Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 08/06

20060195198 - Interactive orthopaedic biomechanics system: Methods of selecting a configuration of fixation and compression screws for a bone plate to be installed on a bone of a patient. A computer or website allows a user to load images of a fractured bone and specify a particular configuration of fixation and compression screws with a plate...

20060195199 - Monitoring device: A monitoring device includes: a moving object image generation unit which receives, on a frame-by-frame basis, an overall image captured by a camera and performs inter-frame differential processing on the overall image or background differential processing between the overall image and a background image that is previously prepared; a density...

20060195200 - Door operator console: A console or controller unit for a garage door operator includes a message recording and playback device. The console unit may be wall mounted or configured as a remote transmitter type unit and includes a molded light transmitting switch actuator part mounted on a housing part of the console unit...

20060195201 - Data analysis system and method: Methods and systems for analysing data from a monitoring system for monitoring characteristics of a dynamic system, said monitoring system providing characteristic data in respect of a dynamic system with at least one known normal state, the analysis system comprising: means (100) for receiving characteristic data from the monitoring system,...

20060195204 - Methods and systems for interactive evolutionary computing (iec): Methods and systems for interactive evolutionary computing may include generating a set of candidate molecules based on an evolutionary scheme in which an objective function is a priori mathematically unexpressed, presenting data based on the set of candidate molecules to one or more users, receiving at least one input from...

20060195202 - System and method for data retrieval in ac power tools via an ac line cord: An apparatus and method for obtaining data stored in an electronic module within a power tool over a power line cord of the tool, and without any disassembly of the tool being required. An interface subsystem applies a high frequency, low power AC input signal to the power cord of...

20060195203 - System and method for simulating a stress or failure in a simulated network of program logic controllers: A system and method for simulating a stress or failure in a network of a plurality of simulated networked program logic controllers includes simulating a plurality of networked program logic controllers in a network, the networked program logic controllers each having network information defining a node, the network information being...

20060195205 - Data processing method, portable player and computer: To provide services according to preference of a user by a computer even when the user reproduces content data by using a portable player as a reproduction apparatus; the portable player generates a reproduction history data of reproduction of a content data in a state of not connected to a...

20060195206 - Portable sound reproducing system and method: A portable audio device suitable for reproducing MPEG encoded data includes a plurality of inputs, a non-removable data storage, a display, an audio output, at least one processor, and a battery. The plurality of inputs includes a forward input, a play control input, and a random input. The non-removable data...

20060195207 - Method for projecting and/or configuring a project: The invention relates to a method, an engineering system and a programming device which simplify the projection and/or configuration of a project which represents an automation device for controlling a technical facility. For this purpose, the project engineer simply deposits in a project references that indicate which project components have...

20060195208 - System and method for information handling system manufacture with verified hardware configuration: An information handling system hardware signature based on a verified hardware configuration for the information handling system serves as a reference to confirm the hardware configuration of the information handling system through a manufacture process. For instance, after hardware component testing, the hardware components of the information handling system are...

20060195209 - Methods for determining tool assignment preference and manufacturing systems using the same: A method for determining tool assignment preference applied to a semiconductor manufacturing system. At least one first tool and second tool and at least one first semiconductor process and second semiconductor process applied to the tools are provided. Demand moves provided by the first and second semiconductor processes are calculated....

20060195210 - Framework for managing process including sequential actions: A generic automation framework is provided to divide a process into a sequence of stages. The stages in the process may depend on each other and this dependency dictates the flow of the process. A stage may be an instance of a stage type, which provides a generic definition of...

20060195212 - Automated throughput control system and method of operating the same: An automated throughput control system and method is provided. By gathering tool specific information of a plurality of process tools on entity level, appropriate throughput related performance characteristics may be calculated with high statistical significance during moderately short time intervals. Moreover, the performance characteristics obtained from tool information may be...

20060195213 - Method of operating an advanced process controller by dynamically adapting hierarchy levels: By providing a detailed hierarchical structure for an APC algorithm and by dynamically adapting a hierarchical level in this structure, an efficient utilization of controller data is ensured, while at the same time a large number of process conditions may be taken into consideration without requiring a re-design of the...

20060195211 - Method of process control: The present invention relates to a method of run-to-run control of a manufacturing process. A plurality of runs of the manufacturing process is performed. In each of the runs, a value of a process input is applied to the manufacturing process. A measured value of a process output of the...

20060195215 - Management system, management apparatus, management method, and device manufacturing method: A management system including an acquisition device for acquiring actual processing results obtained by operating an industrial device with a set parameter value and another parameter value, and an estimated processing result, an inspection device for inspecting the processing result obtained with the set parameter value, and acquiring and accumulating...

20060195214 - Process control by distinguishing a white noise component of a process variance: A method, system and medium is provided for enabling improved control systems. An error, or deviation from a target result, is observed for example during manufacture of semiconductor chips. The error within standard deviation is caused by two components: a white noise component and a signal component (such as systematic...

