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Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110046750 - Method for controlling driving of test device and analytic device for performing the same: A method and apparatus for controlling driving of a test device that analyzes a sample are provided. The method includes identifying a test device, executing a script containing a plurality of operations to be performed to analyze the sample contained in the test device, wherein the script includes a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110046749 - Monitoring and control apparatus: A plant monitoring and control apparatus having a function to simulate an object to be monitored and controlled for verifying healthiness of a control processing unit is provided with an input separating operation unit and an output separating operation unit which separate DI data and DO data handled by the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20110046751 - Home network system and method for controlling the same: The home network system includes an input device to send a command set, and a control device to control in order entirely at least two devices to be controlled. With the home network system, devices can be controlled or regulated through transmission/reception between the devices so that the states or... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20110046752 - System for optimizing power generating unit: A method and apparatus for optimizing the operation of a single or multiple power generating units using advanced optimization, modeling, and control techniques. In one embodiment, a plurality of component optimization systems for optimizing power generating unit components are sequentially coordinated to allow optimized values determined by a first component... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20110046754 - Industrial hmi automatically customized based upon inference: The present invention generally relates to industrial automation, and in particular to systems and methods that facilitate rendering data in an industrial automation environment. Specifically, the invention facilitates rendering a browser-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) to at least one device. According to an aspect of the present invention, a device... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20110046753 - Method for monitoring a technical installation and monitoring system for carrying out said method: A method for monitoring a technical installation with a plurality of installation components connected to one another for transmitting data in order to perform process steps is provided. Status messages, each status message containing a plurality of individual messages, are displayed on a display unit. Upon initiation of the display... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110046755 - Contents reproducing device and method: A method for reproducing contents in a device is provided. The method includes identifying whether an event occurs based on a change in distance between a device and another device or a change in power status of the device or the another device, and if the event occurs, performing seamless... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20110046756 - Dial-mode temperature controller that facilitates changing of temperature range: The present invention relates to a dial type temperature controller easily changing a temperature range that is provided with a selector for changing temperature ranges and indication panels for selected corresponding ranges and allows a user to easily change the temperature range without an error, when changing the temperature range... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20110046758 - Audio-controlling system: An audio-controlling system has a mixer and an audio playing and controlling device. The mixer mixes an external audio signal and a controlling signal and then outputs a mixed audio signal to the audio playing and controlling device. The audio playing and controlling device is connected to the mixer to... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20110046757 - Media player: A media player has a body, and an operating circuit with speakers. A support is attached to the body for movement between a retracted position, retracted at least partially within the body, and an extended position, extending from the body. The support incorporates a connector for, in the extended position,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20110046759 - Method and apparatus for separating audio object: Provided is a method of separating an audio object that includes extracting virtual source location information and an audio signal from a bitstream, separating an object included in the audio signal based on a virtual source location, mapping objects of a previous frame and objects of a current frame located... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110046760 - Personal audio player with wireless file sharing and radio recording and timeshifting: A portable MP3 player, which includes radio capability therein. The device includes a radio part which enables receiving radio, either over the airwaves, or via a network. The radio information can be time shared for later use, and sequences within the radio information can be identified for storage within the... Agent: Scott C Harris Law Office Of Scott C Harris, Inc

20110046761 - Recorded media enhancement method: A media processing method that dramatically improves the perceived audio quality and audio output level and video quality and video display consistency for most commonly used audio and video recording, storage and playback systems. The system synthesizes and boosts harmonics and spectral ranges that have been diminished or are missing... Agent: Paul Frederick Titchener

20110046762 - Charged particle beam writing apparatus, charged particle beam writing method and apparatus of processing data for charged particle beam writing: There is provided a charged particle beam writing apparatus in which data processing is optimized by automatically dividing process regions on which parallel distributed processing is performed. A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes: a data storage unit to which layout data defining a plurality of figure patterns in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110046764 - 3d mold for manufacturing of sub-micron 3d structures using 2-d photon lithography and nanoimprinting and process thereof: A process to manufacture a 3D mold to fabricate a high-throughput and low cost sub-micron 3D structure product is disclosed. The process integrates use of 2-photon laser lithography and 3D write technology to make a 3D mold of each layer of the 3D structure product, and then use nanoimprinting to... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20110046763 - Planar manufacturing drawing production support device, planar manufacturing drawing production support method, planar manufacturing drawing production support program and branch angle design support device: The present invention aims to improve accuracy of a planar manufacturing drawing used to instruct manufacture of a three-dimensional structure in a planar form. According to path plan information is acquired by a path plan information acquisition unit 11a and manufacturing requirement information is acquired by a manufacturing requirement information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20110046768 - Determining characteristics of electric cables using terahertz radiation: An apparatus, system and method are described for determining a characteristic of an electric cable using THz radiation. The THz radiation may non-destructively penetrate a carbon black semiconductor layer to detect a THz spectrum of a cross-linked polyethylene insulator. The THz spectrum can be analyzed to determine the characteristics of... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20110046765 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program: An information processing device includes a target value receiving unit receiving one or more types of target values in a predetermined semiconductor manufacturing process; a parameter acquiring unit acquiring values of parameters during the semiconductor manufacturing process; an execution result acquiring unit acquiring one or more types of execution results... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110046766 - Method for creating numerical control programs: A method for creating an NC program for controlling a test run for determining, optimizing and/or validating processing parameters and/or control parameters of a processing operation on a laser processing machine comprises accessing a base NC program that includes at least one contour variable for the at least one test... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (bo)

20110046767 - Method, system, and computer program product for preparing multiple layers of semiconductor substrates for electronic designs: Disclosed is an improved method, system, and computer program product for preparing multiple levels of semiconductor substrates for three-dimensional IC integration. Some embodiments utilize the process and design models to check and fabricate the insulating dielectric layer (IDL) separating the first and the second film stacks on separate substrates and... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20110046769 - Manufacturing instruction equipment, program, manufacturing instruction system, and manufacturing instruction method: The present teaching is intended to observe the delivery date of a product and decrease the number of workpieces in a merger process. A treatment sequence calculator included in manufacturing instruction equipment identifies an in-process part being worked in each process, and calculates the delivery-date allowance of the in-process part.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110046770 - Apparatus for monitoring pharamceutical manufacturing processes: An apparatus for monitoring data generated by a device adapted for use in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment are described and disclosed herein. The method creates a historic record of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process and provides it to an end user or a plurality of end users. Consequently, the methods provide... Agent: Smp Logic Systems Intellectual Property Department

