| 34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
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| 20110208431 | WORKFLOW FOR PETROPHYSICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL FORMATION EVALUATION OF WIRELINE AND LWD LOG DATA - A computer-implemented method of characterizing elastic properties of a subsurface formation at various fluid saturation conditions is disclosed. The method includes the features of estimating densities and bulk moduli of fluids and surrounding rock matrix material present in an invaded zone around a wellbore and beyond the invaded zone to record a set of log curves of density and bulk modulus of the fluids and the surrounding rock matrix material present in the invaded zones and beyond the invaded zone versus depth; recording a set of shale trend compaction curves in each wellbore; solving a set of response equations for rock and fluid volumes based on the recorded set of log curves and shale trend compaction curves to compute lithology, porosity and hydrocarbon saturation to build computer models to estimate hydrocarbon saturation for the rock matrix material penetrated in the wellbore; and using the estimated densities and the bulk moduli of the fluids and the rock matrix material near the wellbore, the shale trend compaction curves and the computed lithology, porosity and hydrocarbon saturation near the wellbore to characterize elastic properties of a subsurface formation at various fluid saturation conditions. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESUMPTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISM TYPE IN A CULTURE - Systems, methods and apparatus for identifying a microorganism type in a culture are provided. A normalization relative value is calculated for each respective measurement of a biological state of the culture between (i) the respective measurement and (ii) an initial biological state. For each fixed interval of time points, a first derivative of the normalization relative values in the interval of time points is calculated, thereby forming a plurality of rate transformation values. For each respective set of rate transformation values in the plurality of rate transformation values, a measure of central tendency of the rate transformation values in the set is computed, thereby forming a plurality of average relative transformation values. A maximum metabolic rate and an extent of growth, determined from the normalization relative values and the average relative transformation values, are compared against a lookup table that matches these values to a microorganism type. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208433 | Cancer patient selection for administration of therapeutic agents using mass spectral analysis of blood-based samples - Methods using mass spectral data analysis and a classification algorithm provide an ability to determine whether a solid epithelial tumor cancer patient is likely to benefit from a therapeutic agent or a combination of therapeutic agents targeting agonists of the receptors, receptors or proteins involved in MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) pathways or the PKC (protein kinase C) pathway upstream from or at Akt or ERK/JNK/p38 or PKC, such as therapeutic agents targeting EGFR and/or HER2. The methods also provide the ability to determine whether the cancer patient is likely to benefit from the combination of a therapeutic agent targeting EFGR and a therapeutic agent targeting COX2; or whether the cancer patient is likely to benefit from the treatment with an NF-κB inhibitor. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208434 | METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR ASSESSMENT AND RISK DETECTION - The present invention provides an improved comprehensive method of assessing an individual's risk of developing CVD through analysis of multiple factors know to be associated with the development of cardiovascular disease. The factors include the classic Framingham factors of an individual's age, blood pressure, total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, history of diabetes and history of cigarette smoking, in addition to factors know to be associated with increased risk of CVD including inflammation, insulin resistance, obesity, kidney dysfunction. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208435 | CAPACITANCE DETECTION IN ELECTROCHEMICAL ASSAYS - A method and system are provided to determine fill sufficiency of a biosensor test chamber by determining capacitance of the test chamber. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208436 | METHOD OF PERFORMING A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS, AN INTEGRATED CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In the method, a series of experiments is performed in order to explore a set of process parameter ranges and/or a set of ingredient ranges of a pharmaceutical processing system. The method comprises step | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208437 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A SAFE AND EFFICACIOUS DOSING REGIMEN - The invention features methods and systems to provide, in one test session, information on the patient's sensitivity to a probe drug for treating attentional disorders. The methods and systems of the invention can enable clinicians and consumers to ascertain how much benefit an individual would derive from treatment, what dose would be required, and the acute effect of that dose on regularity and rhythmicity of their heartbeat. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208438 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING A FLUID SPECIMEN - A system for automatically testing a fluid specimen, e.g., urine, to indicate the presence of specified chemical components in the specimen. The system preferably utilizes an assaying device comprised of a collection cup and a cap which carries at least one test strip. The device includes an integrated aliquot delivery mechanism actuatable to wet the test strip with an aliquot delivered from the fluid specimen. The assaying device is configured to operate in conjunction with an electronic reader device capable of actuating the aliquot delivery mechanism and reading the reaction of the test strip. A preferred reader device defines a keyed receptacle for accommodating a complementary shaped cup housing in a particular orientation. The reader device is comprised of a camera for capturing the image of a test strip, an actuator for actuating an aliquot delivery mechanism, and a microprocessor/controller for (1) controlling the camera and actuator and (2) processing the image. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208439 | METHODS FOR MEASURING THE MAGNITUDE OF ATTENTION AND MOTOR ACTIVITY DISTURBANCE IN A SUBJECT - The invention features methods and systems to monitor changes in the magnitude of attentional disturbance and the magnitude of motor activity disturbance in a subject. The invention also features methods and systems for determining a subject's degree of concordance with individuals having an attentional disorder versus individuals not having an attentional disorder. The methods and systems of the invention can enable clinicians and consumers to ascertain both the severity of an attentional disorder as well as how much an individual changes over time, or with therapy. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208440 | DISTRIBUTOR MODULE AND MEASURING SYSTEM FORMED THEREWITH - A distributor module serves for distributing electrical power to at least two connected measuring devices and for forwarding to at least one superordinated electronic data processing unit information concerning at least one physical, measured variable transmitted from the connected at least two measuring devices. For this, the distributor module comprises a module housing as well as an electronics module placed within the module housing. Additionally present in the distributor module are two or more connection systems, one for each of the measuring devices delivering measured data, with, in each case, a transformer coil placed within the module housing and connected to the electronics module for forming a data as well as electrical energy transmitting, inductively coupling interface, as well as at least one connection system for the at least one data processing unit, wherein each of the transformer coils is placed, in each case, within a plug connector element composed at least partially of plastic or other synthetic material and serving for forming a plug connector coupling. Moreover, it is provided that the distributor module is applied in a measuring system serving for measuring at least one physical and/or at least one chemical, measured variable. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208441 | Methods for the Analysis of Proximity Binding Assay Data - Various embodiments of methods for analyzing proximity binding assay (PBA) data are disclosed. Proximity binding assays as a class of analyses offer the advantages of the sensitivity and specificity of biorecognition binding, along with the exponential signal amplification offered by a variety of oligonucleotide amplification reactions, such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). However, as various proximity binding assays have reaction kinetics governed by an additional step of the binding of a biorecognition probe (BRP) with a target molecule, there is a need for methods for the analysis of PBA data that are particularly suited to the unique characteristics of such data. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING VALVE CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for testing a valve control system in an aircraft fuel supply system having a plurality of control valves, wherein the control system includes a processor adapted to receive feedback signals from each of the plurality of control valves, the method comprising the steps of: connecting a test device to the control system such that the test device is connected for signal transmission to the processor; outputting a signal to the processor simulating a feedback signal from at least one of the control valves; detecting a control signal which is output by the processor to the at least one of the control valves; and identifying the detected control signal which is output by the processor to the control valve. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208443 | SENSOR APPARATUS - A sensor apparatus of the present invention includes a first output terminal for outputting a sense signal, and a failure diagnosis circuit for determining whether a failure diagnosis object section is normal or abnormal, to output a failure detection signal from a second output terminal in the case of determining abnormality. The time required for an output concerning the failure detection signal from the failure diagnosis object section to reach the second output terminal is shorter than the time required for an output concerning the sense signal from the failure diagnosis object section to reach the first output terminal, thus leading to improvement in reliability under abnormal condition. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208444 | System and method for measuring balance and track motion in mammals - An example sensor band configured for attachment to a calf of a mammal and used in measuring track and balance motion of the mammal includes one or more first sensors for sensing muscle circumferential pressure at multiple positions; one or more second sensors for sensing Earth's magnetic field; and one or more third sensors for sensing Earth's gravitational field. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208445 | METHOD OF ANALYZING LOAD-SETTLEMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF TOP-BASE FOUNDATION - Disclosed herein is a method of analyzing load-settlement characteristics of a top-base foundation. The method includes the step of inputting properties of a material of a top base, a basic size of footing configuration, and a load of a structure, the step of inputting the kind of ground and a base ground thickness, the step of determining an influential depth and a load dispersion angle depending on the kind of ground, the step of inputting properties of the ground, the step of determining an immediate settlement amount of the ground, and the step of determining a total settlement amount. The method according to the present invention can precisely determine settlement taking into account footing configuration. Furthermore, the method calculates the settlement taking into account consolidation settlement when the ground is cohesive soil ground or top-cohesive-soil and bottom-sandy-soil ground. Thus, the settlement can be precisely determined. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208446 | Wireless Strain Sensors, Detection Methods, and Systems - A strain sensor comprises a transmitting element; a receiving element wirelessly coupled to the transmitting element; and a modulating element located on a rotating component, wherein the modulating element modulates the wireless coupling between the transmitting element and the receiving element, wherein the modulation of the wireless coupling is indicative of strain on the rotating component. A method of detecting strain in a rotating component of a rotary machine comprises wirelessly coupling a transmitting element and a receiving element; modulating the coupling with a modulating element located on the rotating component; and calculating the strain in the rotating component based on the modulation of the coupling. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208447 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring Parameters of a Fluid Flowing within a Pipe Using a Configurable Array of Sensors - An apparatus for measuring at least one parameter associated with a fluid flowing within a pipe includes a single sheet of piezoelectric film material wrapped around at least a portion of the pipe and an array of sensors disposed at different locations on the film material. Each of the sensors provides a signal indicative of pressure within the pipe at a corresponding axial and/or circumferential location of the pipe. The sensors are selectively configurable to provide the pressure signals. The signals are processed to determine the parameter. The array of sensors is configurable in response to different criteria. The criteria includes at least one of the parameter of the fluid to be output, an input signal specifying sensors to be selected, a predetermined configuration based on the parameter to be determined, and in response to a previously determined parameter of the fluid. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208448 | TEST APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a plurality of processing sections that each send and receive signals to and from the device under test; a control apparatus that controls the processing sections; and an interrupt control section that notifies the control apparatus concerning interrupt requests generated by the processing sections, wherein, when an interrupt request is received from a processing section while the interrupt control section is in an interrupt enable state, the interrupt control section notifies the control apparatus concerning the interrupt and transitions to an interrupt disable state; when an interrupt request is received from the processing section while the interrupt control section is in the interrupt disable state, the interrupt control section does not notify the control apparatus concerning the interrupt; and when instructions are received from the control apparatus while the interrupt control section is in the interrupt disable state, the interrupt control section transitions to the interrupt enable state. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208449 | METHOD FOR DETECTING SINGLE PHASE GROUNDING FAULT BASED ON HARMONIC COMPONENT OF RESIDUAL CURRENT - The method for detecting single-phase grounding fault based on the harmonic component of residual current is provided, in which collecting and calculating the phase differences of third harmonic waves relative to the fundamental wave of the residual current in the feeder line, and judging if the phase differences of the residual current in the feeder line is into a threshold range, and judging if there is a suspected grounding fault, and confirming the fault event by judging the duration and the generated times of the suspected grounding fault. Another method for detecting single-phase grounding fault based on the harmonic component of residual current is provided, in which the residual current of neutral point is used. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208450 | Circuit Tracer - A circuit tracer for use with circuit breakers equipped with sensors capable of sensing at least a change in the power consumption of the circuit and transmitting, preferably wirelessly, such information. The information is received directly or indirectly by a circuit tracer having a display, the display showing all the circuit breakers equipped with the sensors. Upon changing the load of an electricity outlet, such as a wall outlet, a light source, HVAC, pump, electrical machinery, etc., the sensor equipped circuit breaker provides an indication of such power or current consumption change to the circuit tracer. This allows the user of the circuit tracer to associate on the circuit tracer the circuit breaker with the specific electricity outlet. The association information may be saved on a central server or database for future use. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CELL DETERIORATION IN AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL OR BATTERY - A testing device detects and quantifies cell deterioration of an electrochemical cell or battery. The device contains measuring circuitry adapted to apply time-varying electrical excitation to said cell or battery, to sense time-varying electrical response to said excitation, and to utilize said excitation and response to determine components of complex immittance (i.e., either impedance or admittance) at n+m discrete frequencies, where n is an integer equal to or greater than two and m is an integer equal to or greater than one. Computation circuitry utilizes measured complex immittance components at the n discrete frequencies to evaluate the elements of a 2n-element equivalent circuit model. It then calculates the complex immittance of this model at the m discrete frequencies and mathematically compares components of the calculated immittances with components of the measured immittances at the m discrete frequencies. The results of this comparison are related to the degree of cell deterioration. A pass/fail determination can thus be made based solely upon cell deterioration—without even knowing the battery's manufacturer, group size, or its electrical ratings. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208452 | NON-INVASIVE METHOD OF DETERMINING THE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE OF A BATTERY - A non-invasive method and device for determining the electrical impedance of an electrochemical system for electric power is disclosed. The voltage and current are measured at terminals as a function of time, and these measurements are converted to signals dependent on frequency. The signals dependent on frequency are subjected to at least one segmentation. For each segment, a power spectral density of the current signal Ψ | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208453 | CIRCUIT-BASED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING BATTERY CAPACITY - A method for providing state of charge (SOC) estimations is disclosed. The method may comprise: receiving a battery having a nominated capacity; measuring an initial SOC of the battery; discharging the battery and measuring a sequence of time-based discharge characteristics; measuring a total operating time and a total consumed capacity; providing a set of relationship equations derived from a circuit-based battery model having a variable capacitor; utilizing a computing module to perform data fitting of the set of relationship equations based on: the initial SOC, the nominated capacity, the total operating time, the total consumed capacity, and the sequence of discharge characteristics, the computing module being configured for determining values for a plurality of parameters of the set of relationship equations through said data fitting; and obtaining a remaining capacity estimation equation based on the set of relationship equations after the values for the plurality of parameters are determined. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208454 | SCAN TOOL FOR ELECTRONIC BATTERY TESTER - A cable for connecting to an electronic battery tester, includes a first end configured to couple to a databus of a vehicle and a second end configured to couple to the electronic battery tester. An electrical connection extends between the first end and the second end and is configured to couple the electronic battery tester to the databus of the vehicle. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING BATTERY STATUS OF IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - A battery monitoring system monitors status of a battery in an implantable medical device by comparing a measured battery status trend to a calculated battery status trend. The measured battery status trend is a trend of measured parameter values each indicative of an actual state of depletion of the battery. The calculated battery status trend is a trend of calculated parameter values each indicative of an expected state of depletion of the battery. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208456 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEARNING A CRITICAL VOLTAGE OF A MICROPROCESSOR CONTROL UNIT - A microcontroller-based electronic device and its operating methods are operable to learn a critical voltage value for a microprocessor control unit residing in the microcontroller-based electronic device. The microprocessor control unit receives power from a battery. An exemplary embodiment detects an operating voltage provided to the microprocessor control unit by a supplemental power reservoir after removal of the battery, stores information corresponding to a value of the operating voltage in a nonvolatile memory, repeats the detecting and the saving information as the operating voltage decays in response to a discharge of the supplemental power reservoir, and determines the actual minimum operating voltage for the microprocessor control unit based on a last one of the stored information corresponding to the value of the operating voltage. A learned critical voltage value is based upon the defined actual minimum operating voltage. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208457 | ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIOMETRIC SENSING WITHOUT REFERENCE ELECTRODE - The invention relates to a method of determining a charged particle concentration in an analyte ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208458 | IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT CIRCUIT AND METHOD - An impedance measurement circuit comprises a current source arrangement, a voltage measurement arrangement and a processor. The circuit is operable in a two-point measurement mode and a four-point measurement mode and the processor as is adapted to derive the impedance to be measured by combining the measurement voltages from the two-point and the four-point measurement modes. This combines the results of both two-point and four-point measurement techniques to provide improved accuracy. In particular, the two results enable the effect of the electrode resistance to be cancelled. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208459 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING A POSITION OF A STAGE OF A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A lithographic apparatus includes a stage to hold an object, the stage being moveable relative to a reference structure in a motion range; a magnet structure to provide a spatially varying magnetic field in at least a part of the motion range, the magnet structure being moveable relative to the reference structure and the stage; a first position measurement system to provide a first measurement signal corresponding to a position of the stage and/or the object in a measurement direction relative to the reference structure; a second position measurement system to provide a second measurement signal corresponding to a position of the stage relative to the magnet structure; and a data processor to correct the first measurement signal with a value dependent on the second measurement signal to provide a corrected first measurement signal representative of the position of the stage and/or the object relative to the reference structure in the measurement direction. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208460 | OFFSET ERROR AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit includes a transducer and transducer circuitry and additional elements useful in testing the transducer and transducer circuitry. A first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal are for being directly connected to an external power supply terminal. A power bus is connected to the first power supply terminal. A logic function is for determining if the second power supply terminal is receiving power and if an automatic calibration test of the transducer and transducer circuitry has been run. An automatic calibration is for running an automatic calibration test on the transducer and transducer circuitry if the logic means determines that the second power supply terminal is receiving power and the automatic calibration test of the transducer and transducer circuitry has not been run. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208461 | MEASUREMENT CORRECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A measurement correcting system including a field measuring unit and a processing unit is provided. The field measuring unit simultaneously senses a first signal to be measured and a second signal to be measured which have opposite polarities and substantially the same magnitude, and generates a first output signal and a second output signal correspondingly. The processing unit determines the first signal to be measured according to the first output signal and the second output signal. A measurement correcting method is also provided. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208462 | System and method for instrument correction using transmission efficiency - A system and method for providing an instrument response correction based on transmission efficiency. Test data may be acquired at a first operating point. A look-up table may be searched to determine an instrument response correction. This look-up table may comprise a plurality of instrument response corrections, each instrument response correction corresponding to an intensity response of the sample at an operating point. The instrument response correction may then be applied to correct for environmental factors that may affect transmission efficiency. A system may comprise an illumination source, a collection optics, a tunable filter, a detector, a sensor and a control unit. The detector may detect interacted photons generated by illuminating a sample and generate test data. The sensor may be configured to sense an operating condition and transmit this information to the control unit which is configured to search a look-up table to determine the appropriate instrument response correction. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208463 | Method and Apparatus for Accurately Calibrating a Spectrometer - A calibration assembly for a spectrometer is provided. The assembly includes a spectrometer having n detector elements, where each detector element is assigned a predetermined wavelength value. A first source emitting first radiation is used to calibrate the spectrometer. A device is placed in the path of the first radiation to split the first radiation into a first beam and a second beam. The assembly is configured so that one of the first and second beams travels a path-difference distance longer than the other of the first and second beams. An output signal is generated by the spectrometer when the first and second beams enter the spectrometer. The assembly includes a controller operable for processing the output signal and adapted to calculate correction factors for the respective predetermined wavelength values assigned to each detector element. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208464 | REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a report generation system and method, one or more test parameters, a measured characteristic, and value ranges of the measured characteristic are set. Values of the one or more test parameters and the measured characteristic are retrieved from measurement data. The values are arranged to create a report of the measured characteristic versus the one or more test parameters. Each of the values of the measured characteristic is classified into one of the value ranges. The report is marked according to the value ranges of the values of the measured characteristic. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208465 | TEST APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a test unit that sends and receives signals to and from the device under test; a control apparatus that controls the test unit; and a relay apparatus that relays between the control apparatus and the test unit. The relay apparatus includes a first communicating section that receives a command from the control apparatus to the relay apparatus and transmits the command to the test unit; a second communicating section that receives a return command that is transmitted back to the relay apparatus by the test unit that received the command; and an executing section that executes a process designated by the return command, in response to the second communicating section receiving the return command. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208466 | TEST EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN AIRCRAFT OXYGEN SYSTEM CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention provides test equipment ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208467 | CALIBRATION STANDARDS AND METHODS OF THEIR FABRICATION AND USE - An embodiment of a calibration standard includes a substrate, a set of conductive structures fabricated on the substrate, and a conductive end structure fabricated on the substrate. The set of conductive structures include an inner conductive structure, a first outer conductive structure positioned to one side of the inner conductive structure, and a second outer conductive structure positioned to an opposite side of the inner conductive structure. The inner and outer conductive structures are aligned in parallel with each other along offset principal axes of the inner and outer conductive structures. The conductive end structure is electrically connected between an end of the first outer conductive structure and an end of the second outer conductive structure, and the conductive end structure is spatially separated from an end of the inner conductive structure at the surface of the substrate. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208468 | POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ESTIMATION DEVICE - A device that estimates a positional relationship between loads individually connected through sensors to electric power-supply ends provided in a power distribution network includes a communication unit configured to change a resistance value located between each of electric power-supply ends and a ground terminal of each of sensors and measure a voltage value produced between each of the electric power-supply ends and the ground terminal; and a determination unit configured to acquire voltage values from the two selected sensors from among the sensors after a resistance value of one of the two sensors that has a higher acquired voltage value is changed, calculate a ratio between voltage values acquired before and after the resistance value is changed, and determine that the two sensors are connected to a branch circuit in a same system in the power distribution network, when each ratio about the two sensors is within a specified range. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208469 | AUTOMATIC TESTING OF A COMPUTER SOFTWARE SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method of automatic testing of a software system through test driver code that classifies test data into equivalence classes and updates the available test data after using it against the software system. One embodiment of the invention is a Test Runner that monitors the effect of calling the software system on the available test data and uses this information to automatically determine the execution order of test cases to meet a number of objectives including to: Reuse data between calls, ensure all test cases are executed, perform parallelized testing, perform time dependent testing, perform continuous testing according to a probability distribution on test cases, perform automated management of complex test data and finally to provide an easy and concise way for a user to define a large sets of test cases. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208470 | Operation verifying apparatus, operation verifying method and operation verifying system - An operation verifying apparatus of a first embodiment acquires a log indicating the content of a sequence of operations performed on a predetermined device, identifies corresponding functions from the log, and automatically generates a program based on the identified functions. Input data, which is to serve as an argument of each of these functions, is set. Execution sets as well as test scenarios are each structured by combining a program and input data. Then each execution set is continuously executed. As a result, an operation test using a test program is executed. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208471 | SYNCHRONOUS MULTI-TEMPERATURE SENSOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - A temperature sensor includes a counting signal generation unit, a counting signal decoding unit, an input reference voltage selection unit, and a latch pulse generation unit. The counting signal generation unit is configured to generate one or more counting signals in response to an oscillation signal. The counting signal decoding unit is configured to decode the one or more counting signals and to generate one or more test selection signals and an end signal. The input reference voltage selection unit is configured to output a first selection reference voltage or a second selection reference voltage as an input reference voltage in response to the one or more test selection signals. The latch pulse generation unit is configured to generate one or more latch pulses in response to the one or more test selection signals. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208472 | Movement detection device, electronic device, movement detection method and computer readable medium - Tri-axial acceleration component data detected by a tri-axial acceleration sensor of acceleration acting on a movement detection device is split into respective stationary components obtained by low-pass filtering processing and movement components of the acceleration component data from which the respective stationary component has been removed. Which axial direction has been moved in is detected based on the split movement component expressing the maximum value. A shake duration is detected as a period of time from the point in time when this maximum movement component exceeded a threshold value expressing an upper limit value of a specific range up to once again becoming a value in the specific range after becoming less than a threshold value expressing a lower limit value, or as a period of time from the point in time when the movement component became less than the lower threshold value up to once again becoming a value in the specific range after exceeding the upper threshold value. The magnitude of movement is determined by whether or not the shake duration is a determination period or longer, or by whether or not the vector integral value over the shake duration is a determination threshold value or greater. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208473 | METHOD FOR AN IMPROVED ESTIMATION OF AN OBJECT ORIENTATION AND ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - A method of estimating the orientation of an object in space at time k using measurements of the total acceleration (y | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208474 | INSTALLATION ERROR ESTIMATING DEVICE AND INSTALLATION ERROR ESTIMATING METHOD - The installation error estimating device is capable of enabling error-free high-precision positioning with simple installation. The device has a predicted pattern acquisition unit (an observation point setting unit ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208475 | ABSOLUTE ANGLE CODING AND ANGLE MEASURING DEVICE - An absolute angle coding that includes a first code sequence disposed within 360°, wherein the first code sequence has a first length and is disposed N | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONS OF A WHEEL - Method and apparatus for determining geometrical dimensions of a wheel, especially a vehicle wheel, or of at least a part of the wheel, comprising the steps of pivoting at least one sensing device for scanning the wheel surface or a part of the wheel surface about a pivot axis in plane perpendicular to the wheel axis and determining the geometrical dimensions of the scanned wheel surface in dependence from the angular position of the at least one sensing device, wherein the angular position is determined from measured accelerations of the sensing device in two predetermined directions during the pivotal movement of the sensing device. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208477 | MEASURING METHOD OF PATTERN DIMENSION AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE USING SAME - Provided is a technology of performing more highly accurate semiconductor inspection by detecting a pattern edge which does not contribute as a mask in an etching step and measuring a pattern without including such edge at the time of calculating dimensions. Since a pattern portion having a protruding shape is to be removed at the time of etching, a scanning electron microscope image is acquired such that the protruding edge not functioning as a mask is to be excluded at the time of calculating dimensions in pattern inspection. Then, the shape of the pattern edge is calculated, the portion of the protruding edge is corrected, and pattern dimensions mainly obtained from recessed edges are calculated. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208478 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENT DATA - With the different methods of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, physical and biological transport processes in or between cells in the microscopic range, for example diffusion processes, can be analyzed. For this purpose, correlations of the fluorescence measurement data are determined for different sample regions and mathematical transport models are adapted thereto. Erroneous fluorescence correlation analyses were previously identified on the basis of the properties of the adapted model function parameters and were discarded. The a-priori knowledge necessary for the identification had to be obtained in time-consuming series of tests. With the invention, sample properties can be determined in a simpler, quicker and more exact way from fluorescence correlations. A suitability degree for one or more regions of the sample is determined for a correlation evaluation, describing quantitatively the information content of the respective region, or the error to be expected from a correlation evaluation, and can thus already be used before a correlation evaluation as a criterion for filtering/selecting the respective region. In this way, elaborate correlation calculations can be dispensed with in non-informative sample regions. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208479 | ANGLING DATA LOGGING APPARATUS WITH A HORIZONTAL MEASURING WEIGHING PLATFORM - A data receiving and storage device designed to record and display any and all relevant data that might be useful to an angler. A portable platform containing a fish scale, fish measuring apparatus, and a display with a user interface allows an angler to record data on each fish that is caught, including GPS position where the fish was caught and what time of day. The device is capable of storing data for numerous fish and culling fish so that the angler knows to remove smaller fish when the device has determined that the most recently caught fish is larger than one stored in the boat's fish locker. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208480 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL IN A SPECTROMETER SYSTEM - A method is provided that includes receiving and processing a sample signal scan. Processing the sample signal scan includes applying an inner-product operation on the sample signal scan and each of a plurality of eigenvectors to generate a plurality of corresponding coefficients, and subtracting the sample signal scan from a linear combination of the eigenvectors and corresponding coefficients to thereby produce a corrected sample signal scan. In this regard, the eigenvectors have been generated by decomposing a plurality of background reference signal scans according to a singular value decomposition technique. The signal scans include a plurality of electromagnetic signal measurements at a discrete set of frequencies, where each measurement has been taken by a spectrometer system passing an electromagnetic signal through a sample cell including just a base medium (for the background reference signal scans), or both a base medium and a sample medium (for the sample signal scan). | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208481 | EXTENDED RANGE INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS - An interferometer estimates at least one interferometric parameter of one or more signals emitted from a source. The interferometer includes at least one phase measurement module for measuring phase differences between the source signals received at different signal receiving sensors. At least one coarse estimate of a sought parameter used to represent the at least one interferometric parameter is generated by processing the one or more signals received from the source. At least one fine estimate of the sought parameter is also generated by processing the at least one coarse sought parameter using the plurality of phase measurements received from the at least one phase measurement module. The at least one fine sought parameter represents the at least one interferometric parameter with greater accuracy than the at least one coarse sought parameter and over an extended range of values in which the sought parameter is not unambiguously determinable using only the plurality of phase measurements. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208482 | Variable Focus Point Lens - A variable focal point lens includes a transparent tank, which comprises a transparent enclosure containing a transparent flexible membrane separating the inner volume of the transparent tank into an upper tank portion and a lower tank portion. The upper tank portion and the lower tank portion contain liquids having different indices of refraction. The transparent flexible membrane is electrostatically displaced to change the thicknesses of the first tank portion and the second tank portion in the path of the light, thereby shifting the focal point of the lens axially and/or laterally. The electrostatic displacement of the membrane may be effected by a fixed charge in the membrane and an array of enclosure-side conductive structures on the transparent enclosure, or an array of membrane-side conductive structures on the transparent membrane and an array of enclosure-side conductive structures. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208483 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING THE LAYOUT OF TURBINES IN A WINDFARM - A method and system for designing a layout of turbines on a grid is provided. The method comprises receiving wind data for each possible location of placement of a turbine on said grid; calculating an energy yield for a given layout of turbines on said grid as a nonlinear objective function, said function constrained by said wind data; implementing a bounding heuristic, said bounding heuristic comparing said calculated energy yield for said given layout of turbines to a current lower bound, and if said calculated energy yield is greater than the current lower bound, replacing the current lower bound with the calculated energy yield; and repeating the above steps for different layouts of turbines on the grid. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208484 | DESIGN APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PROGRAM FOR DESIGNING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DESIGNING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A design apparatus for an electronic device is provided. The apparatus includes: a selection unit that selects a first component which meets a characteristic condition, from a component database which includes a characteristic and a recommended level of each of components, the recommended level being variable; a first determination unit that acquires a recommended level of the first component from the component database, and determines the acquired recommended level; a creation unit that creates design data of the electronic device including the first component; and a second determination unit that acquires, after the creation, a recommended level of the first component from the component database, and determines the acquired recommended level after the creation. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208485 | BONDING MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS AND BONDING MODEL GENERATION METHOD - A bonding surface extraction unit extracts, with reference to bonding information, data of a first bonding surface corresponding to a bottom surface of a bonding model from data of a first partial model and data of a second bonding surface corresponding to a top surface of the bonding model from data of a second partial model. The first partial model is a model of a pad included in a circuit board. The second partial model is a model of an electrode included in a component. The electrode is to be bonded to the pad with a bonding material. A bonding model generation unit generates a side surface establishing a link between outlines of the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface, and obtains data of the bonding model on the basis of a shape formed with the side surface, the first bonding surface, and the second bonding surface. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208486 | COMPUTER BASED MODELING OF FIBROUS MATERIALS - Computer based models of fibrous materials. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208487 | COMPUTER BASED MODELING OF PROCESSED FIBROUS MATERIALS - Computer based models of processed fibrous materials. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208488 | METHOD OF DESIGNING TIRE AND TIRE - A method of designing a tire designs a tire including a block row which has a plurality of blocks sectioned by circumferential grooves and lateral grooves, and which is formed along a tire circumferential direction. The method of designing a tire comprises the steps of determining a resonance sound frequency f being a reference frequency of an air column resonance sound produced by the tire, on the basis of a ground contact length of the tire in a case where a standard internal pressure and a standard load are applied to the tire; and the steps of determining the number of pitches of the block row in such a manner that a secondary pitch noise frequency fp | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208489 | Method of Designing Optical Systems and Corresponding Optical System - An optical system including at least one light source, such as a LED source ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208490 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING TUMORS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to determining the spatial extent, aggressiveness, and other characteristics of various types of tumors, including glioma tumors that occur in brain tissue. Various embodiments of the present invention use parameterized computational models to characterize tumor growth and employ medical imaging technologies to generate images and other types of data from which values of parameters of the computational models are derived. Having obtained the parameters for a particular tumor, the extent of the tumor is estimated, with high accuracy, and other characteristics of the tumor are derived from the parameterized computational models. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ITERATIVE SIMULATION OF AN OPERATION OF A DEVICE - A method and a respective apparatus for simulating a behaviour of a device does not have to change the mode of operation of the device. Furthermore it is possible to simulate improvement strategy step-wise and therefore calculate an impact of a process improvement project. Therefore an iterative simulation procedure is provided, which may find application in process improvement, such as software engineering process improvement, as well as optimization of performance parameters of devices and machines. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208492 | Joint-Aware Manipulation of Deformable Models - This disclosure describes a joint-aware deformation framework that supports the direct manipulation of an arbitrary mix of rigid and deformable components. The deformation framework may include at least a joint-analysis and a joint-aware deformation enabling a more realistic deformation of a joint-aware model. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208493 | RESCALING OF THE TARGET ASTIGMATISM FOR OTHER ADDITIONS - A fast and efficient method for calculating or producing a spectacle lens design, as well as a method for manufacturing a spectacle lens according to the thus calculated spectacle lens design. Furthermore, a corresponding device is provided for manufacturing a spectacle lens, as well as corresponding computer program products and storage media. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A HANDLE'S MOTION - The present invention relates to a method and system for simulating a handle's motion. The method comprising: receiving detected acceleration values x(i), y(i) and z(i) of the handle in three directions; determining whether the acceleration values x(i), y(i) and z(i) in the three directions are noise interference with reference to a threshold value NT for noise interference; in the case that the acceleration values x(i), y(i) and z(i) are not the noise interference, determining angles α(i), β(i) and γ(i) during the handle's motion respectively from the acceleration values x(i), y(i) and z(i); and simulating the handle's motion on the basis of the angles α(i), β(i) and γ(i). The method and system according to the present invention poses a big challenge to the conventional operation by a mouse or a keyboard. They can simulate every motion of a user and reflect the motion on a role in a 3D game. It is also possible that virtual animation created by the method has outstanding reality and good real-time characteristics without additional hardware circuits, so that the user gets released from the restriction by the mouse and keyboard. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208495 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS - A prediction model having high prediction accuracy for the prediction of a dependent variable is generated based on multiple regression analysis. The method includes: a) constructing an initial sample set from samples for each of which the measured value of the dependent variable is known; b) generating a multiple regression equation by performing multiple regression analysis on the sample set; c) calculating a residual value for each sample based on the multiple regression equation; d) identifying, based on the residual value, a sample that fits the multiple regression equation; e) constructing a new sample set by removing the identified sample from the initial sample set; and f) replacing the initial sample set by the new sample set, and repeating from a) to e), thereby generating a plurality of multiple regression equations and identifying a sample to which the multiple regression equation is applied. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208496 | Position Estimation Device and Position Estimation Method - A position estimation device includes: a mathematical expression model processing unit that calculates a position of a mobile object, a condition quantity indicating a moving condition of the mobile object and an error in the condition quantity through filtering processing executed by using a probability model based upon an attitude information and a positioning information of the mobile object having been obtained from sensors and a specific mathematical expression model among a plurality of mathematical expression models expressing behavior of the mobile object; a threshold calculation unit that calculates a threshold candidate value for a threshold value to be used as a criterion when selecting the specific mathematical expression model, by using the error; a threshold value determining unit that determines the threshold value based upon the threshold candidate value; and a mathematical expression model selection unit that selects the specific mathematical expression model based upon the threshold value. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208497 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN METHOD FOR CREATING A SURFACE IN A COMPLEX SYSTEM - This method may be applied by a computer ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208498 | SIMULATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF A MIXED MEDIUM BY ASYNCHRONOUS AND CHAOTIC PROCESSING, IN PARTICULAR FOR A VIRTUAL TEST TANK - The invention relates to a real-world simulation device suitable for being installed in a computer designed to support a multitask programming environment ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208499 | METHOD FOR HISTORY MATCHING OF A GEOLOGICAL MODEL COMPRISING A SUB-SEISMIC FAULT NETWORK - A history matching method by gradual deformation of a fault network associated with a geological model is disclosed having application to notably petroleum reservoir development. A fault network is constructed by drawing fault centers in a multifractal density map constructed by a multiplicative cascading and by generating a fault for each fault center. History matching of the model is then performed by deforming the fault network through continuous deformation of the multifractal density map, then by reiterating the center drawing and fault generation stages. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208500 | Methods and computer software for detecting splice variants - Methods and software products for analysis of alternative splicing are disclosed. In general the methods involve normalizing probe set or exon intensity to an expression level measurement of the gene. The methods may be used to identify tissue-specific alternative splicing events. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208501 | FUNCTIONAL TEST GENERATION THROUGH MODEL INVERSION - A system and method for generating test cases includes a model inverter configured to generate an inverse of a model, a conversion module configured to convert a requirements specification into at least one output scenario and a model simulator configured to generate a test case that satisfies the requirements specification based on the inverse of the model and the at least one output scenario. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208502 | Automated On-Line Business Bandwidth Planning Methodology - Closed-loop control is applied to the field of automated on-line business bandwidth planning tools by comparing measured business bandwidth with a baseline for providing a difference indication, changing the baseline according to the difference, and reporting the change as an event relating to a service level agreement. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208503 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMULATING REMOVAL AND INSERTION OF A PLUG-IN DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for emulating removal and insertion of a plug-in device, including a detection signal input and a detection signal output for a detection signal of the plug-in device, a control signal input for a control signal from a host system, and a unit which is constructed such that in a first state of the switch the detection signal input and the detection signal output are connected and in a second state of the unit the detection signal input and the detection signal output are disconnected and wherein the state of the unit depends on the control signal. The unit preferably includes a switch. The disclosure further relates to a method for emulating removal and insertion of a plug-in device wherein a control signal is applied to the control signal input of the apparatus requesting removal and insertion of the plug-in device, the detection signal input is disconnected from the detection signal output by bringing the unit into the second state and the detection signal input is connected to the detection signal output by bringing the unit into the first state. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208504 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONCURRENTLY EMULATING MULTIPLE CHANNEL IMPAIRMENTS - Systems and methods are provided for concurrently emulating multiple channel impairments. The systems and methods may include storing a plurality of channel impairment profiles, where each channel impairment profile corresponds to a respective channel impairment type; receiving a selection of two or more of the plurality of channel profiles; generating a composite impairment profile by combining the selected two or more channel profiles, the composite profile specifying time-variant impairments, the composite profile reflecting a combination of the respective impairment types of the selected channel profiles; and applying the time-variant impairments specified by the composite profile to an input real-time data stream to generate an impaired real-time data stream, where a timing of the application of the time-variant impairments is based at least in part upon timing data from a real-time clock. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208505 | ASSIGNING FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS TO A FLOATING-POINT UNIT AND AN ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT - A processor may include a floating-point unit (FPU) and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). Instructions to the processor may include greater or lesser amounts of floating-point operations and integer operations. In a circumstance where instructions include predominantly integer operations, power to the FPU may be reduced or turned completely off. In such a circumstance, occasional floating-point operations may be emulated and performed by the ALU. If the processor subsequently determines that incoming instructions include a greater proportion of floating-point operations, the FPU may be powered back on and used to perform the floating-point operations. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMULATING NETWORK-ENABLED MEDIA COMPONENTS - Methods, systems and devices are described for implementing a virtual placeshifting device, set top box (STB), media player or other hardware device using a general purpose computing system that executes a software application. A message is received at the general-purpose computer that requests a session with a client application. The session is established between an emulator application executing on the general-purpose computer and the client application, wherein the emulator application is configured to emulate an application programming interface associated with an actual hardware device. Communications are exchanged between the emulator application executing on the general-purpose computer and the client application throughout the session, wherein each the communications is consistent with the application programming interface (API) associated with the actual hardware device. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208507 | Speech Correction for Typed Input - A method, computer program product, and system are provided for correcting one or more typed words on an electronic device. The method can include receiving one or more typed words from a text input device and generating one or more candidate words for the one or more typed words. The method can also include receiving an audio stream at the electronic device that corresponds to the one or more typed words. The audio stream can then be translated into text using the one or more candidate words, where the translation includes assigning a confidence score to each of the one or more candidate words. Based on the confidence score associated with each of the one or more candidate words, a candidate word can be selected among the one or more candidate words to represent each portion of the text. A word from the one or more typed words can be replaced with the selected candidate word based on the value of the confidence score associated with the selected candidate word. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208508 | Interactive Language Training System - An interactive language training system allows practice word/phrase lists customized by the user for training. The customized lists may include words/phrases extracted from content sources based upon user selections. Extraction may include analysis of the content sources to determine word/phrase frequency, topic, and/or other parameters. A video sample of a student speaking a word/phrase is compared with video examples of a speaker and provides visual feedback for pronunciation and articulation. Progress is monitored for each word/phrase on the list, and performance feedback provided. Communication, such as voice or video chat may be established between the student and a speaker to provide for additional practice. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE TRANSFORMATION AND CANONICALIZATION OF SEMANTICALLY STRUCTURED DATA - A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific sentences from the data in the second data file. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208510 | System and Method for Converting Graphical Call Flows Into Finite State Machines - A method, system and module for automatically converting a call flow into a state-based representation are disclosed. The method comprises walking a call flow and converting each page of the call flow into a rule of a higher level representation of the call flow, augmenting the higher level representation with terminal symbols representing state variable assignments and comparisons associated with decision and computation shapes in the call flow and converting the higher level representation into a state-based representation. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING TEXT - An apparatus for providing a control input signal for an industrial process or technical system having one or more controllable elements includes elements for generating a semantic space for a text corpus, and elements for generating a norm from one or more reference words or texts, the or each reference word or text being associated with a defined respective value on a scale, and the norm being calculated as a reference point or set of reference points in the semantic space for the or each reference word or text with its associated respective scale value. Elements for reading at least one target word included in the text corpus, elements for predicting a value of a variable associated with the target word based on the semantic space and the norm, and elements for providing the predicted value in a control input signal to the industrial process or technical system. A method for predicting a value of a variable associated with a target word is also disclosed together with an associated system and computer readable medium. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208512 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DERIVATIVE WORDS - The present invention provides a method for generating derivative words including the steps of: creating a number of derivative grammar arrays; matching the inputting character information with the derivative grammar arrays and obtaining the match derivative grammar arrays; obtaining match words from the language database according to the condition arrays of the obtained derivative grammar arrays and the inputting character information; and generating derivative words by adding the suffix alphabetic character sets of the obtained derivative grammar arrays to the ends of the words. In accordance with the established grammar rules, the words in the language database can be converted to derivative words and the derivative words do not need to be stored in the language database. Therefore, the storage space of the language database can be remarkably reduced. The present invention also provides a system for generating derivative words. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208513 | SPLITTING A CHARACTER STRING INTO KEYWORD STRINGS - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the word splitting and reliability score for an entered character string. A list of keywords may be extracted from the character string entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a dictionary database and a reliability score for word splits and keywords strings may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display the reliability score using a plurality of logical groupings within a reliability score process. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208514 | DATA EMBEDDING DEVICE AND DATA EXTRACTION DEVICE - A data embedding device for embedding data in a speech code obtained by encoding a speech in accordance with a speech encoding method based on a voice generation process of a human being, includes an embedding judgment unit, every speech code, judging whether or not data should be embedded in the speech code, and an embedding unit embedding data in two or more parameter codes of a plurality of parameter codes constituting the speech code for which it is judged by the embedding judgment unit that the data should be embedded. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING RESEARCH DATA - Methods and systems are provided for gathering research data that includes information pertaining to audio signals received on a portable device, such as a cell phone. Frequency domain data is received or produced, a signature is extracted from the frequency domain data and an ancillary code is read from the frequency domain data. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208516 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first sound recorded from a first recording apparatus and a second sound recorded from a second recording apparatus that is different from the first recording apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a frequency band representing a voice by analyzing a frequency of the first sound, and a change unit configured to, from among frequency components representing the second sound, change a frequency component in the frequency band. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208517 | TIME-WARPING OF AUDIO SIGNALS FOR PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENT - Packet loss concealment (PLC) systems and methods are described that use time-warping to merge a concealment signal generated to replace one or more bad frames of an audio signal with a received signal representing one or more subsequent good frames of the audio signal in a manner that avoids signal discontinuity and audible artifacts resulting therefrom. Prediction-based PLC systems and methods are also described that use time-warping to conceal the loss of one or more frames containing a transition region in a manner that will not result in an audible artifact. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208518 | Method of editing a noise-database and computer device - The present invention relates to a method as well as to a computing device ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208519 | REAL-TIME DATA PATTERN ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a real-time data-pattern analysis system includes: providing a memory module, a computational unit, and an integrated data transfer module arranged within an integrated circuit die; storing a data pattern within the memory module; transferring the data pattern from the memory module to the computational unit using the integrated data transfer module; and comparing processed data to the data pattern using the computational unit. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208520 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION BASED ON PLURAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS - A voice activity detection (VAD) system includes a first voice activity detector, a second voice activity detector and control logic. The first voice activity detector is included in a device and produces a first VAD signal. The second voice activity detector is located externally to the device and produces a second VAD signal. The control logic combines the first and second VAD signals into a VAD output signal. Voice activity may be detected based on the VAD output signal. The second VAD signal can be represented as a flag included in a packet containing digitized audio. The packet can be transmitted to the device from the externally located VAD over a wireless link. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208521 | Hidden Markov Model for Speech Processing with Training Method - A method, system and apparatus are shown for identifying non-language speech sounds in a speech or audio signal. An audio signal is segmented and feature vectors are extracted from the segments of the audio signal. The segment is classified using a hidden Markov model (HMM) that has been trained on sequences of these feature vectors. Post-processing components can be utilized to enhance classification. An embodiment is described in which the hidden Markov model is used to classify a segment as a language speech sound or one of a variety of non-language speech sounds. Another embodiment is described in which the hidden Markov model is trained using discriminative learning. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF SENTIMENT IN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPTIONS - A method and apparatus for automatically detecting sentiment in interactions. The method and apparatus include training, in which a model is generated upon features extracted from training interactions and tagging information. and run-time in which the model is used towards detecting sentiment in further interactions. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208523 | VOICE-TO-DACTYLOLOGY CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A voice-to-dactylology conversion method and system include primarily a transmitting communication device operating in collaboration with a receiving communication device. An ordinary user can use the transmitting communication device to send a voice message to the receiving communication device. At this time, the receiving communication device converts the voice message into a corresponding dactylology image message and displays the dactylology image message in motion pictures on a screen of the receiving communication device, allowing a deaf-mute to understand a message to be expressed by the other party. On the other hand, the deaf-mute can use the receiving communication device to select images to be expressed, arrange and combine the images, followed by converting them into the voice message to be sent to the transmitting communication device. As a result, the communication method of the deaf-mute can be improved significantly. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208524 | USER PROFILING FOR VOICE INPUT PROCESSING - This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to receiving a voice input and identifying the user providing the voice input. The voice input can be processed using a subset of words from a library used to identify the words or phrases of the voice input. The particular subset can be selected such that voice inputs provided by the user are more likely to include words from the subset. The subset of the library can be selected using any suitable approach, including for example based on the user's interests and words that relate to those interests. For example, the subset can include one or more words related to media items selected by the user for storage on the electronic device, names of the user's contacts, applications or processes used by the user, or any other words relating to the user's interactions with the device. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208525 | VOICE RECOGNIZING APPARATUS - A voice recognizing apparatus includes a voice start instructing section | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208526 | METHOD FOR VARIABLE RESOLUTION AND ERROR CONTROL IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such as high-cost errors and low-cost errors and trade, if necessary, high cost errors for low cost errors. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208527 | Voice Activatable System for Providing the Correct Spelling of a Spoken Word - A voice activatable system for providing the correct spelling of a spoken word is disposed in an elongated body of a writing instrument such as a ball point pen. The system includes a microphone the output of which is fed to an amplifier analog to a digital converter and from there to a speech recognition program, the output of the speech recognition program is fed to a computer, namely a word processor/controller that includes a data base. The output of the speech recognition is compared with the digital library of words and when a match is found, it is amplified and fed to digital to analog connector. The output of the digital/analog computer is fed to a speaker that repeats the word with the correct pronunciation followed by a correct spelling of the word. The system includes a battery for powering the system as well as an on/off switch and a repeat button for repeating information from the system. | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208528 | SIGNAL CLIPPING PROTECTION USING PRE-EXISTING AUDIO GAIN METADATA - The application describes a method and an apparatus to prevent clipping of an audio signal when protection against signal clipping by received audio metadata is not guaranteed. The method may be used to prevent clipping for the case of downmixing a multichannel signal to a stereo audio signal. According to the method, it is determined whether first gain values ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208529 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING A TRANSACTION WITH A DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A device or “dongle” ( | 2011-08-25 |
| 20110208530 | PORTABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS - Described herein is a novel method for remote communication between a patient and physician. The described method of communication includes a portable storage medium which includes software and patient data. The software is designed to regularly prompt the patient to answer a series of questions relating to his medical care, then transfers that software to the patient's physician through a network connection. The described method also includes a method to store individual patient data in a manner that it is easily accessible to medical personnel in case of emergency without the need for the patient to provide a name, address, username, or password to the treating personnel. | 2011-08-25 |
