Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 10/07

20070250193 - Dongle-based multimedia player: The present disclosure relates to a portable digital media player, and in particular to a portable digital media player device having specific mechanical properties. In some embodiments, the portable digital media player includes a device port that is configured as a supportive port. In some embodiments, the device port is... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070250197 - Method and apparatus for generating mosaic from an image: Methods and apparatus for generating mosaics from a given image. The method and apparatus comprise scanning the image into a computerized form, optionally marking guidelines on the image, and generating a mosaic description from the image. The mosaic description comprises tiles placed along the guidelines in directions tangent to the... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20070250180 - Method and supporting configuration user interfaces for streamlining installing replacement field devices: A method and user interfaces are described herein installing a field device as a replacement for a previously installed field device of a same type in a process control system. The disclosed method includes initially specifying a device type commissioning definition that includes a set of device-type specific parameters. A... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070250181 - Method for bonding a lighting device to a lighting system while using wireless communication: A method for bonding a lighting device to a first lighting system, in which the first system comprises a master controller, which is remote from the lighting device and which may control a slave controller of the lighting device if the slave controller has stored therein an identification (ID) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070250182 - Communication control system: A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070250183 - Method for synchronization of a controller: A system and method for reintegration of a redundant controller after occurrence of a fault is provided, comprising synchronizing outputs of a primary controller with outputs of secondary controllers. The controller is placed in a different mode of operation in which its output is not used in system control. A... Agent: Kathryn A Marra General Motors Corporation

20070250184 - Optimizing control method and system, overall control apparatus and local control apparatus: An optimizing control system includes at least a local control unit for controlling at least a control apparatus, an integration control apparatus for controlling a plurality of the local control units in integration fashion, and at least a control information standardization interface arranged between the local control unit and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070250185 - Method, apparatus and software for verifying a parameter value against a predetermined threshold function: A method, apparatus or software are disclosed for verifying a parameter value against a predetermined threshold function in which a sequence of reference values is retrieved, each reference value being associated with a respective sampling point N, said reference values representing a threshold function at said respective sampling points N;... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250186 - Robust digital controller and its designing device: A robust digital controller is equipped with a high degree of approximation and is able to incorporate a novel two-degree-of-freedom robust digital control system without substantially considering the magnitude of the control inputs and there is provided its designing device. A control compensating means is configured as an integral type... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070250187 - Method for obtaining improved feedforward data, a lithographic apparatus for carrying out the method and a device manufacturing method: A method of obtaining improved feedforward data for a feedforward control system to move a component through a setpoint profile is presented. The setpoint profile includes a plurality of target states of the component each to be substantially attained at one of a corresponding sequence of target times. The method... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070250188 - Configuration and method for operating a technical installation: A computer-aided configuration for a technical installation includes a presentation layer with operator control interfaces, an application layer containing all applications, a realtime basic processing layer for providing all applications and operator control interfaces with information and a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070250191 - System and method for configuring and maintaining individual and multiple environmental control units over a communication network from an administration system: A method and system that allow an ECU to be conveniently configured based on the contents of an ECU configuration profile database that stores ECU user profiles and living environment profiles, and that generates a user interface for a selected remote ECU displaying selectable living environment devices, each of which... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070250189 - System and method for controlling a network of environmental control units: A system for managing a network of environmental control units (ECUs) enables an ECU user to more easily move from one living environment to another. The system allows an ECU to be conveniently configured based on the contents of an ECU configuration profile database that stores ECU user profiles and... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070250190 - System and method for controlling a remote environmental control unit: An administration tool program generates a user interface displaying selectable living environment devices, each of which corresponds to a type of living environment device that can be controlled by a user through a remotely located ECU. The user interface displays a representation of a current configuration of the remotely located... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070250192 - Av data collector: An AV data collector includes power supply unit, first read-in unit, second read in unit, control unit, memory unit, and display/play unit; audio or video data for process such video data attached to surface of an object being read first by both read-in units and then sent to the control... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070250194 - Methods and systems employing digital content: A portable device for use with audio or visual content (e.g., an MP3 player-like device, or a camera-enabled device) is equipped with one or more features/capabilities, including: a user interface through which a consumer can instruct that content be delivered to a different consumer's device, the ability to derive identifiers... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070250195 - Methods and systems employing digital content: A portable device for use with audio or visual content (e.g., an MP3 player-like device, or a camera-enabled device) is equipped with one or more features/capabilities, including: a user interface through which a consumer can instruct that content be delivered to a different consumer's device, the ability to derive identifiers... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070250196 - Apparatus and method for assembling tire and wheel: Based upon rigidity classifications of wheels and radial runout classifications of the wheels, the lower the rigidity classification or the lower the radial runout classification, the more likely a methodology (heavy point-light point alignment) is selected in which a light point of static imbalance of the tire and a heavy... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070250199 - Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method: A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing database 9 that registers a CAD symbol for each product. A... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070250198 - Systems and methods for efficiently implementing an n-step manufacturing process for producing a mechanical part: A method for efficiently implementing an N-step manufacturing process for producing a mechanical part may include creating a parametric master model that represents a part to be produced in an N-step manufacturing process. The method may also include using the parametric master model to create process plans for the N-step... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070250200 - Optimized characterization of wafers structures for optical metrology: A patterned structure in a wafer is created using one or more fabrication treatment processes. The patterned structure has a treated and an untreated portion. One or more diffraction sensitivity enhancement techniques are applied to the structure, the one or more diffraction sensitivity enhancement techniques adjusting one or more properties... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070250201 - System and methods for automatic generation of component data: A method of manufacturing electronic circuits including generating CAD data, a bill of materials and an approved component vendor list for an electronic circuit and employing the CAD data, the bill of materials and the approved component vendor list for automatically generating a pick & place machine-specific component loading specification,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070250202 - Coating and developing system, method of controlling coating and developing system and storage medium: A coating and developing system includes a cassette station, a processing station and an inspection station interposed between the cassette station and the processing station. Time for which a substrate is held uselessly in the inspection module is reduced. A substrate carrying means disposed in the inspection module places priority... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250203 - Method and device for simulating wearing of a knit garment on a human model and program thereof: A body and sleeves of a designed virtual knit garment seamless is expanded into an elliptic cylindrical shape and temporarily positioned with respect to a human model. Each part of the seamless garment is moved to each axis of the torso and both arms of the human model and temporarily... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070250204 - Generation of a cnc machine tool control program: A machine tool program editor (42) is used to insert auxiliary operations e.g. measurement, process control and program logic into a CNC work producing program. The editor (42) has representations (50, FIG. 3) of the operations which can be placed in the correct position in the program. User input in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070250205 - Method and system for generating trimlines for stamping processes: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic method for generating a trimline for trimming sheet metal to be stamped to obtain a stamped part is disclosed. The method includes providing a CAD part file representing a part that can be stamped from a sheet metal material; receiving... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070250206 - Numerical controller: A numerical controller configured to enable machining of a conical surface such that vectors at a start point, an end point, and an interpolation point of a circular arc and their extensions never cross one another. Normal direction vectors Vnors and Vnore, tangential direction vectors Vtans and Vtane, and tool... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250207 - System for integrating insert with molded article: Disclosed is a system for integrating an insert with a molded article.... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20070250208 - Production of mail pieces and preparations therefor: For producing mail pieces in a mail production apparatus, starting from physical postal items, a required operating condition of the production apparatus is determined. At least one physical property to be realized manually of the required operating condition is determined and at least one current physical property of a current... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070250209 - Ring management system: A production system capable of further improving production efficiency and quality. The ring management system includes size measurement unit for measuring size of the ring, first convey unit for moving the ring w whose size has been measured, a first stocker having a plurality of storage positions for storing rings... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070250210 - System and software of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long-term care facilities and related methods: A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to manage pharmacological... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070250211 - Method for automatically analyzing transport courses: In a network using quality test letters (QTL), transport courses are automatically analyzed and physical characteristics are recorded over time during the transport and subsequently read out and classified. The method identifies each QTL message in a node, and determines spatiotemporal relations with respect to nodes passed through. The logistical... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070250212 - Robot system: A power-saving robot system includes at least one peripheral device and a mobile robot. The peripheral device includes a controller having an active mode and a hibernation mode, and a wireless communication component capable of activation in the hibernation mode. A controller of the robot has an activating routine that... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070250213 - Control system, method and computer program: A control system for a plurality of mechanical units, namely robots and/or external axes. A manually-operated control, such as a joy-stick or key panel, is adapted to move at least one of the mechanical units or part thereof. The control system includes an indicator adapted to indicate whether the at... Agent: Venable LLP

