Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 02/06

20060041382 - Method for interpreting data measured in a hydrocarbon well in production: The invention concerns a method for calculating the relative volumetric flow-rates of at least one of the phases of a multiphase effluent flowing in a well, said method comprising a first step of acquiring local volumetric fractions and/or velocities of said phases across a section of the well at a...

20060041383 - Method, device and software package for locally determining the shape of geological horizons: The invention concerns a method for locally determining a profile of geological horizons comprising a step (100) which consists in digital modelling with continuous local seismic traces, calculating an optimal offset and defining a conditional neighbourhood of a reference central continuous local seismic trace; a step (101) which consists in...

20060041384 - Automated information processing in randomly ordered arrays: The invention relates to the use of a computer system to compare images generated from a randomly ordered array. This system preserves the relative position of each site within the array so that the same site can be compared in different images....

20060041386 - Method of analyzing industrial food products, cosmetics, and/or hygiene products, a measurement interface for implementing the method, and an electronic system for implementing the interface: The invention seeks to improve the taking of physical measurements on an industrial product represented by organoleptic perceptions, the method providing a measurement interface that submits descriptors in a relative arrangement such that testers are not influenced by the order in which they appear, regardless of the descriptor and regardless...

20060041385 - Method of quantitating proteins and genes in cells using a combination of immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization: The disclosure provides a system for and method of accurately determining the status of a protein target and a nucleic acid target in a biological sample (e.g., a tissue or cell sample). Provided are methods of quantitating a protein target and a nucleic acid target in a tissue or cell...

20060041388 - Oligosaccharides fragmentation pattern analysis system and oligosaccharides fragmentation pattern analysis method: Oligosaccharides fragmentation pattern analysis system 10 includes: a geometry optimization part for calculating an optimized structure of an ionized oligosaccharide; a binding parameter extraction part for extracting multiple kinds of binding parameters which relate to bond strengths for respective multiple candidate bonds to be the candidate of the cleavage site...

20060041387 - Smart microarray cancer detection system: A smart microarray detection system for exploring and detecting cancer specific genes. A microarray is constructed using cancer specific genes that can detect, identify, quantify, and discriminate cancers in biological specimens. Data obtained from the microarray is analyzed with questionable signals reanalyzed with real time PCR. This information is then...

20060041389 - Data processing system using base sequence-relating data: A system for processing information for providing semantic information and/or information associated with the semantic information useful for each individual organism through effective utilization of differences in nucleotide sequence-related information among individual organisms is constructed. This system comprises steps of (a) receiving nucleotide sequence-related information concerning a predetermined individual and...

20060041390 - System and method for providing environmental impact information, recording medium recording the information, and computer data signal: An environmental impact information collection system modifies and analyzes environmental impact information, which is collected and stored in advance, and obtains the environmental impact at each process done in an organization, according to each product. The environmental impact information collection system then obtains a set of environmental impacts in a...

20060041391 - Hydrophobic moment of multi-domain proteins: Techniques for protein structure analysis are provided. In one aspect, a method of analyzing a multi-domain protein structure comprises the following steps. For at least one domain, a hydrophobic dipole, e.g., defined as a first-order hydrophobic moment of the domain, is calculated. A score representing the orientation of the hydrophobic...

20060041392 - Method, computer program product and use of a computer program for stabilizing a multiphase flow: The present invention relates to a method for stabilizating multiphase flow through a pipeline, riser or well flow line (8a), characterized by implementation of a dynamic feedback controller (9) by controlling a control valve or choke (2) at the outlet (13) of the pipeline or riser (8a)....

20060041393 - Method of processing oscillatory data: A method of processing oscillatory response data from a resonant system is provided, the method comprising: obtaining data measuring an oscillatory response of the system at a plurality of evenly spaced time intervals; obtaining a plurality of reference frequencies from said data at a plurality of times in said data,...

20060041394 - Measurement electronic device system: A plurality of measurement electronic device units (10, 20) each having a measurement detector connected thereto and thus having a measuring function are connected in series by connectors to be capable of mutually conveying measurement data and signals, and one (10) of the plural measurement electronic device units serves as...

20060041395 - System and method for integrating environmental sensors and asynchronous ubication repeaters forming an n-point spatially random virtual lattice network: A system for integrating environmental sensors and asynchronous ubication repeaters forming an n-point spatially random virtual lattice network (100) includes a ubication repeater (101) for communicating both positional and environmental information to a two-way radio transceiver (102) used by police or firefighters. The ubication repeater (101) initially determines its position...

20060041396 - Off-road detection for improving tire pressure loss detection: A method and a device for monitoring a tire condition of a vehicle provide for a malfunction being detected as a function of the condition of the surface on which the vehicle is traveling, the detection occurs in at least two different, independent monitoring modes. Each monitoring mode is assigned...

20060041397 - Method for checking a integrated circuit for electrostatic discharge bobustness: The invention is a method and a computer program product for checking an integrated circuit for electrostatic discharge (ESD) robustness at the design level and comprises essentially the check of the layout of the integrated circuit against a set of rules defining one or more transistor geometric and/or electrical and/or...