20110046771 - Computer controlled flow manipulation for vacuum infusion processes: Methods and apparatus for vacuum infusing resin into a fabric preform within a mold. The methods comprise increasing permeability in a selected region, such as by deploying a VIPR chamber in a location corresponding to the resin injection port corresponding to the resin flow front furthest from the mold vent... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20110046772 - Flexible manufacturing systems and methods: A converting line comprises a first unit at a first region of the converting line and a second unit at a second region of the converting line. The first unit is positioned in series with the second unit. The converting line further comprises a third unit at a third region... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20110046773 - Tool vector display apparatus for a machine tool with rotational axes: Time information t and positional information about each axis are obtained, and the three-dimensional coordinates of tool center point Pe at time t are calculated to display the path of the tool center point Pe at time t. Then, whether a fixed time has elapsed or not is decided. If... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20110046774 - Device for processing bank notes: The invention therein proceeds from an apparatus for processing bank notes, with an input unit for inputting bank notes, a singler for singling the input bank notes, a transport system for transporting the singled bank notes through a sensor device for checking the bank notes, wherein a control device evaluates... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20110046775 - Facility wide mixed mail sorting and/or sequencing system and components and methods thereof: The invention generally relates to a facility wide sorting and/or sequencing system for improving product processing operations and, more particularly, to a facility wide system and related functionality for simultaneously sorting and sequencing mixed mail pieces such as, for example, flats and letter mail pieces. The flats and letter mail... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20110046776 - Seed planter data acquisition and management system: The present invention provides a system and method for generating a planting profile for seeds planted in a field using a seed planter that includes a seed transfer device. In various embodiments, the planting profile may be generated via a processor that communicates with a timing device and a seed... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20110046777 - Apparatus for providing coupons in cooperation with operation of a fuel vending device: An apparatus for use in cooperation with operation of a fuel vending device; the fuel vending device delivering at least one fuel product; the delivering being effected by exercising an actuator element; includes: (a) a control unit for controlling the apparatus in dispensing at least one item having value after... Agent: Donald D. Mondul Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20110046778 - Method of conducting a sales transaction using a random access and random load dispensing unit: The present invention provides a random access and random load dispensing unit including a housing, at least one support located in the housing and defining a first axis, a plurality of platforms movable along the support along the first axis, a plurality of bins supported on the platforms, the bins... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20110046779 - Remote contrivance refurbishment apparatus & related methods: Disclosed is a remote contrivance refurbishment apparatus and related methods.... Agent: John Karl Buche Buche & Associates, P.C.

20110046781 - Coordinated action robotic system and related methods: A coordinated action robotic system may include a plurality of robotic vehicles, each including a platform and at least one manipulator movable relative thereto. The robotic system may also include a remote operator control station that may include a respective controller for each manipulator. The remote operator control station may... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20110046780 - Distributed robotic guidance: The different illustrative embodiments provide an apparatus that includes a computer system, a number of structured light generators, and a number of mobile robotic devices. The computer system is configured to generate a path plan. The number of structured light generators is configured to project the path plan. The number... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20110046782 - A method and system for determining the relation between a robot coordinate system and a local coordinate system located in the working range of the robot: The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the relation between a local coordinate system located in the working range of an industrial robot (1) and a robot coordinate system. The method comprises: attaching a first calibration object (10) in a fixed relation to the robot,... Agent: Seppo Laine Oy Joshua P. Wert

20110046783 - Method for training a robot or the like, and device for implementing said method: A device for training a robot adapted to carry out automated tasks in order to accomplish various functions, in particular at least one of processing, mounting, packaging or maintaining tasks, using a specific tool on a part. The device includes a way for displaying the part as a 3D virtual... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20110046784 - Asymmetric stereo vision system: The different illustrative embodiments provide an apparatus that includes an autonomous vehicle, a modular navigation system, and an asymmetric vision module. The modular navigation system is coupled to the autonomous vehicle. The asymmetric vision module is configured to interact with the modular navigation system.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20110046785 - Method and device for the removal of a leaf from a crop: Method and device for the removal of a part of a crop, such as a leaf (14). To this end, the crop is approached from a low position with vision techniques and the stem (12) and the parts protruding therefrom are observed from beneath. Based upon the number of images... Agent: Young & Thompson

20110046786 - Blender base with food processor capabilities: A blender base that may be used with a food processor container, a blender container, and a single use beverage container. The blender container includes a novel blade unit having a food processor-style blade and blender type blades. Programs with preprogrammed motor commands for desired operations are stored in memory... Agent: Sunbeam Products, Inc.

20110046787 - Water separation method and apparatus: A system for treating fractionated water from an oil and gas well. The system comprising a filter system, a diffusive membrane system, a plurality of membrane sensors, and at least one membrane controller. The filter system is fluidly connected to the diffusive membrane system, wherein the filter system comprises a... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20110046789 - Building management system with active building skin, an environmental resource collector for use in such a system and a method of managing resources used in a building: A building management system (100) comprises a measurement system for measuring a demand for resources inside the building and a collecting system for harvesting natural resources available outside the building. The building management system is further provided with a storage system for storing surplus resources and a sensor system (112,114,116,118,120)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20110046788 - Methods and systems for automatic detection of steering wheel control signals: A method for automatically detecting a control signal configuration of a vehicle component includes making a connection to a channel of the component, performing an electrical measurement on the channel, and identifying a control signal configuration based upon the measurement. A method for sending control signals from one vehicle component... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20110046791 - Air conditioner: An indoor unit includes an indoor side transmitting and receiving section, a relay which is put in a closed state in a standby state, and an indoor control section which controls the relay on the basis of an output of the indoor side transmitting and receiving section. An outdoor unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110046790 - Energy reducing retrofit method and apparatus for a constant volume hvac system: An energy-reducing method and apparatus for retrofitting a constant volume HVAC system, with or without an economizer, that provides heating, cooling, and ventilation to occupants within a building space. The present invention includes the introduction of a programmable logic controller and variable frequency drive (VFD) that takes control of the... Agent: Kathleen T. Petrich

20110046792 - Energy management system and method: A system and method migrating virtualized environments is disclosed. According to an aspect of the disclosure, a home energy management system and method includes a database configured to store site report data received from a plurality of residential sites using a wireless home energy network at each site. Each residential... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110046793 - Stabilized platform system: A stabilized platform system includes a platform, a chassis subject to external vibration, first and second servomechanisms fixed to the chassis, first support having an end rotatably coupled to the first servomechanism and an other end rotatably coupled to the platform, a second support having an end rotatably coupled to... Agent: Ren-sheng InternationalIPManagement Ltd. Gene I. Su