20070250214 - Method and apparatus for fuzzy logic control enhancing advanced process control performance: An apparatus and method for enhancing advanced process control (APC) performance based on fuzzy logic control (FLC) concept and methodology is described. The method and apparatus provide a systematic way to characterize/assess process operations (encompassing the manufacturing process, laboratory measurement systems, and control practices/results) automatically and then determine the best... Agent: M. Susan Spiering C/o Celanese Ltd.

20070250216 - Procedure for regulating a combustion process: In a procedure for regulating a combustion process in an installation while air is being supplied, material is converted by the combustion process, with at least one flame being formed, and the state variables (s(t)) describing the state of the system in the installation are determined using at least one... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070250215 - System for optimizing oxygen in a boiler: A method and apparatus for optimizing air flow to a boiler of a power generating unit using advanced optimization, modeling, and control techniques. Air flow is optimized to maintain flame stability, minimize air pollution emissions, and improve efficiency.... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070250217 - System and method for automatically operating upfc (unified power flow controller) connected to scada (supervisory control and data acquisition): A system and method for operating a Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) connected to a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) are disclosed. The UPFC automatic operation system receives power system data from the SCADA system, automatically determines UPFC's optimum operation conditions according to power system states. The system includes:... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070250218 - Power management logic that reconfigures a load when a power supply fails: A system comprises a plurality of power supplies, a fan coupled to the power supplies, power management logic adapted to reconfigure the load to draw less power when a power supply fails and emergency logic. The emergency logic receives a status signal from each of the power supplies and, upon... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250219 - Microprocessor capable of dynamically reducing its power consumption in response to varying operating temperature: A microprocessor capable of dynamically reducing its power consumption based on its varying operating temperature includes a temperature sensor that monitors the microprocessor's operating temperature and a control circuit that includes operating point data. The operating point data includes a first voltage at which the microprocessor may reliably operate at... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070244572 - Automation systems and methods: An automation system may include an automation module. The automation module is preferably configured to commence, maintain, and/or cease performing one or more automation actions in response to detecting user input, motion, proximity, other conditions, or any combination of one or more thereof. Exemplary automation actions include, but are not... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070244574 - Model parameter determination apparatus and method: A model parameter determination program makes a computer execute the procedures of substituting variable values and differential values of variables computed by using initial values of variables and model parameters for a first-order formula corresponding to the model; substituting supposition values for unknown model parameters within the post-substitution first-order formula;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070244587 - Sound volume converting apparatus: A sound volume converting apparatus comprises a data shift unit configured to shift digital audio data by a predetermined number of bits to the right based on first sound volume adjustment data; a correction value calculating unit configured to calculate a correction value based on the right-shifted digital audio data... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070244570 - Network-based contest creation: A system for network-based contest creation includes one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors, where the memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a contest manager. The contest manager is configured to receive a request via a network to establish a contest, and to... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070244571 - Sequence of events recorder facility for an industrial process control environment: A sequence of events (SOE) recorder facility in a process control network environment is described herein. The SOE recorder facility is hosted by a networked node that receives digital signal status change (event) data from a networked controller. The sequence of events recorder facility receives a configured set of digital... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070244573 - Self-healing control network for building automation systems: In building automation architectures, components may be associated through physical communications paths and at a different level through building automation applications. Building automation applications implement control processes for a building function. Due to changing needs, such as a failure of a physical communications path or the addition or removal of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070244575 - Robust process model identification in model based control techniques: A robust method of creating process models for use in controller generation, such as in MPC controller generation, adds noise to the process data collected and used in the model generation process. In particular, a robust method of creating a parametric process model first collects process outputs based on known... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070244576 - Programmable temperature control system for pools and spas: A system and method are provided for controlling water temperature in a body of water. The temperature control system includes a processor, a user interface for receiving a desired temperature and a desired time for reaching the desired temperature, a sensor interface for receiving sensor information from one or more... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20070244577 - Device assisted wizard: A method and physician tool for providing medical diagnostic assistance includes but is not limited to a method including receiving two or more health-related parameters of a living entity, applying one or more algorithms to the two or more health-related parameters to generate one or more diagnostic possibilities with associated... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20070244578 - Framework for enabling service tuning for upnp remote access: A system and method for enabling a UPnP device to provide services on behalf of another UPnP device. According to the present invention, all services requested from the original serving devices are redirected to the shadow device, while the original device has no knowledge of this redirection. With the present... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070244579 - Apparatus and method for restricting power delivery: An apparatus and method for restricting operation of a power delivery system are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the apparatus includes a first input terminal at which is received a first command signal, and a second input terminal at which is received an additional signal. The apparatus further includes... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20070244581 - Controlling a computer arranged in connection with a dental unit: A control arrangement and a method for controlling a computer comprised in a dental apparatus, said dental apparatus (100) comprising at least a computer (101) and its display (111) functionally connected to each other, a dental unit (102, 104) and a control arrangement which comprises control means (112, 116, 117)... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070244583 - Method for operating an automation device: A method is specified for operating an automation system, wherein a description object appropriate to a type of the respective program code object and a description object reference referencing the respective description object are created when a program code object is instantiated, so that it is possible to completely decouple... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070244580 - Printing system and interface device therefor: A printing system includes a host having a virtual printer driver for converting a print job to a JPEG print file. A memory device is configured to receive the JPEG print file from the virtual printer driver. An imaging apparatus has a PictBridge port configured for receiving input from a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070244582 - System for operating an installation by editing graphic objects: A system is used to operate partial units of a technical installation by editing graphic objects, the system contains a graphic editor and a data editor. During the selection of a graphic object by the graphic editor, the data editor, which produces or modifies the control and configuration data and... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070244584 - Method for the supplying and installation of device-specific functionalities and/or data for the field devices of a distributed system: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the directed supplying and installation of device specific functionalities and/or data for field devices that are disposed in a distributed system. At least one device-specific component is provided which cooperates with at least two functional units that are linked thereto.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070244585 - Automated administration of network-based contests: A system for automated administration of network-based contests includes one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors, where the memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a contest manager. The contest manager is configured to receive a plurality of contest entries over a network such... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070244586 - Selective muting of applications: Methods, computer program products, and electronic devices are provided for managing sound in a plurality of computer-executed applications. One method includes: operating a sound manager function to provide a user with an option to selectively mute up to n−1 applications of n applications, where n>1; and in response to the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070244589 - Demand prediction method, demand prediction apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium: A demand prediction apparatus connected to an order reception record storage unit for storing an order reception record of a product and an association information storage unit for storing association information associating products with each other, first acquires identification information of a product for which demand prediction is to be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070244588 - Method and system for providing controlled release fragrances from substrates and products produced therefrom: A method and system, and the product produced therefrom, for providing a product having at least one controlled release fragrance from at least one substrate, having a user interface for accessing the system, entering selections and viewing a visual display of the product; an image gallery of available images for... Agent: Mitchell A. Stein, Esq. Stein Law, P.C.