20060041399 - Assembly moves using float-remaining figures: One aspect is a method which determines a float remaining figure (for example, a float remaining circle) for a manufactured pattern of features. In some embodiments, the size and relative location of two or more float remaining figures, each for a different part (each part typically designed in accordance with...

20060041398 - Increased precision position sensors: An increased precision position sensor comprises a first magnetic field sensing device; a second magnetic field sensing device; and a processor, the processor further comprising a calibrator; a mathematical model to predict the magnetic field at a given position relative to the object; and an estimator algorithm to compare the...

20060041400 - Measurement and monitoring system of daily stock and plant: A measurement sensor where a mixed solution enters a manifold (1) and is separated in an entry chamber (2) by a whirlpool and/or setting effect. An accumulation chamber (3) and outflow (4) positioned in the lower peripheral of the entry chamber (2) causes the separated solution to preferentially flow to...

20060041401 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating user choices among complex alternatives using conjoint analysis in combination with psychological tests, skills tests, and configuration software: Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating user choices among complex alternatives utilize conjoint analysis in combination with psychological tests, skills tests, or configuration software to simplify choices to be made by the user. A selector tool presents a user with a first and second series of choices relating...

20060041403 - Method and apparatus for enhancing processing speed for performing a least mean square operation by parallel processing: The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for enhancing processing speed for performing a least mean square operation by parallel processing. The input data are subdivided into a plurality of groups and processed by a plurality of adaptive filters in parallel. A Jaber product device is utilized...

20060041402 - Method and terminal for detecting fake and/or modified smart card: This invention relates to a method and a terminal for detecting a fake and/or modified smart card inserted into a physical interface of a terminal, the method comprising the steps of performing a sequence of current measurements by a current monitor in order to obtain a first current signature, comparing...

20060036366 - System and method for providing personalized storm warnings: A system and method for generating storm warnings which are precisely tailored automatically for a particular individual or business user's geographic location of interest, which maybe provided automatically to the individual user or business. The user establishes an individualized user profile, in which the user may define a particular location...

20060036367 - Method and system for processing geophysical survey data: A method and system for processing geophysical survey data is provided. Gravity gradiometry data is processed by approximating density values of terrain signals to remove contributions of the terrain from the gravity gradiometry data. Initially, a predicted gravity gradient data set for a geographical area is calculated using terrain data...

20060036369 - Automated histological grading of tubules: A method of grading tubules in a first histological slide image derives a second image of objects in the first image of objects in the first image with boundary characteristics corresponding to tubules. It also derives a third image of second objects in the first image having pixel value characteristic...

20060036368 - Drug discovery methods: Method for identifying disease-related pathways that can used to identify discovery targets, to identify new uses for known drugs, to identify markers for drug response, and related purposes....

20060036372 - Method and apparatus for tissue modeling: A method and apparatus for tissue modeling using at least one tissue image having cells therein and derived from biological tissue. Data derived from the tissue image is clustered to generate cluster vectors such that each cluster vector represents a portion of the tissue image. Cell information is generated which...

20060036371 - Method for predicting protein-protein interactions in entire proteomes: The invention is a teachable system and method for predicting the interactions of proteins with other proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. A database containing protein sequences and information regarding protein interactions is used to “teach” the machine. Proteins with unknown interactions are compared by the machine to proteins in...

20060036370 - Process, system and method for improving the determination of digestive effects upon an ingestable substance: The present invention generally relates to processes, computer programs and systems, methods of making such and methods of using such for improving the determination of one or more digestive effects upon an ingestable substance. The underlying data used in this determination may originate from either an in vitro or in...

20060036373 - Method and system for cropping an image of a multi-pack of microarrays: A method and system for cropping a digital image of multiple individual microarrays. Various embodiments of the present invention include, a digital image of multiple individual microarrays projected along a first coordinate axis by summing columns of pixel intensity values. A transformation maps the projected pixel intensity values to a...

20060036374 - Method for determining three-dimensional protein structure from primary protein sequence: The methods of the invention relate to improved methods for determining the optimal sequence alignments between a first protein sequence and a second protein sequence based upon the information from multiple reference structure-structure alignments....

20060036375 - Vulcanized tire size allocating method,tire manufacturing method, and vulcanizing process setting method.: A family of tire sizes are classified into plural groups every tact time and only sizes belonging to the same group are selected from the family of tire sizes and allocated in a plurality of vulcanization stations vulcanizing tires, whereby tires of plural sizes can be vulcanized at a mixed...

20060036376 - Precise location of buried metallic pipes and cables in the presence of signal distortion: A new approach for locating an underground line described herein remains accurate in the face of bleedover by including both amplitude and phase from at least two magnetic field strength sensors in the measurement set. A numerical optimization step is introduced to deduce the positions and currents of each of...

20060036377 - Expendable supplies container capable of measuring residual amount of expendable supplies: This invention is an expendable container capable of measuring a residual quantity of stored expendable. The expendable container comprising an expendable tank configured to store the expendable and has a piezoelectric element attached thereto; a detection signal generation circuit configured to charge and discharge the piezoelectric element, and generate a...

