Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 04/07

20070093914 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium and program: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070093913 - Input/output curve editor: A method of varying the relationship between a scalar input parameter and a scalar output parameter, by: displaying a relationship between an input parameter and an output parameter as a curve on a computer screen; selecting at least one control point on the curve; and moving at least one handle... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20070093915 - Parallel-to-serial converter: Method and system on an aircraft for converting plural data inputs and plural data outputs from a parallel format to a serial format is provided. The system includes an integrated software module that accepts plural variable number of inputs and generates a plural variable number of outputs; an analog input... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070093916 - Template based management system: One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070093917 - Storing and accessing relay ladder logic modules in a relational database: Devices, systems and methods for providing relay ladder logic templates are disclosed. The exemplary system may have one or more actuators and sensors. The exemplary system may have one or more actuators and sensors and a controller and memory for storing and executing relay ladder logic instance modules and template... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070093918 - Non-periodic control communications in wireless and other process control systems: Disclosed is a controller having a processor and a control module adapted for periodic execution by the processor and configured to be responsive to a process variable to generate a control signal for a process. An iteration of the periodic execution of the control module involves implementation of a routine... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070093920 - Method and system for testing spas: A test system and method for testing a spa system which includes a spa tub for holding water, an electronic controller system which controls the spa system functions, and one or more controlled devices. The system and method exercises the controlled devices during a testing regime, and monitors electrical current... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20070093919 - Remote control system for tubs: A remote control system in combination with an electrically actuated tub system. The remote control system has an electrically actuated tub system in association with a tub/tub surroundings. The electrically actuated tub system has an apparatus controlled by an apparatus controller through a user interface keypad. A remote control is... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070093921 - Wireless industrial control user interface: An industrial control system includes a motor drive, a wireless interface module, and a wireless user interface. The motor drive has at least a first port. The wireless interface module is coupled to the first port of the motor drive. The wireless user interface is operable to connect to the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20070093922 - Music-playing continuing device of a digital audio signal player: A digital audio signal player includes a CD support seat for holding a CD, a microprocessor, a laser pick-up, and a dynamic RAM; a CD supported on the CD support seat will rotate several times the normal speed, and the laser pick-up will read the CD when the microprocessor starts... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070093923 - Systems and methods for production planning with sequence independent setup activities: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for planning production processes. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes the steps of planning a sequence of processes running on a resource, where the planning takes into account setup times for the resource for a process depending at least... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070093924 - Telediagnosis viewer: The invention relates to a human-machine interface for a telediagnosis system. The data conversion, the data completion, the data preparation and the computation of a diagnosis result ensue in a central diagnosis center provided in the form of a call center. The computed diagnosis result is displayed in completed form... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070093925 - Processes for improving production of a work machine: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving production of a work machine. According to one embodiment, a system for improving the production of a work machine is disclosed. The system includes a data collector disposed within the work machine and configured to collect operation data associated with the work machine... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070093926 - Wireless industrial control user interface with configurable software capabilities: A user interface operable to connect to a device within an industrial control system includes a memory and a processing unit. The memory is operable to store a plurality of software applications for interfacing with the device and a configuration mask including access rights for at least a subset of... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20070093927 - Traverse module testing system and method: A traverse module testing system includes a display unit for displaying, an input/output port, a communicating module, and an interface module. The input/output port connects to a control platform. The control platform connects to a traverse module and at least one measuring tool. The communicating module is used for enabling... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070093928 - Control methodologies for a motor control module: A motor control module for a power tool includes a controller and a triac for controlling current to the given tool motor. The module includes a circuit within the controller for implementing a plurality of control methodologies related to synchronizing the module to the AC input signal, estimating average current... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070093929 - Method and system for the electronic provision of services for machines via a data communication link: With this invention, expert knowledge from machine manufacturers is applied quickly at any time to a machine (20) via the Internet, by providing a main computer (host 8) for the production and provision of machine-related data and/or services and a machine-side working computer (client 21), which is connected to the... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070093930 - Machine system in which measuring-machine instructions are translated into machine-tool instructions: Generating a machine tool program for performing coordinate measurements. The machine tool program may be communicated to a machine tool controller such that the machine tool controller is operable to execute the machine tool program. The machine tool program may be generated from a dimensional metrology program. As part of... Agent: Hexagon Metrology C/o Wolf, Greenfiled & Sacks, P.C.

