; transmitting a user disposition record to said storage device in said server; and storing said user disposition record as one or more event records in said storage device. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173277 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FULFILLING DRUG ORDERS - Methods and systems for fulfillment gateway are described. In one embodiment, a prescription order for a prescription drug is received from an order processing station. An order message associated with the prescription order is generated. The order message has a prescription parameter and a dispensation preference for fulfilling the prescription order. The order message is assigned to an order fulfillment station based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. In other embodiments, the order message is selected for delivery based on based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173278 | MANAGING UPDATES FROM REFERENCE LABORATORIES - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173279 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DERMATOLOGIC TREATMENT - Method for providing dermatologic treatment wherein an electronic request for treatment is received by a physician. The electronic request is associated with an image of a patient's skin. The physician may choose a diagnosis from sets of diagnoses which are grouped according to types of skin conditions. The physician is then provided with a set of treatment options, at least one of which comprises a medication as an advertisement. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173280 | Prescription Verification System - An apparatus for permitting a pharmacist to verify a refill of a filled prescription stored on a host system. A prescription refill screen is provided by the host system to a pharmacy system associated with the pharmacist. The prescription refill screen is associated with the filled prescription. Refill request information is received from the pharmacy system. The refill request information identifying a requested refill of the filled prescription. The refill request information is transmitted through the host system to a health care provider system associated with a health care provider identified by the filled prescription stored on the host system. The host system receives an authorization from the health care provider system authorizing the requested refill of the filled prescription. The host system transmits authorization to the pharmacy system whereby the pharmacist associated with the pharmacy system is authorized to provide the refill of the filled prescription to the patient. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173281 | Managing Patient Bed Assignments And Bed Occupancy In A Health Care Facility - An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The bed management system is an easy-to-use business intelligence application that is designed to allow administrators, clinicians and managers to easily access, analyze and display real-time patient and bed availability information from ancillary information systems, databases and spreadsheets. It enables users to see trends and relationships in hospital (bed) management data directly from their desktop personal computers. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173282 | Intelligent Cancer Prediction and Prevention System - The Intelligent Cancer Prediction and Prevention System (ICP | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173283 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSURANCE UNDERWRITING - The systems and methods described herein may automate insurance underwriting by integrating information from multiple online databases and creating decision making advice useful to insurance underwriters. One system includes a client, database, and server. The client allows an underwriter to enter applicant information, enter customized risk modifiers, and receive an underwriting decision. The database provides additional applicant information. This information can include one or more of prescription drug history, credit history, motor vehicle records, and geocentric mortality risk. The server obtains the applicant information, calculates the applicant's risk, and makes an underwriting decision. Another system calculates a prescription drug risk for an applicant from pharmacy benefits management data, drug risk category data, and application data. Another system calculates a geocentric mortality risk for an applicant from census data, mortality data, credit information, and application data. Preset external modifiers are added to systems and methods of calculating risk in order to allow the underwriter to customize the risk results. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173284 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173285 | EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173286 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING PHARMACEUTICAL COST SAVING BY PILL SPLITTING - A method for facilitating pill splitting includes evaluating prescription pills regarding their hardness, fragility, structural features such as encapsulation and/or time release, uniformity of composition, availability with scoring, and/or criticality of dosage to determine candidates for pill splitting. Pharmaceutical price databases can be reviewed for flat pricing to predict cost savings due to splitting of higher dosage pills. In embodiments, pharmacies are identified that are willing to score and/or split pills before dispensation. Guidelines for evaluating suitability of patients for patient pill splitting can also be included. The information is provided to doctors, and in embodiments also to medical insurers, government agencies, and/or patients. The information can be mailed, posted on a website, and/or sent by electronic messaging. Revenue can result from subscriptions, grants, and advertising. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173287 | MEDICAL KIOSK AND METHOD OF USE - A medical kiosk designed to provide tele-med services, check-in services, and/or prescription services for a user. The medical kiosk can include a user video conferencing system that is designed to enable the user to have a real-time or near real-time tele-conference with a medical provider located remotely from the medical kiosk. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173288 | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A medical equipment information management system includes a medical equipment information storage medium capable of storing and transmitting medical equipment information and disposed in a packing unit configured to package medical equipment, a medical equipment information reception block configured to receive the medical equipment information transmitted from the medical equipment information storage medium, and a display unit configured to display the medical equipment information received by the medical equipment information reception block, wherein the medical equipment information storage medium cannot transmit the medical equipment information when the packing unit is in a non-opened state, but is placed into a state in which it can transmit the medical equipment information if the packing unit is opened. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173289 | FACILITATING MODIFYING REFERENCE LABORATORIES - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173290 | LEVERAGING CENTRALIZED MAPPING BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173291 | MULTIDEVICE COLLABORATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for multidevice collaboration are provided. In embodiments, indications are provided on a device that a wrong chart is open for a location. A clinician is prompted to synchronize a chart with a dashboard associated with the location. Control of the dashboard is transferred to the clinician utilizing the device. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173292 | IDENTIFYING AN OPTIMAL COHORT OF DATABASES FOR SUPPORTING A PROPOSED SOLUTION TO A COMPLEX PROBLEM - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product identifies an optimal cohort of databases for supporting a proposed solution to a complex problem. A synthetic event is based on multiple disparate factors. A complex problem is developed to establish a probability that a specific set of disparate factors causes the synthetic event. A set of optimization rules is applied to identify an optimal cohort of databases used to solve the complex problem. | 2013-07-04 |
| 20130173293 | Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols - Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally, at least partly based on one or more performance indicia (excess hospital readmissions, e.g.) or therapeutic determinants (prior success, e.g.) or privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.). | 2013-07-04 |