20060036378 - Airport pavement management system: The AirScene™ Pavement Management System of the present invention automatically tracks data required to determine various factors in an assessment of current and future pavement maintenance needs and utilizes this data to quantify the pavement damage caused by each individual aircraft movement and thus compute pavement condition based on an...

20060036380 - Electric plug having display means to indicate consumed power and electric energy: An electric plug is disclosed which includes a detection circuit, which detects electric current and voltage and removes high frequency noises from power supply; an electric energy measuring and converting circuit, which receives detected signal from the detection circuit and outputs a corresponding electric energy signal; a microprocessor, which proceeds...

20060036379 - Power supply monitor: There is provided a power supply monitor circuit comprising a positive supply monitoring input, a negative supply monitoring input, and a voltage divider connected between the positive and negative supply monitoring inputs and having an intermediate node providing a potential intermediate those on the positive and negative supply monitoring inputs....

20060036381 - Method for shunt detection in sensors: For monitoring a sensor using differential voltage evaluation for detecting a short circuit to ground and/or to supply voltage UB, a first resistor and a second resistor R1, R2 are assigned to the sensor, a sum voltage is determined from voltages UP, UM at terminals of the sensor, the sum...

20060036382 - Capacitance, inductance and impedance measurements using multi-tone stimulation and dsp algorithms: A method for measuring the value of an electronic component, including applying a voltage or a current signal to the electronic component, where the signal has a first tone and a second tone of a different frequency, measuring a response signal from the electronic component, where the response signal also...

20060036383 - Method and device for obtaining a stereoscopic signal: The invention relates to a method of obtaining a stereoscopic signal from a sequence of monoscopic images. The method firstly comprises a step (S10) of obtaining a sequence of monoscopic images having been captured by an image acquisition apparatus in an acquisition mode enabling several images to be shot in...

20060036384 - Rotor position detection in an electrical machine: An electrical machine has a rotor position transducer which provides output signals to a control system. The output signals contain errors due to component shortcomings and manufacturing imperfections. A method is disclosed which is able to determine the errors in the signals by successively running the machine with a series...

20060036385 - Rotor position detection in an electrical machine: An electrical machine has a rotor position transducer which provides output signals to a control system. The output signals contain errors due to component shortcomings and manufacturing imperfections. A method is disclosed which is able to determine the errors in the signals by comparison with calibrated data, so as to...

20060036386 - System and method for verifying installation of a tank level monitor: A system and method of verifying the installation and data path used by a tank level monitor is provided. Once an installer completes the installation of the tank level monitor, the monitor is activated. The monitor performs a self test and transmits information to a data center. Preferably, the transmission...

20060036387 - Improving edge placement accuracy of signals generated by test equipment: A software controlled mechanism causing a test equipment to place the edges of test signals accurately. The mechanism determines expected time of occurrence of an edge of a signal in relation to a tester cycle time. The mechanism sends commands to the test equipment to receive back the signal (of...

20060036388 - Method and system for radio-frequency signal coupling to medium tension power lines with auto-tuning device: In one aspect, the present invention comprises a method for tuning a power line communication inductive signal coupling device comprising a coupler and a plurality of capacitors, the method comprising: passing a carrier frequency signal through the coupler; sensing an amplitude of the signal; and switching the capacitors until the...

20060036389 - Test apparatus and test method: There is provided a testing device including: a first signal comparator operable to acquire a value of an output pattern based on a result that is obtained by comparing a voltage of an output signal and a first threshold value voltage in a first strobe timing, in order to acquire...

20060036390 - Method and apparatus for configuration of automated debug of in-circuit tests: A method for configuring an automated in-circuit test debugger is presented. The novel test debug and optimization configuration technique configures expert knowledge into a knowledge framework for use by an automated test debug and optimization system for automating the formulation of a valid stable in-circuit test for execution on an...

20060036391 - System and method for testing cmos image sensor: The invention relates to a system and method for testing CMOS image sensor. The system for testing CMOS image sensor comprises: a test supporter, a light source controller, an interface card and an image processor. The test supporter is used to support a CMOS image sensor under test. The light...

20060036392 - Test sequencer and method for management and execution of sequence items: A test sequencer software application and method for management and execution of sequence items. The test sequencer software application includes a management module and an execution module. The management module has capabilities of obtaining multiple sequence items definitions, of obtaining configuration information, of creating multiple lists of ordered sequence items...

20060036393 - Method for receiving and associating conditional dependent test results: Methods for collecting and displaying conditional dependent test results. At least one measurement condition is received. The received at least one measurement condition specifies the measurement environment. A result is received from at least one measurement. For each received result, each received measurement condition is associated with the received result,...

20060036394 - Universal and integrated wafer testing real-time monitoring software system and its open system architecture: A wafer testing real-time monitoring software system and its unique open software architecture which achieves real-time monitoring of wafer test results and on-line changing of externally hooked software to satisfy customer needs without changing its main program. The software structure receives and processes binary files from different probers and converts...

20060036395 - Method and apparatus for measuring and controlling food intake of an individual: Provided herein is a method for monitoring dietary intake of food items. The method involves the steps of selecting a portion of food, weighing the portion, inputting the type and weight amount of the food into a computer, and obtaining the caloric content of the food by from a database....

20060036396 - System and method for standardized speed-evaluation of athletes: A system and method for standardized speed-evaluation of athletes that uses a photoelectric sensor configuration to create a laser grid by which an athlete's position over time will be monitored during, and analyzed after a test session. The photoelectric laser sensors are configured to establish the athlete's starting and stopping...

20060036397 - Method and device for ascertaining a position of a characteristic point: A method and apparatus for identifying the location of at least one characteristic point of a body structure is disclosed. The method includes identifying the location of a plurality of points in an area of the at least one characteristic point, and ascertaining the location of the at least one...

20060036398 - Non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements: A system including at least (1) specialized elements that are restricted to a particular domain of data analysis or processing and (2) configurable data that permits the specialized elements to be tailored to a particular application. The configurable data expands applicability of the specialized elements to plural applications within the...

20060036399 - Adaptive discriminative generative model and application to visual tracking: A system and a method are disclosed for an adaptive discriminative generative model with a probabilistic interpretation. As applied to visual tracking, the discriminative generative model separates the target object from the background more accurately and efficiently than conventional methods. A computationally efficient algorithm constantly updates the discriminative model over...

20060036400 - Web-site performance analysis system and method of providing a web-site performance analysis service: A method of providing a web-site performance analysis service is disclosed that gathers data relative to visits to web-pages that are associated with a web-site. Traversals are identified that correspond to each visit to the web-pages. Each identified traversal has an identification of either an incoming link from which each...

20060036402 - Acceptance testing of actuators using predetermined thresholds: An improved technique of acceptance testing an actuator system involves measuring system parameters of the actuator system during operation of the actuator system, and storing the measured system parameters in computerized memory as a set of measured system parameters. The technique further involves obtaining a set of predetermined thresholds. Each...

20060036403 - Diagnostic systems and methods for predictive condition monitoring: A system for empirically diagnosing a condition of a monitored system. Estimates of monitored parameters from a model of the system provide residual values that can be analyzed for failure mode signature recognition. Residual values can also be tested for alert (non-zero) conditions, and patterns of alerts thus generated are...

20060036401 - Method and apparatus for predicting board deformation, and computer product: An apparatus for predicting a deformation of a board includes a board dividing unit that divides the board into a plurality of areas based on wiring information on the board; and a deformation predicting unit that grasps a wiring pattern of an area macroscopically, calculates an equivalent physical property value...

20060036404 - Process variable transmitter with diagnostics: A process variable transmitter with diagnostics based on power spectral density (PSD) analysis of a process variable sensor signal is provided. In one embodiment, the process variable transmitter is a pressure transmitter and the diagnostics are used to diagnose impulse line obstruction or impending obstruction. Other diagnostics are also useful...

20060036405 - Apparatus, system, and method for analyzing the association of a resource to a business process: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for analyzing the association of a resource to a business process. The invention includes an origination module, an evaluation module, and an identification module. The origination module receives an identifier and derives a seed resource associated with the identifier. The evaluation module applies...

20060036406 - System and method for measuring and monitoring wireless network performance in campus and indoor environments: A system and method for measuring and monitoring wireless network performance in campus and indoor environments provides for embedding measured network and signal properties at one or more locations within a facility into a site specific computer model which represents the facility. The computer representation is preferably three dimensional. The...

20060036407 - Pharmaceutical waste identification system: A pharmaceutical waste identification system presents pharmaceutical waste information and, in response to a client entering a pharmaceutical name, the system provides a pharmaceutical waste disposal recommendation. This recommendation can include a labeling recommendation for a container for the pharmaceutical, a disposal recommendation for an empty container previously containing the...

20060036409 - Evaluation method of fine pattern feature, its equipment, and method of semiconductor device fabrication: Equipment extracts components of spatial frequency that need to be evaluated in manufacturing a device or in analyzing a material or process out of edge roughness on fine line patterns and displays them as indexes. The equipment acquires data of edge roughness over a sufficiently long area, integrates a components...

20060036411 - Measuring apparatus and program: There is provided a measuring apparatus that measures digital signals. The measuring apparatus includes a reference timing detecting unit operable to detect a first timing at which a digital signal becomes a first predetermined signal level and a second timing at which the digital signal becomes a second signal level...

20060036408 - Method and system for processing evaluation data: A method for processing evaluation data includes a data acquisition phase where: a) at least one entity is generated as a function of the intrinsic characteristics of the entity, b) an initial status of the entity is generated and transmitted, c) an action is generated and transmitted as a function...

20060036410 - System and method for fabric hand evaluation: Evaluation of a material such as a fabric is described by way of acquiring initial sensory response data from the material, performing an Eigen-analysis on the data, extracting at least one feature from the Eigen-analysis; and ranking the material based on the at least one feature. The capability of physiological...

20060031017 - Method and apparatus for improved depth matching of borehole images or core images: A method for depth matching borehole images and/or core section images is disclosed wherein signals from sensors at different levels on a logging tool are converted into an averaged signal representing the average bed signal at the center of the borehole at each of the different levels. A depth matching...