20060195217 - Method of manufacturing a multiple component device: Disclosed are methods of manufacturing a product from individual components comprising the steps of providing data regarding components to a customer; permitting the customer to request a product comprising the combination of the components; transmitting the request to a first location remote from the customer; receiving one of the components...

20060195216 - Substrate processing apparatus and method of transporting substrates and method of processing substrates in substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus includes a plurality of cells each including a predetermined processing unit, a transport mechanism, and a cell controller. The cell controller independently controls operations in each cell in accordance with transport setting and processing condition setting for each cell described in recipe data determined for each...

20060195218 - Iso/nested control for soft mask processing: This method includes a method for etch processing that allows the bias between isolated and nested structures/features to be adjusted, correcting for a process wherein the isolated structures/features need to be smaller than the nested structures/features and wherein the nested structures/features need to be reduced relative to the isolated structures/features,...

20060195219 - Look-up table method for custom fitting of apparel: We disclose and claim a method for custom fitting an article to a human being or animal comprising, selecting on the basis of body information about said human being or animal a subset of entries from a database populated with entries, wherein said entries comprise data from which said article...

20060195220 - Wheelchair lift with a rotary sensor used to determine lift position: A wheelchair lift having a pivot and a platform. A rotary position sensor is mounted at the pivot and configured to generate an output signal. A controller is configured to receive the output signal of the rotary position sensor and determine the position of the platform based on the output...

20060195221 - Inspection and assurance system: A sorting apparatus 10 which uses a sorting/conveying line 11 with branch destination, including a branch line 22 for sorting the commodities more than a quantity necessary for the branch destination and a surplus article returning line 23 for returning surplus commodities after removing a required quantity to the sorting/conveying...

20060195222 - Method and apparatus for marketing simultaneously multiple products on vending machine: An interactive vending machine is provided that facilitates the purchase of digital media. The machine includes a video screen that present displays controlled by a consumer and includes speakers that enable audio-visual promotional material and informational material to be utilized on the vending machine in conjunction with purchasing digital media...

20060195227 - Behavior control apparatus, behavior control method, and program: A behavior control apparatus to control behavior of a device capable of sensing a state of an environment and selecting an action on the basis of a sensing result is provided. The behavior control apparatus includes a predicting unit configured to learn the action and change in the state of...

20060195225 - Living assistance system: In a robot operation terminal, a storage unit has a group-belonging article table that indicates articles belonging to each of groups. Upon receipt of operation information indicating an operation to be instructed to the robot through an input unit, when this operation information specifies a group as its operation subject,...

20060195223 - Method of estimating joint moment of two-legged walking mobile body: Displacements of respective joints corresponding to respective joint elements (J9 and the like) of a rigid link model (S1) representing a two-legged walking mobile body (1) are sequentially grasped. Also at the same time, values, in a body coordinate system (BC), of an acceleration vector of the origin of the...

20060195226 - Mobile robot system and program for controlling the same: A living assistance system is provided with an information presentation device capable of directly displaying information relating to an article onto actual environment, a moving area generation unit (for generating a moving area of the robot, a grabbing feasible area generation unit for generating a grabbing feasible area of the...

20060195224 - Robot cleaner and method of control thereof: A robot vacuum cleaner that comprises a driving unit moving a body on a cleaning surface; a cleaning area detecting unit detecting an area of the cleaning surface; and a central processing unit calculating a spiral cleaning travel pattern corresponding to a shape of each cleaning area based on the...

20060195228 - Robot locus control method and apparatus and program of robot locus control method: A robot locus control method includes the steps of calculating the position and attitude of an end tool of a robot on the basis of a local-coordinate system set based on a fixing point out of the robot, and transforming the position and attitude of the end tool on the...

20060195229 - Electrical power distribution control systems and processes: In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a power adjustment process. The process for power distribution regulation includes filtering data from electrical sensors to provide conditioned data representative of a portion of a power distribution grid and determining, by a controller and based in part on the conditioned data, when...

20060195230 - End-user electrical load controller: An end-user load controller that can be used in an electrical energy supply system for controlling electrical energy to an end-user load is disclosed. The controller periodically evaluates whether the load should be on or off based on comparisons of load-operating information and system emergency information to predetermined criteria which...

20060190094 - Coupling device for three bus systems: Coupling of bus systems is simplified. To this end, a coupling device is disclosed that is used to couple two field buses to a periphery bus. The periphery bus can be used to connect input/output modules for the central monitoring or processing of data. For example, the coupling device can...

20060190095 - Apparatus and method for acquiring plant operation data of power plant: There is disclosed a plant operation data acquiring apparatus, which acquires and stores plant operation data, and backs up the plant operation data using a backup storage medium in accordance with a backup request. The plant operation data acquiring apparatus combines the plant operation data with a simple data search...