20070244590 - Computer-aided method of obtaining a ply model of a composite component: A computer-aided method of obtaining a preliminary ply model of a composite component to be used in the manufacture of industrial parts by stacking and joining a plurality of plies of composite materials, comprising the following steps: a) obtaining from stress calculations a ply stacking sequence for the component subdivided... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070244591 - Production planning method and production planning system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a production planning method and system. Where a manufacturing apparatus is shared by a plurality of products in a production line, if a manufacturing (production) availability number is changed, a cause parameter is automatically investigated so that a production plan with high precision can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070244592 - Manufacturing system with active failover: A manufacturing system includes an event trigger to a primary server and a schedule server, forming a control job by the primary server and the schedule server, checks status (such as an end value trigger) of the primary server with a delay by the schedule server, and validating the status... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070244593 - Test circuit, semiconductor product wafer having the test circuit, and method of monitoring manufacturing process using the test circuit: A test circuit and a method of monitoring a manufacturing process of a semiconductor integrated circuit using the test circuit are provided. The test circuit comprises elements to be tested; a selection circuit for sequentially selecting at least one of the elements at a time. The test circuit and pads... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070244594 - Automated manufacturing systems and methods: An efficient manufacturing automation system and method is described. The system and method include bays, with each bay having a group of tools. Temporary storage locations are provided. A transport system facilitates movement of materials from the tools. The system and method enable direct transfer of materials from a first... Agent: HorizonIPPte Ltd

20070244595 - Method and means for ultrasonic impact machining of surfaces of machine components: A method for ultrasonic impact machining (UIM) of straight or curved surfaces using a tool with a free rod-shaped indenter to execute ultrasonic impacts by an action of the tool natural vibrations and ultrasonic transducer resonance oscillations, with goals of strengthening a surface, increasing hardness, creating compressive stresses, and/or modifying... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070244596 - Method for operating industrial installations: The method was tackled with picking line for generating strip steel for the automobile industry. The initial conditions to which the tandem-type mill coupled with picking line executed using the installation is exposed. The installation receives an input in the form of human resources, energy, media, raw materials, semifinished product,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070244597 - Auction systems and methods for selecting inserts for direct mailings: A method of allocating excess space associated with a primary component includes determining the excess space associated with the primary component, identifying at least one information insert compatible with the excess space, providing an output advertising the excess space, and receiving a request in response to the output. The request... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070244598 - Wall mounted medications cabinet: A wall-mounted medications cabinet has at least one, and preferably up to four locking drawers, each with a removable bin holding the medications for a given patient. The drawers are each independently openable electronically. This can be accomplished using an incorporated PC with a touch screen monitor, or authorized access... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20070244600 - Robot and method and medium for localizing the same by using calculated covariance: Provided are a robot capable of improving the computation rate by considering whether a parameter will diverge and modifying the experiment order of offspring during evolutionary computation, when the covariance of system noise and that of measurement noise are calculated for the purpose of localizing the robot by using a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070244599 - A method for optimizing a robot program and a robot system: An apparatus and a method for optimizing robot performance includes a computer connected to the robot controller for receiving performance data of the robot as the controller executes a path program. The computer uses the performance data, user specified optimization objectives and constraints and a kinematic/dynamic simulator to generate a... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070244601 - System for monitoring the health of electrical generators and method thereof: A method and apparatus is provided for a system for maintaining hydrogen purity in an electrical power generator where the system monitors the health of the electrical generating system by calculating the time remaining until preventative maintenance is required based on hydrogen usage. The system also monitors the health of... Agent: Proton Energy System

20070244602 - Control unit, control method, control program, computer-readable record medium with control program, and control system: An interface section 105 receives user information indicating the state of a user in a first area and temperature data in the first area; a temperature-data recording section 107 records a period of time when the user has stayed in the first area, and by relating the temperature data to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070244603 - Method of determination of a distribution of energy to a plurality of electrical loads and corresponding system:

20070244604 - Energy and cost savings calculation system: An Energy and Cost Savings Calculation System is provided that automates the determination of energy and cost savings due to energy conservation measures. The system provides Multi-Variant, Non-Linear (MVNL) load forecasting techniques, energy and cost savings calculations, and Weather Ranking. The load forecasting technique may accept numerous external parameters as... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20070239288 - Power system and work flow thereof: A power system is provided to include a powerbox having a first storing module and a second programmable storing module for storing program segments. The program segments is for setting the on/off schedule of the powerbox. The first storing module and the second storing module are connected to each other.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070239285 - Time weighted moving average filter: A method for estimating a state associated with a process includes receiving a state observation associated with the process. The state observation has an associated process time. A weighting factor to discount the state observation is generated based on the process time. A state estimate is generated based on the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070239286 - Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program: A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for displaying the event, and controls a remote-controller display device to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070239287 - Programmable device with removable templates: Aspects of the invention relate to a programmable device with a template removably attached thereto. The template contains programming descriptors written in the preferred language of the consumer. As a result, the market for such programmable devices is not restricted based on the preferred language of the consumer.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070239289 - System and software for processing containers having tools with associated transmitters: A software method may include receiving scan data from a device after the device retrieves a readable code from a container, the container having at least one transmitter contained therein, processing the scan data to generate a container code based on the readable code, receiving a signal from the at... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070239290 - Digital control servo system: A limited rotation motor optical scanning system is disclosed that includes a limited rotation motor scanner, a digital controller servo system, a position feedback unit, a wide angle compensation unit, a digital processor, and an adjustment unit. The limited rotation motor scanner element is adapted for directing an energy beam... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070239292 - Mobile asset data management system: A computerized vehicle control system for managing data associated with mobile assets (e.g., vehicles). The system includes an asset monitor, a user input device, a data storage device, a mobile wireless transceiver and a mobile asset processor. The asset monitor is in communication with a mobile asset for collecting monitored... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070239291 - Runtime human-machine interface for process control having enhanced view hierarchy navigation controls: An HMI application supporting interaction between an operator and runtime control processor information is described herein. The HMI application provides graphical user interface-driven functionality including, among other things supporting a horizontal hierarchical view selection menu. Furthermore, visual alarm indicators associated with the view selection menu guide an operator through each... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070239293 - Multiple model development using subflowsheet functionality: A system and method for modeling industrial processes is described. One embodiment includes collecting a plurality of flowsheets, which include corresponding groups of unit models and combining the plurality of flowsheets to create a combined model. In addition, a first macro associated with a first flowsheet is initiated and other... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070239295 - Codec conditioning system and method: An audio processing application is provided which utilizes an audio codec encode/decode simulation system and a psychoacoustic model to estimate audible quantization noise that may occur during lossy audio compression. Mask-to-noise ratio values are computed for a plurality of frequency bands and are used to intelligently process an audio signal... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070239294 - Hearing instrument having audio feedback capability:

20070239296 - Information processing apparatus and sound output method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an amplifier provided in a body and amplifying a sound signal to output sound from a speaker, a first system including a storage storing a first sound data and a sound device which generates an analog sound signal from the first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070239297 - Supply consumption optimization and multiple component utilization: The invention disclosed here is a method for achieving simultaneous consideration of multiple independent dates associated with a single demand. The method iterates through the demands to match the demands with the supply quantities respecting demand priorities which vary over time and demand quantities which may perish over time. One... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070239298 - System and method for creation of optimal range boundaries in a range management system: A method and device comprises assigning process routings to the flows, applying range break rules to the flows based on the input data regarding operations and toolsets, and outputting the results of the applying step to provide range break boundaries.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070239299 - Large scale supply planning: A production planning method inputs demands for products. The demands have multiple due dates, and the multiple due dates have different priorities. The method performs an explosion process utilizing linear programming and heuristics to identify demands for components that are used to make the products (the explosion process maintains the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070239300 - Method and system for setting rates and targets in a range management system: A method and apparatus comprises determining a number of planned starts of a product during a predetermined time period for future processing, averaging the number of planned starts for the predetermined time period, and setting a production rate for a first range based on the average number of planned starts.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070239301 - A method for resource allocation and re-grouping recognizing competing priorities which vary by date: A method determines production starts in a manufacturing environment by inputting production starts. The method groups the production starts into production lots according to grouping rules and assigns start dates and associated priorities to each of the production lots based on business priorities. Each production start date of a production... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070239303 - Method and system of controlled movement of dynamic-route wip: A system and method for driving new technology WIP at a controlled speed side-by-side with production WIP using a common range management infrastructure. The system and method allow new technology WIP and production WIP to be driven together in the same fabricator with the same degree of speed and predictability.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070239302 - Method and system of prioritization for managing manufacturing processes: A system and method are disclosed for prioritizing a plurality of lots in a manufacturing process. Portions of a priority for each lot are created. The portions are combined to form a unique range priority for each lot. The range priorities may be used to equitable compare all of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070239304 - A method for calculating a materials requirements plan for demands containing multiple demand dates and priorities: The methodology disclosed herein calculates the dates that product must come to stock for every component in the supply chain as needed to meet exit demands associated with a plurality of due dates and priorities. Every planned product stock is thus associated with multiple stock dates and associated priorities as... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070239305 - Process control systems and methods: Process control systems and methods for semiconductor device manufacturing are disclosed. A plurality of feedback and feed-forward loops are used to accurately control the critical dimension (CD) of features formed on material layers of semiconductor devices. Semiconductor devices with features having substantially the same dimension for each die across the... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20070239306 - Automatically selecting wafers for review: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a set of inspection files each corresponding to an inspection performed on a wafer of a set of wafers, automatically analyzing the set of inspection files to select at least one inspection file corresponding to a predetermined rule set,... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070239307 - Process and method for continuous, non lot-based integrated circuit manufacturing: A method for continuous, non lot-based manufacturing of integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type to each have a unique fuse identification (ID) includes: reading the fuse ID of each of the IC devices; advancing multiple lots of the IC devices through, for example, a test step in the manufacturing... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20070239309 - Polishing apparatus and polishing method: A polishing apparatus is used for polishing and planarizing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer on which a conductive film such as a copper (Cu) layer or a tungsten (W) layer is formed. The polishing apparatus includes a polishing table having a polishing surface, a motor for rotating the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070239308 - Sorting a group of integrated circuit devices for those devices requiring special testing: A method for sorting integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type having a fuse identification (ID) into those devices requiring enhanced reliability testing and those requiring standard testing includes storing fabrication deviation data, probe data, and test data in association with the fuse ID of each of the devices indicating... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20070239310 - Fast performance prediction of multivariable model predictive controller for paper machine cross-directional processes: A technique for fast performance prediction of multivariable model predictive controllers (MPC) for large-scale spatially-distributed dynamic systems is provided. When operating an MPC for a two-dimensional sheetmaking process, the controller's performance can be separated into spatial performance and dynamic performance. The steady-state spatial performance for different sheet property modes is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070239311 - A method for under-sizing electrodes for polygonal orbit electric discharge machining: A system, method, and computer program for designing an electrode for electric discharge machining, comprising identifying a cavity in a three-dimensional design; calculating a direct negative boolean of said cavity to define a general form for an electrode; determining an orbit path for said electrode, wherein said orbit path has... Agent: Ugs Corp.