20060031020 - Computational approach for constructing an analyte binding motif: A method for constructing an analyte binding motif by accessing a database that comprises structural data on analyte binding sites, generating at least one preliminary analyte binding site from the structural data, selecting an analyte binding site from the at least one preliminary analyte binding sites, and constructing the analyte...

20060031021 - In vitro predictive method: An in vitro method for predicting in vivo pharmacokinetic parameters such as Cmax for poorly soluble drug compounds in formulations....

20060031023 - Mass intensity profiling system and uses thereof: The present invention is directed to computer automated methods and systems for identifying and characterizing biomolecules in a biological sample. Mass spectrometry measurements are obtained on biomolecules in a sample. These measurements are analyzed to determine the abundance of the biomolecules in the sample, and the abundance measurements are coupled...

20060031024 - Method of optimizing parameter values in a process of producing a product: A method of optimizing parameter values in a process, which process is essentially controlled by a set of parameters affecting a set of properties characterizing an output of the process. The method may use an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to associate a weight with each property according to its relative...

20060031022 - Method of planning and performing stability studies: The present invention relates to a method and system for planning a stability study of a pharmaceutical composition. According to the current invention a new statistical principle for designing studies is provided. It addresses directly that the aim of the stability study is to derive more precise and efficient specification...

20060031019 - Methods and compositions for assessing partially saturated pixel signals: Methods for producing data for a partially saturated pixel produced during scanning of a chemical array are provided. In general, an analog signal for a partially saturated pixel is sampled to obtain a set of non-saturated digital signals and a set of saturated digital signals. The saturated digital signals are...

20060031018 - System and method for processing and reporting biologically significant events: A system and method are provided for processing reports of biological events in order to filter the reports and output the reports to appropriate institutions and individuals for reporting. The system includes a primary filter for receiving a record, evaluating an event contained within the record, identifying any potential receiving...

20060031025 - Detection of feature boundary pixels during array scanning: Methods for identifying feature boundary pixels are provided. In general, the subject methods involve evaluating a pixel signal to identify any difference in amplitude between a first part of the signal and a second part of the signal. If the difference is significant, the pixel signal may be indicated as...

20060031026 - Method and system for extracting and visualizing secondary rna structure elements from protein-rna complexes: The present invention relates to a method for extracting and visualizing RNA structure elements comprising extracting secondary and tertiary RNA structural elements by applying data mining technique to three-dimensional atomic coordinate data of RNA obtained from protein data bank (PDB) and visualizing a general structure of RNA and the bond...

20060031027 - Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a chemical mixture: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for predicting the non-color properties of a chemical mixture, such as an automotive paint, using an artificial neural network. The neural network includes an input layer having nodes for receiving input data related to the chemical components of the mixture and...

20060031028 - Filtering of pixel signals during array scanning: Methods for evaluating a pixel signal produced during scanning of a chemical array are provided. In general, the subject methods involve identifying a set of conformant digital signals for a pixel, and integrating those signals. Also provided are systems and programming for performing the subject methods, and an array scanner...

20060031029 - Multi-gain photodetection system for array analysis: Methods for evaluating a pixel signal produced during scanning of a chemical array are provided. In general, the methods involve producing at least two analog signals for a pixel using a multi-gain signal detection system, integrating at least one of these signals, and outputting data representing the pixel. Also provided...

20060031030 - Portable fluid sensing device and method: Fluid monitoring methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed. Preferred embodiments comprise one or more flexural resonator sensing elements. In preferred embodiments a sensor or a sensor subassembly is ported to multiple fluidic systems....

20060031031 - Method and apparatus for processing eye diagram data: Method for processing eye diagram data from a system under test includes mapping channels of a logic analyzer for eye diagram data signal acquisition to DSO inputs, acquiring signals from the channels, determining if there are additional channels for signal acquisition and in response to the completion of acquisition signals,...

20060031033 - Jitter measurement method, jitter measuring apparatus and image forming apparatus: The present invention measures jitter in a galvano scanner that scans a light beam on a surface to be scanned by periodically turning a reflection mirror in a reciprocating manner. Two detectors for detecting and receiving the light beam are mounted near both ends of the scan region of the...

20060031032 - Method and apparatus for reducing skew effects: Method for deskewing sampled data includes acquiring data samples from a first location in a first channel according to a first set of data collection parameters, performing a validity analysis of the acquired data samples, and in response to the occurrence of a trigger condition, halting the acquisition of new...

20060031034 - Frequency alignment acceleration control for a motor: Method and apparatus for accelerating a multi-phase motor having a rotatable rotor are disclosed. The method incorporates use of a motor control circuit to predict a subsequent loss of frequency lock between the motor control circuit and a motor while the motor control circuit and the motor remain frequency locked,...

20060031035 - Active tester for vehicle circuit evaluation: An active tester for vehicle circuit evaluation includes a signal source for generating a dynamic signal, such as an AC current, for injecting to a circuit under test. The tester includes a data storage device for storing at least one test parameter and a data processor for processing data. In...

20060031036 - Apparatus and method for measuring characteristics of dynamic electrical signals in integrated circuits: Systems and methods consistent with principles of the present invention allow contactless measurements of voltage characteristics of dynamic electrical signals in integrated circuits. The invention utilizes a signal analysis circuit, such as a voltage comparator, disposed with the circuit under test, which is optically coupled with the external timing measurement...

20060031037 - Continuous digital background calibration in pipelined adc architecture: Disclosed are new methods and systems for achieving calibration in a pipelined ADC system. The methods and systems may be used to provide continuous digital background calibration in a pipelined ADC. Component mismatch error from each DAC in the pipeline is tabulated to provide an integral nonlinearity profile, which is...

20060031038 - Method and system for processing a multi-channel measurement of magnetic fields: The invention relates to a method and device by means of which an irrotational, sourceless vector field can be expressed by a number of physically reasonable basis vectors as small as possible in such a manner that the measured signals can be unambiguously divided into signals of the irrotational, sourceless...

20060031039 - Movement monitoring systems and associated methods: Systems and methods are disclosed that monitor movement of a person, or of a vehicle ridden by the person, to determine speed, distance traveled and/or airtime of the person or vehicle. Accelerometer-based sensors, pressure sensors or Doppler sensors may be employed in these systems and methods. A liquid crystal display...

20060031041 - Data management systems for collision repair coaching: A system for on-site collection of evaluation data at a vehicle repair site installation is disclosed. Generally the system includes a mobile computing tool wirelessly connected to a database, a workflow operations guiding module that runs on the mobile computing tool, an evaluation module, a comparison module, a data-mining module,...

20060031040 - System for real-time contaminant detection in a water distribution system: A system for monitoring water quality at remote locations in a water distribution system using water sensors installed at end user sites to detect contaminants downstream in the distribution system. Each sensor includes an integral processing means and a communications interface allowing the sensor to be coupled to a a...

20060031042 - Working machine, failure diagnosis system for work machine and maintenance system for machines: A working machine failure diagnosis method for performing a failure diagnosis by transmitting and receiving signals through communication devices provided at a working machine and at an information management center, according to the present invention, includes: a first step in which a first signal related to a failure of the...

20060031043 - System and method for utilizing a desktop integration module to collect user metrics: A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application...

20060025927 - Method of optimally producing and harvesting agricultural products: A method of optimally producing and harvesting agricultural products is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may include identifying a first crop component, such as grain, and at least a second crop component, which may include a biomass component such as straw. At least one fact is obtained for...

20060025930 - Automated analysis of multiplexed probe-target interaction patterns: pattern matching and allele identification: Disclosed are methods and algorithms (and their implementation) supporting the automated analysis and interactive review and refinement (“redaction”) of the analysis within an integrated software environment, for automated allele assignments. The implementation, preferably with a software system and a program referred to as the Automated Allele Assignment (“AAA”) program, provides...

20060025928 - Hydropathy plots and fourier analysis with an ellipsoidal distance metric: Techniques for protein structure analysis are provided. In one aspect, a method of characterizing at least a portion of a protein structure comprising amino acid residues comprises the following steps. A set of values characterizing the protein structure are determined, wherein each value represents a distance from a center of...

20060025931 - Method and apparatus for real time predictive modeling for chronically ill patients: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for improving the care of patients (e.g., chronically ill patients). In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the invention may be designed to improve such care through real time output (e.g.,...

20060025929 - Method of determining a genetic relationship to at least one individual in a group of famous individuals using a combination of genetic markers: A method for quantifying the genetic relationship of a customer to at least one individual of at least one group of famous individuals, the method includes the following steps. First, receiving genetic information and famous individual group selection criteria from a customer, next, calculating the genetic distance of the customer...

20060025932 - Novel method for chromatographic finger printing and standardization of single medicines and formulations: The present invention provides a method for the chromatographic fingerprinting, chemical and therapeutic standardization, bar-coding of the fingerprints and preparation of a data base for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) machines and applications of medicines in general and traditional medicines in particular; this invention includes a...

20060025933 - Method for interpreting tandem mass spectrometry data for clinical diagnosis of genetic disorders such as hypermethionemia: A method for interpreting data that is produced after a group of amino acids and acylcarnitines are derivatized from blood spots taken from newborn babies and scanned by a tandem mass spectrometer. Concentration levels of each metabolite, which are directly proportional to the butyl ester fragment after derivatization, are compared...

20060025934 - Investigating different physical and/or chemical forms of materials: Apparatus and a method are described for investigating polymorphs of a material, isomers of a material which allow different isomeric forms to be resolved, different hydrates/solvates and/or different salts of a material. The apparatus comprises an assembly (2) of reactor devices (6) arranged within a reactor body (8) which incorporates...

20060025935 - Process controller for semiconductor manufacturing: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of semiconductor manufacturing. In one example, in a production flow of low-volume, high-precision semiconductor products, a method for controlling critical dimensions of a semiconductor product during a semiconductor processing operation in the production flow, the semiconductor processing operation requiring a desired energy...