20060190096 - Evaluation implement of environmental load and evaluation program of environmental load: An evaluation implement of environmental load includes design plan information comparing part for extracting a difference in parts structure, material, or process between a plurality of product design plans stored in design plan information storing part, environmental load evaluation value comparing part for calculating a difference in environmental load evaluation...

20060190097 - Apparatus for communicating with a vehicle during remote vehicle operations, program product, and associated methods: An apparatus to enhance command communication in a high-noise environment between a user and user vehicle mobile data computer system, program product, and associated methods are provided. The apparatus includes a vehicle computer adapted to be positioned within a user vehicle and a vehicle computer application program stored in memory...

20060190098 - Development system for process control systems as well as associated method and computer program product: The invention relates to methods and devices for developing programs for process control systems and in particular for mathematically intensive or, as the case may be, mathematically complex programs of said kind. According to the prior art programs of said kind were written in a separate development environment and subsequently...

20060190099 - Closed loop control on liquid delivery system ecp slim cell: A method for controlling liquid delivery in a processing chamber. The method includes generating an analog input (AI) signal proportional to a process variable and calculating an analog output (AO) signal based on a setpoint and a deadband. The setpoint is a target value of the process variable and the...

20060190100 - Prevention of integrator wind-up in pi type controllers: A control system having an integrator component that provides an integrator output signal used to control a load, and a method controlling the same includes conditioning the integrator component during a fraction of the period in which it would tend to otherwise wind-up....

20060190101 - Method and apparatus for controlling a safety-critical process: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling safety-critical processes, such as the monitoring of protective doors, emergency stop switches, light curtains and the like. A control unit is connected to a plurality of I/O units via a data transmission link. The I/O units transmit process data...

20060190102 - Packaging systems, apparatus and method therefore: A system for monitoring the condition of a packaging machine during operation and diagnosing potential problems in the performance of the machine. The system comprises an input device, an output device and a processing unit that supports a user interface presented by the output device. The processing unit is arranged...

20060190103 - Method for operating an oven, and an associated device: Method and control device for operating an oven. The control device comprises an operating panel which is substantially flat and sealed. One or more touch-sensitive regions of the panel define electronic on/off switches and an electronic rotary switch. Processing means connected to the rotary switch are suitable for detecting a...

20060190104 - Methods and apparatus for mountable culinary recipe storage and display: An electronic device which may used to enter, display, store, and/or retrieve culinary recipes with ease such as through touchscreen capabilities and that may be implemented in a mountable, flip-down, and/or turn on a pivot or otherwise positional device....

20060190105 - Merging graphical programs: System and method for merging differences between graphical programs. Information is received regarding matches and differences, e.g., in hardware, software, configuration, and/or connectivity, between first and second graphical programs, each comprising respective pluralities of interconnected nodes. The information is analyzed to merge differences between the first and second graphical programs,...

20060190106 - Method for consistent storage of data in an industrial controller: A system and method for employing a file system and file system services on the industrial controller. The file system allows industrial control programs to implement many functions previously performed within the industrial control program and stored in the same memory as the industrial control program. An execution engine is...

20060190107 - System and method for feedback from mass mail marketing: The invention is a system and method for detecting whether a piece of direct mail marketing has been read by a recipient. The invention includes a novel envelope with an embedded sensor to detect whether it has been opened and a transmitter to send information from the sensor to a...

20060190109 - Audio signal editing apparatus and control method therefor: Interlocking flag, indicating whether or not an interlocked display should be made, can be set in association with predetermined editing operators. When any of the operators is operated, a displayed screen on a display is switched over to a screen related to the operated operator, if the interlocking flag associated...

20060190108 - Data processing circuit, data processing apparatus, data processing method, data processing control method, recording medium on which data processing program is stored and recording medium on which data processing control program is stored: A data processing circuit is disclosed which can process data precisely while the processing load to a controlling source is reduced. An information detection section detects, from within data read out from a buffer memory and having attribute information, the attribute information. A data processing section processes, in response to...

20060190110 - Computer implemented system for management of vehicle painting operation: d

20060190112 - Component-based automation: A computer-implemented method for generating a description of a component of an automation system comprises describing the component as a plurality of inputs and outputs, generating a vendor-independent component description file based on a description of the component as the plurality of inputs and outputs, updating the vendor-independent component description...

20060190113 - Novel network production planning method: Methods of production planning, including a novel method of optimized production planning for a plurality of production plants producing a product for delivery to a plurality of customers using a common distribution network, wherein the product consumption by customers can vary, and the variable cost of producing the product can...

20060190111 - System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously: A system of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously by the system is disclosed, comprising a designer operating interface, a component database, a product module database, a modular imitation and arrangement module and a design...

20060190114 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: In an information processing apparatus for displaying models representing shapes to assist design of a device, device identifying data, function identifying data, and core part identifying data are extracted for each function of the device to be designed from configuration information indicating a configuration of functions of the device to...

