38th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100241364 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL MOISTURE BY THERMOGRAVIMETRY - A device and a method for determining material moisture by thermogravimetry. Included in the device are: a test chamber ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241365 | METHOD FOR PROVISION AND UTILIZATION OF MATERIAL INFORMATION RERDING STEEL SHEET FOR SHIPPING - The present invention provides a method for obtaining material information regarding steel sheet for shipping over the entire length of the steel sheet for shipping without spending too much time and effort, providing detailed material information in large volumes to a user through a computer and network, and having the user utilize the same. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241366 | SHAPE DEFECT FACTOR IDENTIFICATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a method for rapidly, surely, and easily identifying a factor of a shape defect of an artifact attributed to elastic recovery of deformation upon molding by using the numeric value simulation technique, thereby eliminating lowering of dimension accuracy. The method includes a step of calculating a stress distribution and distortion distribution working on an artifact before elastic recovery; a step of calculating a deformation amount δ | 2010-09-23 |
20100241367 | Sensor, Program Storage Unit, Control Unit, and Promgram Storage Medium - At a time of a teaching mode that is performed before conditions of a flow path where fluid flows, a pressure and a flow rate of the fluid are sampled. Also at a time of a detection mode to detect the conditions of the flow path, the pressure and the flow rate are sampled. Then, in a case where a difference between the flow rate in the teaching mode in the pressure obtained in the detection mode and the flow rate in the detection mode is larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that clogging has been caused in the flow path. A processing program for this case is selectively transmitted in advance from a processing program storage device | 2010-09-23 |
20100241368 | METHOD FOR REAL TIME MEASUREMENT OF MASS FLOW RATE OF BULK SOLIDS - Method for real time measurement of mass flow rate of bulk solids, in where said bulk solids are loaded, or unloaded, by a pneumatic transport system, comprising the following steps: arranging at least two pressure gauges in a pipe section of the transport system, as measuring devices; measuring pressure drop ΔP between said pressure gauges as the gas-solids flow of air and bulk solids takes place; calculating suspension density ρ | 2010-09-23 |
20100241369 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GAUGE READING IN AN INVENTORY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system includes a probe configured to be raised and lowered in a tank capable of receiving a material. The system also includes a connector coupled to the probe and having at least one type of coding encoded on the connector. The system further includes a main unit configured to raise and lower the probe using the connector, digitally capture information associated with the at least one type of coding on the connector, determine a level reading identifying a level of the material in the tank using the captured information, and wirelessly transmit the identified level reading. The main unit could also be configured to determine a confidence level or interval associated with the identified level reading and wirelessly transmit the confidence level or interval. The connector could include a tape, and the at least one type of coding could include visible markings, perforations, and/or magnetic codes. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241370 | Method and Apparatus for Determing Dispense Volume - In needle-based dispensing systems, the target amount of liquid to be dispensed is in many cases very well controlled. However, the amount of liquid that is actually reaching the receiving well may show a discrepancy, because part of the liquid leaving the inner needle space remains on the outer surface of the dispense needle, and so a small amount of liquid is “lost” in the dispensing act. A sensor arrangement according to the present invention is suitable for detecting the presence of any liquid from the aspiration reservoir that is left behind on the outside of the dispense needle, before the dispense step is actually started. The “lost” volume can also be measured very accurately by inserting the tip of a dispense needle into a hollow metallic cylinder, forming a capacitor, whereby the capacitance value depends on the volume of the “lost” dispense volume. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241371 | METHOD FOR THE REAL-TIME DETERMINATION OF THE FILLING LEVEL OF A CRYOGENIC TANK - The invention relates to a method for the real-time determination of the filling level of a cryogenic tank ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241372 | ONLINE PARTIAL DISCHARGE MONITORING SYSTEM OF GENERATOR AND METHOD THEREOF - A system and method for online monitoring partial discharge of a generator are disclosed. The system is connected in parallel with a busbar between the generator and electric network, and comprises: a near-end circuit on a generator side, which includes a near-end capacitive coupling sensor connected to the busbar and a near-end impedor connected in series with the near-end capacitive coupling sensor; a far-end circuit on an electric network side, which includes a far-end capacitive coupling sensor connected to the busbar and a far-end impedor connected in series with the far-end capacitive coupling sensor; and a detection device, which has a near-end input terminal connected to a connection point between the near-end capacitive coupling sensor and the near-end impedor through a near-end cable, a far-end input terminal connected to a connection point between the far-end capacitive coupling sensor and the far-end impedor through a far-end cable, and a processing unit, a length L of the busbar between the two capacitive coupling sensors, a length L | 2010-09-23 |
20100241373 | ESD PROTECTION VERIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An ESD protection verification apparatus of an aspect of the present invention including an element extraction unit which extracts one or more elements connected to a first pad included in design data for a semiconductor integrated circuit, a first and second element information checking/processing unit which checks connection information for the extracted element and which calculates a operating value based on design information for the extracted element, a first and second error detection unit which compares a reference value with the operating value to determine whether the element has a predetermined ESD withstand voltage. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241374 | Failure analysis method, apparatus, and program for semiconductor integrated circuit - There are provided a signal detection process that derives coordinates in a device coordinate system in analysis data for abnormal signal data included in the analysis data of a semiconductor integrated circuit obtained from a semiconductor inspection apparatus; a coordinate conversion process that derives a correspondence between a coordinate in the device coordinate system and a coordinate in a design coordinate system in the design data of the semiconductor integrated circuit for a plurality of reference points in the semiconductor integrated circuit, and that derives a coordinate conversion formula between the device coordinate system and the design coordinate system; an error calculation process that derives a position error between a coordinate in the device coordinate system converted by the coordinate conversion formula and a coordinate in the design coordinate system; and a circuit extraction process that extracts a circuit related to the abnormal signal in the design data based on the coordinates of the abnormal signal in the device coordinate system using the coordinate conversion formula and the position error. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241375 | SMART DEVICE FOR ENABLING REAL-TIME MONITORING, MEASURING, MANAGING AND REPORTING OF ENERGY BY SOLAR PANELS AND METHOD THEREFORE - A solar panel monitoring device and method is disclosed. The solar panel monitoring smart device comprises at least one power source or input; at least one sensor connected to the input, where the at least one sensor is adapted to responsively generate monitoring information on the input with which it is associated; a processor for receiving the monitoring information regarding the input from each of the sensors, and adapted to forward the received monitoring information; and a transmission chip for receiving the monitoring information, packetizing the monitoring information, and transmitting to a remote location. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241376 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SECONDARY BATTERY - An ECU calculates an evaluation value decrease amount D(−) in response to a reduction of unevenness of lithium ion concentration caused by diffusion of lithium ions resulting from a lapse of one cycle time ΔT, calculates an evaluation value increase amount D(+) in response to an increase of the unevenness of the lithium ion concentration caused by discharging during a lapse of one cycle time ΔT, and calculates a present value D(N) of a battery deterioration evaluation value D due to high-rate discharging, as a previous value D(N−1)−evaluation value decrease amount D(−)+evaluation value increase amount D(+). If battery deterioration evaluation value D exceeds a predetermined target value E, the ECU sets a discharging power limit value WOUT that is a limit value of electric power to be discharged from a battery, to a value lower than a maximum value W(MAX). | 2010-09-23 |