20070093931 - Resin molding metal mold and resin molding method for flat display panel cabinet, and plasma display televison: Conventionally, different metal molds are necessary to mold different-sized flat display panel cabinets. A common cabinet is used for different-sized flat display panels. Also, a core metal mold is shaped to have a concave side surface that forms a resin molding cavity accommodating all the sizes of the cabinet for... Agent: Yokoi & Co. U.s.a., Inc.

20070093932 - Automatically programmable dispensing apparatus and method: A pill dispensing apparatus to select medication from one or more pill chambers, including a dispensing mechanism, a controller and a computer. Each pill chamber includes media containing dosage and other information regarding the medication in the pill chamber and, optionally, personal medical data. A sensor reads the stored information... Agent: Design Ip, P.C.

20070093933 - Facilitating vending of customer-configured pizza preparation kits: A vending machine comprises an user interface arrangement configured for facilitating input of a customer-configured pizza preparation kit order, an order processing arrangement configured for processing the customer-configured pizza preparation kit order and a product dispensing arrangement configured for dispensing a customer-configured pizza preparation kit corresponding to the order. Processing... Agent: David O. Simmons

20070093934 - System and apparatus for dispensing information and product: The present invention is directed to a vending system or automated store and method of practice that has a means for inputting data, e.g., data input device, means for analyzing the data, e.g., microprocessor, and an output based on the analysis that includes information, product, or both. The invention is... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070093935 - Method and control unit for medication administering devices: A method and control unit for medication administering devices. The first aspect of the present invention is automatic programming of the scheduled events. The second aspect is simple user-request expression. The third aspect is guided user operation. The forth aspect is automatic medication-storage mapping. The fifth aspect is no clock... Agent: Liang Fu

20070093936 - Control systems and methods for a water dispenser assembly: An appliance includes a dispenser having a water valve for controlling a flow of water through the dispenser and a flowmeter for measuring the amount of water dispensed through the dispenser, and a controller operatively coupled to the water valve and the flowmeter. The controller is configured to receive an... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)

20070093938 - Alternate power up inventory methods for storage apparatus: Storage apparatus and related methods for inventorying removable media. A controller is configured to robotically manage the removable media and to inventory the media after power-up using a default inventory method. An operator control panel is coupled to the controller and is configurable to solicit one of a number of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070093940 - Extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots: An extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots. Robot instructions are stored as tasks and skills. Tasks are designed so that they can be executed by a variety of robots with differing configurations. A task can refer to zero or more skills. A skill can be designed for a particular... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070093937 - Operator control panel having a replaceable default screen: Storage apparatus and related methods wherein an operator control panel that controls functions and displays information regarding the storage apparatus and its storage devices is configured to have or display a selectable thumbtack function. The operator control panel is configurable to show a number of operational screens for managing the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070093939 - Robot system and robot controller: A robot system capable of checking the status of all robot controllers connected to the same network by using at least one robot controller, among the robot controllers, having a function for checking the status. The robot system includes a plurality of robots and a plurality of robot controllers for... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070093941 - Electronically modeled actuator controller: The invention is a system to simulate hydraulically operated devices that are moved from one position to another position by means of an actuator control unit. In detail, the system includes a first system for accepting commands from the actuator control unit and providing an analog signal representative of the... Agent: Louis L. Dachs