20060190115 - System and method for controlling jobs of a production device: The invention relates to a system and a method for controlling jobs of a production device. The aim of the invention is to allow a current situation to be analyzed and the required operations to be planned, executed, and monitored irrespective of mathematical routines for optimizing the throughput. Said aim...

20060190116 - Automated pcb manufacturing documentation release package system and method: An automated PCB manufacturing documentation release package system including a PCB database including PCB CAD data associated with a CAD file of a PCB design, and a shape engine configured to display simultaneous views of a given PCB from the PCB database including different views of the PCB and configured...

20060190117 - Method and apparatus for automatically determining a presence status: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status from a number of available presence statuses comprising: a data store for storing at least one predeterminable rule; an activity monitor for monitoring an activity through the...

20060190118 - Methods and apparatus for enhanced operation of substrate carrier handlers: Systems, tools, and methods are provided in which a first signal is transmitted from a tool to a Fab indicating that all substrates to be processed have been removed from a specific carrier and that the specific carrier may be temporarily unloaded from a loadport of the tool. A second...

20060190119 - Lithophane-like article and method of manufacture: An article and a method of forming an article, for example formed of plastics, confectionary product, soap, wax or liquid, by determining the intensity of different points of an original image, and forming the article with a thickness at each point of the article related to the intensity of the...

20060190120 - Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, management apparatus therefor, component management apparatus therefor, and semiconductor wafer storage vessel transport apparatus: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus having a plurality of portions according to this invention includes a storage device which stores, for each portion, information representing the lapsed time of use or the product processing count till occurrence of a failure after installation of the portion, and a calculation device which receives...

20060190121 - Method for the production of a digital colour catalogue: A method for the production of a digital colour catalogue, which comprises a) drawing up a requirement profile for the desired dyeing, b) selecting a group of dyes that meet the requirement profile that has been drawn up, c) determining within the colour space the colour position of the said...

20060190122 - Methods and systems for coordinating customized manufacturing of consumer products: There are provided methods and systems for manufacturing consumer products such as clothing. In accordance with the invention, customer measurements and preferences are collected by a unique, small-footprint or private custom clothing shop. These measurements and preferences are stored and used in association with the manufacturer of custom clothing. Ordered...

20060190123 - Method and device for controlling length of yarn of weft knitting machine: An object of the invention is to control the yarn length as appropriate in a tubular knitted fabric including a drop loop, regardless of the presence of crossover. For front and back needle beds, ones of those indicated by capitals ABC . . . among odd-numbered or even-numbered ones are...

20060190124 - Arrangement for collision prevention of mine vehicle: A mine vehicle and a method of preventing a mine vehicle from colliding. The mine vehicle (1) includes at least one scanner (13, 14) to scan the environment in front of the vehicle. On the basis of the scanning, an obstacle-free route is determined whose outermost points in a sideward...

20060190126 - Combined mailing streams: A method of combining mail streams in a printing finishing process including the acts of generating a master mailing list having a sequence, forming a first mail stream, forming a second mail stream, and combining the first mail stream and the second mail stream according to the sequence of the...

20060190125 - Personalized document and method for making same: A method for producing a document suitable for mailing to a recipient including the steps of determining preferences of the mail recipient and compiling a selection of messages relating to recipient preferences in a format accommodating variable data printing. The compilation of messages is printed on sheets of material which...

20060190127 - Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information by an identification code server: Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing delivery item information in an identification code sorting system by an identification code server. In one embodiment, a primary identification code server receives an identification file containing identification information uniquely corresponding to a delivery item. In this embodiment, the...

20060190128 - Vending machine with transponder interrogator: A vending machine includes a transponder interrogator. A customer carries a transponder embedded within an ornamental or useful item, such as a key chain ornament. When the customer desires to make a purchase from the vending machine, the customer presents the transponder to the transponder interrogator. The transponder is identified...

20060190129 - Security system and method for deterring, preventing, and/or tracking of theft of the use of goods and services, particularly fuel at retail fueling stations: A system and method of preventing theft of the use of goods or services, particularly fuel dispensed from a fuel dispenser, comprised of providing a security system including a controller, a card reader and/or fingerprint reader that is operable to read data stored within an identification card and/or fingerprint and...

20060190130 - Medical item inventory monitoring system with automatic electronic reordering: A medical item inventory system includes a plurality of different types of stored medical items. The system includes medical item dispenser devices which can be selectively operated to dispense requested medical items to authorized users. The system can monitor the medical item inventory to automatically determine a low supply of...

20060190132 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for dry cleaning: An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface. The cleaning elements include a jet port disposed...

20060190134 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning: An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second...

20060190133 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet cleaning: An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second...

