40th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120253700 | STALL DETECTION IN FANS UTILIZING FREQUENCY CONVERTER - Exemplary methods and systems of determining stall of a fan are disclosed, when the fan is controlled with a frequency converter. The method includes estimating a rotational speed (n) and the torque (T) of the fan. Transferring characteristic curves of the fan to the estimated rotational speed (n) of the fan, determining the stall region of the fan. Determining an operation point of the fan from the estimated rotational speed (n) and estimated torque (T) using the characteristic curves. Calculating RMS values of the low frequency components of the torque and rotational speed estimates (T | 2012-10-04 |
20120253701 | MONITORING KEY-PRESS DELAY AND DURATION TO DETERMINE NEED FOR ASSISTANCE - In a user-interactive system, such as an interactive voice response (IVR) system, the duration and/or force of key-presses by the user and/or the speed of response to prompts by the user are used to make inferences about the user, such as whether the user is impaired or is growing frustrated. The user interface is modified based on the inferences. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253702 | INTERNAL RESIDUAL STRESS CALCULATING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND INTERNAL RESIDUAL STRESS CALCULATING METHOD - An internal residual stress calculating device includes a prediction unit that predicts a temporal variation in deformation which is received by a medium having an image formed thereon from a correcting device correcting a deformation, and a calculation unit that calculates an internal residual stress of the medium having passed through the correcting device on the basis of a relational expression including an elasticity term and a term related to a plastic deformation and the temporal variation in deformation predicted by the prediction unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253703 | TORQUE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a torque display system and a method thereof. This system comprises an input unit, an operation unit, a memory unit, a display unit and a warning unit. The input unit is used to receive a torque signal sensed by the torque tool with or without a torque multiplier and receive a magnification parameter value inputted by the user according to the torque multiplier selected. The operation unit is used to compute a magnified torque value according to the torque signal and magnification parameter value. The display unit is used to display the preset torque value, the magnified torque value and the magnification parameter value inputted. The warning unit is used to alert the user that the preset torque value is reached and the computation of the magnified torque value is completed. The memory unit is used to save magnification parameter values of several torque multipliers. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253704 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FATIGUE AND VISCOELEASTIC PROPERTY TESTING OF ASPHALT MIXTURES USING A LOADED WHEEL TESTER - A loaded wheel tester for testing asphalt mixtures comprises a loaded wheel tester having additional means for attachment to specimens under test to provide a measurement of tensile strain and for attachment between a frame of the loaded wheel tester and the loaded wheel to determine position of the loaded wheel over time. Output results demonstrate that viscoelastic and fatigue properties of asphalt mixtures are obtained in equivalent or improved format using a modified loaded wheel tester when compared with known pavement test apparatus and methods. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253705 | WATER REMOVING DEVICE FOR EXTREMELY HIGH WATER CONTENT THREE-PHASE FLOW, AND MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTREMELY HIGH WATER CONTENT THREE-PHASE FLOW - An extremely high water cut oil-gas-water three phase flow water removing device, which includes a mist eliminator ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120253706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING LIQUID LEVEL IN CONTAINERS/RESERVOIRS - A system for monitoring level of a liquid in a reservoir of a machine is provided. The system includes a liquid sensor ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120253707 | Device and Method for Quantifying and Analyzing the State of Damage in a Solid Medium - A device and method for assessing the damage state of solid materials and structures subjected to loading. The device includes multiple AE sensors connected to the switch controller/Amplifier/AD convertor, the event sorting module, the spectrum assignment unit, the probability space resolver, the trajectory of damage state generator, power source, and a visual display. The method includes means to assess and analyze performance of solid materials and structures that accounts for the influence of microscopic random damage events statistically, the method including the steps of sorting the electric signals into a series of non-overlapping AE events; determining the spectra of the sorted events; computing the probability distribution of the spectra; computing the probabilistic entropy of the probabilistic distribution; and generating the trajectory of damage state. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253708 | VIBRATION DETERMINATION METHOD AND VIBRATION DETERMINATION DEVICE - When generation of a chatter vibration is detected, a parameter calculation device calculates a first frequency range and a second frequency range. A determination validity is calculated in consideration of a rotation speed detection resolution and a frequency resolution, and based on a ratio of a frequency range of rotational-period forced chatter vibration to a frequency range of regenerative chatter vibration. It is determined based on the determination validity whether the generated chatter vibration is regenerative chatter vibration, rotational-period forced chatter vibration, or flute-passage-period forced chatter vibration. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253709 | Automatic Detection of Machine Status for Fleet Management - An automatic machine status detection system uses apparatus data from one or more sensors or machine components to determine a status for an agricultural machine. An automatic data unit onboard a machine can receive apparatus data and communicate it to a central management system. In an exemplary embodiment, a status determination module can receive the apparatus data, use the to make one or more state determinations, and based on the results of those determinations, determine an activity status for a machine. Engine state, motion state, heading state, implement state and PTO state can be used to determine that a machine has a status identified as “Off”, “Idle”, “Traveling”, “Turning” or “Working”. Machine status information can be provided to a user to improve operations efficiency and facilitate billing and administrative services. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253710 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING FACILITY POWER AND COOLING - A method and corresponding apparatus provide a determination of available power capacity of a phase of a power supply in a data center rack. The method includes metering the power of a power supply and calculating an average peak power draw per phase of the power supply. Using average peak power draw per phase of the power supply and the expected power draw data corresponding to data center equipment coupled to the power supply, the available power capacity can be calculated on a per phase of the power supply. A method and corresponding apparatus for managing data center equipment may use the phase based available power capacity calculations to determine the optimal placement of new data center equipment within a data center configuration. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253711 | ENERGY CHARGING APPARATUS, ENERGY SAVING APPARATUS, ENERGY CONSUMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANAGING GREEN ENERGY - An energy charging apparatus includes an energy charging unit charging green energy in an energy saving apparatus, a measured amount information acquisition unit acquiring measured amount information that indicates a charged amount of green energy measured by the energy saving apparatus from the corresponding energy saving apparatus, and a certificate issuance unit issuing a certificate for certifying an amount of green energy charged in the energy saving apparatus when a charged amount of green energy charged by the energy charging unit coincides with the charged amount of green energy shown in the measured amount information, wherein the certificate is managed in association with the energy saving apparatus and is discarded if the amount of green energy that is certified by the corresponding certificate is output from the energy saving apparatus. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253712 | POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION METHOD, POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READBLE MEDIUM STORING POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION PROGRAM - A method of calculating power consumption of an integrated circuit based on circuit information representing an internal configuration of each circuit and connection-between-circuits information is performed by a computer. The method includes acquiring transition information about input and output signals of the circuit by performing logical analysis, on the assumption of no propagation delay between the circuits, based on input pattern information of the integrated circuit, the connection-between-circuits information, and logical model information about the circuit, extracting from transition patterns of the input signal, a transition pattern causing a glitch in the output signal based on the logical model information, reflecting the glitch in the transition information about the output signal responsive to the input signal having the extracted transition pattern among the acquired transition information, and calculating, by the computer, the power consumption of the integrated circuit based on the transition information in which the glitch is reflected. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253713 | ESTIMATING THE CAPACITY OF A LI-ION BATTERY BASED ON INITIAL PART OF THE DISCHARGE CURVE - A system and method for testing a battery is provided. A load is connected in electrical series connection with the battery. A sensor may be in communication with the battery for measuring a battery discharge curve. A processor monitors an output of the battery and determines a battery status based on a slope of an initial portion of the battery discharge curve. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253714 | BATTERY VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT - An apparatus is provided that includes a first circuit to determine when a battery current falls below a threshold, a second circuit to measure a battery voltage and current in response to the first circuit determining that the battery current falls below the threshold, and a third circuit to store the measured battery voltage and current. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253715 | ELECTRIC CHARGING SYSTEM - In an electric charging system, an electric charger and an electric vehicle is connected via a charging cable, and charging power is provided to a battery of the electric vehicle via the charging cable. The electric charger calculates a voltage drop based on a supply current Is of the electric charger and an electric resistance of the charging cable. The electric charger compares a supply voltage of the electric charger with a determination value, and, if the supply voltage reaches the determination value, determines that the battery is charged to a fully-charged state. The determination value is updated by adding the voltage drop to a preset determination base value so as to take the voltage drop of the charging cable into account. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253716 | BATTERY VOLTAGE DETECTOR - A battery voltage detector includes a voltage detection circuit and a voltage processor. The voltage detection circuit includes a capacitor, a pair of output terminals and an output switch. A power source voltage is supplied from a power source to a higher voltage output terminal of the pair of output terminals in the voltage detection circuit. While the output switch is turned off, the voltage processor takes in a voltage between the output terminals as a voltage for determining a defect and determines whether or not a false detection of the cell voltage has occurred based on the voltage for determining the defect. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253717 | BATTERY VOLTAGE DETECTOR AND BATTERY VOLTAGE DETECTING METHOD - A battery voltage detector includes: a voltage detection circuit; a voltage processor; and a power voltage. The voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a cell voltage of a battery cell. The voltage processor is configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion on the cell voltage with a predetermined period to collect cell voltage detection data. The power voltage monitoring circuit is configured to determine whether or not an instantaneous variation of an externally-supplied power voltage occurs, and output an instantaneous variation detection signal indicating a result of detection to the voltage processor. If the voltage processor detects based on the instantaneous variation detection signal that the instantaneous variation of the externally-supplied power voltage occurs, the voltage processor is configured to delete the cell voltage detection data that is the newest. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253718 | PRESENTATION OF UNBALANCE INFORMATION FOR ELECTRICAL ASSET MANAGEMENT - Disclosed herein is an approach that presents unbalance information obtained from electrical assets in a manner that facilitates management of the electrical assets. In one aspect, a screen view is generated that provides a visual representation of the electrical assets as partitioned into one or more groupings that are each based on a common operational characteristic associated with the electrical assets. The screen view also contains unbalance information that is associated with each of the electrical assets in the one or more groupings and an indication of whether there is a presence of abnormal operation associated with each of the one or more groupings. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ELECTRICAL DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION - A method of electrical device characterization comprises: providing an array of electrical devices arranged in rows and columns, wherein each electrical device has a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal; clamping a first voltage at a first terminal of a selected electrical device via a first buffer or an first external voltage source; clamping a second voltage at a second terminal of a selected electrical device via a second buffer or a second external voltage source; controlling a third buffer to couple the third terminal of the selected electrical device to a first terminal or a second terminal of at least one non-selected column of electrical devices; and deriving a characterization result via the third terminal of the selected electrical device; wherein the array of electrical devices, the first buffer, the second buffer and the third buffer are on a same die or a same module. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253720 | METHOD TO MINIMIZE COMMON RAIL PRESSURE IRREGULARITIES DUE TO ALIASING EFFECT ON BATTERY VOLTAGE MONITORING - A method is provided to minimize common rail pressure irregularities due to aliasing effect on battery voltage monitoring in a digital electronic control unit that is capable of PWM regulations of a metering valve unit in a diesel common-rail power-train system. At least an engine rotary speed signal is detected and at least a battery voltage signal is monitored, the method includes, but is not limited to calculating the aliasing frequency on said battery voltage signal as a function of said engine rotary speed signal, filtering the battery voltage signal before it is input to said controller module with at least one digital non-linear notch filter, the at least one digital non-linear notch filter substantially centered on the first harmonic of the aliasing frequency, and input the filtered battery voltage signal, at least with the engine rotary speed signal, to the controller module for PWM regulating the metering valve unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253721 | DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF ULTRASHORT PULSES - Various systems and methods for analysis of optical pulses are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided including obtaining a plurality of traces produced by propagating an unknown pulse and a reference pulse along a pair of crossing trajectories through a spectrometer, where each trace is associated with a delay between the unknown pulse and the reference pulse. Each trace is spatially filtered to generate a plurality of spatially filtered electric field measurements, which are temporally filtered to generate a plurality of temporally filtered electric field measurements. The plurality of temporally filtered electric field measurements are concatenated based at least in part upon the delay associated with the corresponding trace to generate a concatenated wave form corresponding to the unknown pulse. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253722 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF FLATNESS OF OBJECTS USING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for measurement of flatness of objects on a measuring machine, at least two objects are fixed on a worktable of the measuring machine. The method establishes a first coordinate system for the worktable location, sets two groups of horizontal scanning points for each object, and sets two groups of vertical scanning points for each object. By controlling at least two laser heads of the measuring machine, the objects are measured and coordinate values for each of the points scanned are obtained. The method calibrates a first coordinate system and establishes a second coordinate system based on the first coordinate system. In the second coordinate system, the at least two laser heads measure the objects and obtain data, and an indication of the flatness of each object is calculated and displayed on a display device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STATISTICALLY VALID ASSAY MEANS AND RANGES FOR QUALITY CONTROL MATERIALS - A method of establishing statistically valid assay means and ranges for quality control materials, used to qualify medical testing machines, utilizes tests on a new lot of quality control material to establish an assay mean, and uses data from a database of historical test results to establish an assay range. The system may estimate the variability of test results from prior lot data, and then compute the limits of the assay range such that a new test on a new lot of the quality control material will be expected to fall within the range with a specified probability. Because historical data is used to estimate the test variability, the number of new tests required to specify a statistically valid mean and range may be dramatically reduced, as compared with establishing the mean and range based only on tests of the new lot of material. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253724 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A management device includes a measurement data storage unit configured to store measurement data transmitted from a substrate processing apparatus; a setting unit configured to set an item of the measurement data as a determination target, reference data, and upper and lower limit values with respect to the reference data; a counting unit configured to count the number of times that the value of the measurement data corresponding to the item exceeds the upper and lower limit values; and a determining unit configured to determine that the measurement data as a determination target is abnormal, when the counted number exceeds a predetermined value. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253725 | Apparatus, tool, and method for modifying a portion of a floor plan based on measurements made by one or more sensors - An apparatus, tool, and method for modifying a portion of a floor plan based on measurements made by one or more sensors. The apparatus comprises a correction unit for compensating the sensor measurements for instrument errors and a layout unit for improving the conformity of the portion of the floor plan to a set of layout rules. The apparatus may also comprise the sensors that made the measurements. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253726 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING CURRENT SENSORS - Methods and devices for establishing the relationships between the conductor currents and sensor outputs for cases where the geometric parameters of the conductors and sensors are unknown. The methodology involves a sensor calibrator. This device is connected to the conductors at a location downstream of a number of current measuring devices or current sensors. The calibrator draws specific currents from the conductors for a short period in an automated manner. The characteristics of the currents drawn by the calibrator such as the magnitude and frequency of the currents are known to the processing unit for the sensors through means such as communications. The processing unit uses these known currents to establish the relationship between the conductor currents and its sensed quantities. This process may take a few seconds. Once the relationship is established, the sensors can start to “measure” the conductor currents by calculating them using that relationship and its sensed quantities. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253727 | Color Measuring Device Calibration - In a calibrating method for a filter color measuring device that includes at least three color channels, a calibration matrix for transforming output signals of the color channels into tristimulus color values is formed. The calibration is performed spectrally, wherein the spectral sensitivities of the color channels of the color measuring device and the spectral emission properties of typical light sources are measured and stored, and the calibration matrix is calculated from the spectral sensitivities and the spectral emission properties of the light sources and the spectral evaluation functions of the standard observer, e.g., according to CIE 1931. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253728 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED TESTING IN A MULTI-VENDOR, MULTI-PROTOCOL HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for test automation is described. The method may include creating a test case on a client computer; generating expected testing results by manually executing the test case on a computer system; performing automated testing on the computer system using the test case to generate automated testing results; validating the test case by comparing the automated testing results with the expected testing results; marking the test case as automatable, if the automated testing results match the expected testing results; and storing the automatable test case for later execution. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253729 | Test system, test signal auxiliary device, and test signal generation method thereof - A test system, a test signal auxiliary device, and a test signal generation method thereof are disclosed. The test signal auxiliary device is used for providing a computer system to test a signal measurement device. The test signal auxiliary device includes a first signal input terminal used for receiving an analog test signal via a first audio port of the computer system. A filter module is used for filtering the analog test signal to produce a filtered signal. A first signal output terminal is used for outputting the filtered signal to the signal measurement device. A second signal input terminal is used for receiving a corresponding signal from the signal measurement device. A second signal output terminal is used for transmitting the corresponding signal to the computer system via a second audio port. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253730 | DIRECT CURRENT CIRCUIT TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING SAME - A method for testing electronic devices that are correspondingly connected to test units includes generating control signals for the electronic devices that are connected to one or more test units selected from the test units. A control unit adds ID codes corresponding to the selected test units to the control signals, and wirelessly transmits the control signals with the ID codes to all of the test units. Each of the test units compares the ID codes added to the control signals with its own stored ID code. When the ID code added to a control signal is in accordance with the ID code stored in one of the test units, the test unit controls the electronic device connected thereto to be turned on and off according to the control signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253731 | FUNCTIONAL ASIC VERIFICATION USING INITIALIZATION MICROCODE SEQUENCE - A method of wafer-level testing of a register programmable integrated circuit may be provided. The method may comprise transforming a microcode instruction and related data from an initializing processor format into tester format data, and applying the tester format data to the integrated circuit on a wafer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING PARALLEL EXECUTION IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM AND IN A CIRCUIT SIMULATOR - A method and mechanism for implementing a general purpose scripting language that supports parallel execution is described. In one approach, parallel execution is provided in a seamless and high-level approach rather than requiring or expecting a user to have low-level programming expertise with parallel processing languages/functions. Also described is a system and method for performing circuit simulation. The present approach provides methods and systems that create reusable and independent measurements for use with circuit simulators. Also disclosed are parallelizable measurements having looping constructs that can be run without interference between parallel iterations. Reusability is enhanced by having parameterized measurements. Revisions and history of the operating parameters of circuit designs subject to simulation are tracked. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253733 | TRANSACTION BASED WORKLOAD MODELING FOR EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE TEST STRATEGIES - A method for creating workload model to test performance of a critical application in a data processing network ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120253734 | ASSAY DEVICE AND METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME - An assay device capable of assaying purity of a substance in an object includes a memory, an emitter, a receiver, a processing unit, and a display device. The memory stores names and standard densities of a number of substances. The emitter emits rays at the object. The receiver receives the rays reflected by the object. The processing unit calculates density of the object according to intensity of the emitted rays and intensity of the reflected rays. The processing unit further calculates purity of a selected substance in the object according to the density of the object and standard density of the selected substance stored in the memory, and outputs the calculated purity to the display device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253735 | Method and apparatus for operating a motor with optimized efficiency - A system and method can include a motor subject to a change in efficiency as a function of temperature and a motor cooling system. The motor cooling system can be driven to minimize the sum of energy consumed by the motor and the cooling system. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253736 | FEEDBACK COMPENSATION DETECTOR FOR A DIRECT CONVERSION TRANSMITTER - A feedback compensation detector for a direct conversion transmitter includes a baseband processor, a direct up-converter, an antenna, and an impairment detection and compensation feedback circuit. The baseband processor generates an in-phase (I) baseband signal and a quadrature-phase (Q) baseband signal. The direct up-converter is coupled to the baseband processor, and combines the I and Q baseband signals with an RF carrier signal to generate an RF output signal. The antenna is coupled to the direct up-converter, and transmits the RF output signal. The impairment detection and compensation feedback circuit is coupled to the RF output signal and the I and Q baseband signals. The impairment detection and compensation feedback circuit down-converts the RF output signal to generate an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, measures as least one signal impairment in the IF signal, and pre-distorts the I and Q baseband signals to compensate for the measured signal impairment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253737 | STATUS SIMULATION TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A status simulation testing method is for use in testing a portable device having at least one angular velocity sensor and includes positioning the portable device on an oblique plane; moving and flinging the portable device at an increasing velocity to enable the portable device to move at an acceleration and an angular velocity; generating a sensing value by the angular velocity sensor of the portable device; and determining whether a sensing operation of the angular velocity sensor of the portable device is functioning well according to the sensing value. Accordingly, the method not only simulates a usage status of the portable device, but also tests the sensor of the portable device quickly, consistently, and accurately. A status simulation testing system is further introduced. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253738 | INTEGRATED MOTION PROCESSING UNIT (MPU) WITH MEMS INERTIAL SENSING AND EMBEDDED DIGITAL ELECTRONICS - A module operable to be mounted onto a surface of a board. The module includes a linear accelerometer to provide a first measurement output corresponding to a measurement of linear acceleration in at least one axis, and a first rotation sensor operable to provide a second measurement output corresponding to a measurement of rotation about at least one axis. The accelerometer and the first rotation sensor are formed on a first substrate. The module further includes an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to receive both the first measurement output from the linear accelerometer and the second measurement output from the first rotation sensor. The ASIC includes an analog-to-digital converter and is implemented on a second substrate. The first substrate is vertically bonded to the second substrate. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253739 | PRESENCE DECIDING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The fact that a movable object exits a specific area is judged with high accuracy. A first movement sensor detects the movement of the movable object in a first area. A second movement sensor detects the movement of the movable object in a second area including the first area. A time judgment unit judges whether or not a time difference from a time point when a measurement value obtained by the first movement sensor becomes a predetermined value or less to a time point when a measurement value obtained by the second movement sensor becomes the predetermined value or less is a first threshold value or more. An existence judgment unit judges that the movable object does not exist in the first area in the case where the time judgment unit has judged that the time difference is the first threshold value or more. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253740 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT USING STAND DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE AS MEASURED BY LAI - A system and method for identifying stands or portions thereof that are not growing as expected. In one embodiment, a computer system compares a measured leaf area index of a stand that is determined from remotely sensed data to an expected leaf area index. The computer system identifies stands or portions of stands where the measured leaf area index is greater than the expected leaf area index and/or stands or portions of stands where the measured leaf area index is less than the expected leaf area index. In one embodiment, the comparison is used to identify stands or portions thereof where silviculture treatments may be necessary. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253741 | CHECKING POSITIONAL ACCURACY OF FEATURES - A component such as a casing of a gas turbine engine has an array of holes distributed around a flange. The casing may distort when unsupported, but nevertheless the position accuracy of the holes may be checked by manipulating measured hole positions to lie with known deviations from a best-fit circle. The maximum load and stress required to bring the hole array into conformity with the best-fit circle is calculated and compared with a predetermined maximum. The deviation of the hole positions associated with the best-fit circle from nominal positions can also be calculated. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253742 | Method and System for Determining Parameters of Sinusoidal Signals - At least one parameter of a signal is determined, wherein the signal is a sinusoidal signal including noise, wherein the parameter includes at least one of a frequency of the signal, and an angle of a phase of the signal. The frequency of the signal is determined iteratively based on a linear relationship among the frequency of the signal, samples of the noise, and samples of the signal using a statistical correlation among the samples of the noise. During a current iteration the statistical correlation is updated based on the frequency of the signal determined during a previous iteration, and the samples of the signal are updated with values of the signal during a current period of time. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253743 | Real-Time Determination of Machine Performance for Fleet Management - A real-time performance determination system is configured to determine machine performance over a predetermined time interval. An automatic data unit onboard a machine can provide apparatus data to a Fleet Operations System (FOS) of a Fleet Management System. Apparatus data can be used to determine a machine status such as Parked, Idle, Working, Travel or Turning. A performance determination module of the FOS can determine the amount of time a machine spent in a particular status. A performance report can include a graphical indicator in a visual display that can convey the percentage of time spent in each status. A report can include performance determinations for a plurality of machines, each represented by performance indicator that allows easy comparison of machines. A performance report can be provided to a fleet manager for fleet management purposes such as scheduling and allocation of resources, as well as performing machine maintenance and adjustments. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253744 | Real-Time Evaluation of Machine Performance For Fleet Management - A real-time performance evaluation system can compare machine performance to a performance standard. A Fleet Operations Subsystem (FOS) can determine a machine status such as Parked, Idle, Working, Travel or Turning. The FOS can be configured to determine machine performance by determining the amount of time spent in each status. The performance can be compared to predetermined performance standards, for example a minimum number of hours spent working, or a maximum number of hours spent idle. A performance score can be generated based on the comparison. A report of the performance evaluation can be provided. A report can be in the form of a performance marker graphic on a visual display. The performance marker can represent the performance score. The performance marker can be in the form of an alarm symbol for a poorly performing machine. The system provides an operator or manager the opportunity to improve machine performance. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING PERFORMANCE OF MOBILE APPLICATION SERVER - A system and method for testing performance of a mobile application server is provided. The methodology of the invention describes steps to initiate one or more instances of a mobile application using one or more test cases. The one or more instances of the mobile application are initiated in a plurality of emulations of an operating environment. The methodology further describes steps to buffer plurality of requests generated by the one or more instances of the mobile application. The methodology furthermore describes steps to invoke the plurality of buffered requests synchronously to a server based on a predefined policy. The methodology in addition describes step to measure response time taken by the server to process each of the invoked plurality of requests. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253746 | AUTONOMOUS DATA QUALITY EVALUATION - A solution for managing an asset is provided. A set of sensing devices associated with the asset are operated independent of a user to acquire sensor data. At least some of the sensor data is evaluated using a computer system associated with the asset to determine whether any sensor data in at least a portion of the sensor data is suspect. In response to a determination that at least a portion of the evaluated sensor data is suspect, an action is initiated by the computer system associated with the asset. The action can include adjusting additional processing of the sensor data, adjusting interaction between the computer system and at least one other system remote from the asset, and/or adjusting management operations of the asset. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253747 | HIGH ACCURACY WIRELESS SENSING PLATFORM - A high accuracy wireless sensing platform assembly comprising a sensor subassembly that is configured to obtain measurement data from a device in response to a measurand; a data transceiver assembly that is configured to communicate with an antenna assembly; a parameter coder, in communication with the sensor subassembly, that is configured to control the data transceiver assembly and/or the sensor subassembly, based on the measurement data; and a resonant circuit that is formed by the data transceiver, the sensor subassembly, and/or the parameter coder. Embodiments are capable of provide robust performance and high accuracy in harsh (e.g., hot environments). The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253748 | WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICE TESTING METHOD - A wireless electronic device testing method utilizes a computer to test a wireless electronic device. The wireless electronic device testing method includes the following steps. Firstly, at least one wireless signal is received. Then, a device type of the wireless electronic device is recognized according to the wireless signal. Then, a judging step is performed to judge whether the device type of the wireless electronic device complies with a preset device type. If the judging condition is satisfied, the wireless signal is converted into a control code. Then, another judging step is performed to judge whether the control complies with a preset control code. Afterwards, a judging result is shown. In this testing method, the wireless signal is converted into a control code by a control program, and the control code is directly transmitted to a test program to be tested. As a consequence, the testing efficacy is enhanced. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253749 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF) OF A SURFACE - A method for determining the bidirectional reflectance distribution function of a generally plane rough surface of a specimen made of a given material includes acquiring a refractive index of the material, the spectrum of total reflectance measured on the specimen, and the geometry of the profile of the surface. The geometry is determined by: detecting the height and approximating the surface of the specimen as a distribution of plane triangular microfaces. For each direction of incidence of the light on the surface of the specimen and for each direction of observation there is determined the angular orientation of the microfaces contributing to reflecting in a specular way the light incident in the direction of observation. The Fresnel factor defining the specular reflectance of each microface is determined. The total BRDF is determined as the sum of a Lambertian component and of a specular component. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253750 | CABLE MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY ENHANCEMENT - A cable-management system that integrates management information about infrastructure into objects and provides a visualization of cable and inventory objects within a building. An embodiment of the present invention comprises a computer-implemented cable management system comprising a cable module configured to manage at least one cable object associated with at least one physical cable and to automatically synchronize cable availability information with at least one inventory database, an infrastructure module configured to manage at least one infrastructure object associated with a building layout, wherein attributes of the at least one infrastructure object are associated with the at least one cable object, and a capacity module configured to calculate at least one utilization value associated with the at least one infrastructure object, whereby the at least one utilization value, the at least one cable object, and the at least one infrastructure object are integrated into a visualization of the building layout. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253751 | Method, tool, and device for assembling a plurality of partial floor plans into a combined floor plan - A method, tool, and device for assembling a plurality of partial floor plans into a combined floor plan by means of an electronic device. The method involves positioning partial floor plans relatively one to another, pairing substantially aligned walls, and computing modified partial floor plans that can be assembled into a combined floor plan. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253752 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING GEOMETRY OF A SEATING ELEMENT - A method of optimizing the geometry of seating components for a range of individual body shapes in a single posture or a variety of postures. The method includes defining a two-dimensional shape of a membrane with given deformation or elasticity characteristics optimized for supporting a defined population in a given posture, or multiple postures. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253753 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ROOF STRUCTURE AND GENERATING A DATABASE - A navigation system has a database storing data for reconstructing three-dimensional roof structures. The data includes information on edges of at least one closed polygon and a type identifier respectively stored in the database for each one of the edges. Each one of the type identifiers is respectively selected from a finite set of type identifiers. Plural planar faces are generated to reconstruct the roof structure. The planar faces are respectively determined such that they pass through an edge of the polygon and have an orientation determined based on the type identifier stored for the edge. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING INCONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS - Methods and apparatuses are described for identifying inconsistent constraints. During operation, a system can receive a set of constraints, wherein each constraint is defined over one or more random variables from a set of random variables. If an inconsistency or conflict is detected while solving the set of constraints, the system can identify a phase in a series of phases of the constraint solver where the inconsistency was detected. The system can then try to solve different subsets of the set of constraints to identify smaller subsets of the set of constraints that contain the inconsistency. When the system tries to solve a subset of the set of constraints, the system can determine whether or not an inconsistency is detected in the identified phase while solving the subset of the set of constraints. Next, the system can report the smallest subset of inconsistent constraints that was found to a user. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253755 | Method Of Obtaining The Age Quotient Of A Person - A method of using a computer for providing an Age Quotient (AQ) which is similar to a FICO (credit worthiness) or IQ index that repeatably and reliably defines and describes a person's physical and biological age Vs. his/her chronological age comprises: recording an image of each face of a multiple number of people in a computer; assigning a reference numeral to each feature of a person's face; grouping the reference numerals into specific areas of data; using the data for each area to create a statistical model which includes a distribution curve normalized and cross correlated by a specific area of, for example, sex, race, ancestry, or genetics of each specific area; comparing the distribution curve(s) with a person's profile to identify a distribution curve which places that person's individual's profile at the mathematically appropriate standard deviation from the normal distribution; and assigning the center of the distribution curve to be the standard where chronological age is deemed to equal Somatic age. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELING INVOLVING A BULK MATERIAL - One embodiment of the invention provides a computer-implemented method for discrete element modelling of a plurality of discrete elements corresponding to particles and physical geometry elements. The modelling performs a simulation through time of physical interactions of the particles with each other and with the physical geometry elements in a three-dimensional space. The method comprises providing a plurality of discrete element material models, each discrete element material model corresponding to a respective bulk material and containing (i) information regarding the properties of particles within said bulk material, and (ii) information regarding the behaviour of interactions between such particles. The method further comprises receiving from a user: (i) a selection of a bulk material for use in a simulation, and (ii) a specification of properties associated with the selected bulk material. The method further comprises generating a set of particles of the selected bulk material for use in the simulation based on (i) the discrete element material model for the selected bulk material, and (ii) the properties of the bulk material specified by the user. The method further comprises performing a discrete element model simulation on said set of particles, wherein the simulation uses the information regarding the behaviour of interactions between particles from the discrete element material model for the selected bulk material. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253757 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECODING MEDIUM IN WHICH THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION PROGRAM IS STORED, THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION - A prior simulation of a velocity field and a temperature field is carried out, and snapshot data of the velocity field and that of the temperature field are collected during the prior simulation. Then principal component analysis on the collected snapshot data obtains velocity-field and temperature field dimension transformation matrixes, on the based on which the analysis models of the velocity field and temperature field having respective first degrees of freedom are converted into reduced degree-of-freedom models. Consequently, a simulation of the velocity field and the temperature field is carried out using models having respective reduced degrees of freedom (i.e., second degrees of freedom). | 2012-10-04 |
20120253758 | Method of Wavelet Estimation and Multiple Prediction In Full Wavefield Inversion - Wavelet estimation method, particularly advantageous for full wavefield inversion (“FWI”) of seismic data, that makes use of both the primary and multiple reflections in the data. The inventive method uses an FWI algorithm to generate a subsurface model from primary reflections ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120253759 | PROCESSING SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD - Using an equipment-classified processing results database, an intercept satisfying a second predetermined condition is derived from intercepts of straight lines that pass through a reference co-ordinate point, which satisfies a first predetermined condition, and respective co-ordinate points in a region bounded by: a line that passes through the reference co-ordinate point and is parallel to an x-axis representing wafer counts X; a y-axis representing processing durations Y; and a line passing through the reference co-ordinate point and the origin. Of co-ordinate points represented by an equipment and recipe-classified processing results database, a gradient satisfying a third predetermined condition is derived from gradients of lines that pass through the derived intercept and each of all co-ordinate points with wafer counts X at or above a predetermined number. A processing duration is derived using a regression equation into which the derived intercept and the derived gradient are substituted. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253760 | PASS PREDICTOR FOR AGRICULTURAL HARVESTING MACHINES - A method of predicting the number of passes a harvesting machine can complete within a field without unloading grain from a grain tank of the harvesting machine includes determining a reference pass, the reference pass having a reference pass amount of crop, an optional reference pass distance, and a reference pass spatial location. The method further includes determining an amount of crop in the grain tank of the harvesting machine. The method further includes calculating a number of predicted passes from a capacity of the grain tank of the harvesting machine, the amount of crop in the grain tank of the harvesting machine, and the reference pass amount of crop and displaying the number of predicted passes. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253761 | AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH ESTIMATING DEVICE - An available bandwidth estimating device | 2012-10-04 |
20120253762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTATIONS UTILIZING OPTIMIZED EARTH MODEL REPRESENTATIONS - A method and corresponding system is provided for computation utilizing an earth model representation via a computing system having a first processor having access to an earth model dataset. The method includes compressing the earth model dataset at the first processor to generate a look-up table and a set of data indices (i.e., collectively a compressed earth model representation), wherein the look-up table includes quantized data values. By then storing the look-up table in a first level (“fast”) memory, and storing the indices in a second level (“slower,” higher memory capacity) memory, the look-up table and the indices can be accessed to selectively decompress the compressed earth model representation at the first processor such that the computation can be performed efficiently by the first processor. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253763 | Model Management for Computer Aided Design Systems - A method and apparatus for generating data for analysis from a model for a system. Components in the system are identified using the model for the system. Attributes for the components are identified using the model and a repository having performance information. Data is generated using the attributes. The data is configured for use by a particular analysis application. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253764 | Method of optimising a wind park construction - A method of optimising a wind park construction is provided. The wind park includes at least a first wind turbine and a second wind turbine. According to the method, a first blade topology is selected for the first wind turbine depending on a noise optimisation parameter which is measured and/or predicted at a reference position at a distance from the wind park. A second blade topology is selected for the second wind turbine depending on an energy efficiency optimisation parameter. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253765 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING, ANALYSING AND SPECIFYING A HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE - A method for analyzing and specifying a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) may include providing an HMI designing system, constructing an HMI design that includes objects created from the HMI designing system and associating the objects using events and transitions. Objects may include states and screens of a graphical user interface. The method may receive input from a user and describe a human-machine interface using syntax that is based on the user input. The syntax may include graphical representations of states and transitions between the states. The HMI designing system may include a memory to store representations of the human-machine interface, a processor to receive input from a user and determine graphical representations of states and transitions between states, and a display to display the HMI. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253766 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR VIEWING OR EDITING AN EXECUTABLE BLOCK DIAGRAM MODEL - In one embodiment, a method for displaying elements of an attribute in an executable block diagram model is provided. The method may include displaying an executable block diagram model in a first window and receiving a first input from an input device, wherein the first input associates with a first parameter of a block diagram modeling component in the executable block diagram model, the first parameter is represented in the executable block diagram model by a first graphical affordances. The method may include triggering the display of a value of a first parameter in a first user interface widget in the first window. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253767 | Simulating a Droplet with Moving Contact Edge - Systems and methods for simulating a droplet with a moving contact line are presented. In embodiments, a height profile of the droplet on a substrate may be simulated using a lubrication equation solution that includes an artificial fluid flux to account for fluid loss due to the contact line movement. Embodiments may include a solute convection/diffusion equation with slipping contact dynamics solution to simulate the shape of the solute deposit on a substrate. When the contact line moves, the convection-diffusion equation includes an artificial solute flux to conserve mass. In embodiments, the droplet may be modeled as being on a planar or on a non-planar surface. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253768 | Simulating a Droplet with Moving Contact Edge on a Planar Surface - Systems and methods for simulating a droplet with a moving contact line are presented. In embodiments, a height profile of the droplet on a substrate may be simulated using a lubrication equation solution that includes an artificial fluid flux to account for fluid loss due to the contact line movement. Embodiments may include a solute convection/diffusion equation with slipping contact dynamics solution to simulate the shape of the solute deposit on a substrate. When the contact line moves, the convection-diffusion equation includes an artificial solute flux to conserve mass. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253769 | Systems and Methods for Airborne Particle Contamination Control - The present invention relates to a method for airborne particle contamination control, comprising: creating a simulation by modeling a turbulent airflow in an environment that includes an equipment of interest; plotting a flow parameter on the simulation to visualize a flow field of air according to a current design; creating an injection point on the simulation for particles in the environment; determining a particle concentration of the particles; determining, by a computing device and from the particle concentration, whether the current design provides contamination control; in response to determining that the current design does not provide contamination control, creating a modified design; and providing the modified design for implementation. The present invention further relates to a computing device for airborne particle contamination control. The present invention still further relates to a non-transitory computer-readable medium for airborne particle contamination control. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253770 | Method and System For Creating History Matched Simulation Models - A method for matching production history to flow simulations includes identifying a plurality of parameters that control an objective function measuring the mismatch between a flow simulation response in a parameter subspace and a production history. A value is calculated for an objective function and for a static measurement at each of a plurality of experiments in the parameter subspace. These results are used to develop a mathematical relationship between one or more static measurements and the objective function. During subsequent adjustment of the simulation model, a target window in the objective function is identified, and flow simulations are performed for each modified model that is predicted from the static geologic measurement to produce an objective function within the window. An objective function of each flow simulation to the production history is calculated and the procedure is iterated until the objective function is within a target range. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253771 | Syetem for Optimizing Treatment Strategies Using a Patient-Specific Rating System - The combined effects of a selected treatment option on multiple causes of morbidity or mortality are simulated for evaluation. Various patient-specific and model-specific parameters, including parameters related to diseases to be modeled, are used in modeling incidence and mortality rates for each disease. These disease-specific models are used for defining a set of health states having initial probabilities, which are used to formulate a transition matrix used in matrix calculation to obtain output matrix Q. If additional cycles are needed, the transition matrix is updated and matrix calculation is performed using the updated transition matrix. Otherwise, final output matrix Q is utilized for calculation of values needed for determining an overall treatment score. The calculated values and/or values from Q are combined with patient or numeric scores from other treatment choice-related domains to obtain a raw score that is used to produce a patient-specific score for a selected treatment option. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253772 | PATH FAILURE IMPORTANCE SAMPLING - A method including receiving a network model including paths having dynamic path restoration capabilities; receiving network simulation information including a failure rate that indicates a rate of failure, a repair rate that indicates a rate of repair, a number of repair personnel assigned to each failure equivalence group, and a regeneration value indicating a number of regenerations to occur for each designated path during a network simulation, biasing the failure rate; determining whether one of the designated paths enters a failure state; unbiasing the failure rate when it is determined that the designated path enters the failure state; identifying when the network model returns to an operative state; ceasing an execution of the network simulation when it is determined no other designated paths are to be simulated; calculating an average time of path unavailability for each designated path simulated; and calculating path unavailability for each designated path simulated. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING OPTIMIZED NETWORK SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT - A method of constructing an optimized network simulation environment according to the present invention includes the steps of identifying communication equipment models for relaying a message to/from real equipments out of communication equipment models within a network model, as major models, calculating the order of abstraction priority for major models, performing batch-mode abstraction for non-major models, driving a simulation, determining whether a difference between a simulation execution time and an actual time spent is within an allowable delay value, performing adaptive abstraction for the major models, and evaluating a result of the simulation. If the method according to the present invention is used, a real-time simulation having fidelity and reliability for the function and operation of real equipments can be guaranteed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253774 | Methods and Systems for Lithography Process Window Simulation - A method of efficient simulating imaging performance of a lithographic process utilized to image a target design having a plurality of features. The method includes the steps of determining a function for generating a simulated image, where the function accounts for process variations associated with the lithographic process; and generating the simulated image utilizing the function, where the simulated image represents the imaging result of the target design for the lithographic process. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253775 | Multidimensional Monte-Carlo Simulation for Yield Prediction - An embodiment includes a computer program product for providing a yield prediction. The computer program product has a non-transitory computer readable medium with a computer program embodied thereon. The computer program comprises computer program code for obtaining a representation of a circuit. The circuit comprises a common path and a critical path, and the critical path represents multiple parallel paths. The computer program further comprises computer program code for obtaining a first table representing the common path and a second table representing the multiple parallel paths and computer program code for performing a variable based simulation based on the representation of the circuit, the first table, and the second table. The computer program also comprises computer program code for determining a result indication of each of the multiple parallel paths based on the variable based simulation compared with a predetermined specification. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253776 | MACRO MODEL OF OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER AND CIRCUIT DESIGN SIMULATOR USING THE SAME - The present invention aims to simulate a response more similar to a actual machine while inhibiting load increase in analog operation. Program configuration of the present invention is a component of a simulation program for circuit design, which is executed by a computer. The computer includes an operation portion, a storage portion, a manipulation portion, and a display portion, so that the computer exerts a function of a circuit design simulator, and as a macro model of an operational amplifier for use in the circuit design simulator, enabling the computer to act by simulating a response of the operational amplifier on the circuit design simulator. The macro model of the operational amplifier includes a control portion (LMT | 2012-10-04 |
20120253777 | Method for Determining and/or Predicting the High Current Carrying Capacity of a Battery - A method is provided for determining and/or predicting the high current carrying capacity of a battery, wherein the parameters of a model of the battery impedance are used as a basis, and from which the high current carrying capacity of the battery is determined. Different parameters are used as the basis for the charging and discharging processes. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253778 | Crawling Browser-Accessible Applications - Crawling a browser-accessible application by causing a target application and a bridge application to run concurrently in a browser-controllable player, and iteratively receiving from the bridge application current state information of the target application, storing the state information on a data storage device if the state information is not found on the data storage device, where the state information is stored as a descendant state of an initial state of the target application, and interacting with the target application in accordance with a predefined simulation algorithm, thereby effecting a new state of the target application, until a predefined termination condition is reached. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253779 | NETWORK STIMULATION ENGINE - Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for simulating a large, realistic computer network. Virtual actors statistically emulate the behaviors of humans using networked devices or responses and automatic functions of networked equipment, and their stochastic actions are queued in buffer pools by a behavioral engine. An abstract machine engine creates the minimal interfaces needed for each actor, and the interfaces then communicate persistently over a network with each other and real and virtual network resources to form realistic network traffic. The network can respond to outside stimuli, such as a network mapping application, by responding with false views of the network in order to spoof hackers, and the actors can respond by altering a software defined network upon which they operate. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253780 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMULATING A NIC FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION ON HARDWARE RSS UNAWARE NICS IN A MULTI-CORE SYSTEM - Emulating a NIC for packet transmission on hardware RSS unaware NICs in a multi-core system enables each of a plurality of slave packet engines to emulate a NIC for packet transmissions locally even though the actual NIC transmissions from the queue are handled by a master packet engine only. Each slave packet engine treats a local software-implemented transmission queue as a device queue and uses the local queue to keep track of status of data from the packet engine in the device output queue, handled by the master packet engine on behalf of the slave packet engines. As the master packet engine transmits the data from the queue and the status of the queue changes, the master packet engine and the slave packet engines may use pointers to keep track of which data packets are transmitted, which data packets are drained and which data packets are still in the queue. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253781 | FRAME MAPPING APPROACH FOR CROSS-LINGUAL VOICE TRANSFORMATION - Frame mapping-based cross-lingual voice transformation may transform a target speech corpus in a particular language into a transformed target speech corpus that remains recognizable, and has the voice characteristics of a target speaker that provided the target speech corpus. A formant-based frequency warping is performed on the fundamental frequencies and the linear predictive coding (LPC) spectrums of source speech waveforms in a first language to produce transformed fundamental frequencies and transformed LPC spectrums. The transformed fundamental frequencies and the transformed LPC spectrums are then used to generate warped parameter trajectories. The warped parameter trajectories are further used to transform the target speech waveforms in the second language to produce transformed target speech waveform with voice characteristics of the first language that nevertheless retain at least some voice characteristics of the target speaker. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253782 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERVICE ASSISTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a foreign language service assisting apparatus is provided with first and second acquisition units, a translation unit, a presentation unit and an accepting unit. The first acquisition unit acquires first information on a first article. The second acquisition unit acquires second information on second articles associated with the first article, and subsequent speech candidates expected to be spoken, based on the first information. The translation unit translates the first information, the second information, and the candidates. The presentation unit presents translation result. The accepting unit accepts selection associated with the first or second articles or the candidate. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253783 | OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM BASED ON CONDITIONAL OUTPUT QUALITY AT RISK - Techniques are disclosed for optimizing results output by a natural language processing system. For example, a method comprises optimizing one or more parameters of a natural language processing system so as to improve a measure of quality of an output of the natural language processing system for a first type of data processed by the natural language processing system while maintaining a given measure of quality of an output of the natural language processing system for a second type of data processed by the natural language processing system. For example, the first type of data may have a substantive complexity that is greater than that of the second type of data. Thus, when the natural language processing system is a machine translation system, use of a conditional value at risk metric for the translation quality provides for a high quality output of the machine translation system for data of a high substantive complexity (for sophisticated users) while maintaining an average quality output for average data (for average users). | 2012-10-04 |
20120253784 | LANGUAGE TRANSLATION BASED ON NEARBY DEVICES - A device, method, and computer program for performing language translation. An example embodiment may include a communications module configured to receive device data from a nearby device. A constraint module is configured to limit a translation domain of the language translation based on the device data. Language translation is performed within the limited translation domain. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253785 | TRANSLATION OF MULTILINGUAL EMBEDDED PHRASES - A communication object including a plurality of object words may be received. The communication object may be parsed to identify each of the object words as tokens. A first natural language and at least one natural language different from the first natural language that are associated with the plurality of object words may be determined, based on a language analysis of the tokens. Tokens associated with the first natural language and tokens included in embedded word phrases associated with the embedded natural language may be translated, via a translating device processor, to a target natural language, based on at least one context associated with the communication object. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253786 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTI-LINGUAL TEXT IN A MATRIX CODE SYMBOL - A method for encoding a multi-lingual text in a matrix code symbol includes receiving a multi-lingual text comprising Latin-based characters in a Latin-based language and non-Latin-based characters in a non-Latin-based language, converting the non-Latin-based characters in the multi-lingual text to index values to produce a pseudo text, and encoding the pseudo text in a matrix-code symbol. The conversion is based on a predefined mapping that converts the Unicode values of the non-Latin-based characters to index values having fewer digits than the corresponding Unicode values of the non-Latin-based characters. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253787 | APPLICATIONS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTI-LINGUAL TEXT IN A MATRIX CODE SYMBOL - A method for preparing a multi-lingual personal identification card includes receiving a multi-lingual text comprising Latin-based characters in a Latin-based language and non-Latin-based characters in a non-Latin-based language. The multi-lingual text includes the name of the holder of the personal identification card in the Latin-based language and the non-Latin-based language. The method converts the non-Latin-based characters in the multi-lingual text to index values to produce a pseudo text. The conversion is based on a predefined mapping that converts the Unicode values of the non-Latin-based characters to index values having fewer digits than the corresponding Unicode values of the non-Latin-based characters. The method receives vector data for a personal image which includes a facial image, a finger print, or a combination of both of the holder of the personal identification card, and encodes the pseudo text and the vector data in the matrix-code symbol. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253788 | Augmented Conversational Understanding Agent - An augmented conversational understanding agent may be provided. Upon receiving, by an agent, at least one natural language phrase from a user, a context associated with the at least one natural language phrase may be identified. The natural language phrase may be associated, for example, with a conversation between the user and a second user. An agent action associated with the identified context may be performed according to the at least one natural language phrase and a result associated with performing the action may be displayed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253789 | Conversational Dialog Learning and Correction - Conversational dialog learning and correction may be provided. Upon receiving a natural language phrase from a first user, at least one second user associated with the natural language phrase may be identified. A context state may be created according to the first user and the at least one second user. The natural language phrase may then be translated into an agent action according to the context state. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253790 | Personalization of Queries, Conversations, and Searches - Personalization of user interactions may be provided. Upon receiving a phrase from a user, a plurality of semantic concepts associated with the user may be loaded. If the phrase is determined to comprise at least one of the plurality of semantic concepts associated with the user, a first action may be performed according to the phrase. If the phrase is determined not to comprise at least one of the plurality of semantic concepts associated with the user, a second action may be performed according to the phrase. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253791 | Task Driven User Intents - Identification of user intents may be provided. A plurality of network applications may be identified, and an ontology associated with each of the plurality of applications may be defined. If a phrase received from a user is associated with at least one of the defined ontologies, an action associated with the network application may be executed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253792 | Sentiment Classification Based on Supervised Latent N-Gram Analysis - A method for sentiment classification of a text document using high-order n-grams utilizes a multilevel embedding strategy to project n-grams into a low-dimensional latent semantic space where the projection parameters are trained in a supervised fashion together with the sentiment classification task. Using, for example, a deep convolutional neural network, the semantic embedding of n-grams, the bag-of-occurrence representation of text from n-grams, and the classification function from each review to the sentiment class are learned jointly in one unified discriminative framework. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253793 | System for natural language understanding - A general-purpose apparatus for analyzing natural language text that allows for the implementation of a broad range of natural language understanding applications. The apparatus for natural language understanding analyzes a source text and transforms the source text into a semantically-interpretable syntactic representation (SISR), comprising a syntax template and semantic clause annotations. The general-purpose apparatus for natural language understanding is adaptable to various source text natural languages and is adaptable to various natural language understanding applications, such as query answering, translation, summarization, information extraction, disambiguation, and parsing. A natural language query answering apparatus for answering questions about a source text, whereby the query answering apparatus utilizes the general-purpose apparatus for transforming the natural language query into SISR format. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253794 | VOICE CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of converting speech from the characteristics of a first voice to the characteristics of a second voice, the method comprising:
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20120253795 | AUDIO COMMENTING AND PUBLISHING SYSTEM - An audio commenting and publishing system including a storage database, media content and a computing device all coupled together via a network. The computing device comprises a processor and an application executed by the processor configured to input audio data that a user wishes to associate with the media content from an audio recording mechanism or a memory device. The application is then able to store the audio data on the storage database and use the network address of the audio data along with the network address of the media content to publish the audio data and the media content such that a view is able to hear and access them concurrently at a network-accessible location. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253796 | SPEECH INPUT DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A sound is picked up by a microphone. A speech waveform signal is generated based on the picked up sound. A speech segment or a non-speech segment is detected based on the speech waveform signal. The speech segment corresponds to a voice input period during which a voice is input. The non-speech segment corresponds to a non-voice input period during which no voice is input. A determination signal is generated that indicates whether the picked up sound is the speech segment or the non-speech segment. A detected state of the speech segment is indicated based on the determination signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253797 | MULTI-MODE AUDIO CODEC AND CELP CODING ADAPTED THEREFORE - In an embodiment, bitstream elements of sub-frames are encoded differentially to a global gain value so that a change of the global gain value results in an adjustment of an output level of the decoded representation of the audio content. Concurrently, the differential coding saves bits. Even further, the differential coding enables the lowering of the burden of globally adjusting the gain of an encoded bitstream. In another embodiment, a global gain control across CELP coded frames and transform coded frames is achieved by co-controlling the gain of the codebook excitation of the CELP codec, along with a level of the transform or inverse transform of the transform coded frames. In another embodiment, the gain value determination in CELP coding is performed in the weighted domain of the excitation signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253798 | Rejecting Noise with Paired Microphones - A system for combining signals includes a first microphone generating a first input signal having a first voice component and a first noise component, a second microphone generating a second input signal having a second voice component and a second noise component, a mixing circuit, and an adaptive filter. The mixing circuit applies a first gain having a value α to the first input signal to produce a first scaled signal, applies a second gain having a value 1−α to the second input signal to produce a second scaled signal, and sums the first scaled signal and the second scaled signal to produce a summed signal. The adaptive filter computes an updated value of α to minimize the energy of the summed signal based on the summed signal, the first input signal and the second input signal, and provides the updated value of α to the mixing circuit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120253799 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID CUSTOMIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating domain-specific speech recognition models for a domain of interest by combining and tuning existing speech recognition models when a speech recognizer does not have access to a speech recognition model for that domain of interest and when available domain-specific data is below a minimum desired threshold to create a new domain-specific speech recognition model. A system configured to practice the method identifies a speech recognition domain and combines a set of speech recognition models, each speech recognition model of the set of speech recognition models being from a respective speech recognition domain. The system receives an amount of data specific to the speech recognition domain, wherein the amount of data is less than a minimum threshold to create a new domain-specific model, and tunes the combined speech recognition model for the speech recognition domain based on the data. | 2012-10-04 |