20100241377 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CHARGER - A battery management system includes a battery attached with an identification ID; and a plurality of chargers for reading the identification ID attached to the battery, the chargers associating the read identification ID with information indicative of an end of charging the battery and sending the information, the chargers charging the battery. The battery management system also includes a management server connected to each of the chargers for receiving the information indicative of the end of charging the battery associated with the identification ID and sent from each of the chargers. The management server cumulatively sums, as the number of chargings, the number of receptions of the information indicative of the end of charging the battery for each identification ID, and the management server associates the identification ID with the cumulatively summed number of chargings and allows the number of chargings to be recorded. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241378 | Method and Apparatus for Compressive Parameter Estimation and Tracking - We have developed a new method and apparatus for tracking and estimating parameters of locally oscillating signals from measurements that approximately preserve the inner product among signals in a class of signals of interest. Random demodulation, random sampling, and coset sampling are three prime examples of these techniques. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241379 | METHOD OF ANALYZING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, METHOD OF OBSERVATION AND THEIR ASSOCIATED INSTALLATIONS - A method for analyzing an integrated circuit includes: a step ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241380 | SYSTEM FOR MAPPING VEHICLE MUTILATION DEFECTS - A system and method for analyzing mutilation defects including a benchmark image of a part and a grid having a plurality of cells plotted onto the benchmark image is provided. The system further includes a computer processing unit having an interface operable to associate each identified mutilation defects with the associated cell where the mutilation defect occurred. The system and method further includes a plotting circuit having a code. Each of the labels is associated with a predetermined occurrence of mutilation defects within a given cell. The plotting circuit counts each occurrence of a mutilation defect within each of the cells and plots the associated label within the cell so as to improve the quality control of a part by providing a map showing the frequency of mutilation defects on a particular part of a mass produced product. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241381 | CALIBRATION TO IMPROVE WEATHER RADAR POSITIONING DETERMINATION - A method of calibrating antenna-position detection associated with a radar system, the radar system including a first gimbal and a first angle sensor configured to detect an angular position of the first gimbal, includes mounting a second angle sensor to the first gimbal configured to detect an angular position of the first gimbal. The first gimbal is rotated through each angular position of a set of the angular positions. A first set of data is generated with the first angle sensor that characterizes a detected angular position of the first gimbal. A second set of data is generated with the second angle sensor that characterizes a detected angular position of the first gimbal. A third data set is determined comprising differences, between the first and second data sets, in detected angular position at each first-gimbal angular position. The third data set is stored in a memory device. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241382 | CALIBRATION METHOD FOR INERTIAL DRIVE ACTUATOR, INERTIAL DRIVE ACTUATOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CALCULATING POSITION OF MOVING BODY - A method includes an electrostatic capacitance detecting step of detecting electrostatic capacitances of opposing parts of a moving body side electrode and an oscillating plate electrode; an electrostatic capacitance storing step of storing the electrostatic capacitances at the first movement limit position and the second movement limit position detected at the electrostatic capacitance detecting step; a ratio calculating step of calculating a ratio of the electrostatic capacitances at the first movement limit position and the second movement limit position stored at the electrostatic capacitance storing step to a movement limit distance that is a distance between the first movement limit position and the second movement limit position; and an absolute position calculating step of calculating an absolute position of the moving body between the first movement limit position and the second movement limit position from the ratio. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241383 | ABSOLUTE TYPE LINEAR ENCODER AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING POSITION THEREOF - An absolute type linear encoder includes: a scale including a plurality of tracks including a high-order and low-order tracks; and a detection head configured to detect a relative position to the scale; and a processing circuit configured to obtain the number of cycles of the low-order track by using a correction value obtained per correction pitch, the width of which is wider than the detection pitch, based on an error between tracks produced by a difference between the position of the high-order track to the detection head and the position of the low-order track thereto, output values of the high-order track and the low-order track, and a cyclic ratio of the low-order track to the high-order track, and obtain the position of the detection head to the scale based on the number of the cycles and the output value of the low-order track. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241384 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A SPECIMEN STAGE OF A METROLOGY SYSTEM AND METROLOGY SYSTEM COMPRISING A SPECIMEN STAGE - A method for calibrating a specimen stage of a metrology system is provided, in which a specimen that has multiple marks is positioned successively in different calibration positions, each mark is positioned in the photography range of an optical system by means of the specimen stage in each calibration position of the specimen, and the mark position is measured using the optical system. A model is set up that describes positioning errors of the specimen stage using a system of functions having calibration parameters to be determined. The model takes into consideration at least one systematic measurement error that occurs during the measurement of the mark positions. The values of the calibration parameters are determined based on the model with consideration of the measured mark positions. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241385 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT AND CORRECTION OF THERMALLY INDUCED CHANGES OF BORESIGHT, EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTH, AND FOCUS - A method and system are for measuring and correcting shifts in the boresight, effective focal length, and focus of an optical system that are caused by temperature variations. The method can be used for systems which can be expected to operate in situations where the temperature variations are large, e.g. a FLIR system of a fighter plane, and also where the temperature variations can be very small however high accuracy is needed. The invention is based on placing radiation emitting sources before and as close as possible to the first optical element of the optical system and measuring the thermally induced shifts of the locations of the images of the radiation emitting sources on the surface of the detector of the optical system. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241386 | Method of Correcting Coordinates, and Defect Review Apparatus - The present invention provides a method of correcting coordinates so as to quickly and properly arrange a sample in a field of view in a review apparatus for moving a sample stage onto the specified coordinates to review the sample. A review apparatus according to the present invention, which is a review apparatus for moving a sample stage onto coordinates previously calculated by a checking apparatus to review the sample, has a function of retaining a plurality of coordinate correction tables to correct a deviation between a coordinate value previously calculated by a checking apparatus and an actual sample position detected by the review apparatus. The review apparatus evaluates correction accuracy of the plurality of coordinate correction tables and applies one of the coordinate correction tables with the maximum evaluation value. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241387 | PROVER SELF TESTING AND VALIDATION APPARATUS - A prover includes a piston supporting rod extending longitudinally through a cylinder, which cylinder receives and discharges a fluid to measure the volume and flow rate of the fluid by translation of the piston from the fluid receiving end to the fluid discharging end. Motive means includes at least one element for drawing the rod and piston toward the fluid receiving end of the cylinder. Travel of the piston in the direction from the fluid receiving end to the fluid discharging end of the cylinder is sensed at discrete locations to provide an indication of the quantity of fluid therebetween and the related flow rate. Each of a plurality of switches, linear encoder or laser detector provides position sensing signals reflective of the volume and rate of fluid flowing in the cylinder. These signals, representative of this volume and flow rate, are compared with preset parameters to determine the degree of equivalence. Thereby, self testing and validation occurs. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241388 | Analyte Monitoring Device And Methods Of Use - An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241389 | EXCITATION UNIFORMITY - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with MRI excitation are described. One example method includes performing a calibration to determine a set of transmission parameters for a set of excitation pulses for transmission channels available on a multi-channel MRI transmitter. The set of excitation pulses are configured to produce a resulting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal from an object exposed to the set of excitation pulses. The resulting NMR signal comprises NMR signal associated with a first NMR resonance associated with the object and NMR signal associated with a second NMR resonance associated with the object. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241390 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING SAFETY CRITICAL SENSOR VARIABLES - A computer system for safety critical sensor variables includes first and second sensors which respectively output first and second sensor variables, a computer, and an independent comparator. The computer calculates an output variable from the first sensor variable by a first function. The computer calculates a comparison variable from the output variable by a second function. The comparison variable and the second sensor variable are applied to the input of the comparator. The second sensor variable is not an input variable of the computer and differs from the first sensor variable in terms of its qualitative value. By calculations of the computer and, if appropriate, of the comparator, an expected comparison variable for the second sensor variable is determined from the calculated output variable, and the correspondence of the two variables is checked by the comparator. Specific internal errors of the computer can thereby be discovered. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241391 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION OF A VEHICLE USING SAD ALGORITHM - Provided are a single-board type vehicle driving information measuring apparatus and method using a sum of absolute difference (SAD) hardware accelerator. In the vehicle driving information measuring apparatus and method, time differences between vehicle sensing signals sensed by two or more sensing units are accurately calculated in real time by the SAD hardware accelerator, and the velocity and acceleration of a vehicle can be accurately calculated based on the accurate time differences between the vehicle sensing signals. The vehicle driving information measuring apparatus is operated in two separate modes, that is, a vehicle sensing mode and a velocity measuring mode. Accordingly, power consumption of the apparatus can be minimized. In addition, the apparatus can be provided with a wireless transceiver, so that the apparatus can be constructed and operated without external cables. Further, functional blocks of the apparatus can be powered separately. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TOLERANCE TO INTERFERENCE AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF LINE OF SIGHT - Various aspects of the present invention are shown and described, each of which has stand alone utility in a navigated medical environment. A receiver position calibration system and method facilitates calibration of a reference frame prior to each navigated procedure. A concept and application of confidence weights is introduced. Confidence weights can be applied to distance calculations to mitigate the effects of interference and increase the tolerance of the navigated medical system. Multi-path interference is minimized through the transmission of a signal having a pattern of unique frequencies and filtering of the distance calculations for each frequency to identify the “best” distance in the presence of multi-path interference. A position determination method and system that transmits a signal having multiple frequency components permits positions to be identified with high resolution over a large area. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241393 | SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING AXIAL DEFORMATION OF TURBINE ROTOR - A system calculates axial deformation of a turbine rotor. The system includes: an input part that sets measurement points of a rotor disk that constitutes the turbine rotor; a deflection amount detection part that derives radial displacement amounts of the turbine rotor for at least four or more measurement points along an outer surface in a circumferential direction of the turbine rotor based on measured values measured by a displacement gage; a storage part that stores the radial displacement amounts derived by the deflection amount detection part and measured angles at the measurement points; and a calculation part that calculates misalignment data of a most probable circle of the turbine rotor based on data stored in the storage part. At least four or more measurement points are set in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. The calculated circle is calculated from the displacement amount and the measured angle measured at each measurement point. The most probable circle is determined from the calculated circle, and the misalignment data of the most probable circle is calculated from the most probable circle, thereby allowing axial deformation to be calculated by a simpler method than conventional methods. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241394 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING MISALIGNMENT OF ROTATIONAL BODY - A system and method for calculating misalignment of a rotational body includes: deriving radial displacement amounts of the rotational body for at least four or more measurement points; selecting three arbitrary points among all the measurement points to calculate a circle; calculating circle values for all the measurement points from the calculated circle; calculating differences between the calculated circle values and the radial displacement amounts as error amounts at the measurement points; summing the error amounts to derive a total error amount value; repeating calculation for combinations of three measurement points to calculate each total error amount value; selecting a calculated circle with a minimum total error amount value as a most probable circle; and calculating deviation between the center of the most probable circle and the center of rotation of the rotational body as misalignment data of the most probable circle. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241395 | Method and device for measuring a vehicle - The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring a damaged vehicle, in which inclination of the vehicle is measured with the measuring device and the measured inclination of the vehicle is used as a datum plane, distances of measuring points ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241396 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING - A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing image data for constructing an image of a region of a three dimensional target object. The method includes the steps of providing incident radiation, via at least one detector detecting an intensity of radiation scattered by the target object, repositioning incident radiation relative to the target object, subsequently detecting the intensity of radiation scattered by the target object, determining a probe function indicating an estimate of at least one characteristic of the incident radiation at one or more depths of the object and providing image data from which an image of one or more regions of the object may be constructed via an iterative process using the probe function. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241397 | MEASUREMENT STAND AND METHOD OF ITS ELECTRICAL CONTROL - The invention relates to a measurement stand for holding a measuring probe intended in particular for measuring the thickness of thin layers, and to a method for controlling the measurement stand. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241398 | Time Interpolation with Time-Varying Waveforms - A method and apparatus for measuring a duration of an event using two time-varying waveforms, each waveform having characteristics such that the waveforms intersect at an intersecting point. The duration of the event can be determined based on the characteristics and a value of the intersecting point of the waveforms. The characteristics of the waveforms can be the gradient or the initial value of the waveforms. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241399 | Statistical Processing Methods Used in Abnormal Situation Detection - Detection of one or more abnormal situations is performed using various statistical measures, such as a mean, a median, a standard deviation, etc. of one or more process parameters or variable measurements made by statistical process monitoring blocks within a plant. This detection is enhanced in various cases by using specialized data filters and data processing techniques, which are designed to be computationally simple and therefore are able to be applied to data collected at a high sampling rate in a field device having limited processing power. The enhanced data or measurements may be used to provided better or more accurate statistical measures of the data, may be used to trim the data to remove outliers from this data, may be used to fit this data to non-linear functions, or may be use to quickly detect the occurrence of various abnormal situations within specific plant equipment, such as distillation columns and fluid catalytic crackers. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241400 | Determining Component Failure Rates Using Accelerated Life Data - A method of statistical analysis is based on an accelerated degradation model for estimating the failure rate from a set of accelerated life data (e.g. stress, humidity, temperature, voltage, resistance, vibration, etc.). The method re-samples randomly distributed data and organizes it into subsets that may be ordered. The maximum is found for each subset. From the maximums a parametric LEV distribution is determined. Maximum Likelihood Estimation methods may be used to find the parameters employed in the determined LEV distribution. The failure rate is calculated using the determined LEV distribution of the sample maximums. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241401 | Solar collector electronic freeze protection system, with differential circulation control of pump and automatic freeze protection - An automatic and electronic freeze protection system for solar energy collector systems. The system includes a solar collector for collecting solar energy in the form of heat, a circulation pump operated by a DC power source (typically a small photovoltaic module), a storage tank, an ac current connection to provide freeze protection at times when no sun is available, and various valves and piping to complete. Sensors are provided at both the storage tank and the solar collector to monitor the temperature of the water and also the temperature of the collector (more specifically, the temperature of the fluid in the collector). Whenever the fluid in the collector approaches its freeze point, the electronic freeze protection will use AC or battery power to energize the DC circulation pump, thereby circulating water from the storage tank to and through all components of the system. When the temperature of the collector (the temperature of the fluid in the collector) rises to a predetermined point and freezing is no longer imminent or possible, the electronic freeze protection will shut off the circulation pump. This process will repeat as often as is necessary to protect the collector and system components that are exposed to freezing temperatures. The primary difference between our current invention and existing systems is that there is no electronic freeze protection device available for DC-solar systems. In addition, we have combined existing DC differential control with electronic freeze protection for a truly unique and extremely useful improvement. Differential control of the circulation pump will increase efficiency of the system, thereby increasing total solar gain. Finally, and uniquely, this invention includes fault protection in the event of an open or shorted sensor at the collector. In the event of a fault, the present invention will energize the circulation pump, thereby preventing freezing and making the system fail-safe. The invention is unique by three means: combination of electronic freeze protection AND differential control in a single unit, automatic backup with battery and ac power, and fault protection for fail-safe operation. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241402 | FIELD DEVICE FOR PROCESS AUTOMATION - A field device for process automation, composed of at least two components coupleable with one another, wherein, in each of the components, a control/memory unit is provided, in which, in each case, a parameter set with defined parameters is stored, and wherein, for the case, in which the at least two components are coupled with one another, at least one of the control/memory units reads, and compares with one another, the parameter sets stored in the separate control/memory units of the components, and wherein, in the case of a deviation in the parameter sets, the comparing control/memory unit of the control/memory units makes available, to the components coupled with one another, the intersection of the parameters of the parameter sets. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241403 | Automatic generation of building instructions for building element models - A computer-implemented method of generating building instructions for a building element model, the model including a plurality of building elements, the building instructions being indicative of a sequential order of construction steps for constructing the building element model, each construction step including adding at least one building element to the building element model. The method comprises determining, from a digital representation of the building element model, a sequential order of deconstruction steps for deconstructing the building element model into building elements, each deconstruction step including removing at least one building element from the building element model; and inverting the determined sequential order of deconstruction steps to obtain the sequential order of construction steps. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241404 | Patient-specific hemodynamics of the cardio vascular system - A noninvasive patient-specific method is provided to aid in the analysis, diagnosis, prediction or treatment of hemodynamics of the cardiovascular system of a patient. Coronary blood flow and pressure can be predicted using a 3-D patient image-based model that is implicitly coupled with a model of at least a portion of the remaining cardiovascular system. The 3-D patient image-based model includes at least a portion of the thoracic aorta and epicardial coronaries of the patient. The shape of one or more velocity profiles at the interface of the models is enforced to control complex flow features of recirculating or retrograde flow thereby minimizing model instabilities and resulting in patient-specific predictions of coronary flow rate and pressure. The invention allows for patient-specific predictions of the effect of different or varying physiological states and hemodynamic benefits of coronary medical interventions, percutaneous coronary interventions and surgical therapies. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241405 | Osteo-Articular Structure - Method for reconstruction of a three-dimensional model of an osteo-articular structure of a patient, wherein a) bi-dimensional patient-specific image data ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241406 | GEOSPATIAL MODELING SYSTEM PROVIDING BUILDING ROOF TYPE IDENTIFICATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial database for identifying a building roof type defined by building roof data points as being from among a plurality of possible building roof types. This may be done based upon applying multi-directional gradient calculations to the building roof data points. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241407 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PROCESS MEASUREMENTS OF WIRES VIBRATING IN FLUIDS - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to process measurements of wires vibrating in fluids are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a downhole assembly and a surface assembly. The downhole assembly including a sensor to measure a waveform representative of a motion of a wire vibrating within a fluid at a downhole location in a wellbore, a waveform modeler to compute a model parameter from the measured waveform, and a first telemetry module to transmit the computed model parameter to a surface location. The surface assembly including a second telemetry module to receive the computed model parameter from the downhole assembly, and a viscosity analyzer to estimate a viscosity of the fluid from the computed model parameter. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING COMPLIANCE OF A DEFINED DOMAIN WITH A MODEL - Method for testing compliance of a defined domain with reference model criteria includes: (a) providing an architecture file describing the domain; (b) specifying formatted files relating to the architecture file; (c) parsing the formatted files to ascertain model data elements; (d) structuring model data elements for use with a criteria subset associated with a simulation scenario; (e) effecting simulation using the model data elements in the simulation scenario according to the criteria subset; and (f) evaluating compliance of the model data elements according to evaluation parameters. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241409 | VARIANTS IN GRAPHICAL MODELING ENVIRONMENTS - This invention allows users to build, manipulate, and finally deploy various model configurations with little performance overhead, better syntactic clarity and configuration flexibility. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241410 | Relative and Absolute Error Models for Subterranean Wells - A relative error model is used to compute a relative uncertainty in the position of a first well with respect to a second well. This relative uncertainty may be computed in real time during drilling and may be used in making subsequent steering decisions during drilling. Moreover, an absolute uncertainty in the position of a first well may be obtained by combining an absolute uncertainty in the position of a second well and the relative uncertainty in the position of the first well with respect to the second well. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241411 | Methods of Calculating Differences of Binding Affinities Between Congeneric Pairs of Ligands by Way of a Displaced Solvent Functional - Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241412 | Methods of Calculating Differences of Binding Affinities Between Congeneric Pairs of Ligands by Way of a Displaced Solvent Functional - Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING AN LDMOS TRANSISTOR - A processor with a computer program product embodied thereon for modeling an LDMOS transistor having a drift region is provided. Characteristic behavior of a CMOS transistor with its body coupled to its source is generated, and characteristic behavior of a resistor is generated, where the resistor is coupled to the drain of the CMOS transistor. Then to account for impact ionization, an impact ionization current for electrons in the drift region an impact ionization current for holes in the drift region are calculated. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241414 | DEBUGGING SIMULATION WITH PARTIAL DESIGN REPLAY - A virtual platform simulates behavior of a modular circuit based on a circuit design including both high-level and low-level models of circuit modules. A compiler that converts the high-level and low-level models into executable models prior to an initial simulation also generates a separate “replay engine” corresponding to each low-level module for use during subsequent replay simulations. During the initial simulation, the virtual platform simulates circuit behavior by concurrently executing the high-level and low-level executable models and recording data representing behavior of output signals of the low-level design modules modeled by the executable models. To speed up subsequent replays of the simulation, the virtual platform executes one or more of the replay engines in lieu of executing their corresponding low-level executable models. Each executed replay engine simulates behavior of each output signal of a corresponding low-level module in response to the data recorded during the initial simulation representing the behavior of that output signal. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241415 | Auxiliary Link Control Commands - Control commands are transmitted via an emulation interface holding a test clock signal at a constant value and switching a test mode select signal a number of times corresponding to the control command. A receiving system counts switches of the test mode select signal switches while the test clock is constant and interprets the number of switches as a corresponding control command. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241416 | ADAPTIVE PATTERN LEARNING FOR BILINGUAL DATA MINING - Embodiments for the adaptive learning of translation layout patterns to mine bilingual data are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the adaptive learning of patterns to mine bilingual data includes processing a bilingual web page into a Document Object Model (DOM) tree. The embodiment further includes linking the bilingual snippet pairs of each node into a plurality bilingual snippet pairs. The embodiment also includes determining one or more best fit candidate patterns based on the plurality of translation snippets via a Support Vector Machine classifier. The embodiment additionally includes mining one or more translation pairs from the bilingual web page using the one or more best fit candidate patterns. The translation pairs are further stored in a data storage. The one or more translation pairs including at least one of a term pair, a phrase pair, or a sentence pair. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241417 | LOCALIZED CONTENT - Localization techniques are described. In an implementation, data is parsed from a feed of data that is public and not localized. A template is formed from the data for each locale that is to be supported. The data that is localized for a particular locale is presented is based on a particular template for the particular locale. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241418 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING DEVICE AND LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A speech recognition device includes one intention extracting language model and more in which an intention of a focused specific task is inherent, an absorbing language model in which any intention of the task is not inherent, a language score calculating section that calculates a language score indicating a linguistic similarity between each of the intention extracting language model and the absorbing language model, and the content of an utterance, and a decoder that estimates an intention in the content of an utterance based on a language score of each of the language models calculated by the language score calculating section. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241419 | Method for identifying the integrity of information - A preferred method for identifying at least one of a grammatical, linguistic and/or conceptual integrity of a data corpus is disclosed. In a preferred method, the associations between several word elements of a data corpus are identified. Then, the word elements experiencing several associations are used for identifying the continuum between associations and the number of word elements involved and/or not involved in the associations which is then used for identifying at least one of a: linguistic, semantic, grammatical, conceptual or other integrity or coherence of the analyzed data corpus, such as a query for optionally displaying a data corpus understanding and/or selecting a particular search behavior or other. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241420 | AUTOMATED SENTENCE PLANNING IN A TASK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system that interacts with a user in an automated dialog system ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241421 | LANGUAGE PROCESSOR - A language processor according to the present invention includes a probability calculating section ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241422 | SYNCHRONIZING A CHANNEL CODEC AND VOCODER OF A MOBILE STATION - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for maintaining a vocoder and channel codec in substantial synchronization. The method may include receiving a configuration message that includes rate information and an effective radio block identifier at a mobile station, coding a current radio block via a vocoder and channel codec, configuring an encoding portion of the vocoder and channel codec with the rate information after performing the coding, and then coding the effective radio block using the rate information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FREQUENCY TO PHASE BALANCING FOR TIMBRE-ACCURATE LOW BIT RATE AUDIO ENCODING - Embodiments of a system and method for encoding audio data have been described. In one embodiment, the method includes transforming frequency domain data in a plurality of signal windows of an audio dataset from a cosine/sine format to a magnitude/cosine/sine format. The magnitude/cosine/sine format disproportionately represents a magnitude of the frequency domain data over a phase of the frequency domain data. The above transformation may be a pre-processing stage of vector quantization usable to produce a codebook. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241424 | Open-Loop Pitch Track Smoothing - There is provided a speech encoder for performing an algorithm that comprises obtaining ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241425 | Method and Device for Coding Transition Frames in Speech Signals - There is provided a transition mode device and method for use in a predictive-type sound signal codec for producing a transition mode excitation replacing an adaptive codebook excitation in a transition frame and/or a frame following the transition in the sound signal, comprising an input for receiving a codebook index and a transition mode codebook for generating a set of codevectors independent from past excitation. The transition mode codebook is responsive to the index for generating, in the transition frame and/or frame following the transition, one of the codevectors of the set corresponding to the transition mode excitation. There is also provided an encoding device and method and a decoding device and method using the above described transition mode device and method. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241426 | Method and system for noise reduction - Techniques pertaining to noise reduction are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, noise in an audio signal is effectively reduced and a high quality of a target voice is recovered at the same time. In one embodiment, an array of microphones is used to sample the audio signal embedded with noise. The samples are processed according to a beamforming technique to get a signal with an enhanced target voice. A target voice is located in the audio signal sampled by the microphone array. A credibility of the target voice is determined when the target voice is located. The voice presence probability is weighted by the credibility. The signal with the enhanced target voice is enhanced according to the weighed voice presence probability. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241427 | LIMITATION OF DISTORTION INTRODUCED BY A POST-PROCESSING STEP DURING DIGITAL SIGNAL DECODING - The invention relates to the processing of a digital signal originating from a decoder and a noise reduction post-processing step, including, in particular, limitation of distortion introduced by the post-processing step in order to deliver a corrected output signal (S | 2010-09-23 |