20060190136 - Method and system for controlling a manipulator: A method of planning a path for a multi-axis machine. The method includes specifying kinematic limits for each axis of the multi-axis machine, breaking the path into a sequence of linear moves, and deriving a jerk pulse array for each axis for each move....

20060190135 - Robot cleaner and method of control thereof: A robot vacuum cleaner has a driving unit moving a cleaner body on a cleaning surface; a distance detecting unit detecting a distance of travel by the driving unit; an obstacle detecting unit detecting an obstacle near the cleaner body; and a central processing unit moving the cleaner body to...

20060190131 - System and method for adaptive machine programming: A system, method and apparatus for resource reallocation based on ambient condition data is disclosed herein. The system includes a planning module (102) for configuring plan data to include a primary sequence and an auxiliary sequence, a rule table (116) for storing the auxiliary sequence, an ambient condition receiver (124)...

20060190137 - Chemometric modeling software: A method for integrating chemometric model development and chemometric model application to a process system, the method comprising: (1) receiving spectral data from a process system, the received spectral data corresponding to material being monitored by the process system; (2) receiving user input through at least one graphic user interface;...

20060190138 - Method, system and computer program for performing hvac system set up: A method of performing an HVAC system set up. The method includes coupling a supervisory controller to a plurality of equipment controllers, the equipment controllers communicating with the supervisory controller over a bus. The supervisory controller polls addresses associated with the bus to detect the presence of equipment controllers on...

20060190139 - System and method for managing utility consumption: A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed for managing utility consumption. An embodiment is disclosed for reducing peak demand for a utility by staggering requests for that utility. Another embodiment is disclosed in which sensors monitor utility consumption throughout a facility. Those items of equipment not in active use, but...

20060190140 - Smart disconnect switch interbase: Apparatus (10) for controlling supply of electricity through an electrical distribution network to a customer. An electrical meter (12) is plugged into an electrical socket (14) at a customer's premises. Electricity flows from a power line through the socket into the premises, the amount of electricity used being measured by...

20060190141 - System and method for controlling temperature of a liquid residing within a tank: A system for controlling a temperature of a liquid residing within a tank comprises a temperature sensor, a temperature control element, memory, and logic. The temperature sensor is configured to detect the temperature of the liquid residing within the tank, and the temperature control element is coupled to the tank....

20060184253 - Intelligent method of organizing and presenting operational mode information on an instrument panel of a flight deck: The present invention provides a method, computer program product and system for organizing and displaying operational mode information on an instrument panel of a flight deck. A display controller receives input from various sources, including, but not limited to, the pilot/co-pilot, instruments and controls on the aircraft and externally from...

20060184254 - Method for creating a linear programming model of an industrial process facility: A method for creating a linear programming (LP) model of an industrial process facility is disclosed. The model may be used for interactively simulating and/or optimizing the operation of the facility to facilitate feedstock selection and/or other economic analyses. According to the inventive method, a first principles reference tool is...

20060184255 - Adaptive sensor model: The invention provides a method of predicting output values of a physical system from a set of measured inputs of the system using an adaptive model. At each time when a prediction is made, the model is re-initialized to an initial, off-line model and is then refined to incorporate on-line...

20060184256 - Controller: Disclosed is a controller for detecting need of maintenance, abnormal operation, etc. of a machine attributable to reduction of its strength caused by secular change. Acceleration detecting means are attached to driven elements that are driven by servomotors. Respective processors of axis control circuits for feedback-controlling the positions and velocities...

20060184257 - Controller: In a controller, V axis and W axis for driving a driven body are tilting, not orthogonal to each other. An acceleration detector capable of detecting accelerations in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the driven body is arranged so that W-axis direction may meet Y-axis direction of an acceleration...

20060184259 - Air pressure cylinder for positioning control: A slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism is attached to a piston rod 6 of an air pressure cylinder that stops the piston at a target position by means of a positioning control. The slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism includes a friction member formed of a pair of sealing members being in contact with the piston rod,...

20060184258 - Belt driving control apparatus, belt apparatus and image forming apparatus: A belt driving control apparatus which realizes high-precision belt driving by specifying with high precision the pitch line distance (PLD) that affects the belt movement speed. This belt driving control apparatus controls the driving of the belt by controlling the rotation of driving supporting rotating bodies via which the rotational...

20060184260 - Player ranking with partial information: Scoring of each player may be based on the outcomes of a game between players who compete against each other in one or more teams of one or more players. The scoring may also consider partial play where one or more players of a game only play for a portion...

20060184262 - Coding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and program storage medium: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being...

20060184261 - Method and system for reducing audio latency: A method for reducing audio latency when executing program instructions for processing audio data is provided. In this method, a top threshold value and a bottom threshold value are provided. A determination is then made as to the amount of audio data stored in an audio buffer of an audio...

20060184263 - Identifying critical operations of a production process: Identifying an operation that is critical to meeting a due date of a production order includes identifying operations associated with the production order, obtaining schedules for the operations using infinite production planning, obtaining start intervals for the operations based on the schedules, selecting a target operation from the operations, and...

