47th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110288742 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OPERATING IN HCCI COMBUSTION MODE - An internal combustion engine is configured to operate in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode. Operating the internal combustion engine includes determining an integrated thermal state parameter from an aggregation of engine environment factors. A feed-forward engine control scheme is executed to determine states for engine control parameters. The states for the engine control parameters correspond to a preferred combustion phasing responsive to an operator torque request and the integrated thermal state parameter. Operation of the internal combustion engine is controlled to achieve the preferred combustion phasing using the states for the engine control parameters. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288743 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE IDLING REDUCTION - The present invention is a system, apparatus and method for an overall power management system for powering one or more power consuming devices used in vehicles and assisting with the management of auxiliary energy storage, while ensuring that the starter battery remains charged for engine starting. The present invention may be an integrated system, and related apparatus, for managing a plurality on-board power consuming devices and power sources. The present invention may be utilized to reduce the need for engine idling to maintain power to one or more power consuming devices. The present invention may include: a monitoring device to monitor the power consumption of one or more power consuming devices and/or the charge of one or more auxiliary energy storage devices and an a starter battery; and a control device to ensure that the power consuming devices are powered while a vehicle is in a stationary position. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288744 | MULTI-FUEL CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system includes a controller operable to control an engine in an operating mode. The controller operation is based at least in part on a first parameter set and on a second parameter set. The first parameter set is associated with an engine fuel supply and includes information regarding characteristics of a first fuel and a second fuel. The first fuel and second fuel are not the same type of fuel. The second parameter set is associated with one or more engine operation threshold values. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288745 | DUAL FUEL ENGINE CONTROL UNIT - A multi-mode engine system comprising an engine adapted to operate in a plurality of different modes including a first mode in which the engine is fuelled substantially entirely by a first fuel, and a second mode in which the engine is fuelled substantially entirely by a second fuel, or by a mixture of the first and second fuels, the engine comprising: a first engine control unit (ECU) for controlling the flow of the first fuel into the engine when the engine is operating in the first mode; a plurality of first sensors operatively connected to the first ECU, each of which first sensors is adapted to sense a first variable, and to emit a first input signal dependent on a value of the sensed first variable; and a second ECU operatively connected to the first ECU; wherein the first ECU comprises: a signal receiver for receiving the first input signals, and an output for emitting a first output signal dependent on the first input signals, which first output signal determines the amount of first fuel supplied to the engine; and the second ECU being adapted to modify the first output signal when the engine is running in the second mode to produce a first modified signal and a second calculated signal; the first modified signal determining the amount of first fuel supplied to the engine when the engine is operating in the second mode, and the second calculated signal determining the amount of second fuel supplied to the engine when the engine is operating in the second mode. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288746 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING COLD STARTABILITY OF SPARK IGNITION DIRECT INJECTION (SIDI) ENGINES - A control system includes an engine enable module and a fuel control module. The engine enable module determines whether predetermined operating conditions of a spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engine are satisfied and enables an engine prime mode when the predetermined operating conditions are satisfied. The fuel control module controls a fuel injector to deliver a prime pulse to a cylinder of the SIDI engine when the engine prime mode is enabled. The fuel injector delivers the prime pulse by opening for a pulse width to inject fuel directly into the cylinder when the SIDI engine is stopped. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288747 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE IN A HOMOGENEOUS-CHARGE COMPRESSION-IGNITION COMBUSTION MODE - A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes determining an actual combustion heat release during ongoing engine operation, calculating an expected combustion heat release corresponding to engine operation associated with the actual combustion heat release during ongoing engine operation, determining a difference between the actual combustion heat release and the expected combustion heat release, and operating the internal combustion engine in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode to achieve a preferred combustion phasing during each combustion cycle in response to the difference between the actual combustion heat release and the expected combustion heat release. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288748 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine fuel is delivered into a fuel rail by a high-pressure pump. The quantity of the delivered fuel is influenced by a quantity control valve operated by an electromagnetic operating device. At least one parameter of a braking pulse of the electromagnetic actuating device depends on an efficiency of the electromagnetic actuating device and/or on a supply voltage of a voltage source and/or on a temperature, in particular of a component of the fuel injection system or of the internal combustion engine. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288749 | COMBUSTION CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A combustion control system for a direct injection engine includes a mean effective pressure (MEP) determination module, a coefficient of variation (COV) determination module, a spark timing module, and a fuel control module. The MEP determination module determines a MEP for a first combustion event of a cylinder based on cylinder pressure measured by a cylinder pressure sensor during the first combustion event. The COV determination module determines a COV for the cylinder based on the MEP. The spark timing module selectively sets a spark timing for a second combustion event of the cylinder based on the COV. The second combustion event is after the first combustion event. The fuel control module that selectively provides fuel for the second combustion event based on the COV. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE COUPLED TO A PASSIVE SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION AFTERTREATMENT SYSTEM - A direct-injection internal combustion engine is fluidly coupled to a passive SCR system including a three-way catalytic converter upstream to an ammonia-selective catalytic reduction catalyst. Transition from an HCCI combustion mode to an SI combustion mode includes determining a preferred air/fuel ratio to achieve a minimum fuel consumption and maintain combustion stability at an acceptable level for a predetermined engine operating point during the SI combustion mode. A fuel injection timing, an engine spark timing and an engine valve lift are substantially immediately controlled from respective HCCI combustion mode settings to respective SI combustion mode settings. A transition to the preferred air/fuel ratio is coordinated with a transition of an engine valve phase from a respective HCCI combustion mode setting to a respective SI combustion mode phase setting. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288751 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FUEL INJECTION FOR A DUAL FUEL ENGINE - A fuel injection system including injectors for two different fuels is disclosed. In one example, fuel injection is adjusted to compensate for changes in engine intake air amount. Combustion stability during transient conditions may be improved. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288752 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STOPPED ENGINE CRANK ANGLE - An engine control system, controller, and method for estimating a stopped engine crank angle of an internal combustion engine. Typical crank sensors do not output a reliable crank signal when the engine is about to stop, and do not indicate crank direction which is necessary to determine if engine bounce-back occurs. A crank sensor signal is analyzed as the engine coasts to a stop so that a coast-down model can be adjusted to accurately estimate the stopped engine crank angle. A bounce-back model is also used to estimate an engine bounce-back angle and so make further corrections to the estimated stopped engine crank angle. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288753 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TIMING AT WHICH IGNITION IS STOPPED WHEN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE BECOMES STOPPED - A control device for stopping an engine, configured in such a manner that, when, after the ignition of the engine is turned off, the throttle valve is opened to introduce air in order to avoid that a piston stops near the top dead center, the control device stops the engine without causing a misalignment of the stop position of the piston and without degrading emission quality. A device for controlling the timing at which ignition is stopped when an internal combustion engine becomes stopped is provided with: a means for sending, depending on the rotational speed (NE) of the internal combustion engine detected by a rotational speed sensor decreasing to a level lower than or equal to a predetermined value (Np) after the ignition ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288754 | VEHICLE GROUP CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE - The invention provides a vehicle group control method that controls the traveling of a vehicle group including a plurality of vehicles. The vehicle group control method includes: a process of controlling vehicles in each of a plurality of small vehicle groups which are divided from the vehicle group and controlling the relative relationship between the vehicles in each small vehicle group using communication between the vehicles in the same small vehicle group; and a small vehicle group control process of controlling the relative relationship between the small vehicle groups using communication between representative vehicles in the small vehicle groups. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288755 | MUTABLE MOBILE TRAFFIC ROUTING SYSTEM - A method of operating a mutable mobile traffic routing system includes: sending traffic routing parameters with a traffic segment from a server for displaying on a client; receiving a traffic re-routing request parameter based on a traffic routing control parameter including the traffic routing parameters with the traffic segment; updating the traffic routing parameters based on the traffic re-routing request parameter; and sending the traffic routing parameters updated with an updated traffic segment with the traffic re-routing request parameter for displaying on the client. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288756 | FILTERING ROAD TRAFFIC CONDITION DATA OBTAINED FROM MOBILE DATA SOURCES - Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics from the data samples. In some situations, the filtering of the data samples includes identifying data samples that are inaccurate or otherwise unrepresentative of actual traffic condition characteristics, such as data samples that are not of interest based at least in part on roads with which the data samples are associated and/or that otherwise reflect vehicle locations or activities that are not of interest. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288757 | INFORMATION FILTERING AND PROCESSING IN A ROADWAY TRAVEL DATA EXCHANGE NETWORK - A traffic monitoring system includes one or more processors operable to collect location data from a third-party network having a mobile user, weight at least one element of the location data based on reliability, and generate traffic speed data at a roadway location based on the weighted data. The third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network. The one or more processors are operable to deliver the traffic speed data at the roadway location to an alternate third-party network. The alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288758 | MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT ROAD INTERSECTION TO AVOID BLOCKING VEHICLES - A computer controlled system for managing traffic signals at the intersection of at least two traffic lanes to avoid collisions between motor vehicles in intersecting lanes. An implementation with means for controlling traffic signals at the intersection to permit vehicles in each of the intersecting traffic lanes a time period to pass through the intersection, means for detecting the presence of a vehicle in the intersection beyond said permitted time period, and means responsive to a detection of the presence of the vehicle, for controlling the traffic signals to stop other vehicles from passing through the intersection. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288759 | DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PERSONNEL AND THE GROUND, AND METHOD IMPLEMENTING SAID DEVICE - A system for communicating between a commercial aircraft and the base of the airline that chartered the same when the aircraft is itself located on the ground during the flight preparation phases and before unloading the commercial freight or passengers. A method implements such a communication system by the commercial flight staff and/or the aircraft captain to prepare a flight and the commercial freight unloading phase. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288760 | Navigation system - A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a road number processing unit for performing, when the HOV lane decision unit decides that the HOV lane is included, processing of adding information representing the HOV lane to a road number of the road including the HOV lane; and a display processing unit or a voice information unit for causing the road number passing through the processing by the road number processing unit to be displayed on the guide map or output in voice. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288761 | Navigation system - A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a road number processing unit for performing, when the HOV lane decision unit decides that the HOV lane is included, processing of adding information representing the HOV lane to a road number of the road including the HOV lane; and a display processing unit or a voice information unit for causing the road number passing through the processing by the road number processing unit to be displayed on the guide map or output in voice. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND/OR RECEIVING AT LEAST ONE LOCATION REFERENCE, ENHANCED BY AT LEAST ONE FOCUSING FACTOR - A method and system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes at least one of obtaining and receiving information regarding at least one location reference at a server ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ROUTE GUIDANCE - This invention relates to a route displaying method and apparatus in a navigation system. More specifically, this invention relates to a navigation-based apparatus and method to display a complete route presented in three-dimension. The navigation system may include a map adjusting unit to adjust visual ground of the map for the user. In one embodiment, the map adjusting unit can adjust the visual ground area convexly, so that the user can view the full route including the destination. In another embodiment, the map adjusting unit may adjust the visual ground area concavely to present more surrounding details of the vehicle to the user. The navigation system may also include a wireless communication device to retrieve the most current map and traffic information from a remote server, and communicatively couple with the map adjusting unit and a route generating unit to provide the most updated information with full route view to the user. The navigation system may also be integrated into a portable device such as a smartphone. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DRIVING DIRECTIONS - An example of a method includes determining, electronically, a source location and a destination location in response to an input received through one of a first short message service (SMS) and a general packet radio service (GPRS). The method also includes determining, electronically, a first milestone between the source location and the destination location. Further, the method includes sending directions to reach the first milestone from the source location through a second SMS and an identifier associated with the first milestone. Furthermore, the method includes detecting when to send directions to reach one of a second milestone and the destination location from the first milestone. In addition, the method includes sending directions to reach one of the second milestone and the destination location through a third SMS based on detecting. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288765 | REAL-TIME ROUTE AND RECHARGE PLANNING - A system may include a processing device and a routing application included on the processing device. The routing application may be configured to receive a destination location for a vehicle; determine a fuel efficiency of the vehicle; and determine a route for the vehicle from a current location to the destination location, the route being based on the fuel efficiency of the vehicle, a fuel capacity of the vehicle, an amount of fuel remaining for the vehicle, and navigation information including the location of at least one charging station. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288766 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, NAVIGATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A navigation apparatus that provides guidance along a route to a destination using a guidance image on which a plurality of guidance signs, respectively indicative of a guidance direction at a guidance point, are arranged in order of proximity to a current point, includes a setting unit that preliminarily sets a first given distance from the current point; an extracting unit that extracts a given guidance point on the route; a calculating unit that calculates a distance from the current point to the given guidance point extracted by the extracting unit; and a display control unit that when the distance to the given guidance point calculated by the calculating unit becomes equal to or less than the first given distance, changes a color of a guidance sign at the guidance point to a color different from an current display color. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288767 | Navigation system - A navigation system includes: a map information acquiring unit for acquiring map information; an HOV lane decision unit for deciding whether an HOV lane is included in a road represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring unit or not; a road number processing unit for performing, when the HOV lane decision unit decides that the HOV lane is included, processing of adding information representing the HOV lane to a road number of the road including the HOV lane; and a display processing unit or a voice information unit for causing the road number passing through the processing by the road number processing unit to be displayed on the guide map or output in voice. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMER/PASSENGER WAYFINDING USING BOARDING PASS BARCODE SCANNING CAPABILITIES ON LOW-COST DISPLAY DEVICES - A low-cost display unit that displays wayfinding information to a traveler in a public travel-related area is disclosed and may include a communication interface that facilitates receiving of travel-related information, a machine-readable marking reader that determines the presence of a travel document having one or more machine readable markings, scans the one or more machine-readable markings, and decodes the scanned one or more machine-readable markings, wherein the one or more machine-readable markings contain encoded traveled-related information pertaining to the traveler; and a display control unit that receives the decoded one or more machine-readable marking, determines the traveler's destination in the public travel-related area from the decoded one or more machine-readable markings, determines the path that the traveler should travel to reach the destination, and displays the determined path to the traveler on the low-cost display unit. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288769 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING FLUID DELIVERY MISSIONS ON A SITE - Systems and methods for controlling fluid delivery on a site using at least one fluid delivery machine are disclosed. An exemplary such method includes identifying at least one path on the site based on map information associated with the site, calculating a fluid delivery requirement of the at least one path based on environmental information associated with the site, and dispatching a fluid delivery machine on a mission to treat the at least one path with fluid based on the fluid delivery requirement. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288770 | SPEED LIMIT CHANGE NOTIFICATION - Techniques are described that may be implemented in a mobile electronic device providing navigation functionality to furnish a notification that the indicated speed limit of a roadway being traversed has changed. In an implementation, the display of the mobile electronic device is configured to display navigation information including a roadway graphic representing a roadway being traversed by the mobile electronic device and a speed limit indicator graphic for indicating the speed limit associated with the roadway. When a change in the indicated speed limit is encountered, an attribute of the navigation information is temporarily altered to provide a notification of the change. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A DEVICE - A method and apparatus for estimating a location of a device. For each of a plurality of locations of a device, a set of positional data is determined from signals received from a plurality of satellites. The positional data is filtered and compared with data from a road network database. This comparison may be a function of a distance from at least one point defined by a set of the filtered positional data to a road in the road network database and an angle between a line representing a best fit for plural points defined by corresponding plural sets of the filtered positional data to a line defined by a road in the road network database. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288772 | CURRENT POSITION DETECTOR FOR VEHICLE - A current position detector for a vehicle includes: an angular speed sensor; a speed sensor; a GPS receiver; a traveling trajectory estimating element for estimating a relative trajectory based on an orientation change amount and a traveling distance, and for estimating a traveling trajectory based on the relative trajectory and a GPS signal; and an error estimating element for estimating and correcting each error of an angular speed signal, a speed signal and the GPS signal. The error estimating element estimates a gain error of the angular speed signal such that an attachment angle gain error attributed to an attachment angle of the angular speed sensor and an angular speed gain error attributed to a non-linear gain property of the angular speed sensor are independently estimated. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288773 | LOSS OF SEPARATION AVOIDANCE MANEUVERING - A flight management system for an aircraft may determine maneuvers to avoid loss of separation between the aircraft and another aircraft. The flight management system may include a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory may store instructions that are executable by the processor to identify a potential loss of separation between the aircraft and a second aircraft. The instructions may also be executable by the processor to determine whether executing a first speed maneuver using predetermined parameters is predicted to avoid the potential LOS. The instructions may be further executable by the processor to determine parameters of a second speed maneuver when the first speed maneuver is expected to avoid the potential LOS. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288774 | FORWARD COLLISION RISK REDUCTION - A method for determining a safety zone of a foreign object for a forward collision risk reduction system. The method may include determining the type of the foreign object; setting the safety zone to a predetermined value corresponding to the type of the foreign object; determining the traffic behavior of the foreign object; determining if the traffic behavior corresponds to a species of a predetermined group of traffic behaviors; and if the traffic behavior corresponds to a species of a predetermined group of traffic behaviors, modifying the safety zone in accordance with a predetermined species function corresponding to the species. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288775 | Rain Sensor with Variable Shut Off - An intelligent rain sensor incorporates at least one hygroscopic member and a sensor that generates signals representative of its amount of expansion due to absorption of moisture. A microcontroller executes a pre-programmed algorithm that determines at least the rate of expansion and uses that information to distinguish between actual rainfall events on the one hand, and high humidity, dew or a light sprinkle on the other hand, and sends a shut off command to an irrigation controller. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288776 | Cloud water characterization system - A system and method for providing a statistical measure of the size of liquid water droplets in a cloud, as well as a system and method for the detection and/or measurement of the presence of a cloud, liquid water content in the cloud and ice water content in the cloud, among other parameters. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288777 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND REPORTING OF LOCATION AND EXTENT OF SERVICE FAILURE IN UTILITY AND TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - System, device and method for automatic detection and reporting of location and extent of service failure in utility and/or telecommunication networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, operational condition information of each utility pole/tower or telecommunication pole/tower is obtained by using a pole/tower sensing device disposed to monitor operational conditions at each utility pole/tower or telecommunication pole/tower in the respective utility or telecommunication networks. Further, the obtained operational condition information of each utility pole/tower or telecommunication pole/tower is sent to a remote monitoring server via a communication network by the associated pole/tower sensing device. Furthermore, the operational condition information received from each utility pole/tower or telecommunication pole/tower is processed by the remote monitoring server. Based on the outcome of processing the operational condition information by the remote monitoring server, location and extent of service failure in the utility or telecommunication networks is reported. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288778 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF SAGD PROCESS CHARACTERISTICS - The invention relates to thermally stimulated oil recovery in horizontal wells, namely to the methods for estimation of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process characteristics. Method for estimation of SAGD process characteristics is characterized by the steps of measuring temperature along the injection well, measuring steam quality and injection rate at the inlet of the injection well, estimating the pressure distribution profile by using the data obtained, estimating steam injection profile by using the obtained pressure profile and injection rate combined with ID injection well model for pressure losses in the wellbore and heat exchange between injection well tubing and annulus. The obtained steam injection profile is used as an input parameter for a set of 2D cross-sectional analytical SAGD models taking into account reservoir and overburden formation properties impact on production parameters and SAGD characteristics. SAGD process characteristics are estimated on the basis of energy conservation law for condensed steam taking into account heat losses into the reservoir and overburden formation and hence the fluid production rate changing in time. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA-DEPENDENT ACQUISITION BY MASS SPECTROMETRY - Systems, computer-readable media, and methods using mass spectrometry to analyze a sample are provided. For example, a method includes: acquiring a precursor ion spectrum; analyzing the precursor ion spectrum to identify precursor ions that preliminarily match one or more peptides that each belong to at least one protein of interest for the analysis; selecting each of the identified precursor ions in an order according to a ranking protocol for maximizing the number of proteins that are identified in the sample; for each selected precursor ion: acquiring a corresponding product ion spectrum, determining whether the acquired product ion spectrum matches one of the peptides that belong to the set of proteins of interest, and identifying a matched peptide as being present in the sample; and identifying proteins of interest that are present in the sample based on the peptides that are identified as being present in the sample. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288780 | Methods for Non-Invasive Prenatal Ploidy Calling - Methods for non-invasive prenatal ploidy calling are disclosed herein. Methods for determining the ploidy status of a chromosome in a gestating fetus from genotypic data measured from a sample of DNA from the mother of the fetus and from the fetus, and from genotypic data from the mother and optionally also from the father are disclosed herein. The ploidy state is determined by using a joint distribution model to create a set of expected allele distributions for different possible fetal ploidy states given the parental genotypic data, and comparing the expected allelic distributions to the pattern of measured allelic distributions measured in the mixed sample, and choosing the ploidy state whose expected allelic distribution pattern most closely matches the observed allelic distribution pattern. In an embodiment, the mixed sample of DNA may be preferentially enriched at a plurality of polymorphic loci in a way that minimizes the allelic bias. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288781 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A BIOLOGICAL CONDITION OR AGENT USING SELECTED GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES - Methods are provided for evaluating a biological condition of a subject using a calibrated profile data set derived from a data set having a plurality of members, each member being a quantitative measure of the amount of a subject's RNA or protein as distinct constituents in a panel of constituents. The biological condition may be a naturally occurring physiological state or may be responsive to treatment of the subject with one or more agents. Calibrated profile data sets may be used as a descriptive record for an agent. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288782 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING STATE AND ACTION OF HUMAN BODY AND METHOD OF DETERMINING STATE OF HUMAN BODY, USING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL - Disclosed herein is a system for determining the state and action of the human body using an optical signal. The system includes an optical signal transmission module configured to generate and output the optical signal, an optical signal transfer module configured to include at least one optical signal transfer path that is wearable on a region of the human body and that has at least one cut portion, and a human body state analysis module configured to determine a variation in the state of the human body by calculating the light transmission ratio of the at least one optical signal transfer path which varies depending on the gap of the at least one cut portion of the at least one optical signal transfer path. The gap varies depending on a variation in a circumference of the region of the human body. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288783 | SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING DRUG EFFECTS AND ADVERSE EFFECTS AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A drug effect-adverse effect prediction system includes a clinical data analysis table generating part, for each combination of genotypes relating to a drug effect or adverse effect, for generation of an analysis table for handling cases related to presence or absence of the drug effect or adverse effect. The system also includes a reliability analysis part, a discrimination formula generating part, a prediction part, and a discrimination formula optimizing part. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288784 | Monitoring Energy Expended by an Individual - Methods, apparatuses and systems of monitoring energy expended by an individual are disclosed. One method includes sensing, by a motion sensor, motion of the individual, identifying a plurality of activities performed by the individual over a period of time based on the identified motions, estimating, by a processor, energy expended by the individual for each of the plurality of the plurality of identified activities, and estimating energy expended by the individual by summing the estimated energy expended for each of the plurality of activities. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288785 | COMPRESSION OF GENOMIC BASE AND ANNOTATION DATA - A genomic data computer system receives a data set comprising sequenced genomic bases and associated annotations that form sequenced base-annotation pairs. The computer system determines a frequency distribution for the base-annotation pairs in the data set. The computer system determines variable-length identification codes for the base-annotation pairs based on the frequency distribution. The computer system converts the sequenced base-annotation pairs into a corresponding series of the variable-length identification codes that require a smaller amount of storage than the original data. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288786 | Method and System for Multi-Zone Modeling to Determine Material Properties in Storage Tanks - In a batch process control system employing storage tanks without mixers, properties of the storage tank pump out feedstock may be modeled to more accurately control the quality of a process. This model may not require the measurement of input or pump out flow or assume perfect blending. Rather, the developed model may assume that feedstock input into a storage tank may remain layered with some mixing due to continuous convection, turbulence during loading, or other factors. The model may include a projection of the properties describing a storage tank layer of input material into the model. For each new load of storage tank input feedstock, model zones may be shifted and the zone from which the feedstock is drawn may be updated with the properties from the new load. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288787 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING A MATERIAL - A method of analysing particles of a material which include a constituent is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of exposing particles of the material to x radiation having a range of x-radiation energies, detecting x-radiation intensities at two different energy levels transmitted through the particles, and determining the concentration of the constituent in particles from the detected intensities. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288788 | PREDICTION OF WAX APPEARANCE TEMPERATURE AND SOLID WAX AMOUNT BY REDUCED SPECTRAL ANALYSIS USING FTIR SPECTROSCOPY - A method that uses corrected areas integrated at two different wavelength ranges, 1402-1324 cm | 2011-11-24 |
20110288789 | ALTERNATOR BATTERY SYSTEM TESTER AND METHOD - A systematic method and system for testing the charging and starting systems of a vehicle, which requires each individual test to pass before proceeding is provided. In addition, the invention incorporates an improved alternator test that determines whether the alternator belt is slipping using data read using a vehicle data port. Further, the invention provides a battery bank test that correlates the voltage before and after a load is applied to the battery bank to the batteries' conditions. When testing the starter, the oil temperature is read via the vehicle data port, allowing for a determination of whether the current draw is abnormally high. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288790 | Path-Dependent Cycle Counting And Multi-Axial Fatigue Evaluation Of Engineering Structures - A method is provided for performing fatigue evaluation of a fatigue prone location of a tangible structure by converting multi-axial loading data of the fatigue prone location of the tangible structure to a set of equivalent constant amplitude loading data for the tangible structure. According to the method, a multi-axial load locus representing the tangible structure is generated. Time-dependent interior turning points R and any corresponding projected turning point R* art identified along the loading path from the point of origin P to the point of termination Q. Half cycles in the loading path are counted by referring to the interior and projected turning points R, R* along the loading path and to the point of origin P and the point of termination Q on the load locus. A stress range Δσ | 2011-11-24 |
20110288791 | APPARATUS, CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR - Provided are a structure testing apparatus, a controller for such an apparatus and a method for controlling a structure testing apparatus in which operation of a direct drive electromagnetic actuator is continuously auto-tuned during a test, so that the test load applied to a specimen during the test is the correct, desired load according to the current specimen parameters including stiffness. Forward and feedback control gains are repeatedly recalculated during the test in response to monitored specimen parameters. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288792 | MEMBRANE TENSION MEASURING APPARATUS - A membrane tension measuring apparatus comprises: a rectangular frame ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288793 | EVENT IDENTIFICATION - A method of identifying an event associated with consumption of a utility comprising the steps of generating a utility consumption profile from utility consumption data, the utility consumption data comprising a plurality of utility consumption values measured at a corresponding plurality of measurement points, and identifying an event within the utility consumption profile that matches the profile of an event stored in a database of utility consumption profiles. A computer implemented apparatus, a computer program code and an article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium and executable program instructions embodied therein, for carrying out the method are also provided. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288794 | FLOW COUNTER - A flow counter capable of correctly checking an operating state of the flow counter and leakage and correctly indicating a total amount of flow by allowing the rotation of a pointer to be learned accurately in the form of numerical data. In this flow counter ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE TIME-OF-FLIGHT OF AN ACOUSTIC SIGNAL - A method of estimating the time and flight of an acoustic signal transmitted by a transmit acoustic transducer determines a difference in time between receiving the transmitted acoustic signal and receiving an electromagnetic wave transmitted by the transmit acoustic transducer coincident with transmitting the acoustic signal. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288796 | CONDITION BASED MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON RADAR SENSOR - A sensing system comprising a radar-based vibration sensor and processing unit used to collect and process vibration information from a machine of interest. The radar-based vibration sensor obtains vibration data from mechanical operation of a component or series of components in the machine, and may be steered toward specific regions of interest of the machine. The processing unit analyzes the data, and may fuse data from a plurality of vibration sensors, such as radar-based vibration sensors and multiple machine-mounted sensors such as accelerometers. From this analysis, indications related to a status of the mechanical operation of the components in the machine of interest may be provided to relevant users. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288797 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CHARGE STATE OF A SECONDARY INTERCALATION CELL OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY - A method is described for determining the charge state of a secondary intercalation cell having an anode, a cathode, a separator, and an electrolyte phase, which saturates the anode, the cathode, and the separator, in which the charge state is back-calculated on the basis of measured variables, which are measured on the intercalation cell, with the aid of an electrochemical simulation model. In the fundamental simulation model, physical-chemical properties in the anode and the cathode are each considered in simplified form as being homogeneously distributed in the anode and in the cathode and Butler-Volmer reaction kinetics are calculated in each case for the anode and for the cathode. The Butler-Volmer reaction kinetics are expanded on the anode side by a potential component (Φ | 2011-11-24 |
20110288798 | Method and Apparatus For Measuring and Monitoring a Power Source - A system and method for monitoring a power source using a site controller and first and second sensors are described herein. The system may include a first power source in communication with a second power source. The system may include a first sensor in communication with the first power source and the first sensor may calculate an exponential discharge characteristic of the first power source. The system may include a second sensor in communication with the second power source and the second sensor may calculate an exponential discharge characteristic of the second power source. The system may include a controller in communication with the first sensor via the second sensor wherein the controller may determine the characteristics of the first power source as a function of the exponential discharge characteristic of the first power source. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288799 | CURRENT METERING AND ABNORMAL EVENT MONITORING SYSTEM - An MMS sensor assembly includes a U-shaped bottom housing that forms a recess in which is received a conductor whose current is to be sensed and a top housing arranged to be removably latched to the bottom housing. At least one magnetic field sensor is situated within the top housing, such the magnetic field sensor is positioned adjacent the conductor when the top housing is latched to the bottom housing, and is removable from the sensor assembly for repair or replacement. Circuitry connected to the magnetic field sensor includes a data storage device to store correction/compensation tables and/or equations for self-calibration or correction of the sensor. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288800 | METHOD FOR MEASURING SYSTEM PARAMETER OF LINEAR MULTIPORT AND MEASURING METHOD USING VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER - The present invention provides a novel measurement method for system parameters of a 5-port junction used in a VNA (Vector Network Analyzer). A VNA is a device for measuring amplitude ratios and phase differences (S-parameters: scattering matrix elements) between incident waves and reflected waves of a DUT (Device Under Test), or between input waves and transmitted waves. What has been newly discovered is that for 5 ports, S-parameters can be expressed by a linear coupling using H and power difference ratios ({P(S)/P(0)}−1). It is possible to easily calculate parameter H using a minimum of three already known standards, and amount of calculation can be reduced compared to conventionally. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE TIME-OF-FLIGHT OF A SIGNAL - A method of estimating the time of flight of a burst signal includes: receiving the burst signal; determining the slope of the phase characteristic of the Fourier transform of the received burst signal; and estimating the time-of-flight of the burst signal from the slope of the phase characteristic of the Fourier transform of the received burst signal. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288802 | Spectrometer, Measuring Apparatus, and Method of Data Processing - A spectrometer has: Accumulation means to obtain a data set containing N data points, repeating the measurement M times to obtain M spectral data sets or time-domain data sets S | 2011-11-24 |
20110288803 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING QUALITY OF GLASS PLATE - The present invention provides a quality inspection method of a glass plate, which can predict the shape of the glass plate on a four-point supporting type actual measurement inspection stand from the shape of the glass plate on a three-point supporting type universal actual measurement inspection stand. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288804 | Sighting Apparatus for Remote-Control Shooting System and Sight Alignment Method Using the Same - Disclosed are a sighting apparatus for a remote-control shooting system and a sighting alignment method using the same. The sighting apparatus for a remote-control shooting system including a firearm installed in a firearm platform rotatable in up, down, left and right directions, and an observation camera installed to be position-adjustable in at the firearm platform, the sighting apparatus includes: a sighting unit which is fastened to the firearm with a zeroing unit precisely up, down, left and right adjustable therebetween, and takes a first image as zeroed; and a controller which controls the firearm platform so that an sighting indicator (e.g., a line) of the first image taken by the sighting unit can be aligned with a target, and aims at the target. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288805 | CONTROL DEVICE WITH AN ACCELEROMETER SYSTEM - A control device includes a two-dimensional inertial system configured to measure an acceleration of the control device. A control circuit is coupled to the two-dimensional inertial system where the control circuit is configured to receive acceleration information for the acceleration measured by the two-dimensional inertial system. The control circuit is further configured to integrate the acceleration information to calculate the velocity of the control device and determine if the velocity of the control device becomes zero along one or both of the two dimensions for which the two-dimensional inertial system is configured to measure acceleration. The control circuit is further configured to correct a drift in the velocity if the control circuit determines that the velocity is zero along one or both of the two dimensions. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288806 | CALIBRATION OF A PROFILE MEASURING SYSTEM - A method for calibrating a measuring system, which system comprises a structured light source, optics and a sensor. The light source is adapted to produce a light plane or sheet and the optics is located between the light plane and the sensor. The method is performed in order to obtain a mapping from the sensor to the light plane. In the method the light source is switched on such that the light plane is produced. In order to account for distortions due to the optics, a mapping calibration profile is introduced in the light plane, wherein the mapping calibration profile comprises at least three points forming a straight line. A non-linear mapping from the sensor to the light plane is then computed by using the at least three points. Next, in order to account for perspective distortions, a homography calibration profile is introduced in the light plane, wherein the homography calibration profile comprises at least four points the relative distance between which are predetermined. A homography from the sensor to at the light plane based on these four points is then computed. A calibration object for using in such a method is also presented. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288807 | FAILURE DETECTING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATION SYSTEM - The present invention is directed to improve the precision of failure detection by performing the failure detection by changing an analog amount of a circuit to be subjected to the failure detection. An analog amount of the circuit to be subjected to failure detection is changed under a predetermined condition by a tuning circuit, and a state change in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection based on the change in the analog amount in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection is determined by a failure detection circuit, thereby detecting a failure in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection. In such a manner, without monitoring an output of the failure detection circuit on the outside of a semiconductor device, a failure in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection can be detected. Moreover, an actual state change in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection based on a change in the analog amount in the circuit to be subjected to failure detection is determined by the failure detection circuit, so that precision of failure detection is improved. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288808 | OPTIMAL TEST FLOW SCHEDULING WITHIN AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT FOR MINIMIZED MEAN TIME TO DETECT FAILURE - The present invention describes a method and system for optimizing a test flow within each ATE (Automated Test Equipment) station. The test flow includes a plurality of test blocks. A test block includes a plurality of individual tests. A computing system schedule the test flow based one or more of: a test failure model, test block duration and a yield model. The failure model determines an order or sequence of the test blocks. There are at least two failure models: independent failure model and dependant failure model. The yield model describes whether a semiconductor chip is defective or not. Upon completing the scheduling, the ATE station conducts tests according to the scheduled test flow. The present invention can also be applied to software testing. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288809 | Communication of a diagnostic signal and a functional signal by an integrated circuit - An integrated circuit | 2011-11-24 |
20110288810 | TEST APPARATUS AND TEST METHOD - Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a testing section that stores a program in which commands to be executed branch according to detected branching conditions and that tests the device under test by executing the program; and a log memory that stores test results of the testing section in association with command paths of the program executed to obtain the test results. The testing section sequentially changes a characteristic of a test signal supplied to the device under test, and judges pass/fail of the device under test for each characteristic of the test signal, and the log memory stores a test result of the testing section in association with a command path of the program, for each characteristic of the test signal. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288811 | WIRELESS SENSOR BASED QUANTITATIVE FALLS RISK ASSESSMENT - Methods and systems may provide for a plurality of kinematic sensors to be coupled to a corresponding plurality of shanks of an individual, a processor, and a memory to store a set of instructions. If executed by the processor, the instructions can cause the system to calculate a timed up and go (TUG) time segment based on angular velocity data from the plurality of kinematic sensors. The instructions may also cause the system to calculate a derived parameter based on the angular velocity data, and generate a falls risk assessment based on at least one of the TUG time segment and the derived parameter. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288812 | Apparatus and Method for Geometric Measurement - An non-contacting measurement apparatus for measuring distances, angles and related geometric quantities, and for computing other quantities based on the measurements, is provided. A visible light beam allows a user to point the device at one or more points to which the distance is measured, and angular rotation between the various points of interest can be recorded. Then, geometric and trigonometric relationships are used to compute and display lengths, areas, volumes or other facts derived from the measurements. Various input and output features are provided in the present embodiments. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288813 | COORDINATE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a coordinate measuring apparatus and method. Path equations of individual photodetection units relative to each light emitting unit are calculated using a plurality of photodetection units and a small number of light emitting units, and the coordinates of one or more actual targets are obtained using the calculated path equations. Accordingly, there are advantages in that, since a small number of light emitting sensors are used, installation costs can be reduced, maintenance costs can be reduced, and the lifespan of products can be extended. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288814 | TIRE APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A tire appearance inspection apparatus and method employing image processing is capable of performing tire appearance inspection with great accuracy. The tire appearance inspection apparatus includes a sectional shape acquiring device for acquiring cross-sectional shapes of a tire in the radial direction along the circumference of the tire, an arc fitting device for fitting an arc to each of the cross-sectional shapes, an arc center position calculating device for calculating the center positions of the arcs, and a sectional shape aligning device for aligning the cross-sectional shapes using the center positions of the arcs for the cross-sectional shapes. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288815 | POSITION DETECTOR AND POSITIONING DEVICE - A position detector ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288816 | Method and Apparatus for Dimensional Measurement - A non-contacting, out-of-plane measurement apparatus for measuring distances, angles and related geometric quantities, and for computing other quantities based on the measurements, is provided. The measurement apparatus can measure distances to target points of interest and can also measure angles therebetween, including angles with respect to at least one or two degrees of freedom so as to compute information determining vector segments between a reference point and the points of interest, then, to compute lengths and areas and volumes of objects of interest defined by the points of interest. In some cases, areas of polygons can be measured as sums of cross-products of the computed vectors to the points of interest located at the vertices of the polygons. Also, computing constituent triangular projections onto a polygon of interest using said apparatus then summing said constituent triangular projections so as to arrive at an area of said polygon. The apparatus and its methods are extendable to non-planar and three-dimensional calculations as well. In this way, the apparatus, or its user, are not required to be located at any special place or in-plane with the object (e.g., plane of a polygon) being measured. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288817 | Method of Servicing Wind Power Plant Using Azimuth Angle - The invention concerns a method for the determination of an azimuth angle for servicing purposes (α | 2011-11-24 |
20110288818 | Method and Apparatus for Dimensional Measurement - An non-contacting measurement apparatus for measuring distances, angles and related geometric quantities, and for computing other quantities based on the measurements, is provided. A visible light beam or ultrasonic beam allows a user to point the device at one or more points to which the distance is measured, and angular rotation between the various points of interest can be measured and recorded. Then, geometric and trigonometric relationships are used to compute and display lengths, areas, volumes or other facts derived from the measurements. Various input and output features are provided in the present embodiments. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288819 | SURFACE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of identifying characteristics of a target, marking object comprising the steps of: providing a subject, marked article having a surface having markings caused by a marking surface of the target, marking object; obtaining a 3D dataset corresponding to a 3D virtual model of the surface of the subject, marked article by means of a sensor; extracting from dataset by means of a surface segmentation analysis data indicative of a class of the target, marking object and storing said data in the database; extracting from the dataset by means of a surface wavelet filtering operation data corresponding to one or more individual characteristics of the target, marking object and storing said data in the database. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288820 | METHOD AND NETWORK ANALYZER FOR MEASURING GROUP RUNTIME IN A MEASURING OBJECT - A network analyzer for measuring a group delay time, which is caused by a device under test to be measured, generates an excitation signal comprising two signals (x | 2011-11-24 |
20110288821 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE USEABLE LIFE OF A PHOTORECEPTOR IN IMAGING DEVICES - Systems and methods of determining a predicted usable life of components, such as a photoreceptor, associated with an imaging device. The systems and methods include a power source configured to increase an electric field across the photoreceptor. A sensor or array is configured to detect charge deficient spots (CDS) in a charge transport layer (CTL) of the photoreceptor as a result of increasing the electric field. The systems and methods are configured to determine the predicted useable life of the photoreceptor based on the detected CDS. The systems and methods are further configured to output a report of the estimation. The estimation is conducted at fixed or variable intervals throughout the life of the photoreceptor and/or imaging device. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288822 | COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY BY ITERATIVE SPATIAL HARMONICS ORDER TRUNCATION - A method for improving computation efficiency for diffraction signals in optical metrology is described. The method includes simulating a set of spatial harmonics orders for a grating structure. The set of spatial harmonics orders is truncated to provide a first truncated set of spatial harmonics orders based on a first pattern. The first truncated set of spatial harmonics orders is modified by an iterative process to provide a second truncated set of spatial harmonics orders based on a second pattern, the second pattern different from the first pattern. Finally, a simulated spectrum is provided based on the second truncated set of spatial harmonics orders. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288823 | WIDEBAND DIGITAL SPECTROMETER - A processor, comprising a first data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a first signal having a spectral space, the stream having a data rate of at least 4 GHz; a second data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a second signal; a multitap correlator, configured to receive the first stream of samples and the second stream of samples, and producing at least one correlation output for each respective sequential sample of the first signal received; and a programmable control configured to alter a relationship of the stream of samples of the first signal and the stream of samples of the second signal, to thereby select, under program control, an alterable correlation output. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288824 | DESIGNING LENSES USING STRESS BIREFRINGENCE PERFORMANCE CRITERION - A method for designing an imaging lens having reduced susceptibility to thermally-induced stress birefringence, the imaging lens having first and second groups of lens elements located either side of an aperture stop, the method comprising: defining a set of lens design attributes; defining a set of lens performance criteria including a thermally-induced stress birefringence performance criterion; defining a first set of candidate glasses having a negligible susceptibility to thermal stress birefringence and a second set of candidate glasses having at most a moderate susceptibility to thermal stress birefringence; selecting glasses for lens elements that are located adjacent to the aperture stop from the first set of candidate glasses; selecting glasses for the remaining lens elements from the first or second sets of candidate glasses; and using a computer processor to determine a lens design for the imaging lens. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EQUIVALENCE CHECKING - As part of the design process it is required to design circuits in order to reduce their power consumption. This is typically done by enabling or disabling flip-flops (FFs), however, such change in the circuit requires certain verification. As sequential clock gating changes the state function it is necessary to perform a sequential equivalence checking (SEC) verification. Applying a full SEC may be runtime consuming and is not scalable for large designs. Methods to reduce the problem of verifying sequential clock gating by reducing the sequential problem into much smaller problem that can be easily solved is therefore shown. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288826 | COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF RIBOZYMES - Disclosed herein are methods, processes, and computer programs related to the design of ribozymes. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288827 | Numerical Model For Simulating Polymeric Material Properties - Methods and systems using a numerical model to describe polymeric material properties are disclosed. FEM model of a product is defined. FEM model includes one or more solid elements of polymeric material. In a time-marching simulation of the product under loads, stress state of the solid elements is calculated from deformation gradient tensors. Stress state incorporates the Mullins effect and strain hardening effect, also includes elastic stress, viscoelastic stress and back stress. A yield surface is defined to determine whether the elements are under plastic deformation. Plastic strain is obtained to update the deformation gradient tensor, which is then used to recalculate the stress state. Calculations continue until updated stress state is within a tolerance of the yield surface, at which time the results of polymeric material elements are obtained. The numerical model takes into account all characteristics of a polymeric material. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288828 | DISTRIBUTED MODEL IDENTIFICATION - A method and system for identifying a distributed model for a nonlinear system represented by a block diagram. The distributed model identification can be achieved by first replacing all signal links across the block diagram with elastic links by augmenting each input port of a plurality of blocks with a signal generator that produces a replacement signal value (s | 2011-11-24 |
20110288829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTS FOR POWER, PERFORMANCE, NOISE, AND COST THROUGH USE OF VARIABLE POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE COMPRESSION - A method of integrated circuit design and, more particularly, a method and system to optimize semiconductor products for power, performance, noise, die area, and cost through use of variable power supply voltage compression. The method is implemented in a computer-based tool and includes: embedding relationships in an optimization tool running on a computing device, wherein the relationships are based at least partly on performance, power-supply noise, die area, and power; inputting a set of product data and a set of technology data in the optimization tool running on the computing device; and determining product design parameters including power supply voltage, switching-noise-induced power supply voltage variation, and decap area. The determining is based on the relationships, the product data, and the technology data and is performed using the computing device running the optimization tool. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288830 | Finite State Machine Diagram Generation - A method for processing machine information of a system, such as an integrated circuit design, to generate a display of a finite state machine diagram by determining a position for the states in the diagram and then showing representations of the transitions between states to create a symmetrical, compact and cyclic process view of the finite state machine. Levels are assigned to the states in a first direction. A rule based technique then is used to order the states in levels that ensure minimum crossings of transitions between consecutive levels as well as for transitions in a same level. Next, the specific position of each state in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is computed, such that the positions take into account areas or “tracks” in which connection lines representing transitions between states will be rendered. The connection line representing transitions between states are then rendered in the diagram. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHECKPOINTING DURING SIMULATIONS - Method and system for more efficient checkpointing strategy in cross correlating ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110288832 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DESIGN - Described herein are systems and processes for designing the sequence of one or more interacting nucleic acid strands intended to adopt a target secondary structure at equilibrium. The target secondary structure is decomposed into a binary tree and candidate mutations are evaluated on leaf nodes of the tree. During a process of leaf optimization, defect-weighted mutation sampling is used to select each candidate mutation position with a probability proportional to its contribution to an ensemble defect of the leaf. Subsequences of the tree are then merged, moving up the tree until a final nucleotide sequence of interest is determined that has the target secondary structure at equilibrium. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288833 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURED VALUE SIMULATION - A method, system and computer program product for measured value simulation. The method including the steps of: observing measured values of an event to provide observed values, where the step of observing starts at a predetermined observation time; concurrently running a plurality of simulations, where the simulations have behaviors that are characterized by different parameters and start at the predetermined observation time; producing a discrete distribution at a predetermined timing after the predetermined observation time, where the discrete distribution are based on distances between the measured values provided by the predetermined timing and calculation of the simulations; and producing a second plurality of simulations based on the discrete distribution. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288834 | FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A fluid structure interaction simulation method includes a graph information forming process to form graph information of nodes obtained by discretising a computing region for each of a fluid and a structure that are represented by meshes, and a main time development loop process to simulate a physical phenomenon. The loop process includes arranging IMEs (Interaction Mediating Elements) that move with a displacement of the structure, on a boundary of the structure, defining, within the IME, correcting functions of a pressure and a velocity of the fluid that interact with the pressure and the velocity of the fluid and the displacement of the structure, and executing a simulation based on the correcting functions, in a state in which the meshes of the fluid are mismatched to the meshes of the structure. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288835 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A data processing device includes a parameter estimation unit and a structure adjustment unit. The structure adjustment unit notes each state of an HMM as a noted state, obtains, for the noted state, a value corresponding to an eigen value difference which is a difference between a partial eigen value sum and a total eigen value sum, as a target degree value indicating a degree for selecting the noted state as a division target or a mergence target, selects a state having the target degree value larger than a division threshold value, as a division target, and selects a state having the target degree value smaller than a mergence threshold value, as a mergence target. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288836 | DETECTION OF ANOMALIES IN AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE - A method and system for detecting anomalies in an aeroengine. The method and system define a behavior model of a controller of the aeroengine using a time regression modeling the behavior of the controller as a function of a data set relating to the controller and including measurements of past behaviors and command and state measurements of the controller; continuously recalculate the behavior model for each new data set; and monitor statistical variation of the behavior model to detect a behavior anomaly of the controller representing an operating anomaly of the engine. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288837 | Multi-Stage Process Modeling Method - A process is modeled by resolving the process into a plurality of process stages, including at least a first process stage and a second process stage, and developing a plurality of models, each model corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of process stages, wherein the model corresponding to each process stage is developed using data from one or more runs of that process stage and output quality data relating to the one or more runs of that process stage and wherein the model corresponding to each process stage is adapted to produce an output quality prediction associated with that process stage, and wherein the output quality prediction produced by the model of a first one of the process stages is used to develop the model of a second one of the process stages. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288838 | DEVICE FOR PREDICTING DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF RUBBER MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF RUBBER MATERIAL - The present invention relates to a method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material capable of accurately analyzing a deformation behavior of a rubber material even in a micro level, and more specifically, to a method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material, including: generating a three-dimensional model of the rubber material formed by adding a filler to a rubber; applying a configuration condition specifying a relationship between a stress and a strain on the basis of thickness information and temperature information obtained on the basis of a molecular dynamics approach to a rubber layer portion constituting the three-dimensional model; and, analyzing the deformation behavior of the rubber material. Further, in the method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material, it is preferable that the deformation behavior of the rubber material is analyzed by applying a finite element method to the three-dimensional model to which the configuration condition is applied. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288839 | OPEN-WORLD MODELING - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating an inference about events that may not have yet been observed. Open-world modeling can be used to take a history of observation so as to understand trends over time in the revelation of previously unseen events, and to make inferences with subsets of data that new unseen events will be seen. Thus, inaccuracies associated with predictions generated from incomplete data sets can be mitigated. To yield such predictions, open-world submodels and closed-world submodels that do not allow for previously unseen events can be combined via a model mixture methodology, which fuses inferences from the open- and close-world models. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288840 | VEHICLE SYSTEM MODELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A vehicle simulation system includes a compiler module, a parser module, a wrapper module, a modeling module, and a simulation module. The compiler module generates object code that is compatible with a first type of operating system based on source code that is executable by a vehicle control module and that is compatible with a second type of operating system. The parser module generates a definitions file and an extensible markup language (XML) file based on the source code and the object code. The wrapper module generates a library file based on the object code and the definitions file. The modeling module generates model-based source code for a virtual model based on the XML file and a user configuration of the virtual model. The simulation module simulates operation of a plant of a vehicle with the virtual model. | 2011-11-24 |
20110288841 | VEHICLE SIMULATION SYSTEM WITH SOFTWARE-IN-THE-LOOP BYPASS CONTROL - A vehicle simulation system includes a first simulation model that when executed simulates a software ring along with other software of a vehicle module. The vehicle simulation system further includes a second simulation model of the software ring. A bypass switch that has a first state and a second state. A bypass switching module switches the bypass switch between the first simulation model and the second simulation model based on a bypass signal and a ring enabling signal. A simulation control module executes code of a vehicle simulation model including software in-the-loop (SIL) testing of a selected one of the first simulation model and the second simulation model based on state of the bypass switch. | 2011-11-24 |