20060025936 - Method of estimating oxidation progression in coated turbine components: The claimed invention relates to a method for determining the extent of an oxidation reaction of a coated metallic turbine component within a turbine, comprising determining a plurality of reference oxidation rates for a plurality of locations on the turbine component for a plurality of different turbine operating conditions. The...

20060025937 - Method for detecting leak before rupture in a pipeline: A method for leak-before-rupture assessment including using a failure assessment diagram (FAD) assessment curve from a crack initiation based FAD analysis to analyze a crack in a material; and using a ductile tearing analysis in conjunction with the FAD assessment curve to detect a crack exhibiting at least one of...

20060025938 - Diagnositc tool for an energy convesion appliance: A diagnostic tool for an energy conversion appliance, which may be a heating, ventilating or air conditioning appliance, includes a sound receiving transducer (1) coupled to output elements (5) to identify, discriminate and log the acoustic signatures of a sequence of events within an operating sequence of an appliance. Individual...

20060025939 - Method and system for identifying damage to a wire: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention determine the type of damage to a wire, the amount of damage, and the location of the damage based on the wire's broadband impedance measured from a single measurement point. The type of damage is determined by comparing the...

20060025940 - Methods and systems for testing wire insulation: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for determining the environmental resistance of a wire insulation. The broadband impedance of the wire is obtained before and after the wire is exposed to an environmental condition. The real and imaginary components of the dielectric functions are...

20060025942 - Method and system for determining the position of a short circuit in a branched wiring system: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for determining the location of a short circuit in a branched wiring system. The distance from the short circuit to an impedance measurement point is determined based on a measured impedance of the branched wiring system. The branch...

20060025941 - Methods and systems for detecting and locating damage in a wire: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and locating wire damage on a wire. Broadband impedance phase and magnitude information for the wire is obtained. Potential wire damage on the wire is identified by analyzing the wire's low-frequency impedance phase information. The location...

20060025943 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing enhanced power system with optimized fuse placement and sizing: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced power system performance. Power system data are processed and a power path in a power supply system having a predefined component failure mode is identified for placement of a fuse. Transient and steady state current levels are determined...

20060025944 - Power quality indicator: There is provided a method and a power quality indicator coupled to an electrical circuit. The indicator comprises the summing device configured to received a sensed wave form from the electrical circuit, including at least one voltage wave form. A summing device is configured to provide a summed output voltage....

20060025945 - Method and systems for optimizing high-speed signal transmission: A method and systems for automatically adjusting the parameters of signal emitter in a synchronous high-speed transmission system, is disclosed. According to the method of the invention, the quality of a high-speed received signal is analyzed for a plurality of sets of parameter values and the one producing the best...

20060025946 - Integrated spectrum analyzer circuits and methods for providing on-chip diagnostics: Spectrum analyzer circuits and methods are provided which implement “zero-IF” (direct conversion) or “near-zero IF” (or very low IF) architectures that enable implementation of integrated (on-chip) spectrum analyzers for measuring the frequency spectrum of internal chip signals. An integrated spectrum analyzer circuit, which comprises a zero IF or near-zero IF...

20060025947 - Spectrogram mask trigger: A spectrogram mask trigger is generated in response to multiple or complex frequency events within a signal being monitored. A sequence of frequency masks over a period of time is generated according to a frequency trajectory, frequency hops or other complex frequency events expected in the signal to form a...

20060025948 - Inspection system setup techniques: Techniques for efficiently setting up inspection, metrology, and review systems for operating upon semiconductor wafers are described. Specifically, this involves setting up recipes that allows each system to accurately inspect semiconductor wafers. The invention gathers pertinent information from these tools and presents the information to users in a way that...

20060025949 - Photosensitive control with dynamic calibration: A method and circuit arrangement dynamically calibrate a photosensitive control for a light source that includes a voltage divider circuit coupled to a resistive light detector and configured to output to a comparison circuit a variable voltage signal that varies with the resistance of the resistive light detector. To calibrate...

20060025950 - Method for first pass filtering of anomalies and providing a base confidence level for resource usage prediction in a utility computing environment: Provided is a method for monitoring resources in a utility computing environment (UCE). Measurements are evaluated to determine whether or not a particular resource requires remedial or other type of action. A sliding measurement window is employed to assemble a number of measurements corresponding to a particular resource. The number...

20060025951 - Method for calibrating a position sensor in an electric machine: A method for calibrating a relative position sensor in an electric machine having a rotor, a stator and a relative position sensor associated with both the rotor and the stator is described. The method associates the relative angular position of the rotor with respect to the stator in an electric...

20060025952 - Circuit arrangement with non-volatile memory module and method of en-/decrypting data in the non-volatile memory module: In order further to develop a circuit arrangement (100) for electronic data processing—having at least one non-volatile memory module (10) for storing data to be protected against unauthorized access by means of encryption or decryption;—having at least one memory module interface logic circuit (12) assigned to the memory module (10)—for...

20060025953 - System and method for testing of electronic circuits: The system and method of the present invention combine multiple tests (15) into a batch and submit the batch for processing to exercise electronic circuits, for example, a managed network (25) such as a wireless network. The system and method insure that tests (15) are timely run by utilization of...

20060025955 - Gas density transducer: A gas density transducer including: a piezoresistive bridge sensor operative to provide an output indicative of an applied pressure, a computing processor having multiple inputs and at least one output, with the output of the bridge sensor coupled to an input of the processor; a temperature sensor coupled to an...

20060025954 - Process variation detector and process variation detecting method: A process variation detector includes a pulse-signal generating unit that generates a pulse signal having a pulse width corresponding to a characteristic of a process variation in an integrated circuit based on a clock signal; and an output unit that generates a predetermined value, when the pulse signal indicates a...

20060025956 - Semiconductor device fabrication method: A semiconductor device fabrication method comprises; a first step S1 of fabricating a plurality of semiconductor chips on a plurality of semiconductor wafers, respectively; a second step S4 of making a probe test on the plural semiconductor chips respectively, which are present in a sampling region of one semiconductor wafer...

20060025957 - Quality assurance system and method: A system for monitoring and controlling a tool that includes a communication circuit associated with the tool and configured to store data regarding the status of the tool and to sense a condition of the tool for quality assurance and quality control. An actuator can be included for altering the...

20060025958 - Self-adaptive vehicle speed detecting device: A self-adaptive vehicle speed detecting device has a microprocessor, an input unit and a memory. When setting commands are input to the microprocessor through the input unit, the microprocessor fetches a pulse signal from a vehicle speed sensor as a vehicle speed threshold value. After the threshold value setting, the...

20060025959 - System and method for increasing sensor resolution using interpolation: Systems and methods for increasing sensor resolution using interpolation are described. One described method includes receiving an analog sensor signal associated with a coding surface; deriving a quadrature signal based at least in part on an analog threshold voltage associated with the analog sensor signal; determining a velocity and a...

20060025960 - Sensor signal debouncing: One disclosed method includes retrieving a sensor reading, incrementing a reading change counter and setting a stable reading counter in response to the sensor reading not equaling an immediately previous sensor reading, reporting a sensor reading bouncing error and resetting the reading change counter in response to the reading change...

20060025964 - Consolidated monitoring system and method using the internet for diagnosis of an installed product set on a computing device: A method, system, and storage medium and system for managing computer system performance utilizing information acquired over the Internet is provided. The system comprises a user system having existing installed components that include software, hardware devices, system upgrades, and/or a peripheral device. The system also includes a consolidated monitoring tool...

20060025961 - Method and device for monitoring a technical installation comprising several systems, in particular an electric power station: The invention concerns a method and a corresponding device for monitoring a technical installation. The invention is characterized in that a dynamic model of at least one system of the technical installation is enhanced by means of an artificial intelligence based algorithm during the operation of said system....

20060025962 - Method and system for troubleshooting a misconfiguration of a computer system based on product support services information: A method and system for ranking possible causes of a component exhibiting a certain behavior is provided. In one embodiment, a troubleshooting system ranks candidate configuration parameters that may be causing a software application to exhibit an undesired behavior using support information relating to problems resulting from the settings of...

20060025963 - Replaceable component management tool: Automatically maintaining, for life tracking purposes, the correct set of replaceable components in systems with variable configurations and replaceable components using replaceable component data from four sources to determine the correct set of replaceable components for life tracking purposes. The four sources are: 1) hardware driven sensor data provided by...

20060025965 - Method and structure for diagnostically testing files in a computer: There are many files in the current generation of computers, especially on the hardfile, that are not used or used only infrequently during operation. For instance, the system may contain many help text files which may never be accessed. The same applies to the DLL's. Also, some files are accessed...

20060025967 - Replaceable component life tracking for idled components in an electrophotographic print engine: A replaceable component life tracking method and system for multi-operating mode systems having replaceable components with variable wear rates that depend on the system operating mode. The method tracks system use and replaceable component life using a common predetermined parameter, and uses a different predetermined replaceable component wear rate, when...

20060025966 - Vehicle breakdown diagnostic system: Vehicle data detected in a vehicle 10 is transmitted to an information center 12 so as to detect a fault. When detecting generation of the fault, the information center 12 instructs the vehicle to perform a fault identification process. Identification of the fault location is performed while using mutual communication....

20060025970 - Complex signal decomposition and modeling: A system, method and program product for monitoring a complex signal for ultrasensitive detection of state changes, or for signature recognition and classification is provided. A complex signal is decomposed periodically for empirical modeling. Wavelet analysis, frequency band filtering or other methods may be used to decompose the complex signal...

20060025969 - Method for converting a geologic panel into a simulator format: A computer-implemented method of converting a geologic panel into a simulator format is disclosed. A conventional geologic panel is provided in a digital format such that the geologic panel is represented by a plurality of colored pixels. The geologic panel is cleaned such that each pixel represents a subsurface feature...

20060025968 - Representation generation method, representation generation device, and representation generation system: A music generation server 10 is provided with a material table TA in which material data associated with music phrases are provided in correspondence with the digits of the telephone number and the numerals thereof given at the respective digits, and such server is connected to a user's terminal, such...