20060184264 - Fault detection and classification (fdc) using a run-to-run controller: A method for implementing FDC in an APC system including receiving an FDC model from memory; providing the FDC model to a process model calculation engine; computing a vector of predicted dependent process parameters using the process model calculation engine; receiving a process recipe comprising a set of recipe parameters,...

20060184266 - Method for making thin film devices intended for solar cells or silicon-on-insulator (soi) applications: In one inventive aspect, a thin film device is manufactured by (a) forming a porous semiconductor layer in the form of a thin film on an original substrate, the formation being immediately followed by (b) separation of the thin film by a lift-off process from the original substrate; (c) transfer...

20060184265 - Wafer lot split method and system: A computer-implemented wafer lot split method is disclosed. A database is provided. The database is coupled to manufacturing tools in a wafer manufacturing environment. Split parameters for a wafer lot are predetermined in the database. The wafer lot is split according to the split parameters to acquire child wafer lots....

20060184267 - Method and system for delivering threads: A yarn feeder system (1) includes a plurality of yarn feeders combined into one group (8). In the trial mode, the yarn feeders operate in an individually tension-controlled manner on the basis of a specified yarn tension value. The yarn feed quantities or yarn speeds that result from this at...

20060184268 - Method to determine when a media handling system configuration is valid and a media handling system arranged in accordance with the same method: A media handling system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, the second module links to a third module of order 3,...

20060184269 - Methods and systems for providing one code address correction service: One code address correction service. A carrier of items provides a sender of an item an address change service for an undeliverable address. The item includes a human readable address and a machine readable code. The machine readable code identifies at least the sender. The carrier scans the machine readable...

20060184270 - Calibration cassette pod for robot teaching and method of using: A calibration cassette pod for robot teaching and a method of using the calibration cassette pod are described. In the calibration cassette pod, a cassette pod body and a cassette pod door are first provided wherein the cassette pod body is constructed of a top panel, a bottom panel, two...

20060184271 - Cartridge-loaded automatic prescription pill dispensing system and dispensing unit and cartridge for use therein: An automatic prescription pill dispensing unit uses a cartridge in which prescription drugs are pre-loaded, preferably by a pharmacist, according to the user's medication regimen. This tamper-proof cartridge can only be unlocked by a pharmacist using a specially designed loading dock, or by inserting the cartridge into the user's dispensing...

20060184279 - Article handling system and method and article management system and method: A sensing unit, such as a camera, or the like, senses the conditions of articles and mobile existences, including humans, in a life space, such as a house of a household, or the like. An article management/operation server manages, on an article database, attribute information of the articles, which include...

20060184274 - Autonomously moving robot: An autonomously moving robot drives while evading an obstacle by recognizing the obstacle and self-location by an environment information acquisitioner. The information acquisitioner comprises an imager that takes an image of a circumference on a driving route, an image recognition processor that extracts an area having a property relating to...

20060184277 - Enhancements to mechanical robot: A mechanical robot can have a GPS receiver for localization, to enable it to navigate and/or perform location-specific functions. Also, the robot can be caused to ambulate in a location, taking pictures of guests and/or sounding an alarm if an unknown person is imaged by a camera on the robot....

20060184276 - Gait generating device of legged mobile robot and legged mobile robot controller: A permissible range of a restriction object amount, which is a vertical component of a floor reaction force moment or a component of the floor reaction force moment in floor surface normal line direction, or a vertical component of an angular momentum changing rate of the robot or a component...

20060184281 - Method of washing a contaminant from a surface via a robotic arm: The present invention pertains to a robotic wash cell including a six-axis robotic arm and end effector equipped with nozzles that spray unheated, solvent free, pure water at high-pressure to clean or debur objects by maintaining the nozzles in close proximity and substantially normal to each surface being cleaned or...

20060184272 - Robot controller: Realized is a robot controller capable of handling a large amount of data of images and so on necessary for advanced intelligence of control while securing a real-time performance with a simple structure. For this purpose, there are provided a motion control means for performing a calculation process for achieving...

20060184273 - Robot device, behavior control method thereof, and program: In a robot device, an action selecting/control system (100) includes a plurality of elementary action modules each of which outputs an action when selected, an activation level calculation unit (120) to calculate an activation level AL of each elementary action on the basis of information from an internal-state manager (91)...

20060184278 - Robot movement control method: A robot movement control method, in which a robot is moved along a smooth path (10, 11) determined based on a teaching path defined to pass a designated starting point (TP4), at least one intermediate point (TP5, TP6) and a terminal point (TP7), is disclosed. The smooth path is determined...

20060184275 - Robot simulation device, and robot simulation program: A robot simulation device, capable of simulating if a robot can transfer an object without any interference in a working space where obstacles are disposed. The device comprises of an input device, a display, a processing unit, computing programs and an output device of teaching programs. And the device further...