20070093942 - Method for solving waveform sequence-matching problems using multidimensional attractor tokens: An improved method is provided for solving waveform description, matching and comparison problems using attractor-based processes to extract identity tokens that indicate sequence and subsequence symbol content and order of the waveform or waveform segments. The waveform is described with a suitable alphabet to extract the ontology of the waveform,... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20070088446 - Apparatus and method for stiction compensation in a process control system: An apparatus, method, and computer program for stiction compensation in a process control system are provided. A determination is made as to whether a valve is suffering from stiction. A control signal provided to the valve is adjusted in order to at least partially compensate for the stiction suffered by... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070088447 - Scheduling of industrial production processes: A rescheduling problem can be reformulated as a multi-parametric (mp-QP) optimization problem which can be solved explicitly. The subsequent exploitation of this algebraic solution is computationally inexpensive.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070088448 - Predictive correlation model system: A system having a combination including a predictive controller and a correlation model analysis which may include a principal component analysis (PCA) calculator. The system may encompass a discrete sampler of trajectories of variables from the predictive controller for a correlation model analysis calculation. There may be a compensator for... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070088449 - Method for autonomic control of a manufacturing system: Disclosed is a method of controlling a manufacturing system. The invention automatically monitors current levels of partially completed products waiting to be processed by a tool (or group of tools) and determines whether the current levels exceed a predetermined limit. If the current levels do exceed the predetermined limit, the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070088450 - Method of controlling substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to realize, in a coating and developing apparatus including an inspection section, reduction in the startup time, cost reduction, and an improved operating rate of the inspection section. In the present invention, a control program of the coating and developing apparatus is... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070088451 - Method for using data regarding manufacturing procedures integrated circuits (ics) have undergone, such as repairs, to select procedures the ics will undergo, such as additional repairs: An inventive method in an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing process for using data regarding repair procedures conducted on ICs at probe to determine whether any further repairs will be conducted later in the manufacturing process includes storing the data in association with a fuse ID of each of the ICs.... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20070088452 - Embroidery data processing device and computer program product: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of tearing off an elastic sheet easily after an item of embroidery has been sewn, thus enhancing working efficiency. A CPU extracts a contour line from needle drop points PN (N=1, 2, . . . ,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070088453 - Device, method, and program for loop simulation: A movement amount is determined for each of a plurality of stitches on a knitting fabric on the basis of relative positions between a stitch and stitches on the upper, lower, left, and right sides thereof in accordance with predetermined rules, and the stitch is moved. Movement of the stitch... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070088454 - System and method for troubleshooting a machine: A system and method for troubleshooting a operation of a machine include performing an initial, operator based analysis in response to an alarm indicator output by a processing unit monitoring the machine operation. The method uses a query-based analysis to guide the operator. A secondary analysis is used if the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070088455 - Method for adaptive feed rate regulation on numerically controlled machine tools: In a method for the adaptive feed rate regulation on a numerically controlled machine tool, which is used for the metal-removing processing of workpieces using a tool rotating on a spindle according to the specification of an NC program, the input power of the spindle is held as constant as... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070088456 - System and method for tool point prediction using multi-component receptance coupling substructure analysis: A method for predicting a tool point response of a spindle-holder-tool assembly to be used for high-speed machining applications is provided. The method includes determining direct and cross displacement-to-force receptances of a standard holder secured in the spindle based upon measurements of displacement-to-force taken at different rotating speeds of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070088457 - 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... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070088458 - System and method for advanced order medication management: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for medication management including an order entry component and a pharmacy component. The order entry component is capable of writing an advanced order. The advanced order includes one or more related at least one of sub-orders and additives. The pharmacy component... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088459 - Apparatus for vending lottery tickets: A vending machine for lottery tickets includes an exterior housing for access by a purchasing customer and a secure interior within which is mounted a plurality of dispensing containers to dispense the one or more tickets as selected by the purchasing customer. A plurality of separate holders for printed ticket... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20070088460 - Apparatus for securing drawer contents: A cabinet suitable for use in storing items. The cabinet includes a drawer having a base. A plurality of cassettes are arranged within the drawer. Each cassette is individually movable in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the base. A plurality of locking mechanisms cooperate to inhibit movement of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070088461 - Medication administration system: The present invention comprises a system and method for administering medications to a plurality of patients in a medication institution. A preferred system comprises a workflow program for generating a scheduler, wherein the scheduler coordinates the administration of medications to the patients, a medicine cabinet, responsive to said scheduler, for... Agent: John W. Goldschmidt, Jr. Esquire Dilworth Paxon LLP