20110046795 - Drive control method, drive control apparatus, stage control method, stage control apparatus, exposure method, exposure apparatus and measuring apparatus: A drive control method of controlling an object which can move at least in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction is provided. Here, a force applied to the object is controlled on the basis of a driving signal for driving a first actuator moving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110046794 - Multi-channel active control system and methods for the reduction of tonal noise from an axial fan: A method of optimizing placement of a control source relative to a noise source includes establishing a first pool of constructive chromosomes, each constructive chromosome defining a potential spatial position for the control source in an acoustic space and each constructive chromosome including a plurality of constructive genes having a... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20110046796 - Method, device and system for use in configuring a bathing unit controller: A controller for a bathing unit system comprising a memory unit for storing program instructions, an interface for establishing a communication link with an external memory medium and a processing unit. The controller is operative for controlling a set of bathing unit components at least in part on the basis... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20110046797 - Semiconductor manufacturing system, controller, semiconductor manufacturing system control method, and processing liquid collection method: A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a first controller for controlling the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, an auxiliary machine for the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a second controller for controlling the auxiliary machine, and a third controller for electrically coupling the first and second controllers. The second controller outputs... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110046798 - Energy management system and method: According to an aspect of the disclosure, a home energy management system and method includes a network device disposed at a residence and a wireless home energy network capable of establishing communication with the network device. A server is disposed remotely from the residence and capable of generating a control... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110046799 - Energy management system and method: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an energy management apparatus for a home energy management system and method includes a processor operable to manage energy use at a site. The processor is configured to convert an incoming message received from a wireless energy network into XML enabled output data... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110046800 - Energy management system and method: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an energy management system and method includes managing energy use of a site comprising the steps of: acquiring a network device data from a network device joined to a wireless energy network; translating the network data into device report data comprised of at... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110046801 - Energy management system and method: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus for an energy management system includes a controller having an application interface configured to use at least a portion of an incoming message communicated using a home energy network at a residential site. The incoming message includes at least a portion... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110046803 - Controller and control techniques for windfarm: The disclosed windfarm control system comprising a windfarm and a central controller; the windfarm including plural wind power generators whose rotational speeds are variable, plural aerographs disposed in the vicinity of the wind power generators to measure the directions and powers of the wind at the sites of the generators,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20110046802 - System and method for controlling a turbine blade: A control system for a turbine blade, including: an operational control element for generating and outputting an operational control signal, the operational control signal for non-emergency operation of a motor for controlling pitch of the turbine blade; an emergency control element, separate from and different from the operational control element,... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20110046805 - Context-aware smart home energy manager: A context-aware smart home energy management (CASHEM) system and method is disclosed. CASHEM dynamically schedules household energy use to reduce energy consumption by identifying contextual information within said household, selecting a comfort of service preference, wherein said comfort of service preference is based on different said contextual information, and extracting... Agent: Honeywell/ortiz & Lopez Patent Services

20110046804 - Energy limit in a sliding window in power and heat management: A system and method for specifying a temporal window of a fixed size that slides along time; specifying energy consumption as the accumulated power consumption in a temporal window; and applying a threshold that limits the energy consumption in a sliding window, while the power consumption can fluctuate within the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20110046806 - Systems and methods for estimating the effects of a request to change power usage: Systems and methods for estimating the effects of a request to change power usage are described. Device data about one or more devices may be received. User behavior data about past and anticipated user behavior may be received. Effects of a request to change power usage on a power grid... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20110046807 - Dcs control module for a transformer in nuclear power engineering: A DCS control module for a transformer in nuclear power engineering, comprises: an input command processing logic unit (1), a malfunction processing logic unit (2), a state processing logic unit (3), an output command generating logic unit (4) and a 6.6 kV switchgear of the transformer. The present invention utilizes... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20110046809 - Adaptive relaying controlled by autonomous event detection: An adaptive relaying control system and method is disclosed for adapting coordination of protective measures provided to an electric-energy distribution system as a function of at least an ambient weather condition. A weather sensor senses the ambient weather condition within a region adjacent to at least a portion of the... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20110046808 - Controller and system including a controller for detecting a failure thereof: A controller for a load includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts, a processor circuit cooperating with the operating mechanism to open and close the separable contacts, and an output controlled by the processor circuit. The output is structured to cause a remote... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20110046810 - Variable transmission window constructions: An electrical control system is disclosed for controlling a plurality of variable transmittance windows. The electrical control system of the present invention comprises a master control circuit for supplying control signals representing transmittance levels for the variable transmission windows, and a plurality of window control circuits coupled to each of... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20110046812 - Device and method for cooling fan control using measured amperage load: A system and method for controlling cooling fans in a computing system using measured temperature and amperage load is disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling fan control device (CFCD) includes a temperature sensing module for measuring an inside temperature of the computing system using a plurality of temperature sensors disposed... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110046811 - Temperature controller having phase control and zero-cross cycle control functionality: The present invention relates to a temperature controller having phase control and zero-cross cycle control function that can be achieved at a low cost by controlling power that is supplied to a load, by generating a phase control signal or a zero-cross control signal according to control target temperature of... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20110040390 - System configuration using templates: A method in a computer system for developing a process control strategy includes providing a module template having a first plurality of components and being associated with a control operation, receiving a selection of one or more of the first plurality of components of the module template, generating an instance... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20110040391 - Managing local environment using data traffic information: A method, system, and computer usable program product for managing a local environment using data traffic information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. According to the invention, an data traffic on a data network associated with the local environment is monitored at a networking device. The local environment includes one... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20110040392 - Measurement and management technology platform: Techniques for implementing system best practices are provided. In one aspect, a method for monitoring, modeling and managing a physical system is provided. The method includes the following steps. A physical data model of the physical system is provided. Real time data is obtained from the physical system. The physical... Agent: Michael J. Chang, LLC

20110040393 - Dream controller: A method and apparatus for intelligently controlling continuous process variables. A Dream Controller comprises an intelligent Engine mechanism and a number of Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) controllers, each of which is suitable to control a process with specific behaviors. The Intelligent Engine can automatically select the appropriate MFA controller and its... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20110040394 - Method and system for aligning a stent with a stent support: A system and method of aligning a stent with a stent support involves taking two images of the stent that has been placed on the stent support and determining from the two images whether the stent is aligned with the stent support. The stent can be rotated so that the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20110040398 - Multi-channel encoder: In a method of encoding input signals (CH1 to CH3; 400 to 450) in a multi-channel encoder (5; 15) to generate corresponding output data having down-mix output signals (610, 620) together with complementary parametric data (600), the method includes a first step of down-mixing input signals (CH1 to CH3; 400... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20110040395 - Object-oriented audio streaming system: Systems and methods for providing object-oriented audio are described. Audio objects can be created by associating sound sources with attributes of those sound sources, such as location, velocity, directivity, and the like. Audio objects can be used in place of or in addition to channels to distribute sound, for example,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110040396 - System for adaptively streaming audio objects: Systems and methods for providing object-oriented audio are described. Audio objects can be created by associating sound sources with attributes of those sound sources, such as location, velocity, directivity, and the like. Audio objects can be used in place of or in addition to channels to distribute sound, for example,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110040397 - System for creating audio objects for streaming: Systems and methods for providing object-oriented audio are described. Audio objects can be created by associating sound sources with attributes of those sound sources, such as location, velocity, directivity, and the like. Audio objects can be used in place of or in addition to channels to distribute sound, for example,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110040399 - Apparatus and method for integrating planning, scheduling, and control for enterprise optimization: A method includes receiving first input data from one or more first process control system components. The method also includes receiving second input data from one or more second process control system components. In addition, the method includes performing an iterative process that includes identifying one or more adjustments to... Agent: Honeywell/munck Patent Services