20060184280 - System and method of synchronizing mechatronic devices: Embodiments include a system for controlling motion of a human limb. The system may include a plurality of mechatronic devices, each of which may be in communication with at least one other of the plurality of mechatronic devices. Each of the mechatronic devices includes one or more of a processor,...

20060184282 - Gripping device for manipulating device and method for operation thereof: The invention relates to as gripping device (1) for a manipulation system (5), particularly for a robot, for receiving parts and feeding manufacturing equipment, for example a metal sheet folding machine, punching press, welding plant etc., with workpieces (2) from a readied stack (3) of workpieces (2), with a gripper...

20060184283 - Method for controlling air conditioning system: Method for controlling an air conditioning system including the steps of measuring a Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) according to thermal environmental parameters of a room, performing a first air conditioning mode if the PMV falls outside of a preset allowable range, for controlling an air flow speed and a room...

20060184285 - System and method for weather based irrigation control: Some embodiments provide methods, systems and computer readable mediums storing programs, instructions and/or coding for use in setting up and/or controlling irrigation. A method for use in controlling an irrigation system is provided according to some embodiments that receives a first current moisture loss value, determines a first net moisture...

20060184284 - Virtual dial irrigation controller: The present invention includes an irrigation controller utilizing a “virtual” dial. In particular, the present invention contemplates an electronic programming and controlling interface that is controlled according to actuation of a simple on/off switch (i.e., a binary switch), preferably a push button. For example, in one embodiment, an irrigation controller...

20060184286 - Method for computer modeling the core of a nuclear reactor: In a computer modeling method for the core of a nuclear reactor the core is divided into a plurality of primary grids in the form of coarse mesh cells. A sub-section of the core relating to at least one grid is assigned to that grid. The sub-section includes that grid...

20060184287 - System and method for controlling power to resources based on historical utilization data: A method comprises collecting utilization data for a resource, and predicting by a power management system, based on the collected utilization data, future utilization of the resource. The method further comprises controlling, by the power management system, power to the resource, based at least in part on the predicted future...

20060184288 - Systems and methods for remote power management using 802.11 wireless protocols: Systems and methods are disclosed for using 802.11 based wireless protocols in various energy management applications wherein a host controller uses various types of communication networks to distribute information to an on-premise processor that in turn uses 802.11 based wireless protocols to communicate with various types of end devices, such...

20060173556 - Methods and apparatus for using user gender and/or age group to improve the organization of documents retrieved in response to a search query: A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, and associated apparatus, are adapted to receive a search query from a user; obtain identified-age and/or -gender data for the user; identify a set of documents responsive to the search query; assign a score to each identified document based upon...

20060173557 - State display apparatus, management system and computer-readable recording medium in which program for controlling state display is stored: A state display apparatus includes a function data obtaining section to obtain function data concerning a function of possessed by the electronic device through the communication network; a state data obtaining section to obtain state data indicating the state of the electronic device through the communication network; and a display...

20060173558 - Digital control method that control error is improved: The manipulated variable is calculated solving transfer equation (R=q·R+a·C+b·D. Multiplication symbol “·” means convolution R is the controlled variable. C is the manipulated variable. D is the disturbance that is caused by program or is measured. The degree of each q, a, and b is &q, &a, and &b. &a...

20060173559 - Methods and systems for a prediction model: In at least some embodiments, a method comprises obtaining a state description associated with a system having a component. The method further comprises automatically obtaining a substantially optimal parameterization for the component based on one or more operant characteristics of the component predicted by a behavior prediction model using combinations...

20060173560 - System and method for cognitive memory and auto-associative neural network based pattern recognition: Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses autoassociative neural networks and techniques for pre-processing query pattern to...

20060173561 - Service providing system: A service providing system includes input/output devices, a service providing device configured to provide services by driving the input/output devices, and a preparation device, in response to receipt of a provision command for a service, configured to selectively place the input/output devices, for providing the service, which are in a...

20060173562 - Selecting program items depending on a period of time in which the program items are to be stored: The invention relates to an apparatus for selecting at least one program item to be stored on the basis of user preferences. The apparatus comprises a receiver (110) for obtaining program schedule data related to at least one program item, and a timer (150) arranged to ascertain a period of...

20060173564 - Audio recording and playback device: A reusable, preferably disposable, miniature, short duration audio recording and playback device having a microphone for receiving audio; a speaker for emitting audio; a recording and playback unit adapted to record audio received by the microphone and playback stored audio via the speaker; a memory storage device adapted to store...

20060173563 - Sound recording communication system and method: A sound recording communication system. The system includes: a sound recording device, such as a microphone; a computing device including a microprocessor and a memory; a data connection with the computing device having internet connection; an interface linking the sound recording device to the microprocessor, for converting audio data or...