20070088463 - Electronically controlled vehicle lift and vehicle service system: A vehicle lift has a communication and/or a lift control assembly, including a processor, which is functional to control the raising and lowering of the lift and to enable the display of, and communication of, a variety of lift data. The vehicle lift includes sensors in communication with the control,... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070088462 - Garden-controlling system: A garden-controller system is disclosed. The system is built up from a plurality of area-controllers, a garden-controller that is located in each controlled garden in order to control the area-controllers in its' garden and a dedicated software installed on a computing means or in a dedicated web site on the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070083273 - Multi-function portable device for electronic processors: A multi-function portable device for electronic processors including a main support body equipped with an interface for connecting to the electronic processors and with a push button device for sending control signals. A functional device connected to a transmission controller controls the interface. The functional device is adapted to simultaneously... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083274 - Identifying code that wastes time switching tasks: A method of detecting portions of code of a computer program that protect resources of a computer system unnecessarily can include identifying threads and synchronization objects that are used by a computer program during execution, determining the number of threads that have accessed each resource while it has been consistently... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070083275 - Method for intercontroller communications in a safety instrumented system or a process control system: The claimed system provides an I/O card that is used to interface two process controllers over a communication line that is separate from a primary communication line connecting the two process controllers to a workstation. The process controllers can access the I/O cards in a similar manner to I/O cards... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070083276 - Input method, system and device: A method for entering input into a computing system includes the steps of: detecting input movements by means of a panel (3) including an array of sensors (5); processing the detected input movements by consulting a knowledge database (9) to identify a corresponding instruction signal for each detected input movement;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070083277 - Low noise digital to pulse width modulated converter with audio applications: The present invention relates to digital-to-analog conversion. In particular, it has application to conversion of pulse code modulated signals, such as used in CDs and DVDs, to a pulse width modulated or analog signal.... Agent: Ess Technology, Inc C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070083278 - Method and apparatus for audio synchronization: A method and apparatus utilizing a single processor and a plurality of memories for providing audio synchronization including writing an incoming PES audio stream having header information, PTS timing information and payload information and audio information to an input buffer. The method and apparatus further includes reading the incoming audio... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070083279 - Modulation output device: A modulation output device including; a DSP 12 for subjecting MP3 music data and the like read out from an MP3 player 50 to stereo modulation, when necessary; D/A converter 14 for converting the digital data outputted from the DSP 12 to an analog signal and outputting the converted analog... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070083280 - Method and system for three dimensional work instructions for modification processes: A method and system for providing three dimensional (3D) work instructions for modification tasks is provided. The method includes, determining if a 3D model exists for at least a part of an assembly; extracting model based data from a product data manager; assembling a component list for a work instruction... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070083281 - Systems and methods for production planning: A system for production planning. A MES provides production information corresponding to a preset time period of a production line, monitors processing of work-in-process (WIP), and provides processing status information of the WIP. A processor determines a move target for the WIP in the production line during the preset time... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070083282 - Failover system and method for semiconductor manufacturing equipment: A failover system for semiconductor equipment includes an equipment group including equipment units configured to fabricate a semiconductor device. The system also includes an equipment sever group including equipment servers which communicate with the equipment units about processing parameter data associated with one or more operations of the equipment units.... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070083283 - Work management support method and work management support system which use sensor nodes: A system which strengthens cooperation among workers in a business organization through flexible real-time communications and also allows interactive real-time data communications between the head of the organization (manager) and workers, thereby promoting communications within the organization and increasing productivity. The system holds: a commitment list which stores information on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070083284 - Base display for an item of value and methods of making same: The present invention is directed to a novel method for creating a display for a valuable item. On one example, the method includes the steps of selecting an item to be display, selecting a base material to create a display, creating a three dimensional map of the item to be... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20070083285 - Simulation apparatus: A simulation apparatus includes means for simulating a numerical control function, means for simulating a sequence control, means for simulating an interactive type programming function, and means for simulating a machine tool and further an intermediating software execution means for intermediating transmission and reception of simulation input/output data between the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083286 - Medical instrument and equipment for managing of the same: Medical instrument management equipment of the present invention comprises an order data entry element for entering the information on a medical instrument ordered by means of the type of a given medical practice from a given medical institution, a medical instrument extraction element for extracting the medical instruments require for... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070083287 - System, method and apparatus for vending machine wireless audit and cashless transaction transport: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. The system preferably includes an embedded data collection and storage device that, when placed inside a vending machine, will collect both DEX and MDB data using a combination of ad-hoc scheduling and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070083288 - Minibar: A device for a mini bar is described that can be operated by a customer to remove goods with the removal being registered by the mini bar operator simultaneously, and possibly invoiced, and is characterized in that the mini bar is a product unit vending machine, that the product unit... Agent: Tobin, Carberry, O'malley, Riley, Selinger, P.C.