20100241428 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BEAMFORMING USING A MICROPHONE ARRAY | 2010-09-23 |
20100241429 | Systems And Methods For Punctuating Voicemail Transcriptions - A system, method and software product punctuates voicemail transcription text. A transcription text of the voicemail message is generated and the pauses between words of the transcribed text are determined. Ellipses are inserted into the transcription text at the position of “er” and “ahh” type words and pauses between words of the transcribed text. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING META-DATA DEPENDENT LANGUAGE MODELING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a spoken dialog system using meta-data to build language models to improve speech processing. Meta-data is generally defined as data outside received speech; for example, meta-data may be a customer profile having a name, address and purchase history of a caller to a spoken dialog system. The method comprises building tree clusters from meta-data and estimating a language model using the built tree clusters. The language model may be used by various modules in the spoken dialog system, such as the automatic speech recognition module and/or the dialog management module. Building the tree clusters from the meta-data may involve generating projections from the meta-data and further may comprise computing counts as a result of unigram tree clustering and then building both unigram trees and higher-order trees from the meta-data as well as computing node distances within the built trees that are used for estimating the language model. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241431 | System and Method for Multi-Modal Input Synchronization and Disambiguation - Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes a multi-modal input interface for recognizing user input in human-machine interaction (HMI) systems are described. Embodiments include a component that receives user input from a plurality of different user input mechanisms (multi-modal input) and performs certain synchronization and disambiguation processes. The multi-modal input components synchronizes and integrates the information obtained from different modalities, disambiguates the input, and recovers from any errors that might be produced with respect to any of the user inputs. Such a system effectively addresses any ambiguity associated with the user input and corrects for errors in the human-machine interaction. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241432 | PROVIDING DESCRIPTIONS OF VISUALLY PRESENTED INFORMATION TO VIDEO TELECONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE NOT VIDEO-ENABLED - Descriptions of visually presented material are provided to one or more conference participants that do not have video capabilities. This presented material could be any one or more of a document, PowerPoint® presentation, spreadsheet, Webex® presentation, whiteboard, chalkboard, interactive whiteboard, description of a flowchart, picture, or in general, any information visually presented at a conference. For this visually presented information, descriptions thereof are assembled and forwarded via one or more of a message, SMS message, whisper channel, text information, non-video channel, MSRP, or the like, to one or more conference participant endpoints. These descriptions of visually presented information, such as a document, spreadsheet, spreadsheet presentation, multi-media presentation, or the like, can be assembled in cooperation with one or more of OCR recognition and text-to-speech conversion, human input, or the like. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241433 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER AND AUDIO PROCESSOR HAVING A DYNAMICALLY VARIABLE WARPING CHARACTERISTIC - An audio encoder, an audio decoder or an audio processor includes a filter ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241434 | MULTI-CHANNEL DECODING DEVICE, MULTI-CHANNEL DECODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The multi-channel decoding device ( | 2010-09-23 |
20100241435 | Apparatus for efficiently mixing narrowband and wideband voice data and a method therefor - A voice mixing apparatus decodes input encoded narrowband voice data and encoded voice data for narrowband region of input encoded wideband voice data, and detects a speaker in accordance with the decoded voice signals of the entire narrowband. When encoded voice data from a speaker is included in the narrowband, a signal in a region outside the narrowband of the expanded data is encoded. When the data is included in the wideband, encoded voice data of the region outside the narrowband is extracted for output. When the destination terminal is compatible with the encoded narrowband voice data, the narrowband voice signal mixed is encoded and output. When the destination terminal is compatible with wideband, the narrowband voice signal mixed is encoded for the narrowband region, and the voice data of the speaker is used as the encoded voice data for the region outside the narrowband. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241436 | Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding multi-channel signal - Provided are an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus of a multi-channel signal. The encoding apparatus of the multi-channel signal may process a phase parameter associated with phase information between a plurality of channels constituting the multi-channel signal, based on a characteristic of the multi-channel signal. The encoding apparatus may generate an encoded bitstream with respect to the multi-channel signal using the processed phase parameter and a mono signal extracted from the multi-channel signal. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241437 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NOISE FILLING - A method for perceptual spectral decoding comprises decoding of spectral coefficients recovered from a binary flux into decoded spectral coefficients of an initial set of spectral coefficients. The initial set of spectral coefficients are spectrum filled. The spectrum filling comprises noise filling of spectral holes by setting spectral coefficients in the initial set of spectral coefficients not being decoded from the binary flux equal to elements derived from the decoded spectral coefficients. The set of reconstructed spectral coefficients of a frequency domain formed by the spectrum filling is converted into an audio signal of a time domain. A perceptual spectral decoder comprises a noise filler, operating according to the method for perceptual spectral decoding. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241438 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS OF DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method of decoding an audio signal is disclosed, The present invention includes the steps of receiving the audio signal having a plurality of channel signals including an ambient component signal and a source component signal, extracting the ambient component signal and the source component signal of each of the channels based on correlation between the channel signals, modifying the ambient component signal using surround effect information, and generating the audio signal including a plurality of channels using the modified ambient component signal and the source component signal. Accordingly, in an apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof according to the present invention, an ambient component signal is extracted and modified based on correlation and the modified ambient and source component signals are outputted using different signal output units, respectively. Therefore, the present invention enhances a stereo effect of the audio signal. And, a signal output unit for outputting a ambient component signal is arranged to have an output direction different from that of another signal output unit for outputting a source component signal, whereby a listener can be provided with an audio signal of which ambient sound is enhanced. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241439 | METHOD, MODULE AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH QUANTIFICATION BASED ON GERZON VECTORS - The invention relates to a method for encoding the components (X | 2010-09-23 |
