37th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080221808 | PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM - Monitoring pressurized fluid containers through use of a container site subsystem and a system hub. The container site subsystem including sensor(s) to sense a characteristic associated with a pressurized fluid container; and a container site hub to receive, from each sensor, raw data corresponding to the sensed characteristic. The system hub receives the aggregated raw data from the container site hub, and converts the raw data to process values. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221809 | PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM - Monitoring pressurized fluid containers through use of a container site subsystem and a system hub. The container site subsystem including sensor(s) to sense a characteristic associated with a pressurized fluid container; and a container site hub to receive, from each sensor, raw data corresponding to the sensed characteristic. The system hub receives the aggregated raw data from the container site hub, and converts the raw data to process values. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221810 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Stress or Strain of a Portion of a Ferro-Magnetic Member - A method and apparatus for measuring stress or strain in a portion of a ferromagnetic member is disclosed in which advantage is taken of the fact that the magnetic properties of a ferromagnetic member change with applied tensile or compressive stress. A magnetic hysteresis loop is measured in a portion of a ferromagnetic member and a model of a magnetic hysteresis loop is fitted to the measured magnetic hysteresis loop by varying at least one stress or strain dependent model variable and the fitted at least one variable is used to determine the stress or strain of the portion. The particular model disclosed is a predator/prey pursuit model wherein the prey is the applied field and the predator is the flux density. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A REGION OF INTEREST OF TRANSIENT VIBRATION DATA REQUIRING ANALYSIS - A method and apparatus identifies a region of interest of transient vibration data needing analysis and provides context and construction for analytical plots. The method comprises providing transient data and determining a region of interest of the transient data, specifying a construction mode corresponding to a derived graphical display of the transient data and specifying a construction parameter corresponding to the specified construction mode. The method also comprises processing the transient data to produce at least one derived plot based on the transient data, the region of interest, the specified construction mode, and the specified construction parameters. This method may be performed by a graphical tool having a hardware module and a software module. The hardware module including a processor, a memory, a display, and a communicator, and the software module including a plotting module and a plotcontrol module. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221812 | DIFFERENTIATION OF FLOW CYTOMETRY PULSES AND APPLICATIONS - A method of analyzing pulses from a flow cytometer in which particles in a fluid pass through an excitation volume of an electromagnetic radiation and interact with the electromagnetic radiation to generate signals in the form of pulses includes generating a time-dependent pulse indicative of the characteristics of one or more particles passing through the excitation volume of the electromagnetic radiation, determining a measurement window by selecting a portion of the pulse with a starting point and an ending point above a predetermined value, and calculating a first derivative of the pulse with respect to time over the measurement window. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221813 | Jitter-Based Calibration Procedure With Improved Resolution For Optical Disc Drives - An optical disc drive apparatus ( | 2008-09-11 |
20080221814 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS BY MEASURING SCATTERED LIGHT - An instrument for measuring the size and characteristics of a particle contained in a sample of particles. A particle sample is introduced into a sample chamber. The sample particles are subjected to centrifugal forces so that large particles travel in the sample chamber at velocities greater than small particles. Light is shown upon the particles as they travel in the sample chamber. The particles diffract the light. The diffracted light is then received by detectors that convert the diffracted light into corresponding electronic signals. The electronic signals are analyzed to determine the size and characteristics of the particles that caused the diffracted light. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221815 | Method and System for Concrete Quality Control Based on the Concrete's Maturity - A method and system for controlling and monitoring the quality of concrete based on the concrete's maturity (which is a function of its time-temperature profile, or temperature history). Five different applications or embodiments of the present invention are discussed, namely, Enhanced Maturity, Moisture-Loss Maturity, Improved Maturity, SPC Maturity, Loggers, Readers, and Software. Enhanced Maturity involves a maturity calibration method to account for the water-to-cementitious-materials ratio, air content, and gross unit weight of the concrete. Moisture-Loss Maturity is a method for determining the appropriate time to terminate moisture-loss protection of concrete and concrete structures. Improved Maturity is a method and system for determining the strength of curing concrete using improved maturity calculations. SPC Maturity is a method that beneficially couples maturity measurements and calculations with Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods to enable rapid recognition of changes to the concrete mix and/or incompatibilities between the various components of the concrete mix. Loggers, Readers, and Software represent the preferred embodiment for automating and simplifying the implementations of Enhanced Maturity, Moisture-Loss Maturity, Improved Maturity, and SPC Maturity. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221816 | DATA VERIFICATION METHOD, CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM - A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input writing data for writing a plurality of cell patterns including at least one cell pattern in which an identifier is added to each of data defining the at least one cell pattern extending over at least two small regions in a plurality of small regions obtained by virtually dividing a writing region, an extraction unit configured to extract the at least one cell pattern to which the identifier is added from the plurality of cell patterns, an output unit configured to output an error result when only one cell pattern is extracted, and a writing unit configured to write the plurality of cell patterns by irradiating a target workpiece with a charged particle beam, based on the writing data for which the error result is not output. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221817 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION UNDER A WORKPIECE - A method for detecting particulate contamination under a workpiece fixtured by a calibrated material handling system includes performing 3D measurements of a workpiece at multiple of positions to construct a 3D map of the workpiece, calibrating the 3D map by comparing a pre-computed calibration map to the 3D measurements, and detecting particulate contamination by processing the calibrated map. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221818 | Correction of Factors in Vehicle Accelerometer Signals - A method for measuring and storing values of sensor bias in acceleration values for a vehicle, obtained over a plurality of time periods from a sensor having a specified range of expected variability of sensor bias values, includes measuring a first value of sensor bias obtained during operation of the vehicle in a first time period, storing the measured first value of sensor bias for use in one or more subsequent time periods, measuring a second value of sensor bias obtained during operation of the vehicle in a second time period, subtracting the measured second value of sensor bias from the stored first value of sensor bias, thereby generating a sensor bias difference, and storing the measured second value of sensor bias, for reference in one or more subsequent time periods, if the sensor bias difference is within the specified range of expected variability of sensor bias values. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221819 | Method of motion correction in optical coherence tomography imaging - An image data set acquired by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system is corrected for effects due to motion of the sample. A first set of A-scans is acquired within a time short enough to avoid any significant motion of the sample. A second more extensive set of A-scans is acquired over an overlapping region on the sample. Significant sample motion may occur during acquisition of the second set. A-scans from the first set are matched with A-scans from the second set, based on similarity between the longitudinal optical scattering profiles they contain. Such matched pairs of A-scans are likely to correspond to the same region in the sample. Comparison of the OCT scanner coordinates that produced each A-scan in a matching pair, in conjunction with any shift in the longitudinal scattering profiles between the pair of A-scans, reveals the displacement of the sample between acquisition of the first and second A-scans in the pair. Estimates of the sample displacement are used to correct the transverse and longitudinal coordinates of the A-scans in the second set, to form a motion-corrected OCT data set. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221820 | System for First Pass Filtering of Anomalies and Providing a Base Confidence Level for Resource Usage Prediction in a Utility Computing Environment - Provided is a system for monitoring resources in a utility computing environment (UCE). Measurements are evaluated to determine whether or not a particular resource requires remedial or other type of action. A sliding measurement window is employed to assemble a number of measurements corresponding to a particular resource. The number of intervals in a sliding measurement window is based upon best practices corresponding to the resource being measured and analyzed. A first threshold-crossing event and subsequent events are stored until the window is full, or closed. When the window is closed, the threshold-crossing measurements are analyzed to determine whether or not there exists an issue with the resource that requires action. Once a window has been closed and analyzed, the first threshold-crossing event and each subsequent event up to a second threshold-crossing event are discarded and the window reopens. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221821 | Error Correction Method for a Displacement Sensor Signal - A method and device for correcting an error caused by electromagnetic interference, in a signal of an inductive displacement sensor or angle sensor, in that when known activation of at least one component which causes electromagnetic interference occurs and there is a known error resulting therefrom in the sensor signal of the inductive displacement sensor or angle sensor the error in the measured sensor signal is corrected. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221822 | System and Method for Calibration of a Flow Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for rapid calibration of a flow device. A flow device can be provided with a calibration flow curve (e.g., represented by an n | 2008-09-11 |
20080221823 | CALIBRATION CIRCUIT FOR CALIBRATING AN ADJUSTABLE CAPACITANCE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING A TIME CONSTANT DEPENDING ON SAID CAPACITANCE - A calibration circuit calibrates an adjustable capacitance of a circuit having a time constant depending on the adjustable capacitance. The calibration circuit outputs a calibration signal carrying information for calibrating the capacitor and includes a calibration loop. The calibration circuit includes: a controllable capacitance unit suitable to receive a control signal and including at least one array of switched capacitors that can be activated by the control signal, the unit being such as to output a first signal characterized by a parameter depending on the amount of capacitance of the array activated by the control signal; a comparison unit suitable to receive the first signal to assess whether the parameter meets a preset condition and to output a comparison signal representative of the assessment result; a control and timing logic unit suitable to receive the comparison signal to change this control signal based on the comparison signal, characterized in that the first signal is a logic signal and the parameter is a time parameter of the first signal. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221824 | TEST APPARATUS, TEST METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a test apparatus for testing a plurality of DUTs. The test apparatus includes a plurality of test modules that are connected to the plurality of DUTs and test the plurality of DUTs, and a CPU that controls test operations performed by the plurality of test modules in accordance with a designated one of operation modes including (i) a parallel test mode in which at least the plurality of test modules are caused to perform a same test simultaneously and in parallel and (ii) an independent test mode in which each of the plurality of test modules is caused to perform a different test independently. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221825 | NOISE RESISTANT LIGHT-POWERED SENSOR - A light-powered data acquisition and control system immune to electromagnetic interference employs smart sensors in a network configuration capable of decentralized communication. A smart sensor with integral transducer encloses a microprocessor, fiber optic transceiver, and photovoltaic converter within a Faraday cage. Optical fibers link plural sensors for duplex communication with a fiber optic splitter, which transmits high intensity light to the converter for powering the sensors. The sensor converts analog input from the transducer into bit packets for fiber optic transmission to the network via the splitter. Firmware in the splitter converts the bit packets to network protocol and vice versa enabling data communication among sensors, splitters, and control receivers. Verification algorithms for testing sensors are run automatically by the microprocessor or through commands issued via the network. Mnemonics stored in the sensors provide automatic updating of system configuration. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221826 | Maximal Temperature Logging - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for logging a maximal temperature in an integrated circuit. A digital thermal sensor senses a temperature in the integrated circuit. The sensed temperature of the digital thermal sensor is read and a determination is made as to whether the sensed temperature is higher than a current maximal temperature. The sensed temperature is logged in response to the sensed temperature being higher than the current maximal temperature. The sensed temperature becomes a new maximal temperature for the integrated circuit. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221827 | SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING VELOCITIES OF COMPONENTS IN A VEHICLE - A system for validating velocities of components in a vehicle uses sensor measurements and mathematical relationships between the vehicle components to validate the velocities. A controller or controllers receive speed or velocity inputs and mathematically combine the velocities of more than one of the vehicle components. The velocities of at least one of the vehicle components is validated when the mathematical combination meets at least one predetermined criterion. The validated velocity or velocities are then communicated to at least one of the vehicle components. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221828 | Intelligent modular transport system with object behavioral pattern recognition and traffic management - Comprehensive closed-loop intelligent Object Transport System with Object Behavioral Pattern analysis, recognition. System establishes Objects Behavioral Patterns, analyzes them with application-specific program, generating Expected Behavioral Pattern ranges for each Object or Group of Objects, used by System to recognize Object, to apply controls to ensure each Object is Processed according to established criteria. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221829 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND NUMERICALLY DISPLAYING A VOLUME DEPENDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF ANY UNSEPARATED PART OF AN ITEM - An apparatus and method for determining and numerically displaying the volume of an item or any part of the item by passing a manually held sensor member freely movable in both vertical and horizontal directions over and along an item lying on a support surface. The sensor member mounts one or more sensors which generate signals corresponding to the distance from the sensor member to points on the surface of the item corresponding to the height of those points above the support surface. At the same time, a movement detector arrangement generates signals corresponding to displacement of the sensor member along the item which may also include signals corresponding to the vertical movement of the sensor member above the support surface. These signals are processed in a signal processor to enable the calculation of cross sectional areas of each section of the item along the path of movement of the sensor member and to calculate the volume of a part or all of the item. The vertical movement of the sensor member as determined by the movement detector arrangement or sensed by the sensors are used to determine changes in height of the sensor member and compensate therefor in the calculation of the cross sectional areas of successive sections of the item. The calculated volume of part or all of the item may be converted into numeric weight or price values based on an item density or cost per unit factor for the particular type of item on the support surface, whereby numeric weight and cost values may be displayed in a digital display as the sensor member is passed along the item. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221830 | PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE ENGINE - A system including an inference engine and a query interface. The inference engine predicts a duration for at least one event of a perioperative workflow using one or more models. Each model includes at least one model instance. The query interface queries the at least one model instance, and the inference engine generates the predicted duration responsive to the query. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR YIELD SIMILARITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A method and system for yield similarity of semiconductor devices. The method includes providing a first plurality of semiconductor devices, providing a second plurality of semiconductor devices, obtaining a first plurality of yields associated with a first yield, and obtaining a second plurality of yields associated with a second yield. Additionally, the method includes performing a first statistical analysis for the first plurality of yields, determining a first statistical distribution, performing a second statistical analysis for the second plurality of yields, and determining a second statistical distribution. Moreover, the method includes processing information associated with the first statistical distribution and the second statistical distribution, and determining an indicator. Also, the method includes processing information associated with the indicator, determining a confidence level, processing information associated with the confidence level, and determining whether the first yield and the second yield are similar. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221832 | METHODS FOR COMPUTING POSITIONAL BASE PROBABILITIES USING EXPERMINENTALS BASE VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS - Aspects of the various embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing relative base value probabilities using discrete experimental base values to calculate distributions of relative base probabilities. This information can be used with associated experimental measurements to increase the accuracy of the data analysis. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DEPENDABILITY VULNERABILITIES - The present invention is a method and an apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities in production IT environments. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a dependability vulnerability in a production IT environment includes injecting a synthetic disturbance into the production IT environment and observing the response of the production IT environment to the synthetic disturbance. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221834 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED FAULT DETECTION WORKFLOW - A method for fault detection workflow management is presented. The method includes determining a working environment, a rule application attribute, or both, where the working environment and the rule application attribute are associated with input data. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically optimizing a sequence of operations based on the determined working environment, the determined rule application attribute, or both. Additionally, the method includes processing the input data based on the optimized sequence of operations. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method is also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221835 | Process and methodology for root cause identification in gas turbine engine performance tracking - A system and method for narrowing an assessment of root cause to a single stage within a gas turbine engine module using coupling factors and known instrumentation non-repeatability. Embodiments examine certain root cause (RC) effects that manifest themselves as coupling levels, or ratios (CR), between an engine module's efficiency change Δη and its flow parameter change ΔFP. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221836 | Ad Hoc Sensor Networks - A plurality of mobile sensor devices each periodically measure a property of their environment, and determine the rate of change in that property. Neighbouring devices also co-operate to determine the values of the property being measured by each other. If the property is invariant both over time and over a number of neighbouring devices, their periodicity of measurement-taking is reduced to conserve power for more significant measurement events. The devices may co-operate to relay their measurements to a data collection point. Each device determines the level of data traffic being carried by one or more neighbouring devices, identifies the device that is carrying the least traffic, and puts itself under the control of that device. Any device that determines that it is carrying less such traffic than any of its neighbours assumes control of the data sensing rate for itself and those neighbours, and transmits control data to the said other devices to co-ordinate their data collection rates and stagger their data collection times. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY SIGNALS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THIN FILM STRUCTURES - Methods and systems are disclosed for analyzing a scanning interferometry signal. Steps include: providing a scanning interferometry signal produced by a scanning interferometer for a first location of a test object (e.g., a sample having a thin film); providing a model function of the scanning interferometry signal produced by the scanning interferometer, wherein the model function is parametrized by one or more parameter values; fitting the model function to the scanning interferometry signal for each of a series of shifts in scan position between the model function and the scanning interferometry signal by varying the parameter values; and determining information about the test object (e.g., a surface height or height profile, and/or a thickness or thickness profile for a thin film in the test object) at the first location based on the fitting. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221838 | Method and device for processing data or signals with different synchronization sources - In processing devices, in particular in measuring, test or control units for the drivetrain or components thereof, it is often necessary to combine signals or data of different synchronization sources with one another or to process them whilst maintaining the original temporal relation. In order to achieve this, the signals or data have hitherto often been synchronized to a specific clock source, but this is frequently not possible. Therefore, a method and a device are specified which enable the processing of data or signals with different synchronization sources in a processing device | 2008-09-11 |
20080221839 | Annular sealing assembly for insertion between two mechanical members in relative motion, in particular a linear reciprocating motion, as a rod and the relative guiding seat of a mono-tube shock-adsorber - A method of improving a 2D or 3D multiblock-structured mesh of an object that moves through a fluid medium, such as an aircraft, which is used in the design of said object in connection with a defined analytical scheme, said mesh having being generated with rectangular (2D) or hexahedral (3D) blocks under constrains that may cause that the mesh include irregular blocks ( | 2008-09-11 |
20080221840 | MULTI-REPRESENTATIONAL MODEL HAVING TWO OR MORE MODELS OF A MECHANICAL OBJECT - Apparatuses and methods for automating the generation of additional different models of a mechanical object from a first model by logically partitioning the different models based on parameters that are specific to the particular model being generated. All of the models are independent representations of the same mechanical object, and may represent the design of the mechanical object in different phases of the manufacturing process, for example, the conceptual design, the as-cast design, and the as-machined design. In one embodiment, upon receiving a selection of a feature for the first conceptual model from a user, the apparatus and method can automatically calculate the corresponding contributions for each of the different models. The corresponding contributions can be automatically calculated based on modeling parameters that are specific to the type of model that is to be automatically generated. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221841 | METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIA - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises an extracting an interference existing between parts of a three-dimension CAD model from data of the three-dimension CAD model, modifying a shape of an interfering part based on the extracted interference, and creating a modified model having no interference based on the modified shape of the interfering part. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221842 | Computerized Method and System for Designing an Aerodynamic Focusing Lens Stack - A computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack, using input from a designer related to, for example, particle size range to be considered, characteristics of the gas to be flowed through the system, the upstream temperature and pressure at the top of a first focusing lens, the flow rate through the aerodynamic focusing lens stack equivalent at atmosphere pressure; and a Stokes number range. Based on the design parameters, the method and system determines the total number of focusing lenses and their respective orifice diameters required to focus the particle size range to be considered, by first calculating for the orifice diameter of the first focusing lens in the Stokes formula, and then using that value to determine, in iterative fashion, intermediate flow values which are themselves used to determine the orifice diameters of each succeeding focusing lens in the stack design, with the results being output to a designer. In addition, the Reynolds numbers associated with each focusing lens as well as exit nozzle size may also be determined to enhance the stack design. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221843 | System and Method for Cost-Effective, High-Fidelity 3D-Modeling of Large-Scale Urban Environments - A method, a system, and a program for high-fidelity three-dimensional modeling of a large-scale urban environment, performing the following steps:
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20080221844 | NUMERICAL TOOLBOX FOR DESIGN OF FLUIDIC COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS - A described exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a computational “toolbox” for the a priori design of optimized fluidic components. These components consist of a channel under low-Reynolds number, pressure-driven flow, with an arrangement of grooves cut into the top and/or bottom to generate a tailored cross-channel flow. An advection map for each feature (i.e., groove of a particular shape and orientation) predicts the lateral transport of fluid within the channel due to that feature. We show that applying these maps in sequence generates an excellent representation of the outflow distribution for complex designs that combine these basic features. The effect of the complex three-dimensional flow field can therefore be predicted without solving the governing flow equations through the composite geometry, and the resulting distribution of fluids in the channel is used to evaluate how well a component performs a specified task. The generation and use of advection maps is described, and the toolbox is applied to determine optimal combinations of features for specified mixer sizes and mixing metrics. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221845 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING PROCESS SIMULATION USING A HYBRID MODEL - The invention provides an apparatus and methods for performing process simulation and structural analysis using a hybrid model. For example, a method of the invention automatically defines a hybrid solution domain by dividing a representation of a plastic component or mold cavity into two portions—a portion in which a simplified analysis may be conducted, and a portion in which a more complex analysis is required. The method may use as input any form of CAD data that describes the surface of a component or mold. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for simulating fluid flow within a mold cavity by automatically creating a hybrid solution domain, automatically discretizing the domain, and solving for the distribution of process variables within the solution domain. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221846 | Context-Aware, Adaptive Approach to Information Selection for Interactive Information Analysis - Improved information analysis techniques are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method of automatically assisting an analyst in a current information analysis task includes the following steps. An analytic context is modeled in a user-system cooperative manner, wherein the analytic context is a structure representative of user analytic actions and relationships associated therewith. At least a portion of the user-system cooperatively-modeled analytic context structure is utilized to adaptively gather information relevant to a current information analysis task. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221847 | METHOD OF DEVELOPING A PHARMACOKINETIC PROFILE OF A XENOBIOTIC DISPOSITION IN A MAMMALIAN TISSUE - There is provided a method of developing a pharmacokinetic profile of an xenobiotic disposition in a mammalian tissue, the method comprising inputting mammalian-specific data into a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model, where said mammalian-specific data comprises tansporter properties related data, where said transporter properties related data reflect genetic and environmental factors associated with said mammalian; inputting xenobiotic-specific data into said PBPK model; and simulating, using said PBPK model, a pharmacokinetic profile of said xenobiotic disposition as a function of said inputted data. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221848 | Biomolecular Structure Determination Involving Swarm Intelligence - A method and computer program for determining biomolecular structures from experimental data that includes ambiguous experimental observables comprising the steps of: creating a swarm of molecular structure generators; having the ability to allow the communication between said generators via a global set of molecular restraints; determining said molecular structure in a cooperative manner by using self-optimization of a multi-agent system. In one embodiment, NOESY spectra are used to calculate inter-proton distances of the biomolecular structure and said distances are used as molecular restraints. Moreover, the method involves restrained molecular dynamics simulations, e.g. by simulated annealing. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221849 | Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product For Creating Electric Circuit Models Of Semiconductor Circuits From Fabrication Process Parameters - Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus that automatically generate an electric circuit model from process parameters used to specify a semiconductor fabrication procedure, wherein at least one of the process parameters is specified as a statistical distribution. The methods and apparatus convert the process parameters into an electric circuit model. The electric circuit model is specified in terms of electric parameters, wherein at least one of the electric parameters is specified in terms of a statistical distribution. The methods and apparatus thus allow a process engineer whose expertise may not extend to state-of-the-art circuit modeling to develop insight into the effect of process parameter selection on the performance of the resulting electric circuit. The resulting insight is further enhanced since at least one of the electric parameters is specified in terms of a statistical distribution. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221850 | Effective current density and continuum models for conducting networks - An Effective Current Density (ECD) method for continuum representation of conducting networks is disclosed. ECD is a method for representing large numbers of conductors in a single, compact model for use in circuit simulation and in other such applications. The models created through the application of ECD are continuum models, valid in both long and short wavelength limits, with the important property that the computation time does not grow with the number of wires in the network. Therefore, in circuits where the method can be applied, there is no limit to the number of conducting wires or components in the network to be simulated. Circuits with an unlimited number of conductors can be simulated using modest computing hardware and at an approximately constant order of simulation complexity. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221851 | Aid design system for analog integrated circuit and the method thereof - The aid design system for analog ICs includes an analog IC database, a peripheral component database, an input module, a computing simulation module, a selection module and an output module. The analog IC database includes parameters of a plurality of analog ICs. The peripheral component database includes parameters of the peripheral components cooperating with the analog ICs. The input module is for use in inputting a desirable parameter specification or specific IC according to the user's discretion. The computing simulation module includes transfer functions of the analog ICs. The selection module is for use in picking out suggested peripheral components based on the computing result of the computing simulation module. The output module is for use in displaying the suggested peripheral components or analog ICs. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221852 | Method For Order Selection In Passive Transmission Line Macromodels Based On The Lie Criteria - A passive macromodel for lossy, dispersive multiconductor transmission lines uses a multiplicative approximation of the matrix exponential known as the Lie product. The circuit implementation of the macromodel is a cascade of elementary cells, each cell being the combination of a pure delay element and a lumped circuit representing the transmission line losses. Compared with passive rational macromodeling, the Lie product macromodel is capable of efficiently simulating long, low-loss multiconductor transmission lines while preserving passivity. This result is combined with transmission line theory to derive a time-domain error criterion for the Lie product macromodel. This criterion is used to determine the minimum number of cells needed in the macromodel to assure that the magnitude of the time-domain error is less than a given engineering tolerance. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221853 | SIMULATING AND VERIFYING SIGNAL GLITCHING - A simulation system includes glitch injection circuitry in one or more hardware design units to allow the injection of glitches or noise to evaluate the system's response to errors on signals between the hardware design units. The simulation system includes a stimulation module with a set of drivers to input simulation patterns into the design units. Some inputs to software models are driven by the outputs of software models of another design unit. The stimulation module can monitor these signals driven by the software model but it is difficult for the stimulation module to directly drive these signals. The added glitch circuitry allows injection of errors into the simulated hardware by the stimulation module on signals that are not directly driven by the stimulation module but are driven by the outputs of hardware design units. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221854 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN APPARATUS, COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN PROGRAM, COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN METHOD FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC VALUE AND SIMULATION PARAMETER - A simulation instructing unit instructs a simulation unit, which generates signal characteristics, to generate the signal characteristics. A characteristic value extracting unit extracts, from the signal characteristics, characteristic values for distinguishing between a signal characteristic generated by setting a first simulation parameter and a signal characteristic generated by a second simulation parameter. A simulation parameter determining unit determines a first mapping relationship from the characteristic values to the simulation parameters with the characteristic values obtained by setting a plurality of set values in the simulation parameters and with the set values. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221855 | Simulating partition resource allocation - An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, simulate allocation of a simulated resource to simulated partitions in a simulated logically-partitioned computer and determine whether the allocation conflicts. The simulation may include summing amounts of the simulated resource for the simulated partition in an order, where the order of the simulated partitions is received via a user interface. In various embodiments, the allocation may conflict if the allocation exceeds the capacity of the simulated logically-partitioned computer or if the simulated resource is restricted to exclusive allocation. The result of the simulation, including whether the allocation conflicts, is presented via the user interface. In various embodiments, the simulated resource may be memory, an I/O controller, or a storage device. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221856 | Method and System for a Self Managing and Scalable Grid Storage - The present invention generally provides a method for grid storage including balancing read and write requests from applications across a first group of nodes in a grid storage system for avoiding hot spots and optimizing performance through smart caching; balancing storage capacity across a second group of nodes in the grid storage system, nodes in the first and second groups being at least one of hardware interchangeable online, capable of being added to change performance or capacity of the grid storage system and capable of being removed to change performance or capacity of the grid storage system; and self managing of the first and second groups of nodes for providing at least one of scalability, self healing after failure of components in the grid storage, non-disruptive upgrades to the grid storage system, and eliminating duplicate data on an object or sub-object level in the grid storage system. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING THE WORKLOAD OF A COMPUTE FARM - A method for simulating the workload of a compute farm produces simulation data that include statistics about executed jobs and the use of the compute farm's resources. The simulation data can be further generated in response to a plurality of “what-if” scenarios, in which different operation scenarios of the compute farm can be defined and the workload simulated for each such scenario. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for simulating the workflow in a computing farm is disclosed. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221858 | Dynamic Online Multi-Parameter Optimization System and Method for Autonomic Computing Systems - An improved method and system for performing dynamic online multi-parameter optimization for autonomic computing systems are provided. With the method and system of the present invention, a simplex, i.e. a set of points in the parameter space that has been directly sampled, is maintained. The system's performance with regard to a particular utility value is measured for the particular setting of configuration parameters associated with each point in the simplex. A new sample point is determined using the geometric transformations of the simplex. The method and system provide mechanisms for limiting the size of the simplex that is generated through these geometric transformations so that the present invention may be implemented in noisy environments in which the same configuration settings may lead to different results with regard to the utility value. In addition, mechanisms are provided for resampling a current best point in the simplex to determine if the environment has changed. If a sufficiently different utility value is obtained from a previously sampled utility value for the point in the simplex, then rather than contracting, the simplex is expanded. If the difference between utility values is not sufficient enough, then contraction of the simplex is performed. In addition, in order to allow for both real and integer valued parameters in the simplex, a mechanism is provided by which invalid valued parameters that are generated by geometric transformations being performed on the simplex are mapped to a nearest valid value. Similarly, parameter values that violate constraints are mapped to values that satisfy constraints taking care that the dimensionality of the simplex is not reduced. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221859 | Emulation Mode for Emulating Optical Record Medium Types - In summary, when new optical record media types become available in the market that are not supported by the optical drive | 2008-09-11 |
20080221860 | Hardware interface board for connecting an emulator to a network - A system and method are disclosed to provide an interface between an emulator and a network that is readily scalable. In one aspect, a scalable solution is achieved through a hardware interface board positioned between the network and the emulator to allow proper transfer there between. A computer is separated from and coupled to the hardware interface board and provides the necessary control signals. Because it is done in hardware separated from the computer, the interface board is readily scalable through the simple addition of network chip sets. In another aspect, the interface board can be placed in two modes of operation. One is a live test wherein the emulator and network communicate through the interface board, without the need to traverse a computer. A second is a direct test where the network is electrically disconnected from the emulator, and an application program on the computer sends packets directly to the emulator through the interface board. In yet another aspect, packet formats may be changed on the interface board so that it appears to the emulator as if the network is operating at a different data transfer speed than is actually the case. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221861 | Verification Apparatus and Verification Method - When performing a process in an object to be authenticated, there is a case that an execution result depends on the reference data value to be referenced and remains undefined. When the execution result is undefined and a process after that references the execution result, the execution results may have different values. As a result, the execution results cannot be compared and authentication cannot be continued. There is provided an authentication device for giving the same test pattern to an object to be authenticated and an expectation value generation device, performing simulation, and comparing the execution results. Data being simulated is extracted. According to the analysis result of the extracted data, the simulation is controlled. Alternatively, simulation after the undefined result is obtained is controlled. Thus, it is possible to prevent execution of a process which becomes an undefined result. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221862 | MOBILE LANGUAGE INTERPRETER WITH LOCALIZATION - A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a mobile user to request and obtain audio, graphical, and/or textual language translations between one or more different languages virtually in real-time. In one embodiment, a system is configured to enable a mobile user to select a first language from a plurality of languages. A second language may be determined based on a current location of the mobile device, selected by the user from the plurality of languages. The user may then provide an input in one language, which may be transmitted to a server device, where a determination is made which of the languages the input is, and provides a translation to the other language back to the mobile device. In one embodiment, the server device may also provide related information to the translated input, including pronunciation support, video and/or audio clips, word origin, synonyms, or the like. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221863 | SEARCH-BASED WORD SEGMENTATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LANGUAGE WITHOUT WORD BOUNDARY TAG - The present invention discloses a search-based segmentation method and device for a language without a word boundary tag. The inventive method includes the steps of: a. providing at least one search engine with a segment of a text including at least one segment; b. searching for the segment through the at least one search engine, and returning search results; and c. selecting a word segmentation approach for the segment in accordance with at least part of the returned search results. The invention solves the problems of word segmentation for a language without a word boundary tag, and thus combat the limitations of the prior art in terms of flexibility, dependence upon coverage of dictionaries, available training data corpuses, processing of a new word, etc. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221864 | PROCESS FOR PROCEDURAL GENERATION OF TRANSLATIONS AND SYNONYMS FROM CORE DICTIONARIES - A process that generates translations and synonyms in a database with multiple dictionaries is disclosed. When translations are required among a plurality of languages, two or more “core” languages are chosen, for which there will be dictionaries with all other languages. A given word or other semantic unit is first translated into a first core language, and the set of possible translations is then translated into the target language, generating a target output set. These steps are repeated using the second core language. Acceptable translations of the word lie in the intersection between the two target output sets. The process reduces the total number of dictionaries needed to completely translate among a given number of languages, and also increases the accuracy of the “indirect” or “intermediate” method of translation between two non-core languages. The process can also be used to generate a list of acceptable synonyms in the same language. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221865 | Language Generating System - A Language Generating System (“LGS”) for generating and outputting natural language data for informing a user of a predetermined event in a plurality of different languages, is provided. The LGS may include a database including grammar data sets corresponding to each of a plurality of languages, the grammar data including transformation rules that may be used to obtain a sequence of words having an information content corresponding to the predetermined event. In addition, a universal speech driver may be provided, which constructs a grammatically correct sequence of words having the information content corresponding to the predetermined event on the basis of a grammar data set. The language generating system may additionally include an information unit that may generate an auditory output to via, for example, a loudspeaker, or a visual output via, for example, a display. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221866 | Machine Learning For Transliteration - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing transliteration between text in different scripts. In one aspect, a method includes generating a transliteration model based on statistical information derived from parallel text having first text in an input script and corresponding second text in an output script; and using the transliteration model to transliterate input characters in the input script to output characters in the output script. In another aspect, a method includes performing word level transliterations. In another aspect, a method includes using an entry-aligned dictionary of source and target script pairs, in which, whenever a particular source word is mapped to multiple target words, the dictionary includes an entry for each target word including the same source word repeated in each entry. In another aspect, a method includes using phonetic scores of words in different scripts to identify corresponding parallel text. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNATIONALIZATION - A system and method for internationalizing user interfaces associated with Web pages and other software and especially interactive web pages. Translation files are stored in a server and transmitted to clients as needed. Preferably strings are arranged in a tree so that the client can request specific subtrees. The user interface responds dynamically to a change in the user's language preference, without requiring a restart of the application. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221868 | Digital universal language - A numeric, hierarchical knowledge classification system, (e.g., Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)) of concepts, is used for universal annotation. For example, “game” (DDC=799) relates to hunting and “game” (DDC=794.105), to chess. The universal annotation may be combined with human-aided machine translation, so individuals can tag their documents in the source language, simultaneously specifying meanings in the source and target languages, exercising control over what is said in the target language. Multilingual communication, by e-mails, forums, blogs, Wikipedia and the like may proceed, with each participant working in his tongue and tagging his writing with universal concepts. Moreover, a Universal System of Expression (USE) is introduced, based on the universal concepts. USE documents may be generated as byproducts of human-aided machine translations between any two natural languages that recognize USE, for fully automatic translation to other languages, on demand, and libraries of USE documents may be formed. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221869 | CONVERTING DEPENDENCY GRAMMARS TO EFFICIENTLY PARSABLE CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS - Dependency grammars are transformed to context-free grammars. The context-free grammars can be used in a parser to parse input sentences and identify relationships among words in the sentence. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221870 | System and method for revising natural language parse trees - An improved system and method for revising natural language parse trees is provided. A revision dependency parser may learn a set of transformation rules that may be applied to dependency parse trees generated by a base parser for revising the dependency parse trees. A corpus of natural language sentences and a set of correct dependency parse trees may be used to train a revision dependency parser to correct dependency parse trees generated by the base parser. A revision engine may compare the dependency parse trees produced by the base parser with the correct ones present in the training data to produce an observation-rule pair for each dependency. A rule may specify a transformation on the predicted dependency parse tree generated by the base parser to replace an incorrect dependency with a corrected dependency or may change the type of dependency expressed for the grammatical function of the dependent word. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221871 | HUMAN/MACHINE INTERFACE - A method to allow a user to cause a machine to make an utterance, together with apparatus for obtaining input from a user. The method comprises the steps of: analysing the context within which the utterance is to be made; creating a list of utterances appropriate to the context; on a human/machine interface, creating an indication that identifies to the user those utterances that are available, and allowing the user to indicate one of those utterances; and causing an utterance indicated by the user to be made. The apparatus comprises: a visual display configured to display a plurality of indicia angularly spaced on a locus about an origin, each of the plurality of indicia corresponding to a respective option; and an input device for use in indicating an angular position, wherein the apparatus is configured to generate an input event corresponding to an option associated with one of the plurality of indicia at an angular position corresponding to an angular position indicated by the input device. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221872 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION - A word prediction method and apparatus improves precision and accuracy. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial analysis trees, “sara-ni” and “sho-senkyoku no”. It is predicted that “sara-ni” does not have a modification relationship with the sixth word, and that “sho-senkyoku no” does. Then, “donyu”, which is the sixth word from “sho-senkyoku no”, is predicted. In this example, since “sara-ni” is not useful information for the prediction of “donyu”, it is preferable that “donyu” be predicted only by “sho-senkyoku no”. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221873 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION - A word prediction apparatus and method that improves the precision accuracy, and a speech recognition method and an apparatus therefor are provided. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial analysis trees, “sara-ni” and “sho-senkyoku no”. It is predicted that “sara-ni” does not have a modification relationship with the sixth word, and that “sho-senkyoku no” does. Then, “donyu”, which is the sixth word from “sho-senkyoku no”, is predicted. In this example, since “sara-ni” is not useful information for the prediction of “donyu”, it is preferable that “donyu” be predicted only by “sho-senkyoku no”. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221874 | Method and Apparatus for Fast Semi-Automatic Semantic Annotation - A method, apparatus and computer instructions is provided for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation. Given a limited annotated corpus, the present invention assigns a tag and a label to each word of the next limited annotated corpus using a parser engine, a similarity engine, and a SVM engine. A rover then combines the parse trees from the three engines and annotates the next chunk of limited annotated corpus with confidence, such that the efforts required for human annotation is reduced. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221875 | Bit rate reduction in audio encoders by exploiting inharmonicity effects and auditory temporal masking - The present invention relates to a method for encoding an audio signal. In a first embodiment a model relating to temporal masking of sound provided to a human ear is provided. A temporal masking index is determined in dependence upon a received audio signal and the model using a forward and a backward masking function. Using a psychoacoustic model a masking threshold is determined in dependence upon the temporal masking index. Finally, the audio signal is encoded in dependence upon the masking threshold. The method has been implemented using the MPEG- | 2008-09-11 |
20080221876 | Method for processing audio data into a condensed version - Recorded audio data is compressed to obtain a condensed version, by first selecting a number of subsequent non-overlapping segments of the audio data, then reducing each segment by temporal compression and combining the reduced segments into a shortened version which can be output. The temporal compression may be made with a local compression factor which varies between the segments. The segmenting may be chosen based on an innovation signal derived from the audio data itself to indicate a content change rate in the audio data. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221877 | User interactive apparatus and method, and computer program product - A response storage unit stores a response, a watching degree relative to a display unit, and an output form of the response to a speaker and the display unit. An extracting unit extracts a request from a speech recognition result. A response determining unit determines a response based on the extracted request. A direction detector detects a viewing direction of a user. A watching-degree determining unit determines a watching degree based on the viewing direction. An output controller obtains an output form corresponding to the response and the determined watching degree from the response storage unit, and output the response to the speaker and the display unit according to the obtained output form. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221878 | FAST SEMANTIC EXTRACTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE - A system and method for semantic extraction using a neural network architecture includes indexing each word in an input sentence into a dictionary and using these indices to map each word to a d-dimensional vector (the features of which are learned). Together with this, position information for a word of interest (the word to labeled) and a verb of interest (the verb that the semantic role is being predicted for) with respect to a given word are also used. These positions are integrated by employing a linear layer that is adapted to the input sentence. Several linear transformations and squashing functions are then applied to output class probabilities for semantic role labels. All the weights for the whole architecture are trained by backpropagation. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221879 | MOBILE ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility, and may be accompanied by information related to the software application. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the software application and the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the software application. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221880 | Mobile music environment speech processing facility - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a music software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the music software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221881 | Recognition of Speech in Editable Audio Streams - A speech processing system divides a spoken audio stream into partial audio streams, referred to as “snippets.” The system may divide a portion of the audio stream into two snippets at a position at which the speaker performed an editing operation, such as pausing and then resuming recording, or rewinding and then resuming recording. The snippets may be transmitted sequentially to a consumer, such as an automatic speech recognizer or a playback device, as the snippets are generated. The consumer may process (e.g., recognize or play back) the snippets as they are received. The consumer may modify its output in response to editing operations reflected in the snippets. The consumer may process the audio stream while it is being created and transmitted even if the audio stream includes editing operations that invalidate previously-transmitted partial audio streams, thereby enabling shorter turnaround time between dictation and consumption of the complete audio stream. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221882 | SYSTEM FOR EXCLUDING UNWANTED DATA FROM A VOICE RECORDING - An apparatus and method for the preparation of a censored recording of an audio source according to a procedure whereby no tangible, durable version of the original audio data is created in the course of preparing the censored record. Further, a method is provided for identifying target speech elements in a primary speech text by iteratively using portions of already identified target elements to locate further target elements that contain identical portions. The target speech elements, once identified, are removed from the primary speech text or rendered unintelligible to produce a censored record of the primary speech text. Copies of such censored primary speech text elements may be transmitted and stored with reduced security precautions. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221883 | HANDS FREE CONTACT DATABASE INFORMATION ENTRY AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, system, and program provides for hands free contact database information entry at a communication device. A recording system at a communication device detects a user initiation to record. Responsive to detecting the user initiation to record, the recording system records the ongoing conversation supported between the communication device and a second remote communication device. The recording system converts the recording of the conversation into text. Next, the recording system extracts contact information from the text. Then, the recording system stores the extracted contact information in an entry of the contact database, such that contact information is added to the contact database of the communication device without manual entry of the contact information by the user. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221884 | MOBILE ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility, and may be accompanied by information related to the software application. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the software application and the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221885 | Speech Control Apparatus and Method - A speech control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The speech control apparatus logs the user in an application software according to a speech signal of a user. The speech control apparatus is connected to a password bank comprising a plurality of accounts and passwords. The speech control apparatus comprises a speech process module, a start module, a first receive module, an identity recognition module, a selection module, and a login module. The speech process module determines a meaning of the speech signal. The start module starts the application software according to the meaning of the speech signal. The first receiving module receives the biometrics feature of the user. The identity recognition module identifies the user as authorized according to the biometrics feature. The selection module selects a login set of account and password from the password bank according to the speech signal and the biometrics feature. The login module logs the user into the application software according to the login set of account and password. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221886 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE ENTRY OF FLIGHT DATA FOR AN AIRCRAFT, TRANSMITTED BETWEEN A CREW ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT AND GROUND STAFF - A system of assistance in the entry of flight data for an aircraft transmitted between a crew on board the aircraft and a ground staff including, a radiofrequency communications link to transmit flight data between the crew and the ground staff. At least one means of sending and one means of receiving data on board the aircraft, wherein the system includes a voice recognition means capable of detecting a piece of data of a predefined type emitted, during the communications call, by the crew or the ground staff and a means of analysis and transcription of this piece of data in digital or alphanumeric form. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURABLE SPEECH RECOGNITION - Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input modes to keyboard text entry. The techniques of dynamic re-configurable speech recognition provide for deployment of speech recognition on small devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants as well environments such as office, home or vehicle while maintaining the accuracy of the speech recognition. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221888 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ADDING VOICE ACTIVATION AND VOICE CONTROL TO A MEDIA PLAYER - A media player system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, an utterance is received. A command for a media player is then generated based on the utterance. Such command is utilized for providing wireless control of the media player. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221889 | MOBILE CONTENT SEARCH ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a content search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the content search software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221890 | UNSUPERVISED LEXICON ACQUISITION FROM SPEECH AND TEXT - Techniques for acquiring, from an input text and an input speech, a set of a character string and a pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word. A system according to the present invention: selects, from an input text, plural candidate character strings which are candidates to be recognized as a word; generates plural pronunciation candidates of the selected candidate character strings; generates frequency data by combining data in which the generated pronunciation candidates are respectively associated with the character strings; generates recognition data in which character strings respectively indicating plural words contained in the input speech are associated with pronunciations; and selects and outputs a combination contained in the recognition data, out of combinations each consisting of one of the candidate character strings and one of the pronunciation candidates. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221891 | INTERACTIVE SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An interactive speech recognition system includes a database containing a plurality of reference terms, a list memory that receives the reference terms of category “n,” a processing circuit that populates the list memory with the reference terms corresponding to the category “n,” and a recognition circuit that processes the reference terms and terms of a spoken phrase. The recognition circuit determines if a reference term of category “n” matches a term of the spoken phrase. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221892 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AUTONOMOUS AVATAR DRIVER - The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC LEARNING - New language constantly emerges from complex, collaborative human-human interactions like meetings—such as when a presenter handwrites a new term on a whiteboard while saying it redundantly. The system and method described includes devices for receiving various types of human communication activities (e.g., speech, writing and gestures) presented in a multimodally redundant manner, includes processors and recognizers for segmenting or parsing, and then recognizing selected sub-word units such as phonemes and syllables, and then includes alignment, refinement, and integration modules to find or at least an approximate match to the one or more terms that were presented in the multimodally redundant manner. Once the system has performed a successful integration, one or more terms may be newly enrolled into a database of the system, which permits the system to continuously learn and provide an association for proper names, abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and other forms of communicated language. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221894 | SYNTHESIZING SPEECH FROM TEXT - Speech is synthesized for a given text by determining a sequence of phonetic components based on the text, determining a sequence of target phonetic elements associated phonetic components, determining a sequence of target event types associated with the phonetic components and determining a sequence of speech units from a plurality of stored speech unit candidates by use of a cost function. The cost function comprises a unit cost, a concatenation cost, and an event type cost for each speech unit in the sequence of speech units. The unit cost of a speech unit is determined with respect to the corresponding target phonetic element, while the concatenation cost of a speech unit is determined with respect to adjacent speech units and the event type cost of each speech unit is determined with respect to the corresponding target event type. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221895 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Audio for Playback - A method and apparatus for processing audio for playback to provide a smooth transition between a beginning region of an audio track and an end region of a previous audio track is disclosed. A quantity representative of a chromagram is calculated for each of the audio tracks and the mixing points for the beginning and end regions of each audio track are identified. A quantity representative of a chromagram at the mixing point of the beginning region of the audio track and a quantity representative of a chromagram at the mixing point of the end region of the previous audio track are correlated to determine an order of audio tracks for playback and/or to determine the duration of the mix transition. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221896 | Grammar confusability metric for speech recognition - Architecture for testing an application grammar for the presence of confusable terms. A grammar confusability metric (GCM) is generated for describing a likelihood that a reference term will be confused by the speech recognizer with another term phrase currently allowed by active grammar rules. The GCM is used to flag processing of two phrases in the grammar that have different semantic meaning, but that the speech recognizer could have difficulty distinguishing reliably. A built-in acoustic model is analyzed and feature vectors generated that are close to the acoustic properties of the input term. The feature vectors are then sent for recognition. A statistically random sampling method is applied to explore the acoustic properties of feature vectors of the input term phrase spatially and temporally. The feature vectors are perturbed in the neighborhood of the time domain and the Gaussian mixture model to which the feature vectors belong. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221897 | MOBILE ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility, and may be accompanied by information related to the software application. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the software application and the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the software application. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221898 | Mobile navigation environment speech processing facility - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a navigation software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the navigation software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221899 | MOBILE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a messaging software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the messaging software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221900 | MOBILE LOCAL SEARCH ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a local search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the local search software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221901 | MOBILE GENERAL SEARCH ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the search software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221902 | MOBILE BROWSER ENVIRONMENT SPEECH PROCESSING FACILITY - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a browser software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture facility. Transmission of the recording may be provided through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. Results may be generated utilizing the speech recognition facility that may be independent of structured grammar, and may be based at least in part on the information relating to the recording. The results may then be transmitted to the mobile communications facility, where they may be loaded into the browser software application. In embodiments, the user may be allowed to alter the results that are received from the speech recognition facility. In addition, the speech recognition facility may be adapted based on usage. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221903 | Hierarchical Methods and Apparatus for Extracting User Intent from Spoken Utterances - Improved techniques are disclosed for permitting a user to employ more human-based grammar (i.e., free form or conversational input) while addressing a target system via a voice system. For example, a technique for determining intent associated with a spoken utterance of a user comprises the following steps/operations. Decoded speech uttered by the user is obtained. An intent is then extracted from the decoded speech uttered by the user. The intent is extracted in an iterative manner such that a first class is determined after a first iteration and a sub-class of the first class is determined after a second iteration. The first class and the sub-class of the first class are hierarchically indicative of the intent of the user, e.g., a target and data that may be associated with the target. The multi-stage intent extraction approach may have more than two iterations. By way of example only, the user intent extracting step may further determine a sub-class of the sub-class of the first class after a third iteration, such that the first class, the sub-class of the first class, and the sub-class of the sub-class of the first class are hierarchically indicative of the intent of the user. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221904 | COARTICULATION METHOD FOR AUDIO-VISUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS - A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing orifice images of sequences of at least three concatenated phonemes which correspond to an input stimulus. The processor reads, based on the first data. second data comprising images of a noise-producing entity. The processor generates an animated sequence of the noise-producing entity. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221905 | Encoding an Information Signal - The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wherein a transient position indication is additionally used as a syntax element so as to be used, on the encoder and/or decoder sides, within the frames of these new frame class for determining the grid boundaries within these frames. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221906 | Speech coding system and method - A system for enhancing a signal regenerated from an encoded audio signal. The system comprises a decoder arranged to receive the encoded audio signal and produce a decoded audio signal, a feature extraction means arranged to receive at least one of the decoded and encoded audio signal and extract at least one feature from at least one of the decoded and encoded audio signal, a mapping means arranged to map the at least one feature to an enhancement signal and operable to generate and output the enhancement signal, whereby the enhancement signal has a frequency band that is within the decoded audio signal frequency band, and a mixing means arranged to receive the decoded audio signal and the enhancement signal and mix the enhancement signal with the decoded audio signal. | 2008-09-11 |
20080221907 | Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal - An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein the type of the modified spatial information includes at least one of partial spatial information, combined spatial information and expanded spatial information. Accordingly, an audio signal can be decoded into a configuration different from a configuration decided by an encoding apparatus. Even if the number of speakers is smaller or greater than that of multi-channels before execution of downmixing, it is able to generate output channels having the number equal to that of the speakers from a downmix audio signal. | 2008-09-11 |