20070083290 - Apparatus and method for computing operational-space physical quantity: An operational space physical quantity calculation apparatus computes a physical quantity in an operational space describing a relationship between a force and acceleration acting on a link structure including a plurality of linked rigid bodies. The operational space physical quantity calculation apparatus includes a forward dynamics calculating unit configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070083289 - Array mesh apparatus, system & methods: Disclosed are Array Element Mesh Systems (AEMSs) using configurable robotic surface(s) to “sample” 3D objects. Methods are disclosed for implementing “Array Element” components on flexible “interconnector substrate(s)”. Methods are disclosed, using Array Elements like “building blocks” to construct AEMSs. AEMSs sample, playback, and/or replicate 3D objects and/or 3d sequences. “Learning... Agent: David Russell

20070083291 - Offline teaching apparatus for robot: An offline teaching apparatus including a data acquiring section for acquiring position and orientation data and processing-condition data including interpolation commands, at respective predefined taught points, from an existing first processing program for a first workpiece; a processing-path calculating section for determining a processing path in the first program, based... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070083293 - Input dispenser and recorder: An input dispenser/recorder controlled by a computer to dispense a predetermined amount of input or mixture of inputs based on parameters provided by an operator. Specifically, the invention has an inner frame and outer frame associated by load bars connected to the computer. The load bars signal the computer regarding... Agent: G. Brian Pingel, Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville And Schoenebaum, P.L.C

20070083292 - Occlusion system and method for a flow control apparatus: A flow control apparatus having a flow monitoring system capable of detecting and identifying a downstream occlusion present within an administration feeding set loaded to the flow control apparatus is disclosed. A software subsystem is associated with the flow control apparatus and administration feeding set, the software system plots at... Agent: Tyco Healthcare - Edward S. Jarmolowicz

20070083294 - Wireless data acquisition system: Data is acquired by a data acquisition unit and wirelessly transmitted to a data transfer device that wirelessly retransmits the data to a data processing device.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070078524 - Cuber feeder system and method: A method and system for monitoring and controlling the feedstock during the processing of thermoplastics. The hardware of the present invention includes at least a sensor which outputs a signal proportional to the current drawn by main drive motor of the cuber, a programmable logic controller (PLC) which has a... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20070078525 - Business process execution engine: The claimed subject matter provides a controller that facilitates implementing a workflow within an industrial automation environment system. An interface component can facilitate the receipt of data associated with a workflow at the programmable logic controller. A controller communicatively coupled to the interface component incorporates an execution engine that can... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078526 - Hybrid user interface having base presentation information with variably prominent supplemental information: Systems and methods are provided that enable various interface applications that more efficiently communicate data to users in an industrial control system. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a base presentation component to display one or more elements of an industrial control environment. Various... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078527 - Interface for sensor query and control: Systems and methods are presented that enable a higher-level software application to query and control a sensor through a generic interface. In one embodiment, a system includes a controller, and interface, and a set of sensor driver modules. The interface receives a command from the controller and sends it to... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070078528 - Predictive fault determination for a non-stationary device: A predictive fault determining system includes a non-stationary operating device and a stationary fault determining device that communicates with the operating device using wireless transmissions. The non-stationary operating device includes sensors determining status data of the operating device and a processing device to combine the status data, generating a status... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078530 - Method and system for controlling a batch process: A first principles model may be used to simulate a batch process, and the first principles model may be used to configure a multiple-input/multiple-output control routine for controlling the batch process. The first principles model may generate estimates of batch parameters that cannot, or are not, measured during operation of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070078529 - On-line adaptive model predictive control in a process control system: A method of creating and using an adaptive DMC type or other MPC controller includes using a model switching technique to periodically determine a process model, such as a parameterized process model, for a process loop on-line during operation of the process. The method then uses the process model to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070078531 - System and method for dynamically simulating process and value stream maps: A computer readable medium comprising instructions which when executed by a computer system causes the computer to implement a method for dynamically improving a process flow is provided. For a plurality of cells, which define activities within the process flow and are characterized by a corresponding plurality of productivity data... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070078532 - Method for the operation of a technical system: The invention relates to a method for the operation of a technical system wherein working parameters are detected during a certain period of time. An operational mode and/or functional mode of the technical system are determined by the temporal behavior of said operational parameters, using artificial intelligence methods.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070078533 - Process model identification in a process control system: Disclosed is a method of controlling and managing a process control system having a plurality of control loops. The method includes implementing a plurality of control routines to control operation of the plurality of control loops, respectively. The plurality of control routines may include at least one non-adaptive control routine.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070078534 - Systems, methods and apparatus for powered assistance of a motorized support device: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which movement of a medical imaging device is detected and the movement is assisted in magnitude by an external force.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070078535 - System and method for identifying particularized equipment information of interest to varied users in an industrial automation environment: Systems and methods are provided that enable various interface applications that more efficiently communicate data to users in an industrial control system. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a base presentation component to display one or more elements of an industrial control environment. Various... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078537 - Incremental association of metadata to production data: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing metadata appended to data related to an industrial automation environment with a controller that is associated with a hierarchically structured data model. An interface component can facilitate receipt of data associated with at least one of an instruction... Agent: Susan M. Donahue Rockwell Automation

20070078536 - Production monitoring and control system having organizational structure-based presentation layer: A human-machine interface generation system comprises a reception component that receives a request to generate a human-machine interface relating to at least one of an industrial system, device, process, and sub-process and parameters associated with an initiator of the request. A view generation component generates the human-machine interface based at... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078538 - Debug device: The present invention aims to provide a debug device for efficiently and smoothly performing the debugging process of the control program including function blocks. In the debug device for executing each step configuring the control program including the function blocks one step at a time, a step-over function for continuously... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070078539 - Control device for controlling electromedical appliances: A known arrangement for controlling electromedical appliances or groups thereof employs foot-actuated switches or push-button switches, which are separately connected to each appliance. When it is necessary to control a large number of appliances or appliance groups, a large number of push-buttons or pedal switches is also required, the connections... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070078540 - Utility for comparing deployed and archived parameter value sets within a field device editor: A compare tool for use in a process control system device configuration environment is described herein. The compare tool, including a graphical user interface for providing comparison results, is utilized in a device configuration environment to compare parameter values from an instance of a field device to corresponding values maintained... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070078548 - Circuit for use in multifunction handheld device having a radio receiver: A circuit for use by a multifunction handheld device is coupleable to an audio output device. The circuit includes a processing module and a memory interface, operably coupled to the processing module and a memory that stores a plurality of digitally formatted files, and that stores operational instructions that cause... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070078552 - Gaze-based power conservation for portable media players: A portable media player has a gaze-responsive power conservation feature. The portable media player includes a casing, processor, visual display, audio display, main memory functionally coupled to the processor, and secondary memory functionally coupled to the processor, where the secondary memory has media content retrievably stored therein. A gaze sensor... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070078542 - Method and system for receiving and decoding audio signals: A system and method for decoding a received television signal is disclosed. The system includes an input to receive a digital audio signal and a digital variable deemphasis module to modify the amplitude of the digital audio signal based on a plurality of variable coefficients. The system also includes an... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070078543 - Method of combining audio signals in a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device mixes audio content by combining audio signals from two or more different audio sources available at the wireless communication device and directing the mixed audio signal to a selected audio output circuit included in or associated with the wireless communication device. The audio signals can comprise... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070078549 - Mobile device having multi-audio output function: A mobile device playing and outputting audio data having various formats. The mobile device includes a memory storing audio data having different formats; a plurality of audio-playing units, each having a codec that corresponds a respective format and restoring respective analog sound signals from the corresponding audio data; a processor... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070078550 - Slot position coding of ott syntax of spatial audio coding application: Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070078551 - Sound effect adjustment system and method of the same: A sound effect adjustment system includes a memory unit and an adjustment unit. The adjustment unit is able to automatically adjust the play mode of a playback apparatus based on the file type or the file location of the music file stored in the memory unit. Therefore, the user can... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078544 - Sound output system and method: A sound output apparatus is provided. The sound output apparatus includes a memory for storing compensation parameters; a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface connecting to an external audio signal generating device; a USB controller for reading the compensation parameters from the memory and transferring the compensation parameters to the external... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078545 - Sound output system and method: A sound output apparatus is provided. The sound output apparatus includes a memory for storing compensation parameters; an analog interface for being connected to an external audio signal generating device; a signal modem for generating a high-frequency compensation parameter signal according to the compensation parameters if the analog interface is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078546 - Sound output system and method: A sound output system is provides. The system includes one or more sound output apparatuses, each sound output apparatus having been assigned an identification (ID) code; a server for storing the ID code and corresponding compensation parameters for each sound output apparatus; and an audio signal generating device, connected to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078547 - Sound output system and method: A sound output apparatus is provided. The sound output apparatus includes a memory for storing compensation parameters; a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface for connecting an external audio signal generating device thereto; a USB controller for reading the compensation parameters from the memory to the audio signal generating device when... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078541 - Transient detection by power weighted average: A transient in a digital audio signal can be detected by generating a first set of spectral characteristics associated with a first portion of the digital audio signal and a second set of spectral characteristics associated with a second portion of the digital audio signal, wherein the first and second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070078553 - Method for determining parameter of product design and its supporting system: In a method for determining a design parameter in a product design parameter determination supporting system, interaction between product function and design parameter is structured, a design parameter group with reduced interaction is extracted, an experiment design is prepared based upon the design parameter group, modeling of a quality influence... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070078554 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing objects having optimized response characteristics: A method for manufacturing an object having a potential {x} which is generated in response to a field {f} applied thereto is provided. The method includes the step of designing a geometric model of the object. A computerized mathematical model of the object is generated by discretizing the geometric model... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070078555 - Automation system unified data access for disparate data sources: Historical and real-time data access is leveraged to provide unified data access for interacting with manufacturing process entities such as, for example, process overview displays, charting systems, reporting systems, logging systems, and/or recipe systems and the like. The unified data, for example, allows for playback of historical process overviews for... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078556 - Method and system for advanced process control using a combination of weighted relative bias values: By directly using relative biases, contained in the relative bias date matrix, and by appropriately weighting the components thereof, sampling rate limitations in an APC control scheme may be efficiently compensated for. In particular embodiments, an age-based weighting factor is established that scales measurement data uncertainty according to the delay... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070078557 - Apparatus for measuring uniformity of a laminar material: There is described apparatus for measuring uniformity of a laminar material (1) as the material is delivered from a laminar material delivery machine (2), the apparatus has a measurement rig (10) arranged across the width of the laminar material. The measurement rig carries a linear array of light sources (21)... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070078558 - Product location method utilizing product bar code and aisle-situated, aisle-identifying bar code: An item location directory method and system involves the use of item-identifying bar codes on the items to be included in the directory, and location-identifying bar codes physically applied to the corresponding locations. These are read in a preset manner with a bar code reader and inputted into a processor... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070078559 - Document handling apparatus and method using rfid device: An RFID system includes an RFID tag imbedded or printed on a print medium, such as a sheet of paper. The tagged sheet is used as part of a mail piece in a document handling system to direct the operation of the system through a controller. Data from the tagged... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078560 - System and method for processing currency and identification cards in a document processing device: A document processing device having an evaluation region disposed along a transport path between an input and output receptacle capable of processing both currency bills and identification cards. An evaluation unit enables entry of source identification information before or after processing currency bills. Memory is adapted to store source identification... Agent: Paul R. Kitch Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070078561 - Cosmetics vending machine: Automatic vending of cosmetic products is facilitated by allowing a prospective purchaser to acquire a sample size item corresponding to an offered product. The provision of a sample size item alleviates the anxiety inherent in a decision to purchase a product for which a corresponding result depends on the individual... Agent: Patent Department Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20070078562 - Mobile medication storage and dispensing apparatus: The medication apparatus includes a mobile housing assembly and a plurality of tray members supported therein for rotation on a central mounting assembly. A lockable access door is present in the housing assembly for controlled access to the trays. A tray locking assembly locks and unlocks the trays individually in... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20070078563 - Interactive system and method for controlling an interactive system: The invention describes an interactive system (1) comprising interacting means (2) and control means (6) for controlling the interacting means (2). The control means (6) are responsive to control parameters. The control parameters comprise an inherited parameter (IP) and an interaction parameter, wherein the inherited parameter (IP) is constant, wherein... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070078564 - Robot drive method: A method for driving a robot in a manner of imitation by watching (non-contact manner) based on the movement of a moving object, which has a complicated shape often causing self-occlusion, is provided. A plurality of image data of the robot is associated with pre-arranged operation commands and stored in... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070078565 - Telerobotic system that transmits changed states of a subsystem: A telerobotic system includes a user operated input device and a distantly located robotic system. The robotic system is in communication with the input device through a communication channel. The input device transmits information relating to the current state of the input device only when the current state differs from... Agent: Kenneth L. Stein

20070078566 - Multi-camera mobile teleconferencing platform: A remote controlled robot system that includes a mobile robot and a remote control station. A user can control movement of the robot from the remote control station. The mobile robot includes a camera system that can capture and transmit to the remote station a zoom image and a non-zoom... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070078567 - Method for controlling a wind energy turbine of a wind park comprising multiple wind energy turbines: The method for controlling a first wind energy turbine of a wind park comprising multiple wind energy turbines connected to the grid, in situations where the first energy turbine operates substantially at zero energy output level, comprises the steps of determining whether at least one of the other wind energy... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070078568 - Voltage regulating systems responsive to feed-forward information from deterministic loads: Voltage regulating systems are provided that adjust their output control signals in response to feed-forward information that is indicative of deterministic changes in the load current. A feed-forward circuit provides a feed-forward signal in response to an input signal generated from a source that is external to the voltage regulating... Agent: Steven J. Cahill