20110040400 - Feedstuff formulations: A method of formulating a feedstuff is provided which comprises the steps of: analysing the effect on one or both chemical and biological properties of the feedstuff of varying feedstuff ingredients and analysing the effect on the ingredient cost of the feedstuff of varying the feedstuff ingredients. The method further... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110040401 - System, method and apparatus for producing fire rated doors: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for producing fire rated doors having added strength, better finishing and low cost manufacturing flexibility. The fire rated doors are made from two panels “sandwiched” together. An optional interior layer (e.g., fire resistant material, lead sheeting, steel or Kevlar) can be... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20110040402 - System, method and apparatus for producing fire rated doors: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for producing fire rated doors having added strength, better finishing and low cost manufacturing flexibility. The fire rated doors are made from two panels “sandwiched” together. An optional interior layer (e.g., fire resistant material, lead sheeting, steel or Kevlar) can be... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20110040403 - System for handling and/or treating packaging means and method for the format-compatible adjustment of such a system, a method for adjusting the format or changing-over the format of a system configured to treat, handle, and process containers or groups o: A system for handling and/or treating packaging means and method for the format-compatible adjustment of such a system, a method for adjusting the format or changing-over the format of a system configured to treat, handle, and process containers or groups of containers, and an arrangement therefor. The abstract of the... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20110040405 - Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium controlling whole-body operation of humanoid robot: Disclosed are an apparatus, a method and a computer-readable medium controlling whole-body operation of a humanoid robot. The humanoid robot recognizes a motion control code using binary data mapped according to a motion command represented by a language understood by a human to implement a whole-body operation. Since a control... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110040404 - Smooth control of an articulated instrument across areas with different work space conditions: An articulated instrument is controllably movable between areas of different work space limits, such as when it is extendable out of and retractable into a guide tube. To avoid abrupt transitions in joint actuations as the joint moves between areas of different work space limits, a controller limits error feedback... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical Operations

20110040406 - Method and apparatus for removably holding medical device: An apparatus for holding a medical device has an arm unit equipped with, for example, a polyarticular arm, which holds the medical device such as endoscope movably in the space. Additionally to a determination unit and a controller, the holding apparatus has an operation unit equipped with a plurality of... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20110040407 - Apparatus and method for stabilizing humanoid robot: Disclosed is a humanoid robot apparatus, method and computer-readable medium thereof related to lifting and holding a heavy object having a weight unknown to the robot, by measuring an external force acting on the robot. Linear momentum and rotational momentum are compensated for stepwise according to the degree of stability... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110040408 - Robotic hand: A robotic hand assembly comprising: a hand section comprising: at least one digit provided with at least one actuatable joint; and a control section comprising: at least one actuation device, the at least one actuation device comprising: a sensing module configured to sense a force applied to a tendon coupled... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110040409 - Robotic vehicle with drive means and method for activating drive means: The invention relates to a robotic vehicle (1), in particular a robotic vehicle (1) designed for self-contained operations, with drive means (5) for the movement of the vehicle (1) on the subsurface (11), and with control means (7) for the activation of the drive means (5) in accordance with the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20110040410 - Apparatus and method controlling legged mobile robot: Disclosed is an apparatus and method adjusting motion of each joint of a robot to compensate for friction force of each joint such that the sole of the foot of the robot clings to the ground. The motion of each joint is adjusted as if gravity acts on each joint... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110040411 - Power assist device and control method therefor: A control method for a power assist device provided with an operation handle, a force sensor that detects an operation force applied to the operation handle and an orientation of the operation force, a robot arm, and an actuator. When the orientation of the operation force is detected to be... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20110040413 - Method of controlling the pitch velocity of a wind turbine blade and control system therefore: A method of controlling at least one wind turbine blade during the stopping process of the rotor in a wind turbine system is disclosed. The method optimizes the control velocity of the process in response to one or more feedback values of the system and/or one or more feedback values... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20110040412 - Window fan control system and method of controlling a fan unit: In the specification and drawings a window fan control system and a method of controlling a fan unit are described and shown. The window fan control system may comprise an electronic controller, an indoor sensor responsive to at least one characteristic of interior air, and an outdoor sensor responsive to... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20110040414 - Methods for controlling a wind turbine connected to the utility grid, wind turbine and wind park: Methods for controlling a wind turbine connected to the utility grid by detecting status of the utility grid, and controlling one or more rotor blades and/or emitted power to the grid in returning to the operational wind turbine settings of normal grid mode, as well as wind turbines and wind... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20110040415 - Code replacement for irrigation controllers: Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, methods of implementing irrigation control are provided that detect a presence of a first module coupled with a control unit of an irrigation controller, the control unit operating in accordance with a bootloader set of code and... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20110040416 - Modular and expandable irrigation controller: Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers are modular in that various functional components of the irrigation controller are implemented in removable modules that when inserted into position within the controller, expand the capabilities of the controller. Also described are various... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20110040418 - Method and device for controlling operation of a power supply system: A method for controlling operation of a power supply system (10) for supplying electrical power to a power consuming device (17), the power supply system comprising a climate-dependent source (5, 6) of electrical energy, an auxiliary source (7) of electrical energy, and an energy storage device (14) in electrical connection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110040417 - Task scheduling based on financial impact: Times at which certain tasks are performed by a computer system, such as a data storage center, may be selected to reduce the cost of electrical energy in running the tasks. Tasks may be performed when the cost of electrical energy is relatively low. Alternatively, or in addition, tasks may... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20110040419 - Communication process for elements composing a home or industrial electrical energy distribution network and devices for implementing the same: A communication process between two constitutive elements of the network of electricity distribution in a domestic or industrial premise including circuit breakers, electrical modules, switches, electrical plugs and light connection devices. The process including the following steps: assignment by a protocol such as DHCP, BootP or RARP of a first... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20110040421 - Installation for the production and storage of renewable energy: Installation for the production and storage of renewable energy (1) provided for supplying an electricity-consuming unit (2) with electricity, the installation comprising solar panels (3) and a hydrogen production unit (4, 7, 8, 9, 10), which comprises an electrolyser (4) provided to produce hydrogen and oxygen when powered by the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20110040422 - Power supply apparatus and power supply arrangement: The invention relates to a power supply apparatus (1) and also to a power supply arrangement. The power supply apparatus comprises an interface to the load (2). The power supply apparatus also comprises at least one controllable solid-state switch (3), for supplying power between the aforementioned load and the power... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110040420 - System and method for associating a load demand with a variable power generation: Systems and methods for associating a load demand with a variable power generation are described. A system includes a renewable variable power generation module including a sensor, the sensor configured to determine an output power capability value for the renewable variable power generation module. The system also includes a load... Agent: Sunpower/ Bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110040423 - System and method for automatically determining temperature tolerance range: A system for automatically determining a temperature tolerance range of an electronic device directs a temperature regulator to regulate a temperature equaling a previous regulated temperature plus or less a temperature difference. When a determination module determines the electronic device has failed to power on or a test of the... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20110035028 - Acceleration/deceleration control device: A residual-velocity calculating unit calculates a residual velocity that corresponds to a velocity increment when an acceleration is reduced from a current command acceleration to zero according to an acceleration reduction curve. A differential-velocity calculating unit calculates a differential velocity vs=v0-vn, which is a difference between a target velocity v0... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110035029 - Light system controller and method for controlling a lighting scene: The invention relates to the control, for example the creation or modification of a lighting scene with a lighting system, and the invention particularly relates to a more easily and user oriented controlling of the creation and modification of the lighting scene. An embodiment of the invention provides a light... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20110035032 - Audio signal processing device: An audio signal processing device receives a first voice analog signal from a portable electronic device and a second voice analog signal of noise from outside environment, and converts the first voice analog signal and the second voice analog signal into a first voice digital signal and a second voice... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20110035036 - Control apparatus, control method, control program and network system: A control device applies an exclusive control to all controlled devices associated with a control sequence in executing the control sequence requiring a plurality of relevant control requests. More specifically, the control device eliminates the intervention of other control devices to the controlled devices during the period of the execution... Agent: Young & Thompson

