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20130080483 | PORTABLE HAND HELD CONTROLLER FOR AMUSEMENT DEVICE - A method of improving accuracy of a database of amusement device locations is described. A plurality of amusement devices are deployed at a plurality of locations. The database of amusement device locations is populated based on the deploying. A server receives over a network, from a portable device, a check-in request. The check-in request is associated with one of the amusement devices, and includes geographic location information associated with the portable device at the time the check-in request is made. The server compares the geographic location information received from the portable device with the location of the amusement device stored in the database, and updates the database based on the comparing. | 03-28-2013 |
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20090006289 | Hierarchical Temporal Memory System with Enhanced Inference Capability - A node, a computer program storage medium, and a method for a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) network where at least one of its nodes generates a top-down message and sends the top-down message to one or more children nodes in the HTM network. The first top-down message represents information about the state of a node and functions as feedback information from a current node to its child node. The node may also maintain history of the input patterns or co-occurrences so that temporal relationships between input patterns or co-occurrences may be taken into account in an inference stage. By providing the top-town message and maintaining history of previous input patterns, the HTM network may, among others, (i) perform more accurate inference based on temporal history, (ii) make predictions, (iii) discriminate between spatial co-occurrences with different temporal histories, (iv) detect “surprising” temporal patterns, (v) generate examples from a category, and (vi) fill in missing or occluded data. | 01-01-2009 |
20090240639 | Feedback in Group Based Hierarchical Temporal Memory System - A Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) network has at least first nodes and a second node at a higher level than the first nodes. The second node provides an inter-node feedback signal to the first nodes for grouping patterns and sequences (or co-occurrences) in input data received at the first nodes at the first nodes. The second node collects forward signals from the first nodes; and thus, the second node has information about the grouping of the patterns and sequences (or co-occurrences) at the first nodes. The second node provides inter-node feedback signals to the first nodes based on which the first nodes may perform the grouping of the patterns and sequences (or co-occurrences) at the first nodes. Also, a node in a Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) network comprising a co-occurrence detector and a group learner coupled to the co-occurrence detector. The group learner provides an intra-node feedback signal to the co-occurrence detector including information on the grouping of the co-occurrences. The co-occurrence detector may select co-occurrences to be split, merged, retained or discarded based on the intra-node feedback signals. | 09-24-2009 |
20090313193 | HIERARCHICAL TEMPORAL MEMORY SYSTEM WITH HIGHER-ORDER TEMPORAL POOLING CAPABILITY - A temporal pooler for a Hierarchical Temporal Memory network is provided. The temporal pooler is capable of storing information about sequences of co-occurrences in a higher-order Markov chain by splitting a co-occurrence into a plurality of sub-occurrences. Each split sub-occurrence may be part of a distinct sequence of co-occurrences. The temporal pooler receives the probability of spatial co-occurrences in training patterns and tallies counts or frequency of transitions from one sub-occurrence to another sub-occurrence in a connectivity matrix. The connectivity matrix is then processed to generate temporal statistics data. The temporal statistics data is provided to an inference engine to perform inference or prediction on input patterns. By storing information related to a higher-order Markov model, the temporal statistics data more accurately reflects long temporal sequences of co-occurrences in the training patterns. | 12-17-2009 |
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20120005134 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL LEARNING ALGORITHMS IN HIERARCHICAL TEMPORAL NETWORKS - A spatio-temporal learning node is a type of HTM node which learns both spatial and temporal groups of sensed input patterns over time. Spatio-temporal learning nodes comprise spatial poolers which are used to determine spatial groups in a set of sensed input patterns. The spatio-temporal learning nodes further comprise temporal poolers which are used to determine groups of sensed input patterns that temporally co-occur. A spatio-temporal learning network is a hierarchical network including a plurality of spatio-temporal learning nodes. | 01-05-2012 |
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20120259510 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A BELT DRIVE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method and a device for operating a belt drive of a motor vehicle. Under high loads, a high belt tension is set and during normal operation a low belt tension is set. The particular belt tension is set through a control process, taking into account the instantaneous load on the belt drive and/or taking into account the age of the belt of the belt drive. | 10-11-2012 |
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20130214594 | Power Supply Unit for a Vehicle Electrical System of a Motor Vehicle - An improved power supply unit for a vehicle electrical system of a motor vehicle, which has an a.c. generator, that provides a phase signal, having an excitation coil, a field regulator assigned to the excitation coil and a rectifier having rectifier elements for the rectification of the generator voltage supplied by the a.c. generator. The field regulator has a voltage recording range for the evaluation of the phase signal having a minimum value and a maximum value, the maximum value being adjusted to the nominal voltage of a power supply unit of the motor vehicle. | 08-22-2013 |
20140265332 | ELECTRIC MACHINE IN A MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING A ROTATIONAL SPEED SIGNAL INPUT - A method for operating an electric machine coupled to an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, the electric machine having a stator winding, a rotor winding, a field regulator assigned to the rotor winding and a current converter post-connected to the stator winding having controllable switching elements, in which during a starting process of the internal combustion engine the electric machine is operated as a motor according to a rotational speed specification signal. | 09-18-2014 |