20060173565 - Packaging machine: A packaging apparatus, which is equipped with sensors, actuators and a drive system, including a servo motor, a central control unit and a system for data transmission. The actual values of the sensors, actuators and the drive system are recorded, in digitial form, in each case, and transferred with the...

20060173566 - Communicating mold/part manufacturability issues: A computer program analyzes a CAD file provided by a customer of a custom part to be injection molded. Feedback from the analysis is provided to the customer through a rendering of the part. Rather than merely communicating using color as applied to the rendering file and separate text, the...

20060173567 - Allocating products using classifications of orders for the products: A method and device for planning a production includes determining material flows of products that are part of the production. This determination is done by allocating available quantities of a product for covering demanded quantities of the product in time. An allocating procedure classifies orders for the demanded quantities according...

20060173568 - Manufacturing system performance analysis tool software architecture: A software tool for manufacturing system performance analysis includes modeling and analysis functions. A modeling isolation layer provides user access to the analysis capabilities through object-based model building and analysis invocations. Various model, performance and higher level analyses are performed through analysis modules kept separate from any end-user application programs...

20060173569 - Commodity control system and medium containing commodity control data: The object of the present invention is to carry out commodity quality control among a plurality of enterprises, and control a proper commodity manufacturing process and distribution process. In order to achieve the objective, the present invention comprises information storage means (12), communication means (8) for communicating with an external...

20060173570 - On demand mobile manufacture of vehicle protection application kits: A mobile client is a motor vehicle or a trailer adapted for the automated production of forms, shapes, or patterns. The mobile client has a mobile client computer system and a production component such as a plotter. A library of patterns, with predetermined dimensions customized to particular vehicle models, is...

20060173571 - Numerical controller: A numerical controller capable of checking a learning control execution interval for the entry of a command or signal that varies an operation pattern. The numerical controller reads machining programs in succession and sets a flag F to 1 until a learning control end command is read after a learning...

20060173572 - Numerical control system: For this purpose, the numerical control system includes a machining-program/internal-processing conversion means (502) for allocating during conversion a command in a machining program to an application program for the numerical control apparatus, a variable/offset conversion means (504) for setting during conversion, with respect to a command such as a variable...

20060173573 - Numerical controller: A numerical controller capable of obviating the waste of a workpiece by machining such that a position deviation by learning control is converged and automatically performing storage of correction data and actual machining. A tool and the workpiece are moved to noninterfering positions. In a learning control interval from the...

20060173575 - Automated reagent dispensing system and method of operation: A system and method that enables automated reagent dispensing for tissue stainers. The stainers receive staining protocols from a central controller. The central controller may control a plurality of stainers simultaneously. The stainers obtain information provided on slide identifiers which is communicated to the central controller. The central controller determines...

20060173574 - Document processor with optical sensor arrangement: An apparatus for document processing comprises an optical sensor including a light source, a light detector and an optical element. The optical sensor is adapted so that, during operation of the apparatus, at least a first portion of light from the source that enters the optical element travels along paths...

20060173576 - Apparatus for dispensing and identifying product in washrooms: An apparatus for the dispensing of product is provided. The apparatus includes a dispenser that is configured for dispensing product and a sensor in communication with an electrical circuit carried by the dispenser. The sensor is configured for detecting identification information about the product when the electrical circuit is completed...

20060173578 - Controller of legged mobile robot: The occurrence of a slippage of a robot in operation, following a desired gait, is determined, and the permissible range of a restriction object amount, such as a floor reaction force horizontal component or a floor reaction force moment vertical component to be applied to the robot, is variably set...

20060173577 - Robot control device, robot control method, and robot control program: The content of the voice designation of a designator is recognized by a voice recognition part 130 at the time of controlling a robot, and the content of the indication of gesture or the like is recognized by an image recognition part 120. A movement destination and a map around...

20060173579 - Air quality monitoring systems and methods: An air monitoring system is disclosed having an air monitoring unit with at least one sensor for measuring data of an air quality parameter and a computer for storing the air quality parameter data received from the sensor. The air monitoring unit may use an installed or a portable system,...

20060173580 - Air quality monitoring systems and methods: An air monitoring system is disclosed having an air monitoring unit with at least one sensor for measuring data of an air quality parameter and a computer for storing the air quality parameter data received from the sensor. The air monitoring unit may use an installed or a portable system,...

20060173581 - Preventing excess port voltage during disconnect: A method for preventing an excess voltage from appearing at an output of a power over Ethernet controller, the method comprising: sensing that a powered device has been disconnected from a port; enabling a bypass path around a means for unidirectional current flow operatively connected to the port; and disconnecting...

20060173582 - Approach for managing power consumption of network devices: An approach for managing power consumption of network devices includes determining whether one or more state change criteria for a network device are satisfied. Examples of state change criteria include, without limitation, whether the network device needs to be operating in a different operational state to perform a specified function...