20110035030 - Lossless normalization of media files: A request to normalize at least one media file is received. A peak amplitude associated with the at least one media file is determined, and a target maximum volume associated with playback of the at least one media file is also determined. The at least one media file is played,... Agent: Bjorn Michael Dittmer Roche

20110035035 - Method and system for analyzing digital audio files: A fingerprint is generated from an unknown audio signal by dividing the unknown audio signal into bins, where each bin includes points representing a feature space. Each of the points is mapped to one of a plurality of predetermined cluster centers based on the distance between each point and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20110035031 - Personalized entertainment system: A method of operating an entertainment system includes computer-implemented steps including accessing a remote electronic collection of audio/video recordings. The collection is associated with a user of the entertainment system. The recordings in the collection are analyzed to thereby determine an audio/video preference profile of the user. Electronic audio/video options... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20110035033 - Real-time customization of audio streams: A method of real-time customization of an audio stream includes retrieving a set of parameters related to a current state of a device, determining a pattern, tempo, background loop, pitch, and number of foreground notes for the audio stream based upon the set of parameters, and creating an audio stream... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20110035034 - Serving media articles with altered playback speed: Systems and methods provide for on-the-fly alteration of apparent playback rate for content sent to a client based on a request from the client to alter the playback speed of the content. The system and method can use existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20110035037 - Control system and method therefor: A flexible control system and method of controlling a processing operation. The control system and method may be employed to control a high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk for simultaneously conveying... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20110035038 - System and method for making a three-dimensional reproduction of a relief surface: The invention relates to a method for making a three-dimensional reproduction of a relief surface, which method comprises the following steps: scanning the surface at least twice by means of a scanner to be connected to a computer, the first scan being carried out under different conditions than the second... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20110035039 - Lever position sensor: A lever position sensor assembly (90) has a main housing (92), a lever (48) pivotally connected to the housing about a first axis (100), and a lever position sensor (84). The lever has at least a portion thereof extending outside the housing. The lever position sensor has a fixed portion... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (brp)

20110035040 - Method and a system for the extrapolation of densitometric measured values in not measured wavelength ranges at a printing press: The invention relates to a system and a method for controlling the composition of an ink mixture for at least one printing press, in which actual optical value of light are obtained, whereat the light has interacted at least with parts of the printing picture, which is generated by the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20110035041 - Systems and methods for feed control of rolled stock raw materials: System and method for controlling the feed of a raw material disposed on a roll into a continuous or semi-continuous production process are provided. According to the disclosure, a user-defined amount of remnant material that is desirably left on the core of a roll of material when the roll is... Agent: Christopher J. Whewell Western Patent Group

20110035043 - Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of diagnostic information: The present disclosure provides a system for fabricating a semiconductor device. The system includes a semiconductor fabrication tool. The semiconductor fabrication tool has an integrated inter interface that measures a first process parameter of the fabrication tool. The system also includes a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor is detachably coupled... Agent: David M. O'dell Attorney For Applicants

20110035042 - System and method for cascade information handling system manufacture: Information handling system manufacture through a burn rake that burns images and tests information handling systems is managed with a cascade first-in-first-out manufacture by allowing a predetermined burn time for each information handling system at each burn location. The predetermined burn time includes a projected burn time, a burn variation... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20110035044 - Numerical control method and apparatus therefor: A preceding-check processing sequence is provided separately from a machine-control processing sequence for an actual machine control, to make it possible to perform a collision check at an accurate position from an operation restart time of a machining program even when an operator interrupts an operation in the middle of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110035045 - Storage rack with automatic storage location acquisition: A storage shelf (10) has a plurality of supports (14) arranged on top of each other for supporting stock carriers (15) which can be moved by means of an automatic transfer and removal device (13), has at least one access opening (18) for supplying and removing the stock carriers (15),... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20110035046 - Portable mail sorting and consolodating method and machine: A machine and process for presenting consolidated groups or batches of mail of a common address from pre-sorted or D.P.S. Distribution Point Sequence mail or any other machine-readable and address-sorted mail to a mail carrier for delivery to said common address. Whereby a portable machine is used in the delivery... Agent: Gregory L. Ward

20110035047 - Method for need-based order-picking of medicine portions in dispensing packs: In a method for need-based order-picking of medicine portions, several medicine portions of a defined type are firstly identified in several blister packs of different dimensions having receiving chambers and are placed in an automated storage facility. Data identifying the blister packs are saved in association with designations of their... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20110035048 - Metering conveyor: The task to provide a weigh feeder that permits more reliable control of the amount of bulk material transported by the weigh feeder is solved according to the invention in that a motor-driven conveyor is mounted separately and completely floating to convey the bulk material, in which a number of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20110035049 - Fuel delivery information system: A fuel delivery information system has a fuel pump having a first communication unit and a motor vehicle having a second communication unit. Communication between the second communication unit and the first communication unit controls fuel flow from the fuel pump to the motor vehicle. Fuel flow controls may include... Agent: Langlotz Patent & Trademark Works, Inc.

20110035050 - Method and apparatus to plan motion path of robot: If a manipulator of a robot falls in local minima when expanding a node to generate a path, the manipulator may efficiently escape from local minima by any one of a random escaping method and a goal function changing method or a combination thereof to generate the path. When the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110035051 - Path planning apparatus and method for robot: Disclosed herein are a path planning apparatus and a method for a robot to plan an optimal path along which a manipulator of a robot moves to a goal point from a start point. An obstacle within a prescribed angle on a straight line connecting a start point and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110035052 - Systems and methods for dispersing and clustering a plurality of robotic devices: The present invention features methods for operating, such as methods for dispersing and clustering, robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive commands that describe a... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20110035053 - Path planning apparatus and method of robot: Disclosed herein is a path planning apparatus and method of a robot, in which a path, along which the robot accesses an object to grasp the object, is planned. The path planning method includes judging whether or not a robot hand of a robot collides with an obstacle when the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110035054 - System for extending the observation, surveillance, and navigational capabilities of a robot: The invention is a system that is integrated with an existing robotic system in order to extend its observation, surveillance, and navigational capabilities. The system comprises: a sensor module comprising imaging and other types of sensors that is attached to the robotic device of the robotic system and a system... Agent: Marsteller & Associates

20110035055 - Input dispenser and recorder: A liquid mixing station controlled by a computer to dispense predetermined amounts of liquid inputs based on parameters provided by an operator or program. Specifically, the invention is designed to accurately mix liquids and has an inner frame associated with a recipient tank, and an outer frame associated with the... Agent: Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville And Schoenebaum, P.l.c