20070239312 - System and method for tracking inventory movement using a material handling device: A method of tracking inventory using a material handling device that utilizes a lift mechanism provided on the material handling device for use in transporting an inventory unit from one location to a different location is provided. The method includes moving the lift mechanism using a hydraulic system and generating... Agent: International Paper Company

20070239313 - Method and system for load balancing remote image processing in a universal coding system: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing mailpieces. Images of mailpieces processed by mail processing devices are captured. The images are stored in a coding system at a mail processing plant, and the images are sorted at the coding system according to configuration data. The images are transmitted from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070239314 - Active semiotic system for image and video understanding by robots and unmanned vehicles, methods and apparatus: An active semiotic system that is able to create implicit symbols and their alphabets from features, structural combination of features, objects and, in general sense, patterns; create models with explicit structures that are labeled with said implicit symbols, and derive other models in the same format by means of diagrammatic-... Agent: Gary Kuvich

20070239315 - Article holding system, robot, and method of controlling robot: An article holding system includes a recognizing device for recognizing the state of the holding object, a holding method specifying means for specifying the holding method according to the state recognized by the recognizing device, and a holding device for holding the holding object according to the holding method specified... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070239317 - Artificial-intelligence-based energy auditing, monitoring and control: A method and system are provided for auditing, monitoring and controlling the energy consumption within a utility. Energy consumption data is obtained from a series of modules monitoring and controlling a variety of physical conditions, such as ambient light, temperature, pressure, air velocity, cooling, and heating, and devices. These modules... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070239316 - Control system and method for environmental systems: A control system and method for environmental devices such as heating and cooling devices provides a control system for controlling the environmental device. The control system has a first condition sensor for sensing a first condition of the environment, a memory for recording the sensed first condition at predetermined intervals,... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070239318 - Receiver particularly for a meter-bus: A receiver particularly suited for an M-BUS is described. During transmission, the receiver is disabled. After each transmission, nodes and states in the receiver are set to prepare the receiver to receive a signal. Once data is sensed, a feedback loop clips the input signal to the receiver to limit... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070239319 - Thermal management system: A thermal management system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises first and second thermo sensors embedded in a chip, a trimming control circuit which determines a characteristic of the first thermo sensor based on a trimming value, a nonvolatile memory which stores trimming data relating the characteristic... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070233281 - Medication administration and management system and method: A system, method and computer program for programming a medical device to administer a medication to a patient includes the medical device, a scanner that may be associated with a point of care (POC) system, and a medication management unit (MMU). A computer in the POC system can directly program... Agent: Brian R. Woodworth

20070233284 - Operating and display device for a household appliance, household appliance, and system: An operating and display device for a household appliance includes a display and an operating element. The display includes a number of display areas. A first of the display areas is configured to show, as summary information, a status and/or a setting of another household appliance connected so as to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070233289 - Operating device, image display system, map display controller and program for map display controller: An image display system has an operating device, a specifying device and an image display device. If the operating device receives a single operation from an exterior (i.e., from user), the operating device outputs first and second signals based on the single operation. The specifying device specifies a viewpoint and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070233294 - Method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory: A method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory is disclosed. The method and system comprises sending a play command to the media player; returning information about the media player; and providing digital audio to the accessory based upon the information about the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233295 - Method and system for transferring album artwork between a media player and an accessory: A method, system, and connector interface for transferring album artwork between a media player and an accessory. The method comprises obtaining, by the accessory, artwork information associated with album artwork from the media player; and obtaining, by the accessory, the album artwork from the media player based on the artwork... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233293 - Reduced number of channels decoding: An intermediate channel representation of a multi-channel signal can be reconstructed highly efficient and with high fidelity, when upmix parameters for upmixing a transmitted downmix signal to the intermediate channel representation are derived that allow for an upmix using the same upmixing algorithms as within the multi-channel reconstruction. This can... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070233280 - Automatic control system generation for robot design validation: The specification and drawings present a new method, system and software product for and apparatus for generating a robotic validation system for a robot design. The robotic validation system for the robot design of a robotic system is automatically generated by converting a robot design into a generic robotic description... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070233282 - System and method to allow non-deterministic execution in a process control system: A method includes receiving at least one process control value from a deterministic process control environment according to an execution cycle of the deterministic process control environment. The method also includes providing the at least one process control value to a non-deterministic process according to an execution cycle of the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070233283 - Apparatus, system, and method for wireless diagnostics: A diagnostic concentrator includes a first interface that is capable of receiving a signal sent from a field device to a process controller. The signal includes a primary process variable and additional information. The diagnostic concentrator also includes a controller that is capable of generating a message corresponding to the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070233285 - Apparatus control system and apparatus control method: The present invention realizes an apparatus control system and the like which can complete time consuming operations even when the user's operation changes during a coordinated operation, by adopting the change. The apparatus control device 120 includes a future status estimation unit 124 and a control apparatus decision unit 126... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070233286 - Method and apparatus for simulating microcomputer-based systems: A method and apparatus for developing microcomputer-based systems. A controller model having at least one parameter is simulated and, similarly, a plant model having at least one parameter and controlled by the controller model is simulated. A user interface then has access to the parameters of the controller model and... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070233287 - Dynamic generation of tasks in resource constrained devices: A method and system for dynamic generation of tasks in resource constrained devices involves identifying tasks that can be performed by devices in a resource constrained network, wherein the tasks represent activities that can be performed by the devices. Tasks are generated using the capabilities of devices as each device... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070233288 - System and method for industrial process control: This disclosure relates to a process control unit for controlling a process wherein the controller utilizes hardware and modular software to accomplish the control. The modular software for interfacing the process with the user allows the user to utilize predefined software interfaces with a human machine interface. A user need... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070233290 - Computer-supported determination method for supplementary position set valuse for a position guided moving supplementary element of a machine in particular a production machine: A control device for controlling the movement of a machine determines a base position set value according to a given base track in space. By limitation of a base element of a machine therewith, the above is hence positionally moved along a base track. The control device further determines a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070233291 - Online waiting room system, method & computer program product: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product which may include providing an online waiting room and gatekeeper for controlling access to users in a plurality of tiered classification standby lines, seeking access to an online event.... Agent: Venable LLP