20100241440 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING REAL-TIME, LOSSLESSLY ENCODED DATA - A lossless encoding and/or decoding apparatus which encodes audio data on a real-time basis includes a lossless compression unit which losslessly compression encodes the audio data stored in an input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputs the encoded data in sequence, and an output buffer which stores the encoded audio data output from the lossless compression unit. A bitrate controller divides a plurality of the encoded audio data stored in the output buffer into first data having a data amount exceeding the maximum bitrate and second data having a data amount less than the maximum bitrate, divides the first data into third data being the encoded audio data having a data amount of the maximum bitrate and fourth data being the encoded data of the portion exceeding the maximum bitrate, and controls the output buffer so that the fourth data is output together with the second data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241441 | AUTOMATED SCAT SYSTEM - An electronic shoreline cleanup and assessment system includes a plurality of hardware and software elements configured to provide automation and greater efficiency for SCAT teams. In an exemplary embodiment, teams use digital cameras and GPS receivers programmed with data dictionaries in their survey efforts. Collected data can be synchronized with a laptop computer, which can then wirelessly transmit data to an environmental command center. The environmental command center can operate a central computer and central database, which permit useful operations with the gathered data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241442 | INTERACTIVE TESTING SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - The invention relates to a system and a method for health monitoring service based on a central server. Measurements of biological samples (e.g. blood, saliva and urine) are carried out by a remote measurement system. The measurement data are sent to a central server, where the data are processed and analyzed, for example by expert knowledge systems, and a health profile generated is sent back to the remote measurement system. A health care provider may receive the results of the analysis carried out by the expert knowledge system, and the health care provider may further upload laboratory measurements, which can be included in the health analysis of the person. It is preferred that the system and method according to the invention is capable of providing an early warning of diseases that causes changes in chemical components in the biological sample. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241443 | Sequential control and execution of medical applications at different workstations - A process, a system and a computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed for the sequential control and execution of a medical task. In at least one embodiment, the task is processed with the aid of a plurality of different, computer-implemented, medical-technical, stateful applications. In at least one embodiment, the invention uses a 3-layer software architecture including a data layer, a business logic layer, and presentation layer. With the aid of a central server, the option is provided of a one-time loading of the extensive datasets for a task and the applications for a task, so that the datasets and the applications are subsequently preserved for a user of the medical task. As a result, multiple waiting periods for the user are avoided. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241444 | REVENUE SHARING BY A PRINTER MANUFACTURER FOR SALES OF PRESCRIPTON DRUGS - Sharing in the revenues for the sale of prescription drugs in a system comprising an interactive advertising/printing device of a printer manufacturer, a pharmacy and a prescription drug manufacturer. An advertisement of a prescription drug is displayed on the interactive advertising/printing device, and a patient utilizing the interactive advertising/printing device print out a partial prescription for a prescription drug based on the advertisement. The printed partial prescription for the prescription drug is provided to an individual authorized to issue prescriptions for medical drugs, whereby the individual authorized to issue prescriptions completes the partial prescription, which is then provided to the pharmacy for fulfillment. The pharmacy inputs information of the completed prescription into a database, fulfils the prescription for the patient, and completes a sales transaction with the patient for the fulfilled prescription. The sales transaction information for the fulfilled prescription is transmitted to the prescription drug manufacturer, whereby the prescription drug manufacturer determines, based on the sales transaction information, an amount of revenue to share with the printer manufacturer. The prescription drug manufacturer provides the determined amount of the revenue for the sale of the prescription drug to the printer manufacturer. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241445 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTUATING A HEALTH-CARE RELATED PROGRAM - A method is provided that includes receiving input to enroll a patient in a program of an administrator, where the program is directed to a cosmetic medication administrable to the patient by a prescriber. The method also includes receiving recordation of an administering or intended administering of the medication to the enrolled patient by the prescriber, where recordation of the administering or intended administering initiates a request for a rebate on a price of the medication. Further, the method includes processing the request to determine an amount of the rebate, returning a response to the request including an indication of the amount of the rebate, and remitting the rebate amount to the patient. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241446 | Visibly-Coded Medication Label And Associated Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product For Providing Same - A visibly-coded medication label and an associated method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a visibly-coded medication label are provided. A label having an attachment portion and an informational portion may be provided. The informational portion includes a plurality of regions having different visible indicia, such as different colors. Information may be imprinted upon the informational portion that is related to the medication with which the label is to be associated. At least one region that has visible indicia representative of the associated medication may be identified. At least one of the regions other than the region that has been identified to have visible indicia representative of the associated medication may then be overprinted and at least partially obscured. However, the region that has been identified to have visible indicia representative of the associated medication remains visible following the overprinting. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241447 | CUSTOMIZATION OF WOUND DRESSING USING RULE-BASED ALGORITHM - A method and/or system for customizing wound dressings based on an effective wound treatment protocol created by collecting and analyzing wound treatment records. The wound treatment records are collected from one or more wound treatment facilities. The wound dressings are not customized for each patient based solely on experiences and knowledge of medical practitioners but also based on the wound treatment protocol. Further, an intuitive and systematic user interface for a wound dressing fabricator is provided to allow medical practitioners with varying levels of experiences and knowledge to customize wound dressings for a specific wound. By using the wound treatment protocol and the systematic user interface, flawed wound dressings are less likely to be fabricated. Various other functionalities are also provided to manage and support the wound dressing fabricator. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241448 | Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching - Systems and methods are described relating to accepting user input relating to a plurality of health service option selection factors; presenting a plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors; and presenting at least one outcome output based on a selection of at least one of the plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241449 | Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching - Systems and methods are described relating to accepting brain sensor data and presenting a plurality of health service options at least partly based on the accepting brain sensor data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241450 | Diagnostic, Prescriptive, and Data-Gathering System and Method For Macular Pigment Deficits and Other Eye Disorders - A macular health measurement and storage system comprises a plurality of macular-pigment measurement machine for measuring macular pigment density in humans, a plurality of computers each of which is associated with a corresponding one the macular-pigment measuring machines, and a central host. The plurality of macular-pigment measurement machines include a device for receiving macular pigment data from a patient, at least one data transfer port, and at least one processor that enables the transfer of the macular pigment data from the transfer port. The plurality of computers include a first port coupled to the data transfer port of the corresponding macular-pigment measurement machine for receiving the macular pigment data. Each of the computers includes a second port for transferring patient data. The central host is coupled to the second ports on each of the plurality of computers. The central host includes a storage device for storing the patient data. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241451 | Electronic Chain Of Custody Systems And Methods For Use With Drug Testing - Electronic chain of custody systems and methods for use with drug testing protocols are provided. According to some embodiments of the present invention, an electronic chain of custody (“COC”) system provides a digitally stored chain of custody record. The digitally stored chain of custody record can be updated in various fashions including direct computer input of use chain of custody form. For example, the chain of custody form can be used in concert with a data gathering digital pen that can store and pass along pen movements (as data) related to the chain of custody form. Advantageously, the present invention's digital chain of custody system and process enables integration of data from multiple system participants to a digital chain of custody record that obviates the necessity of passing along a conventional paper record. In addition, components of the present invention allow printing the digital COC record and using data recording devices to record data (e.g., handwriting data) to add to the printed COC record, which can be substantially simultaneously added to the digital COC record. Other embodiments are also claimed and described. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES IN HEALTHCARE DELIVERY IN A HOSPITAL - A method and system for managing healthcare delivery is presented. The method includes receiving data related to patients and the patients' scheduled procedures. Based on the data, a queue is generated for screening the patients. The patients are screened in accordance with the screening queue. Once screened, data related to tracking the patients is obtained. The tracking data is used to generate a tracking queue. The patients are tracked in relation to the tracking queue. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241453 | Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product For Displaying And Permitting Revision Of A Potential Interaction - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for displaying and permitting revision of a potential interaction with a medication under consideration for prescription to a patient. Initially, one or more potential interactions may be identified between a medication and one or more of a different medication, an allergy or a patient condition. The potential interactions may then be displayed with an indication of the type of potential interaction and the severity of the potential interaction. An input mechanism may be provided that is associated with the display of each potential interaction and that is configured to receive user input indicative of a change in one or more of the different medication, the allergy or the patient condition. Based upon this change, the potential interactions may be revised. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241454 | Computational Systems and Methods for health services planning and matching - Systems and methods are described relating to accepting user input relating to a plurality of health service option selection factors; presenting a plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors; and presenting at least one outcome output based on a selection of at least one of the plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241455 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE AND CARE IN A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION - A method for improving the quality of healthcare, efficiency, and patient satisfaction procedures is provided. The method includes conducting at least a first survey of patients regarding care provided before, during, and after a procedure, wherein the survey focuses on benchmarks identified as being relevant to quality of care. The method further includes entering the results of the first survey into a database configured to store the results, reviewing the results of the first survey to determine the quality of care provided during the procedure, identifying incidences of poor quality of care, and comparing the results of the first survey with results of surveys taken from other patients to recognize patterns of poor quality of care. The method further includes addressing the incidences of poor quality of care by developing methods to address the recognized incidences of poor quality of care. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241456 | Integrated Point of Care Medication Administration Information System - An integrated point of care medication administration system comprises a point of care medication administration system including an interface for communicating with the at least one repository and information sources and including a processor. The processor uses the information and the interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient, data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for the particular individual medication to be administered to the particular patient. A display device presents at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of the particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of the particular individual medication to the particular patient. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241457 | NETWORK SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - A medical network system includes a terminal device for generating ordering information of a medical examination inclusive of personal information of a body, to place an examination order. A server apparatus is positioned at a central hospital as diagnostic service provider for the examination, for receiving the ordering information. A network server is positioned separately from the central hospital. The network server includes an order processor for receiving the ordering information from the terminal device. A communication device transmits the ordering information received by the order processor to the server apparatus. An information generating device deletes the personal information from the ordering information after transmission thereof, and creates index information for specifying the terminal device, the central hospital related to the examination order, and the ordering information received by the server apparatus. A request processor receives a data request of information from the terminal device. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241458 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - A system for transmitting healthcare data from a provider to one of a plurality of healthcare payers is provided. The system includes a routing system, and routing engine. The routing engine is in communication with at least one provider computer system and a plurality of healthcare payer computer systems. The routing engine is configured to receive uploaded healthcare data from the provider computer system send the data to one of the plurality of healthcare payer computers. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING CONSUMER HEALTHCARE BEHAVIOR - A method of tracking healthcare consumer purchase behavior and attitudes, ibncluding recruiting a panel of patients suffering from a medical condition; collecting data regarding attitudes and demographics of said patients; collecting data regarding purchase behavior of said patients; correlating said data regarding attitudes and demographics of said patients to said data regarding purchase behavior of said patients; and making one or more assessments regarding a future marketing strategy. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241460 | Loss Mitigation - Included are embodiments for providing a loss mitigation instrument. At least one embodiment of a method includes providing, by a computing device, an interface for a party to a lease of property to apply for a loss mitigation instrument; receiving, by the computing device, information from the party to the lease regarding the lessee and the property; determining, by the computing device, terms for the loss mitigation instrument based on the received information, where the loss mitigation instrument is configured to provide for payment on a claim for default on a lease by the lessee, where the default results from a predetermined cause to the lessee; and providing, by the computing device, the loss mitigation instrument to the party to the lease. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241461 | Loss Mitigation Analysis - Included are embodiments for analyzing data for a loss mitigation instrument. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving, by a computing device, information regarding a loss mitigation instrument application for a loss mitigation instrument, the loss mitigation instrument configured to facilitate payment in the event a lessee of the loss mitigation instrument application defaults on a lease payment due to a predetermined cause as defined in the loss mitigation instrument; receiving, by the computing device, general data regarding lessees and lessors to determine at least one piece of lease default information; receiving, by the computing device, specific historical data regarding the lessee; and determining, by the computing device, from the at least one piece of lease default information and the specific historical data regarding the lessee, a likelihood of the lessee defaulting on the lease, where the likelihood is utilized to determine whether the loss mitigation instrument application is accepted. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241462 | Loss Mitigation Fulfillment - Included are embodiments for fulfilling a loss mitigation instrument. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a claim on a loss mitigation instrument, the loss mitigation instrument configured to facilitate payment in the event a lessee of a property defaults on a lease payment due to a predetermined cause to the lessee, as defined by the loss mitigation instrument; determining, by the computing device, whether the claim is related to a valid loss mitigation instrument; determining, by the computing device, whether the lessee has defaulted on the lease payment due to the predetermined cause, as defined by the loss mitigation instrument, which would be covered by the loss mitigation instrument; and in response to a determination that the lessee defaulted on the lease payment due to the a predetermined cause, as defined by the loss mitigation instrument, authorizing, by the computing device, payment pursuant to the loss mitigation instrument. | 2010-09-23 |
20100241463 | AUTOMATED INSURANCE SYSTEM - There is disclosed an automated management system ( | 2010-09-23 |