20110035057 - Patient health based support apparatus configuration: A person-support apparatus operates according to a set of default operating parameters, processes information corresponding to an occupant of the person-support apparatus from a receiver to determine if an optimal value for an operating parameter is different from the default value, modifies a default operating parameter to an optimal value... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20110035058 - Patient-lifting-device controls: In some implementations a storage device having a voice-recognition engine stored thereon is coupled to a microcontroller, a device-controller for a patient-lifting device is operably coupled to the microcontroller, a microphone having apparatus to locate the microphone in close proximity to the mouth of a human is operable to couple... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20110035056 - System and method for precise measurement of deflection: A system for measuring deflection in a structure. The novel system includes a detector array for measuring a position of a spot of light and a light source configured to form a spot of light at a position that is dependent on a deflection in the structure. In an illustrative... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (raytheon Sas)

20110035059 - Method and system for irrigation and climate control: A wireless system is provided for monitoring environmental, soil, or climate conditions and controlling irrigation or climate control systems at an agricultural or landscape site. The wireless system includes a wireless sensor network including a plurality of sensor nodes for monitoring environmental, soil, or climate conditions and controlling one or... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20110035060 - Household energy management sytem: A household energy management system uses measurements of the household electricity supply to identify and to determine the energy consumption of individual household appliances. From these measurements, models can be built of the behavior of the occupants of the house, the thermal properties of the house and the efficiency of... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik

20110035061 - Load control system having an energy savings mode: A load control system for a building having a heating and cooling system and a window located in a space of the building is operable to control a motorized window treatment in response to a demand response command in order to attempt to reduce the power consumption of the heating... Agent: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Mark E. Rose

20110035062 - Refrigeration apparatus and method for controlling the same: A refrigeration apparatus includes a condensing unit, a flow distributor, and an evaporator connected to the condensing unit via the flow distributor. A pressure detector is configured to detect condensation pressure of the refrigerant. A calculation unit is configured to calculate a target condensation pressure of refrigerant necessary for the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20110035063 - Water management system: This invention is a water consumption monitoring and control system comprised of a base unit, itself comprising a display and a data entry device, a microprocessor, a communication link to water meters, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, flush toilet vibration sensors and shut-off valves. In addition the base unit has access... Agent: George S. Levy

20110035064 - Expandable irrigation controller: An expandable irrigation controller for controlling a plurality of watering stations in an irrigation system includes a removable front panel and an inner housing, connected to the front panel. The removable front panel includes a plurality of manual controls operable to input instructions for a watering program, a memory operable... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20110035065 - Electric power system automation using time coordinated instructions: A system for controlling and automating an electric power delivery system by executing time coordinated instruction sets to achieve a desired result. A communication master may implement the execution of time coordinated instruction sets in a variety of circumstances. The communication may be embodied as an automation controller in communication... Agent: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Richard Edge

20110035066 - Electric power system automation using time coordinated instructions: A system for controlling and automating an electric power delivery system by executing time coordinated instruction sets to achieve a desired result. A communication master may implement the execution of time coordinated instruction sets in a variety of circumstances. The communication may be embodied as an automation controller in communication... Agent: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Richard Edge

20110035067 - System and method for controlling a distribution of electrical power: A method and system are disclosed for controlling a distribution of electrical power in a power distribution network having a first power distribution region and a second power distribution region. The first power distribution region can include first primary devices that interact with first process devices, and the second power... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20110035068 - Wind turbine configuration management system, and central computer system therefor: A wind turbine configuration management system, a central computer system and a method is provided. The configuration management system includes a central computer system and a wind turbine control system controlling a wind turbine. The central computer system is coupled to the wind turbine control system over a communication network.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110035070 - Power supply system: In a power supply system (10) having a cogeneration unit (12) equipped with an internal combustion engine (12a) and a generator (12b) to generate power to be supplied to a power destination and hot water to be supplied to a hot water destination, there are provided with a natural energy... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20110035069 - System for simulating heat and power supply facility: A system configuration setting section (30) associates in advance the heat and power supply devices with each other and associates in advance the heat and power supply devices with the total combined energy, and selects any of the heat and power supply devices with an operation of an operating condition... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20110035073 - Optimization of microgrid energy use and distribution: An energy distribution may include a server and one or more databases. The system may communicate with an energy provider to receive energy provider data, at least one information collector to receive information collector data such as individualized energy usage data, customer preferences, and customer or location characteristics, and the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20110035072 - System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment: A system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for managing workload in data centers. The method includes receiving information associated with at least one of energy consumption and a temperature of nodes each data center of a group of distributed data centers to yield received information. The method... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20110035071 - System tools for integrating individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive synchronized and harmonized load forecast: A system tool merges different load forecasts for power grid centers. A plurality of load forecast engines are coupled to a load forecast interface and a relational data base that saves load forecast engine data as an input through the load forecast interface. A comprehensive operating plan is coupled to... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20110035075 - Energy management apparatus for customers: A customer-dedicated energy management apparatus includes an air-conditioner partial-road characteristics identification unit for creating air-conditioning partial-road characteristics by using air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, an intra-room heat-capacity characteristics identification unit for creating intra-room heat-capacity characteristics by using the air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, and intra-room state... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20110035074 - Remote controlled power consuming device and module therefore: A power consuming device having communication with a utility company is disclosed. A power consuming device enclosure is described which has an interface and a communication module. The module includes a standardizing chip in communication with a communication interface, a protocol chip in communication with the standardizing chip. The communication... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20110035076 - Electric power system automation using time coordinated instructions: A system for controlling and automating an electric power delivery system by executing time coordinated instruction sets to achieve a desired result. A communication master may implement the execution of time coordinated instruction sets in a variety of circumstances. The communication may be embodied as an automation controller in communication... Agent: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Richard Edge