20070233292 - Team binding process for game scheduling software: The Team Binding process enhances game scheduling software with the ability to resolve situations where participants have made commitments to multiple teams. The Team Binding process is needed by both small and large organizations because resolving these types of conflicts (without it) is very tedious and prone to mistakes. Team... Agent: Marc Mandt

20070233296 - Method, medium, and apparatus with scalable channel decoding: A method, medium, and apparatus with scalable channel decoding. The method includes recognizing the configuration of channels or speakers, calculating the number of decoding levels for each multi-channel signal using the recognized configuration of the channels or speakers, and performing decoding and up-mixing according to the calculated number of decoding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233297 - Simulating manufacturing operations: A manufacturing execution system may be simulated, for example, for volume testing. In a semiconductor fabrication embodiment, a volume capability, such as a number of wafer starts, may be determined for a given version of a manufacturing execution system. In some cases, the simulation runs operations or scripts under more... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070233298 - Method for optimizing spatial orientations of computer-aided design models: A method and system for building one or more three-dimensional objects, where the method includes providing a computer-aided design model of a three-dimensional object having an initial spatial orientation in a coordinate system, and determining an optimal spatial orientation of the computer-aided design model in the coordinate system based on... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070233299 - System and method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis and a dental prosthesis manufactured thereby: A dental prosthesis is made by externally machining successive layers of wax, each of which is formed on a previous prosthesis layer and/or on a coping. Each wax layer is used to form a mold in situ over the previous prosthesis layer/coping, and the appropriate prosthesis material is cast or... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070233301 - Automated, modular approach to assigning semiconductor lots to tools: The operation of a semiconductor fabrication facility may be automated to enable efficient assignments of lots to specific process tools or entities. This may involve the use of an algorithm which may have aspects which are common across various process areas within the fabrication facility. However, the algorithm may be... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070233300 - Dynamic order swapping in bto environment: A method for addressing process variability in a build-to-order, mass customization production environment. The method includes receiving an order for a product having a particular configuration defined by the order, initiating a production order specifically assigned to the order, fabricating the product based upon the production order, determining if an... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070233303 - Information providing system and analyzer: An information providing system comprises an analyzer and an information server communicatively connected to the analyzer through a network, which stores coping information regarding apparatus abnormalities of the analyzer, and the analyzer obtains the coping information corresponding to the apparatus abnormalities that occur to the analyzer from the information server,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070233302 - System for controlling production of electronic devices, system and method for producing electronic devices, and computer program product: A system for controlling production of electronic devices includes a recipe creation unit creating a processing recipe describing processing conditions for first and second processes so as to satisfy a production specification of a characteristic and a yield rate of the electronic devices, and an additional recipe describing additional processing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070233304 - Industrial truck with a data bus and a second sending receiving unit: An industrial truck with a data bus, to which several electronic units of the industrial truck are connected which send or receive telegrams via the data bus, and with a sending and receiving unit which can acquire data of a transponder present in the sending and receiving range of the... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070233306 - Polishing apparatus and method of controlling the same: A polishing apparatus includes a slurry supply arm arranged on a polish pad for a polishing target and extending from a center of the polish pad into a radius direction; a plurality of nozzles attached to the slurry supply arm to supply the slurry from the plurality of nozzles; and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070233305 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method: Correcting for misalignment of a substrate before it is exposed is performed using offset corrections and process corrections that are calculated based on alignment offset measurements of alignment marks and overlay measurements of overlay targets on substrates in previous batches.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070233307 - Profile control method and system therefor: A profile control method for controlling a profile in the width direction of a sheet by using a plurality of actuators, includes calculating an envelope profile connecting local peaks of the profile; and calculating a manipulated value of each actuator with the objective of optimizing 2σ of the profile and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070233308 - Apparatus for determining sewing sequences, program for determining sewing sequences recorded on computer-readable recording medium, and sewing machine: Sewing data of multiple sewing targets stored in RAM of a sewing sequence determining apparatus is acquired. Permutations or combinations of the sewing targets are created as sewing sequence candidates. A number of needle bars N provided at a multi-needle sewing machine is acquired. An optimal thread replacement count is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070233309 - Embroidery data creation apparatus and embroidery data creation program recorded in computer-readable recording medium: To provide an embroidery data creation apparatus, an embroidery data creation program, and a recording medium that records the embroidery data creation program, which create embroidery data for embroidery that is clear and sharp even when the tint or output size of an image is changed. The number of pixels... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070233310 - Embroidery data creation apparatus and embroidery data creation program recorded in computer-readable recording medium: To provide an embroidery data creation apparatus, an embroidery data creation program, and a recording medium that records the embroidery data creation program, which create embroidery data for embroidery that is clear and sharp even when the tint or output size of an image is changed. The number of pixels... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070233311 - Virtual clothing modeling apparatus and method: Trying on the clothes is simulated by processing an image sequence by using a posture dictionary, and a three-dimensional figure, obtained in advance, of a person who wishes to try on clothing. The process includes estimating the posture of the person, and simulating the motions of the clothes, in agreement... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070233312 - Determination method and processing method of machined surface of plate-like material, and apparatus for use in said methods: Provided is a surface treatment method for performing machining such as cutting work, grinding, and electrical discharging to a plate-like material with two- or three-dimensional deformation to realize a uniform thickness. This method includes the steps of mounting the plate-like material on a surface plate, setting a coordinate axis in... Agent: Howson And Howson

20070233313 - Transfer pick, transfer device, substrate processing apparatus and transfer pick cleaning method: A transfer pick provided at a leading end of a transfer arm of a transfer device for transferring a substrate includes a substrate support surface for supporting the substrate thereon; a plurality of contact members protruded from the substrate support surface to contact with the substrate; and a voltage applying... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233314 - Industrial truck with a load supporting means: An industrial truck with a load supporting means, a sending and receiving unit, the sending and receiving range of which is directed towards a region of the load supporting means and towards a region in front of the load supporting means, and a control unit, which activates the sending and... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070233315 - Library unit and magazine position detecting method in the library unit: A library unit of the present invention includes a magazine, a cartridge, at least one sensor and an accessor. The cartridge is loaded in the magazine and arranged in a direction in which the magazine is loaded to or unloaded from the library unit. The sensor is provided for the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070233316 - Power transfer field device: An apparatus and method are provided for transferring electrical energy from a Fieldbus process communication loop to at least one other process communication loop operating in accordance with a different process communication protocol. A power transfer device is coupleable to a Fieldbus process communication loop and to a second process... Agent: Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A. Suite 1400

20070233317 - Method and apparatus for vending a combination of products: A method and apparatus for delivering a plurality of products from a vending machine is disclosed. The method generally allows an offer for a package to be output, in which the package defines a plurality of products, including a selected product. An apparatus is also disclosed to carry out the... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070233320 - Handling device: A handling device for handling parts and in particular sheet metal bodywork parts, comprises a carrier unit which has a coupling means for coupling to a robot arm of a robot and a plurality of operating modules each having an attachment interface for the attachment of an operating device such... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070233321 - Position detecting device, autonomous mobile device, method, and computer program product: A device includes a visual-feature detecting unit that detects a visual feature of a sound source based on an image and visual information thereof and outputs visually localizing information indicative of at least a direction thereof, an auditory-feature detecting unit that detects an auditory feature of the sound source based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070233319 - System and method for returning mobile robot to charging stand: A system is provided for returning a robot to a charger. In this regard, a charger is configured to provide a plurality of docking guide regions by outputting at least one guide signal superposed with at least one other signal to form a return region. Further, the robot is configured... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070233318 - Follow robot: A follow robot is disclosed. The follow robot comprises body, head, limbs and muscles same as or proportional with human's body, head, limbs and muscle in shape, size, Specific Gravity (SG) and Center of Gravity (CG). The follow robot's joints are same as or proportional with human's joints and can... Agent: Tianmo Lei

20070233322 - Hybrid compact sensing apparatus for adaptive robotic processes: A hybrid compact sensing apparatus for generating signals usable for guiding a process robot as a function of an object detected in a scene. The apparatus comprises a laser light generator, two optical sensors, one or more ultrasound sensors, and a control unit, all integrated in a same housing. The... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070233323 - Building automation system controller: A building control system is provided that receives information from devices of different subsystems. A trigger causes a zone controller to store the information in a database. The stored data is used to generate customized reports based on sequences or sets of related events. The information from multiple subsystems is... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20070233324 - Method and reference signaling arrangement for supplying a plurality of system components with a common reference signal: A method for supplying a plurality of system components of a system with a common reference signal is described, in which an electrical output reference signal is created by a reference signal generator and a number of optical reference signals are generated using the electrical output reference signal. The optical... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070233325 - Method and apparatus for regulating vibration isolation systems: The invention relates to the control and regulation of a vibration isolation system with a number of vibration signal transducers for providing analogue sensor signals and a number of actuators for suppressing vibrations by processing the sensor signals to form actuator actuation signals for driving the actuators. One object of... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC