Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130069373 | METHOD TO ROTATE THE ROTOR OF A WIND TURBINE AND MEANS TO USE IN THIS METHOD - A direct driven wind turbine includes an electrical generator with a rotor and a stator, a hub constructed to receive a rotor blade, and an actuator device. The hub is connected to the rotor of the electrical generator. The hub and the rotor of the electrical generator are rotatable mounted in respect to the stator of the generator. The actuator device is constructed and arranged to rotate the rotor of the electrical generator and the hub of the wind turbine in respect to the stator of the electrical generator, wherein the actuator device is at least one motor. | 03-21-2013 |
20130074263 | MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE - A medical imaging device is provided. The medical imaging device has a detector unit, a receiving area for receiving a patient for the purposes of a medical imaging examination, and a patient table. The receiving area is cylindrically surrounded by the detector unit. The medical imaging device has at least one deposit unit which can be attached to the patient table. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075068 | COOLING DEVICE FOR A GRADIENT COIL AND USE THEREOF - A cooling device for disposal between two flat coils of a gradient coil has at least one first and with at least one second foil that are connected to each other in areas such that continuous cooling channels for a cooling fluid are formed. The cooling channels are branched, whereby an improved cooling effect is produced with a smaller thickness of the cooling device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076478 | FUSE ELEMENT - A fuse element and a method for manufacturing the same, are provided whereby the fuse element consists of an active response part which is advantageously formed by at least two parallel metal sub-strips of an elongated fuse metal foil including leading and trailing parts for electrical connection of each fuse element. The elongated fuse metal foil can be reinforced by an elongated dielectric base layer made of polymer material. Accordingly, performance of such a fuse element can be increased and manufacturing costs can be decreased. The fuse element especially can be applied to a plurality of capacitor sub-units being integrated in housings and submerged in a cooling and insulating liquid within the housing. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077756 | IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING VESSELS OR ORGANS IN AN AREA OF A PATIENT UNDER EXAMINATION - An imaging method and apparatus for displaying a target object, such as one or a plurality of blood vessels and/or an organ in an area of a patient under examination, is provided. The examination can be a medical intervention. At least one recorded fluoroscopic image of the area under examination is recorded by an X-ray system. At least one up-to-date reconstructed 3D radar image is generated from signals detected a radar receiver. The target object is identified in the fluoroscopic image and in the radar image. The radar image with the fluoroscopic image is recorded with the aid of the result of the identification. The radar image and the fluoroscopic image are combined. The combined image is reproduced on a display device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130081252 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FIXING A COMPONENT INSIDE OF A WIND TURBINE - An arrangement for fixing a component inside of a wind turbine is proposed. The arrangement has a portion of a tower and a direct fastener. The direct fastener has a first part and a second part and the portion of the tower is a portion of a wind turbine tower. The first part of the direct fastener is driven into the portion of the tower and connected thereto by a combination of friction hold and bonding. The second part of the direct fastener protrudes the portion of the tower and is connectable to a component. | 04-04-2013 |
20130081342 | WIND TURBINE TOWER - A wind turbine tower is made of reinforced concrete with fibre rovings as reinforcements. The fibre rovings may include, for example, glass fibre rovings, or armid fibre rovings, or carbon fibre rovings. The fibre rovings may comprise, for example, a bundle of multiple parallel oriented fibers forming a thin rope. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083894 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MOVEMENT OF AN X-RAY APPARATUS AND X-RAY SYSTEM - A method for controlling a movement of an x-ray apparatus is provided. The x-ray apparatus has a C-arm with an x-ray source and an x-ray detector disposed opposite one another, an actuator for positioning the C-arm relative to an examination region of an examination object supported on a support facility, a control facility for controlling the x-ray source and the x-ray detector and the actuator, and an operating facility with a display apparatus and an operating unit. The display apparatus displays an image representing a part of the examination object and a target location of the C-arm being determined as a function of an input at the operating unit. The target location has a target position and a target alignment of the C-arm. A controlled variable of the actuator is determined and supplied to the control facility for controlling the actuator. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083985 | ANGIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION METHOD - An angiographic examination method of an examination object for determining the morphology, histology and/or state of moving walls of vessels is disclosed. A series of angiography images of a section of interest of a vessel is disclosed. A quantitative analysis of the vascular wall of the section of the vessel is provided. The inherent motion of the vascular wall from two consecutive angiography images in each instance is calculated. The difference of the inherent motion of the vascular wall is visualized and/or the morphology and/or histology of the vascular wall is visualized. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086244 | Computer-Implemented Method for Checking a Communication Input of a Programmable Logic Controller of an Automation Component of a Plant - In order to determine for a programmable logic controller whether or not a communication input is blocked, a nominal/actual comparison between the communication input and predefined rules of a nominal communication is performed, a reaction matrix being used for case differentiation. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AN X-RAY PROJECTION IMAGE IN A DESIRED DIRECTION - A method for producing an X-ray projection image of a body region of a patient using a desired spatial location of a central ray, includes positioning a pointing element relative to the patient indicating a location of a pointing line and causing the location of the pointing line to coincide with the desired central ray location. A pointing line location and a central ray location currently set on an X-ray machine are recorded. A measure for deviation between the pointing line and the currently set central ray location is determined and used to set the desired central ray location. A medical apparatus includes an X-ray machine taking an X-ray projection image along a central ray, a pointing element indicating a pointing line, an acquisition unit detecting the pointing line location and the currently set central ray location, and a control and evaluation unit implementing software carrying out the method. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090747 | Closed-Loop Control Device - A closed-loop control device for a process, in which a dead band element is connected upstream of a linear dynamic controller to reduce actuating interventions in the steady control state. If a control deviation (e) of the control loop exceeds a first threshold value (s | 04-11-2013 |
20130091930 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PASSAGE MEASUREMENT - A device for checking the passability of a through-hole of a component includes a front section and an inflatable balloon. The front section is configured so that it can be pressed into or onto the through-hole. The inflatable balloon is fluidically connected to the front section. In one embodiment, a middle section is provided, which is formed as a tube, wherein the inflatable balloon, is fluidically connected to the front section via the middle section | 04-18-2013 |
20130099989 | Horn Antenna For A Radar Device - A horn antenna for a radar device including a dielectric filling body arranged in a hollow horn section of a metal body and a dielectric cover attached to the filling body and sealingly closing the open end of the metal body. The filling body includes a first conical portion that is fittingly received in the hollow horn section, and a second conical portion that is situated away from the open end and dimensioned to leave a gap between itself and the wall of the hollow horn section. The dielectric filling body has a third portion between the first and second portions, where the third portion and the opposite portion of the wall of the hollow horn section are provided with circumferential grooves arranged in pairs opposite each other to provide a wear and maintenance-free attachment of the dielectric filling body in the horn antenna. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101413 | WIND TURBINE WITH AIR DENSITY CORRECTION OF PITCH ANGLE - A method of controlling the pitch angle of a wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a rotor having at least one rotor blade. A pitch angle of the at least one rotor blade can be variably set. The method includes setting the pitch angle of the at least one rotor blade as a function of the determined air density. | 04-25-2013 |
20130124179 | Method for Determining a Partial-Load Condition of a System - A method for evaluating component-related energy models and external specification parameters, in order, based on these, to produce a determination of a set of partial-load conditions, which are simulated based on a parameterizable simulation model of the system. A system planner is put in a position, with the specification of specification parameters, for example, a minimum throughput of the system or a maximum energy consumption, in which he can obtain a set of partial-load conditions, i.e., a partial-load condition for each of the components involved in the determination. In this way, an individual partial-load condition can be set for each component, where all the partial-load conditions fulfill the provisions of the specification parameters. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125117 | Method and Arrangement for Using a Resource of a Hardware Platform with at Least Two Virtual Machines - A method and arrangement for using a resource of a hardware platform with at least two virtual machines, wherein a virtualization controller for administering the virtual machines executes on the hardware platform, a first machine of the virtual machines with a first operating system executes separately on a first processor core or a first processor, and further virtual machines execute on a further processor core or processor. One of the further virtual machines comprises a service machine including a first driver for accessing the resource, where the first operating system includes a para-virtualized second driver for accessing the resource, and requests by the para-virtualized second driver to access the resource are directed to the first driver that converts the requests into access operations to the resource. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125118 | Method and Virtualization Software for Providing Independent Time Sources for Virtual Runtime Environments - A method and virtualization software for providing at least two mutually independent time sources for at least one real-time operating system of a data processing device including virtual runtime environments, where a general-purpose operating system runs in one virtual runtime environment, and the virtual runtime environments are managed by virtualization software (hypervisor). A first time source is exclusively assigned to each real-time operating system, where the data processing device includes a second time source independent of the first time source, the second time source is configured to periodically generate an interrupt, the first processor core enters a routine of the virtualization software (hypervisor) with each interrupt triggered by the second time source, the content of at least one memory cell readable by the real-time operating system is updated and used as a time source, which is independent of the first time source, to control the first time source. | 05-16-2013 |
20130152058 | Method for Translating a Control Program in an Automation Language into an Intermediate Language - A method for translating a control program in an automation language into an intermediate language, wherein the control program comprises a plurality of basic operations that are each mapped to a respective sequence of instructions in the intermediate language, where a specification database comprising a respective transformation rule for at least a multiplicity of basic operations in the automation language is utilizable in a control program is accessed to translate the control program into the intermediate language, the transformation rule allows an input parameter list to be processed, and if the transformation rule is called with an input parameter list having a plurality of input parameters, unlimited in the transformation rule, the transformation rule defines the inclusion of a further transformation rule. The further transformation rule defines a recursive inclusion of the further transformation rule according to a number of the input parameters. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155564 | Intrinsically Safe Energy Limiting Circuit - An intrinsically safe energy limiting circuit for connection between an upstream DC power source and a downstream electrical load powered from the upstream DC power source, wherein the circuit comprises from upstream to downstream an input to be connected to the DC power source, an electronic current limiter configured to limit a current through the circuit to a maximum value if the current reaches this value, a fuse designed to open at a current value greater than the maximum value, a DC-to-DC converter configured to convert a DC input voltage to a lower nominal DC output voltage, a zener barrier having a zener voltage higher than the DC output voltage, and an output for connection to the electrical load. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158681 | Safety-Oriented Controller in Combination with Cloud Computing - A control device cyclically accepts each safety-oriented input signal from an industrial-technical process in a fail-safe manner, and transfers the safety-oriented input signals to a Cloud using a fail-safe protocol over a link to a computer network. The control device also accepts signals from the Cloud over the link to the computer network, using the fail-safe protocol for the industrial-technical process specific safety-oriented control signals, and decides based on additional information in a fail-safe manner whether it recognizes the safety-oriented control signals determined by the Cloud for the industrial-technical process as correct. Depending on the result of the decision, the device controls the industrial-technical process in accordance with the safety-oriented control signals in a fail-safe manner or places the industrial-technical process into a safe state in a fail-safe manner. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES AMONG DIFFERENT CLIENTS FOR AN EXCLUSIVE USE - A method and a system share resources of a server among different clients. The system has a server which contains a maximum number m of resources among which a predetermined number w of the resources are initializable for being kept ready for use by the clients and forming a pool. A communication system communicates with the clients. A managing device manages the resources. The managing device contains at least a processor and a memory. The managing device is able to change the status of the resource of the pool in dependence on an assignment of the resource to the client or a release of the resource at a time T | 06-20-2013 |
20130166612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING DATABASE INSERT CALLS IN A MES SYSTEM - A method and a system execute database insert calls in a MES system. The data to be stored into the database are represented in XML tree formats according to the S95 hierarchy model. The method includes: a) receiving as input a given XML tree corresponding to a given S95 hierarchy data to stored into the database; b) processing the given XML tree in order to generate a corresponding parallel structure; c) getting a given S95 entity type and its given set of node references from the given parallel structure; d) if the given set of node references is not empty, composing a database insert call passing the information of the given set of node references; e) if the given set of node references is not empty, executing the composed database insert call; and executing items c) to e) for all the S95 entity types of the given parallel structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166999 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING THE LOOK AND BEHAVIOR OF A WEB APPLICATION - In order to integrate two or more different web applications to look like one coherent set a first request is provided from a web client to a first application. A second request is provided to a second application. The second request is intercepted by a software module. The second request is recognized to be related to the first application. Information is extracted from the second request by the software module. The information is used to configure the second application to look and/or behave like the first application. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167046 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE OF A MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM SCREEN - A method customizes a user-interface of a page-screen of a software application taking into account a customer requirement. The method includes providing, for a page-screen, a toolbar being a configurable graphic control, i.e. a configurable toolbar. The configurable toolbar contains a set of customizable buttons. Provided within the set of customizable buttons, is the possibility to add a forward smart navigation button which, if clicked, directs one to an additional page screen, from a source page to a target page. A graphic configuration tool enables the configuration of the configurable toolbar. The source page is explored so that the configurable toolbar is presented with the set of customizable buttons. A forward smart navigation button to direct to a selected target page is added. At engineering time, one associates to the smart navigation button, a URL address of the selected target page per the customer requirement. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE OF A MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM SCREEN - A method and a system customize a user-interface of a screen of a MES application taking into account a customer requirement, the screen being a page-screen. The method includes providing, for a page-screen, a configurable toolbar which is a configurable graphic control, wherein the configurable toolbar contains a set of command controls, and provides the possibility to add, to the set of command controls, a custom command control which, if activated at run-time, is executing a custom functionality. A graphic configuration tool is provided for enabling the configuration of the configurable toolbar. The page-screen is explored so that the configurable toolbar is presented with the set of command controls. Through the configuration tool, one can add to the set of command controls, a custom command control implementing the custom functionality. The information required for the execution of the least one custom command control is then specified. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE OF A MANFUACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM SCREEN - A method and a system are used to customize a user-interface of a screen of a MES application taking into account a customer requirement. The method includes providing within the MES application a page-screen containing a configurable graphic control, and providing a graphic configuration tool for enabling the configuration of the configurable graphic control of the page-screen. The method explores the page-screen so that a tree is presented in which each node represents a configurable graphic control. Further, a given node is selected and represents a given configurable graphic control and an associated custom area to be customized according to a given specific customer requirement. An ASP.net control is developed to meet the given specific customer requirement. The information of the ASP.net control is specified for linking it to the custom area of the configurable graphic control. Finally, the information for linking the custom area is stored. | 06-27-2013 |
20130169624 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING THE QUALITY OF AN ABLATION PROCESS - A method for visualizing the quality of an ablation process with a processing and display unit is provided. A 3D dataset of an anatomical object and a 3D image model of an ablation instrument are provided, wherein the 3D image model models at least the surface of the ablation instrument. A position and an alignment of the 3D image model of the ablation instrument within the anatomical object is specified, wherein the 3D image model of the ablation instrument is incorporated into the 3D dataset of the anatomical object. At least a part of the incorporated 3D image model of the ablation instrument and of the 3D dataset of the anatomical object is presented and at least one characteristic quality value is determined as a function of the location of the 3D image model of the ablation instrument in relation to the anatomical object. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173663 | METHOD, DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE AND WEB APPLICATION FOR OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS - A solution is disclosed for an overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) analysis for a manufacturing execution system (MES) allowing a comparative analysis that makes it possible to build links and relations among the values found in a report with raw data acquired from the field. The solution is a web application running on a web server and on OEE databrowsers running on clients. In order to come to a comparative analysis an OEE-server is provided with the functionality to acquire data from the MES of the production plant, to perform scheduling for reports, and to perform run time query executions. Additionally the web server gets data from a data mining support database. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185726 | Method for Synchronous Execution of Programs in a Redundant Automation System - A method for synchronous execution of programs in a redundant automation system comprising at least two subsystems, wherein at least one request for execution of one of the programs is taken as a basis for starting a scheduling pass, and during this scheduling pass a decision is taken as to whether this one program is executed on each of the subsystems. Suitable measures are proposed which allow all programs a fair and deterministic share of the program execution based on their priorities. | 07-18-2013 |
20130190927 | Apparatus and Method of Operating a Stirring Mechanism - A method and apparatus for operating a stirring mechanism for a container which is filled with a medium, wherein a value for the rotation speed of the stirring mechanism, which is predetermined for operating the stirring mechanism with a low level of energy consumption and stored in a memory, is set by an actuation and evaluation device such that reduced energy consumption by the stirring mechanism is achieved while at the same time the medium is thoroughly mixed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191909 | Industrial Automation System and Method for Safeguarding the System - An industrial automation system comprising a digital fingerprint that is allocated to a unit requesting access to the automation system and which is based on one or more parameters of a communication between the unit and a fingerprint-determining component of the automation system, wherein the industrial automation system additional comprises the fingerprint-determining component which, during the operation of the automation system, grants the requesting unit access to the automation system and compares the determined fingerprint of the requesting unit with a stored fingerprint. | 07-25-2013 |
20130196552 | Industrial Automation Technology Input/Output Module - An industrial automation technology input/output module includes a base section with a front side and a rear side, a printed circuit board, a contact strip disposed on the front side with a plurality of contact elements configured to make an electrical connection with corresponding mating contact elements of a connector strip, wherein the contact elements are electrically connected to the printed circuit board, wherein a device for forwarding a supply voltage for the printed circuit board is disposed in parallel to the contact strip, wherein the device includes a terminal point and the connector strip is formed to include a plurality of mating terminal points electrically connected to the respective mating contact elements, and wherein the supply voltage is switched to the printed circuit board via a link element that is insertable into the terminal point and the mating terminal point. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198481 | USB Stick - A USB stick for connection to electronic devices that are provided with a USB interface, wherein the USB stick includes a memory. Suitable measures are used to allow the USB stick to be used in different electronic devices, with virtual USB sticks being set up on the memory of the USB stick and each virtual USB stick representing an independent USB stick for a device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204407 | Scalable Architecture For A Human Machine Interface Device - A human-machine interface device suitable for use in an automation system comprising a plurality of the human-machine interface devices, where each human-machine interface device includes at least one hardware resource, a system bus, and an interconnect circuit and is configured for interconnecting with at least one other human-machine interface device to form a device cluster, where the interconnect circuit provides a communication channel between individual system bus in each human-machine interface device forming the device cluster. | 08-08-2013 |
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20130072788 | Method and System for Tracking Catheters in 2D X-Ray Fluoroscopy Using a Graphics Processing Unit - A method and system for detecting and tracking multiple catheters in a fluoroscopic image sequence in an integrated central processing unit and graphics processing unit framework is disclosed. A catheter electrode model is initialized in a first frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence. The catheter landmark candidates are detected, by a graphics processing unit, in the first frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence. The catheter electrode model is tracked, by a central processing unit, and is detected by the graphics processing unit, in subsequent frames of the fluoroscopic image sequence by detecting catheter landmark candidates in the subsequent frames of the fluoroscopic image sequence using at least one trained catheter landmark detector, and outputting the catheter model tracking and landmark detection results of for each frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence. | 03-21-2013 |
20130075286 | SAMPLE CARRIER AND METHOD FOR MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A sample carrier for microscopic examination of biological samples includes a base body and a filter membrane. The base body has at least one recess in which the filter membrane is disposed. The filter membrane makes an essentially flush closure with the surface of the sample carrier. The sample carrier has a circular shape. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076276 | SPRING-LOADED DRIVE WITH ACTIVE FEEDBACK IN DC CIRCUIT - A motor control of a motor has a DC circuit with a back-up capacitor and a switching device that can connect a motor to the back-up capacitor. A spring device applies a restoring force to the rotor of the motor when deflected from an idle position. When the DC Circuit feeds energy into the back-up capacitor from a power supply network, a control device activates switching elements of the switching device to adjust an actual deflection of the rotor to a required deflection. When the rotor is deflected from the idle position and the back-up capacitor receives no energy from the power supply network, the control device, supplied with energy by the back-up capacitor, sets the required deflection to the idle position and activates the switching elements such that the motor, upon being restored by the spring device, feeds energy into the back-up capacitor via the switching elements. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076748 | 3D VISUALIZATION OF MEDICAL 3D IMAGE DATA - A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying medical 3D image data. In an embodiment of the method, for every image voxel of the 3D image data which is assigned to a number g of the n regions, where g≧2: the transfer functions T | 03-28-2013 |
20130077738 | COLLIMATOR, DETECTOR ARRANGEMENT, AND CT SYSTEM - A collimator for a detector, such as an x-ray detector of a CT system, includes a plurality of collimator modules. At least one of the plurality of collimator modules includes at least two outer collimator walls and at least one inner collimator wall ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130077842 | Semi-Automated Preoperative Resection Planning - Preoperative resection planning is assisted by a computer. Rather than rely on interpolation of the user input, a graph of interconnections is used. The user inputs one or more polylines on one or more two-dimensional views. The polylines are used to assign resection and remnant seeds with a band of unassigned locations. The 2D seeds are used with the graph of interconnections to assign different voxels in the volume, including the unassigned locations, as being part of the resection volume or part of the remnant volume. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080846 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING A SECURE TELEGRAM - An apparatus includes a communication device and an evaluation unit, wherein the communication device can be linked to a communication bus and can receive secure telegrams by way of the communication bus, and wherein a secure telegram includes user data and CRC data in each instance. In at least one embodiment, in order to improve the communication within the secure bus system, the evaluation unit can determine an error rate from received secure telegrams by way of a CRC check and if a threshold value of the error rate stored in the evaluation unit is exceeded, can effect a secure state of the apparatus. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083983 | Method and System for Segmentation and Removal of Pulmonary Arteries, Veins, Left Atrial Appendage - A method and system for segmentation and removal of pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and a left atrial appendage from 3D medical image data, such as 3D computed tomography (CT) volumes, is disclosed. A global shape model is segmented for each of pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and a left atrial appendage in a 3D volume. The segmented global shape model for each of the pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and left atrial appendage is locally refined based in local voxel intensities in the 3D volume, resulting in a respective mask for each structure. The mask is used to remove voxels belonging to the pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and left atrial appendage from the 3D volume in order to better visualize coronary arteries and bypass arteries. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085610 | Structure and behavior of a building automation system - A system for automating a building has an object describing a building section and at least one object describing an automation function and a functional unit having at least one open-loop and/or closed-loop control program, with the object describing a building section having an overview list, in which semantic information units for the building section concerned are able to be stored. A semantic information unit for the building section concerned identifies an automation function which is provided in the building section. The object describing the automation function has an overview list, in which semantic information units for the automation function concerned are able to be stored. The semantic information unit includes a relation to a further object. The relation is implemented such that a bidirectional exchange of data between the corresponding objects is made possible. The system may enable field devices to the replaced or assigned without the need to make modifications in the program code of the open-loop and/or closed-loop control program, since the data exchange is conducted via the describing object. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085971 | AUTOMATIC TRACE RETRIEVAL USING SEMANTIC BRIDGE - A method for performing automatic trace retrieval includes receiving a first and second model for a system or service (S | 04-04-2013 |
20130091432 | METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR FORENSIC VIDEO SEARCH - A forensic video search user interface is disclosed that accesses databases of stored video event metadata from multiple camera streams and facilitates the workflow of search of complex global events that are composed of a number of simpler, low complexity events. | 04-11-2013 |
20130093423 | Phase Unwrapping in Phase Contrast MR Imaging - Phase unwrapping is provided for phase contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The velocity values are unaliased. For a given location over time, a path over time through a directed graph of possible velocities at each time is determined by minimization of derivatives over time. The possible velocities are based on the input velocity, the input velocity wrapped in a positive direction, and the input velocity wrapped in a negative direction, so the selection to create the minimum cost path represents unaliasing of any aliased velocities. | 04-18-2013 |
20130111929 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE VALVE CAPACITY OF A REFRIGERATION UNIT - A system supplies a fluid to an evaporator of a refrigeration unit and has first and second lines connected to a fluid inlet of the evaporator. The system has an expansion valve with a continuously modifiable first flow cross section, disposed in the first line, the continuously modifiable first flow cross section setting a first mass flow through the first line. A shut-off device is disposed in the second line and switchable discretely between an open position and a closed position. A throttle with a constant second flow cross section is disposed in the second line. A control unit continuously modifies the first flow cross section of the expansion valve and controls the shut-off device as a function of the first flow cross section. | 05-09-2013 |
20130129170 | Method and System for Precise Segmentation of the Left Atrium in C-Arm Computed Tomography Volumes - A method and system for multi-part left atrium (LA) segmentation in a C-arm CT volume is disclosed. Multiple LA part models, including an LA chamber body mesh, an appendage mesh, a left inferior pulmonary vein (PV) mesh, a left superior PV mesh, a right inferior PV mesh, and a right superior PV mesh, are segmented in a 3D volume. A volume mask is generated from the LA chamber mesh, the appendage mesh, and the PV meshes. Erosion is performed in the LA chamber body and a plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask. The plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask are refined using region growing, and a smooth mesh is fit to each ostia region. A consolidated LA mesh is generated from the volume mask and the parts of the LA mesh are relabeled in the ostia region based on part boundaries detected using an optimization approach. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132609 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DEVICES COMBINED IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A higher-level device identifies devices in a communication network; each device assigned a unique address in a predefined address space. The higher-level device subdivides the address space into request regions, each including a variable, automatically determined number of addresses, and sends an identification request to all the addresses in a request region. Devices receiving the identification request return an identification code. The higher-level device collects the identification codes received and compares the number of identification codes received with a predefined threshold value. If the number of identification codes received is below the threshold value, the method is continued with a new request region bordering the request region. If the number of identification codes received is above the threshold value, the method is continued with a reduced request region which is a subset of the request region, wherein the reduced request region is delimited by the address of an identified device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130144405 | SCADA SYSTEM REAL-TIME DATA AND EVENT MANAGEMENT ON A PC CARD - Real-time data and event management (RDEM) is implemented on a separate component in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). To assist in upgrades or changes to the SCADA system without compromising RDEM, the RDEM function is performed on a separate card or physical component. When the computer running the SCADA system is upgraded, the RDEM on the separate card and corresponding persistence store is maintained. | 06-06-2013 |
20130208854 | COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE - A method is disclosed for operating a computed tomography device including an x-ray source embodied to emit a fan-type beam bundle and a detector arrangement interacting therewith and including a plurality of detector elements. An embodiment of the method provides that an integration time provided to read out a detector element is dependent on the position of the detector element within the detector arrangement, wherein with a detector element which detects x-rays which penetrate the isocenter lying between the c-ray source and the detector arrangement, a longer integration time is provided, than with a detector element which detects x-rays which penetrate an examination volume which is further away from the isocenter. | 08-15-2013 |