20110035077 - Distribution automation system for reactive power compensation and its voltage control method: Provided are a novel distribution automation system and its voltage control method, which can supply a stable voltage to a user by properly adjusting the settings of a control device so as to compensate for reactive power at each load terminal. The voltage control method includes: a first step of... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20110035078 - System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed for managing workload in a data center. The method includes receiving data related to at least one of a current state of workload in the compute environment at a current time and future workload scheduled to consume resources in... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20110029098 - Apparatus, method, program, and recording medium for supporting arrangement of operation areas layout: An apparatus for supporting arrangement of operation areas layout includes: a storage unit that stores therein data on a position, a shape, and a use period of each operation area which has already been arranged in a prescribed site; a display control unit that references the data stored in the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20110029099 - Method for automated television production: A method for updating a control event for controlling at least one device to produce audio visual content includes the steps of analyzing the control event to establish: (1) parameter(s) corresponding to the control event available for modification; and (2) parameter(s) of other control events influenced upon modification of at... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20110029100 - Systems and methods for improved start-up in feedback controllers: A system for controlling start-up of a feedback controller includes a memory device and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a gain parameter from the feedback controller and to store the gain parameter in the memory device. The processing circuit is further configured to multiply the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20110029101 - Methods for data acquisition systems in real time applications: A system may include a processing unit executing program instructions (SW), a data acquisition (DAQ) hardware device for acquiring sample data and/or generating control signals, and host memory configured to store data samples and various data associated with the DAQ and processor operations. The DAQ device may push HW status... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20110029104 - Automated programmiing system employing non-text user interface: An automated programming system that includes configuring the automated programming system to include an input module, a programming module, and an output module. Employing a non-text user interface system for real-time representation of the input module, the programming module and the output module.... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20110029102 - Graphical view sidebar for a process control system: A secondary or “sidebar” display within a process control environment may provide several small applications to allow business managers, engineers, maintenance personnel, or other non-operator personnel to organize and manage process control system information and to display selected diagnostics and summary information or “key operating parameters” for the process control... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20110029103 - Multiple language development environment using shared resources: An operator interface system with respect to an industrial automation device comprises text/symbol translation strings persisted in a computer-readable medium for utilization with the operator interface system. An interface component relays the translation strings to a client device that includes fonts that enables the client device to graphically render text/symbols... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20110029109 - Audio signal controller: The present invention relates to an audio signal controller adapted to receiving first and second digital audio signals and estimating a signal feature of the first or second digital audio signal. The estimated signal feature is compared with a predetermined feature criterion and the audio signal controller switches from conveying... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20110029113 - Combination device, telecommunication system, and combining method: A combination device (305) according to the present invention includes: a detection unit (501) that detects active coded bitstreams that are effective coded bitstreams from a plurality of coded bitstreams (116) within a predetermined time period; a first combining unit (504) that combines, from a plurality of downmix sub-streams (115)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20110029105 - Filtering application sounds: A system, method, and program product are provided for filtering sound from a selected application on a computer without interrupting voice communications on the computer. The method comprises: monitoring a selected program for an outgoing digital audio signal from a selected application; detecting said digital audio signal; and filtering an... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20110029106 - Method and arrangement in a mobile terminal: A method in a mobile terminal, for rendering audio content of a media file, is provided, in which the mobile terminal includes a vibrator for generating vibrations at a particular frequency, based on a voltage applied to the vibrator. The method includes reading the audio content of the media file,... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20110029112 - Method for deriving animation parameters and animation display device: Method for deriving at least one animation parameter from audio data, said animation parameters being descriptive of the mood of said audio data, comprising the following steps: determining a current mood model for said audio data; calculating at least one distance measure for at least one reference mood model, wherein... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110029110 - Mobile audio player with individualized radio program: radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110029108 - Music genre classification method and apparatus: A method for music genre classification includes generating Hidden Markov Models corresponding to a plurality of audio files, and classifying the audio files according to music genres by clustering the audio files based on the similarity between the generated Hidden Markov Models. The generating Hidden Markov Models corresponding to the... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20110029107 - Portable electronic device: An exemplary portable electronic device includes a main body, a cover member movably connected with the main body, a sensing unit, a signal processing unit, an audio output unit. The audio output unit is configured for outputting audio signals and disposed in either one of the main body and the... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20110029111 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for equalization preference learning: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for equalization preference learning for digital audio modification. A method for listener calibration of an audio signal includes modifying a reference sound using at least one equalization curve; playing the modified reference sound for a listener; accepting listener feedback regarding the modified reference sound;... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20110029115 - Integrated circuit device, electronic apparatus and method for manufacturing of electronic apparatus: An integrated circuit device includes a host I/F, an information register, and a control section. The information register stores wave selection information for selecting waveform information which defines a waveform of a drive signal of the electro-optical device. Waveform information selected by the wave selection information stored in the information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110029114 - Method, system and computer program product for producing a test article having embedded features for nondestructive evaluation: A method in a computer system having a display for producing a representation of an article having embedded features including calibration target(s) or simulated defect(s) on the display. The method can include generating a representation of a test component on the display, generating a representation of embedded features on the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110029116 - Systems and methods for determining the mechanical axis of a femur: A method positions a profile of a prosthetic component on the three-dimensional model of a limb. Patient-specific anatomical data of the limb is gathered. First and second anatomical landmarks are identified to determine a first spatial relationship. A third anatomical landmark is identified to determine a second spatial relationship with... Agent: Diana Houston Smith & Nephew, Inc.

20110029117 - Ion implanter, ion implantation method and program: The ion implanter includes lens elements that arrange unit lens elements along a direction of a beam width of a ribbon ion beam and regulate a magnetic field or electric field to be created by each unit lens element in order to regulate a current density distribution of the ion... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20110029118 - Method and apparatus for modeling chemically amplified resists: Some embodiments provide a system for accurately and efficiently modeling chemically amplified resist. During operation, the system can determine a quenched acid profile from an initial acid profile by applying multiple quenching models which are associated with different acid concentration ranges to the initial acid profile. One quenching model may... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP

20110029119 - Process and method for a decoupled multi-parameter run-to-run controller: A manufacturing process including a controller method to generate a tool setting which includes a tool offset and a device offset. The controller method uses a device parameter measurement to update the tool offset and device offset. A tool weight and a device weight is assigned so that only one... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110029120 - Manufacturing resource planning using a component management system: Order information is received for an order executable using a computer system to assemble a product from a plurality of components at a manufacturing location. A real-time record associated with the manufacturing location and being kept updated substantially in real time with order changes is updated with the order information,... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20110029122 - 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, L.L.P.

20110029121 - Method and system for controlling a manufacturing process: A method, system and computer program product for controlling a manufacturing process of an electronic circuit, the method includes: calculating at least one layer misalignment between layers of an electrical circuit that are expected to be mutually aligned; wherein the layers are manufactured by at least a direct imaging device... Agent: Reches Patents

20110029123 - Seating system and assembly: This invention relates specifically to a seating system or assembly which utilizes a modularized system of standard sized components. The system reduces manufacturing costs, simplifies storage and shipping and improves assembly efficiencies. The system of modularized components allows flexibility in seating use and design.... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20110029124 - Program controlled dicing of a substrate using a pulsed laser beam: A substrate is diced using a program-controlled pulsed laser beam apparatus having an associated memory for storing a laser cutting strategy file. The file contains selected combinations of pulse rate Δt, pulse energy density E and pulse spatial overlap to machine a single layer or different types of material in... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20110029125 - Apparatus for controlling a machine tool: An apparatus on a machine tool for machining workpieces, preferably for machining workpieces by removing material, is provided to control functions of the machine tool and to program and/or test the machining of workpieces and/or to test the machine tool itself. The apparatus is provided with at least one display... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20110029126 - Method and system for simultaneously processing letters and flat mail: The present teachings relate to techniques and equipment to insert documents into either letter envelopes or flat mail envelopes on the same dual mode mailing inserter without the need to do machine setup between letter and flat mail envelope insertion. The dual mode mail inserting machine is configured to accept... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110029127 - Escort based sorting system for mail sorting centers: An Escort-Based Sorting (EBS) mail sorting and distribution center system configured and controlled for optimum mail flow and dispatch, minimal sorting center space usage, and elimination of peripheral storage and retrieval equipment. A plurality of input stations each include a mechanism for loading mailpieces and obtaining mailpiece data. A plurality... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20110029128 - Control-command architecture for a mobile robot using articulated limbs: The present invention applies to a mobile robot which can have a human appearance and sophisticated functions enabling it to execute missions. To enable communications internal to the robot to be optimized and allow for a versatility that is both physical (possible substitution of parts of the robot) and software... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20110029129 - Robotized system for positioning a patient with respect to at least one particle source: e

20110029130 - Systems and methods for controlling a legged robot using a two-phase disturbance response strategy: Systems and methods are presented that enable a legged robot to maintain its balance when subjected to an unexpected force. In the reflex phase, the robot withstands the immediate effect of the force by yielding to it. In one embodiment, during the reflex phase, the control system determines an instruction... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20110029131 - Apparatus and method for measuring tool center point position of robot: A measurement apparatus for determining a position of a tool center point (31) of a tool (30), which is attached to a tool attachment surface (32) of a robot (1), with respect to the tool attachment surface (32) includes: a camera (4) attached to the arm tip portion of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20110029132 - System and method for setting the tool center point of a robotic tool: A system for calibrating a robotic tool includes a housing including an aperture for receiving the robotic tool, an image generating device disposed in the housing and positioned to generate an image of the robotic tool received through the aperture of the housing, wherein the image generating device generates an... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20110029133 - Robot, and control apparatus, control method, and control program for robot: A robot arm provided with a body unit shifting mechanism that connects a base unit and a body unit so as to be relatively shifted, and joint lock mechanisms that are capable of mechanically securing respective joints is disposed on the body unit, and a robot operation control unit controls... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20110029134 - Method for monitoring thixotropy in concrete mixing drum: The invention provides ‘thixotropy’ monitoring, by measuring the reversible, time-dependent reduction in viscosity occurring when concrete is subjected to mixing, and employs a mixing drum and conventional slump monitoring equipment as used on ready-mix trucks. In one embodiment, the drum is rotated until concrete is completely mixed; the speed is... Agent: W. R. Grace & Co.-conn Attention: Patent Department

20110029136 - Load control system having an energy savings mode: A load control system for a building having a heating and cooling system and a window located in a space of the building uses a daylighting procedure to adjust the amount of power delivered to the lighting load in response to the amount of daylight entering the window, and controls... Agent: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Mark E. Rose

20110029135 - Method for controlling a paper-processing machine: A method is provided to control a paper-processing machine. Following an occurrence of at least one error, the error is automatically detected with at least one detection device. Following the detection of the error, a measure is automatically introduced to counteract the error. The measure is then canceled at least... Agent: Venable LLP

20110029137 - Motor devices, and motor driving system and integrated circuit device comprising the same: A motor device comprising a motor, and a drive control circuit for driving and controlling the motor, in which the drive control circuit includes a control unit for generating a control signal for controlling the rotation of the motor, a drive unit for driving the motor on the basis of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/panasonic

20110029138 - Method for controlling longwall operations with incorporation of air-technology and climate-technology resources: A method for controlling the extraction capacity of longwall operations in underground coal mining, including ascertaining the respective demand of the longwall operations, for air-technology and climate-technology resources, as influencing variables for a projected delivery quantity on the basis of data applicable to equipment of the longwall operations and to... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20110029139 - Load control system having an energy savings mode: A load control system for a building having a heating and cooling system and a window located in a space of the building controls amount of daylight entering the window in order to attempt to reduce the power consumption of the heating and cooling system, and adjusts amount of daylight... Agent: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Mark E. Rose

20110029140 - Central control and instrumentation system for a technical installation and method for operating a central control and instrumentation system: A central control and instrumentation system for a technical installation is provided. The central control and instrumentation system for a technical installation includes a plurality of functional modules which are interconnected for data transmission, monitored by a central control module and activated, when needed, as a function of a triggering... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110029141 - Method for integrating individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive synchronized and harmonized load forecast: A method is provided for merging different load forecasts for power grid centers. Area load forecasts are accepted from load forecast engines. A relational database saves load forecast engine data. A comprehensive operating plan integrates individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive, synchronized and harmonized... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20110029142 - System tools that provides dispatchers in power grid control centers with a capability to make changes: A system tool provides dispatchers in power grid control centers with a capability to manage changes. A user interface and a plurality of scheduler engines are provided. A comprehensive operating plan has multiple dispatch engines that are security constrained unit commitments and economic dispatch sequences with different look-ahead periods. The... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20110029143 - Repair circuit including repair controller: A repair circuit having a repair controller which is capable of reducing unnecessary current dissipation by interrupting a control operation to redundant cells that are unused for replacement of defective cells is presented. The repair circuit includes a repair controller and a repair signal generator. The repair controller is configured... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20110029145 - Intelligent electrical energy management system device: The present invention involves an intelligent electrical energy management system device. The device includes a power supply module (2), a control module, a memory module, an input module, a clock module (12) for providing a real-time clock, a current detection module (8) for detecting the current flowing in electrical equipments... Agent: Jackson Intellectual Property Group PLLC

20110029144 - Plug-in electric vehicle supply equipment: A system for connecting an electric vehicle to a high voltage power source. The system including an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) having an electrical plug compatible with a high voltage power outlet, the plug connected to a power cord. The power cord is connected to a housing containing a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20110029146 - Plug-in electric vehicle supply equipment: A system for connecting an electric vehicle to a Level I or Level II power source. The system including an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) having an electrical plug compatible with a Level I or Level II power outlet, the plug connected to a power cord. The power cord is... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20110029147 - Multi-interval dispatch method for enabling dispatchers in power grid control centers to manage changes: A method is provided that enables dispatchers in power grid control centers to manage changes by applying multi-interval dispatch. A multi-stage resource scheduling engine and a comprehensive operating plan are used. Multiple system parameter scenarios are coordinated.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20110029148 - Load restoration for feeder automation in electric power distribution systems: A method and system restores power in a power distribution network. The network includes a plurality of power sources, a plurality of loading zones, a plurality of switching devices interconnected between the plurality of power sources and the plurality of loading zones, and an intelligent electronic device associated with each... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Department-4u6

20110029149 - Determining a bus bar voltage: A Substation Automation (SA) system in high or medium voltage power networks is provided for determining a bus bar voltage at a first node. The disclosure replaces a ‘real’ voltage transformer with an intelligent electronic device (IED) and/or a ‘virtual’ voltage transformer (VT), which determines the bus bar voltage at... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20110029150 - Apparatus and method for a thermal management of a memory device: A system and method for thermal management of a memory device is described. In an embodiment, one or more thermal sensors sends a signal to a thermal control module indicating that a pre-determined temperature threshold for a memory device or devices has been reached. The thermal control module may then... Agent: Kacvinsky Daisak PLLC

20110029153 - Cooling provisioning management in a three dimensional package: In a method for managing cooling provisioning in a three-dimensional package containing a plurality of stacked die with a cooling system having at least one active cooling mechanism, at least one of workload on and an environmental condition at or around one of the plurality of stacked die is identified.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110029154 - Management of a 3d package and cooling system: In a method for managing at least one three-dimensional package and a cooling system having at least one active cooling mechanism configured to cool the at least one three-dimensional package, at least one of workload on and an environmental condition on or around the at least one three-dimensional package is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110029152 - Management system operable under multiple metric levels: A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid configured to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure includes a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms configured to absorb heat from the cooling fluid. At least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms have at least... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110029151 - Temperature adjustment system and method for a storage system: In a temperature adjustment system and method for a storage system, a corresponding relationship between data transfer rates of the storage system and rotational speeds of electric fans coupled to the storage system is established. Real-time data transfer rates of the storage system are measured. If there is a continuous... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss