Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 04/06

20060089803 - Method and device for numberical analysis of flow field of non-compressive viscous fluid, directly using v-cad data: A method including: a dividing step (A) of dividing external data into a plurality of cells (13) having boundaries orthogonal to each other, the external data including boundary data of an object which contacts incompressible viscous fluid; a cell classifying step (B) of classifying the divided cells into an internal...

20060089804 - While-drilling methodology for determining earth formation characteristics and other useful information based upon streaming potential measurements: Logging-while-drilling apparatus and methodologies for measuring streaming potential in an earth formation are provided. The apparatus and methodologies can be utilized to find information relevant to the drilling operations. In particular, since the streaming potential measurement relates directly to fluid flow, the streaming potential measurements can be used to track...

20060089805 - Method of coordinating and stabilizing the delivery of wind generated energy: The invention relates to a method of coordinating and stabilizing the delivery of wind generated power, such as to a power grid, so as to avoid sudden surges and spikes, despite wind speed fluctuations and oscillations. The method preferably uses a plurality of windmill stations, including a number of immediate...

20060089806 - System and method for interpreting reverse faults and multiple z-valued seismic horizons: A system and method for interpreting reverse faults and multiple z-valued seismic horizons. A platform executable on a computer is provided for interpreting seismic data. The platform includes a user input module for accepting user inputs related to interpretation of seismic data and also includes a graphics processing module for...

20060089810 - Biological sample analyzing apparatus and biological sample analyzing method: In a biological sample analyzing apparatus and method, an assay sample is prepared by mixing a reagent with a biological sample which may contain assay material. Then, a first information relating to the assay material is collected from the assay sample, and when the first information satisfies predetermined condition, the...

20060089808 - Conformational sampling by self-organization: A self-organizing method, system, and computer program product for generating molecular conformations that are consistent with a set of distance and/or volume constraints. A stochastic proximity embedding (SPE) algorithm evaluates individual distance and/or volume constraints and adjusts the atomic coordinates to minimize violations of such constraints. The method scales linearly...

20060089809 - Data processing apparatus: When receiving prescribed entry data from an input device, a data entry device issues an authenticate request to a biological authentication device. Upon receipt of the authenticate request, the biological authentication device authenticates the biological information transmitted from the input device by collating it with each piece of biological information...

20060089807 - Identifying peptide modifications: Methods, systems and apparatus implement techniques for identifying modifications in polypeptides. A set of candidate sequences is identified that includes sequence information potentially corresponding to an unmodified variant of the polypeptide. Peptides derived from the polypeptide are sequenced to identify sequence tags. The sequence tags are compared with sequence information...

20060089811 - Method of detecting contamination and method of determining detection threshold in genotyping experiment: A method of detecting a contamination event by using a blank well and a replicate well occurring during a high-throughput screening is provided. In the method, a logistic regression equation for detecting a contamination in a genotyping experiment is determined, and a BWE (blank well error), an IRF (intraplate replicate...

20060089812 - System and method for evaluating clustering in case control data: A method and system to evaluate clustering in case control data for a plurality of individuals taking into account dynamic location information. A set of space time coordinates for each individual is established. The set of space time coordinates indicate a geographic location of a residence of the individual at...

20060089813 - Hybrid automatic gain control (agc): A method of automatic gain control in both analog and digital domain is performed by receiving an incoming analog signal, determining an overall gain factor, determining a coarse analog gain control value and a fine digital gain control value, each of which, when taken together substantially equals the already determined...

20060089814 - Current sensing circuit: A voltage detection unit generates a detection voltage signal representative of a potential difference caused by a current to be detected. A reference current generation unit generates a first reference current and a second reference current having a linear relationship therebetween. In response to the detection voltage signal and the...

20060089816 - Distributed processing system for subsurface operations: A method for distributed processing in a subsurface environment includes running a local program on a local computation unit, wherein the local program is configured to call a remote procedure to be executed by a remote computation unit, wherein the local computation unit and the remote computation unit are disposed...

20060089815 - Magnetic field generating apparatus and magnetic field controlling method: When a sine wave is supplied from a sine wave oscillator through a resonant capacitor selection circuit, an alternating electric and magnetic field is generated on a loop coil. A magnetic intensity detection coil supplies an electromagnetic field signal to a control circuit when detecting electromagnetic intensity of the loop...

20060089817 - Electronic length measuring device: An improved electronic measuring device has a compact design, is easy to operate, and uses menu-driven logic to minimize the requirement for buttons and/or switches to take, store, recall, and/or manipulate measurements....

20060089818 - System and method of ensuring legitimacy of a sensor signal received from a rotor position sensor in a motor: A system and method of ensuring legitimacy of a sensor signal received from a rotor position sensor in a motor is provided that includes polling the sensor to determine a first state of the sensor signal, determining a first time delay by summing a first plurality of time constants, and...

20060089819 - Chipset activation: A method and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises a first device determining whether a second device is permitted to be activated, the first device activating the second device if the second device is permitted to be activated, and the first device reducing the functionality of the...

20060089820 - Event-based system and process for recording and playback of collaborative electronic presentations: An event-based system and process for recording and playback of collaborative electronic presentations is presented. The present system and process includes a technique for recording collaborative electronic presentations by capturing and storing the interactions between each participant and presentation data where each interaction event is timestamped and linked to a...

20060085132 - Method and system to reduce false positives within an automated software-testing environment: A method and system to reduce false positives within an automated software-testing environment using a comparator module, a filter application module, and a preview generator module is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method within a testing system for testing web pages associated with a current version website by automatically...

20060085133 - Utility mapping and data distribution system and method: A system and method of mapping underground utilities and other subsurface objects involves one or more of acquiring utility location data using a number of different detectors and sensors, processing the multiple detector/sensor output data to produce mapping data, storing the mapping data in a database, and providing access to...

20060085134 - Downhole recorder system: A downhole recorder system for use with a downhole assembly to be lowered into a borehole comprises at least one recorder uniquely associated to a determined sub-assembly of the downhole assembly. The at least one recorder allows to store operating data related to the determined sub-assembly. The stored operating data...

20060085135 - Computing water saturation in laminated sand-shale when the shale are anisotropic: A method to determine water saturation of laminated sand-shale formations based on measurements of formation and shale resistivity anisotropy, the fraction of shale, and the porosity....

20060085136 - Method and system for determining an optimal amount of a pharmaceutical to be administered to a patient during surgery: A method for determining an optimal amount of a pharmaceutical to be administered to a patient during surgery in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes establishing a desired effect-site concentration of the pharmaceutical, infusing a proper amount of the pharmaceutical into the patient based on the desired...

20060085137 - Micropressors, devices and methods for use in analyte monitoring systems: The present invention comprises one or more microprocessors programmed to execute methods for improving the performance of an analyte monitoring device including prediction of glucose levels in a subject by utilizing a predicted slower-time constant (1/k2). In another aspect of the invention, pre-exponential terms (1/c2) can be used to provide...

20060085138 - Identification and assignment of functionally corresponding regulatory sequences for orthologous loci in eukaryotic genomes: The present invention relates to a method and computer program product for identifying a regulatory sequence of a coding sequence within the genome of a eukaroytc organism....

20060085139 - System, method, and computer program product for extraction, gathering, manipulation, and analysis of peak data from an automated sequencer: The present invention relates to a novel computer program product to extract and gather peak information from an automated sequencer or bioinformatics tool into a peak database, and to manipulate and analyze the peak information within the database....

20060085140 - Information notification sample processing system and methods of biological slide processing: A sample processing system (101) that may be automated and methods are disclosed where samples) (198) are arranged on a carrier element (197) and a process operation control system (171) automatically processes the samples) perhaps robotically with an operationally-influential exteriorly-consequential information monitor (402) or a data capture element (414). Significant...

20060085141 - Method and machine for identifying a chemical compound: The present invention is designed to efficiently calculate isotopic distribution in order to simulate mass spectra data for any chemical compound of interest. The simulated spectra considers the various isotopes of the compound based upon a probability calculation that takes into consideration the natural abundance of each isotope of individual...

20060085142 - Determination of molecular structures using tandem mass spectrometry: Methods for determining the chemical structures, substructures and/or ionic structural arrangements of unknown or partially structurally characterized compounds from mass spectrometric data are disclosed. The methods of the invention are directed to elucidating the molecular structures of compounds by identifying the structures of ions generated from those compounds through the...

20060085143 - Systems and methods for robust representation of ternary data states: Systems, methods and devices are described for robustly determining a desired operating state of a controlled device in response to the position of a multi-position actuator. Two or more ternary switch contacts provide input signals representative of the position of the actuator. Control logic then determines the desired state for...

20060085145 - Information processing apparatus and cooling method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a memory to store a first operating system used in a first mode and a second operating system used in a second mode, where the first operating system supports a greater number of functions than the second operating system. The information...

20060085144 - System and method for compensating for potential and current transformers in energy meters: A meter device for measuring electrical energy is provided. The meter device includes circuitry for measuring at least one parameter of electrical energy provided to the meter device. A storage device is provided for storing at least one calibration factor for compensating for errors associated with at least one of...

20060085146 - Dynamic energy threshold calculation for high impedance fault detection: A technique for dynamically determining the occurrence of a high impedance fault (HIF) independent of load. An HIF algorithm provides the energy value for a given number of samples of the input signal that is phase (load) currents and/or neutral (residual) current. The input signal energy value is multiplied by...

20060085147 - Automated utility meter reading system with variable bandwidth receiver: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for Automated Meter Reading (AMR) systems for determining quantities of a consumed utility product including electric, gas, and water service, using wireless data transfer. To compensate for the frequency drifts of the transmitters, these methods and apparatus, with minimum pre-processing of the received data, allow...

20060085148 - Load information display device and circuit breaker: This invention is intended to reduce the cost by displaying the load information of a plurality of circuits with a single display device and transferring one of the two communication units in the measuring instruments from the measuring instruments to the display device to acquire the load information of a...

20060085149 - Method and apparatus for computation of electrostatic potential: A computational method to determine electrostatic interaction by performing direct numerical integration. The method recasts the Poisson equation and approximates the integral by using numerical integration schemes. Multi-dimensional integrals are separated into a coupled product of one-dimensional integrals. Linear transformations are performed and the total electrostatic potential is obtained as...

20060085150 - Phase noise compensation for phase noise measurements: A system and method compensate for phase noise of a spectrum analyzer when measuring the phase noise of an applied signal based on an established model of the phase noise that accommodates a variety of operating states of the spectrum analyzer. Each operating state has a carrier frequency associated therewith....

20060085151 - Motor control device: A technique for smoothly speed-controlling a speed of a motor whose time constant is relatively small, such as a supersonic motor, under a relatively rough speed control profile and a simple configuration is disclosed. According to this technique, a frequency division number calculating section 1 changes a division number A...

20060085152 - Ecological value transfer: In respect to emissions trading, although the emission of carbon dioxide may be reduced, there arises a need for reduction of energy so used in conjunction therewith with the possibility of global recession. The present invention purports to facilitate supply of organic compounds having environmentally-friendly values by providing a support...

20060085153 - Telematics system diagnostics logic analyzer: A method of monitoring electronic module data in a mobile vehicle. The method includes receiving at least one trigger event status indicator responsive to a trigger set from at least one of a plurality of vehicles at a vehicle analysis engine, via a wireless network, modifying the trigger set based...

20060085154 - Apparatus, system, and method for testing an analog to digital converter: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for testing an analog to digital converter with a known analog signal applied. A first register module stores a first digitized instance of an analog signal. A second register module stores a second digitized instance of the analog signal. A difference module calculates...

20060085155 - Methods and apparatus for local outlier detection: A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to identify statistical outliers in test data for components, including local outliers representing outliers within subsets of larger data populations....

20060085156 - Method and system for predicting memory leaks from unit testing: A method for predicting memory leak in a computer program. The method includes acquiring a reference to a tested unit included in the computer program for preventing static data objects from being deallocated; repeatedly executing the tested unit for more than once; tracking which objects in the tested unit are...

20060085157 - Synchronization of multiple test instruments: A test apparatus has multiple instruments that are synchronized with respect to one another so that a trigger signal may be generated in response to events occurring at different instruments. The events may correspond to events defined within a test program or events detected at a device under test. A...

20060085158 - Mobile apparatus for testing personal computers: A mobile apparatus for testing personal computers includes: a test controller; a suite of test equipment coupled to the test controller for testing a plurality of functions of a computer under test; and a floor vehicle on which the test controller and the suite of test equipment are mounted for...

20060085160 - High frequency electrical signal control device and sensing system: A high frequency electrical signal control device comprises a transmitter for generating a high frequency electrical signal, a receiver, a transmission line for propagating the electrical signal, and a structure for radiating the electrical signal propagated through the transmission line to the space or receiving a signal from the space....

20060085162 - Laboratory sample transfer apparatus with interchangeable tools: Apparatuses for and a method of transferring an assay protocol developed with an operator carried, hand held sample transfer tool to a robotic sample processor of a laboratory workstation are disclosed. The method comprises the execution of an assay protocol with a sample transfer apparatus (1), comprising a laboratory working...

20060085161 - Measurement substrate, substrate table, lithographic apparatus, method of calculating an angle of an alignment beam of an alignment system, and alignment verification method: A method of calculating an angle of an alignment beam of an alignment system in, for example, a lithographic projection apparatus includes measuring the position of at least two alignment marks. These two alignment marks are manufactured on a measurement substrate or they can be arranged on a reference on...

20060085159 - Spatial position detection method, information input method, spatial position detection apparatus, and information input apparatus: To calculate information on a relative distance or positional relationship between an interface section and an object by detecting an electromagnetic wave transmitted through the interface section, and using the electromagnetic wave from the object to detect a relative position of the object with respective to the interface section. Information...

20060085163 - High-resolution, timer-efficient sliding window: Detection of whether more than a number N of events have occurred within a duration of time defined by a sliding time window includes performing an event detection procedure in response to each occurrence of an event. The event detection procedure includes associating a timestamp with the event, and determining...

20060085164 - Forecast decision system and method: A system and method for making a decision of whether to carry additional fuel on an aircraft for a particular flight based on a forecast, such as for low visibility and ceiling. Preferably, observations-based probabilistic forecasts are utilized. The forecast probability of the weather at the planned aerodrome being below...

20060085165 - Method for determining a failure of a manufacturing condition, system for determining a failure of a manufacuring condition and method for manufacturing an industrial product: A method for determining a failure of a manufacturing condition, includes creating waveforms implemented by respective first data strings of first characteristic variables corresponding to operation parameter data of manufacturing apparatuses which execute manufacturing processes of products under respective manufacturing conditions for the products; classifying the first data strings that...

20060085166 - Method of collecting and storing storage network performance information, computer system, and program: To provide a method of collecting and storing storage network performance information that allows tracking of the cause of application performance deterioration. It is automatically judged whether or not performance information collected, to be stored, from components of a storage network including a host server and a storage system has...

20060085167 - Performance monitor for a photovoltaic supply: A method and apparatus is disclosed for monitoring the performance of a solar powered electrical supply where the supply comprises an array of photovoltaic cells that are mounted on a building. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a device for producing a signal representative of solar irradiance; circuitry for computing...

20060085169 - Analytical system, collection of information used in the system, and recording medium storing the collection of information: An analytical system includes an analytical unit, and a control unit for controlling operation of the analytical unit. The control unit includes a inspecting function for reviewing stored analysis datasets. The datasets include analysis condition files having analysis conditions that correspond to analysis examples, and operating portions for selecting the...

20060085168 - Method and apparatus for radiation spectroscopy using seeded localized averaging (\"sla\"): A method, and apparatus for carrying it out, for processing pulses derived from a radiation detector, said pulses having already been resolved by a pulse-height analyzer into channels having respective addresses indicative of their respective heights, such method comprising the steps of: (a) deriving a plurality of channel address values...

20060080037 - Process of remote sensing data: The invention relates to the processing of remote sensing data, especially remote sensing data recorded by a satellite. A plurality of processing routines for processing the remote sensing data is available or is prepared. A defined requirement on the use of the remote sensing data is entered by the use...

20060080038 - Determination of an atmospheric state: A method for characterizing a state of a planetary atmosphere or of a part of the atmosphere, especially of the ionosphere of the earth includes determining values of an ionization state, especially of an electron density and/or of an electron content, in the atmosphere or in the part of the...

20060080039 - Interactive weather advisory system: A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to at least one of a plurality of communicator devices remotely located from the broadcast network. The broadcast network comprises a user input database, a communicator location database, a weather analysis unit, and a communication network. The user input database...

20060080041 - Chemical mixing apparatus, system and method: There is disclosed a system and method of formulating a batch comprising at least two ingredients. An embodiment is disclosed wherein a feedforward algorithm can be used to control the target blend. Subsequently a feedback closed loop control loop algorithm is provided for a multivariant blend. Use of this approach...

20060080040 - Method and system for processing multi-dimensional measurement data: The invention provides a method for grouping measurement data obtained by effecting two or more techniques to provide characterization data characterizing at least one sample with respect to characterizing substances. According to one aspect of the invention, the grouping is effected on the basis of at least one statistical distribution...

20060080042 - Method of non-targeted complex sample analysis: A method for non-targeted complex sample analysis which involves the following steps. A first step involves providing a database (16) containing identifying data of known molecules. A second step involves introducing a complex sample containing multiple unidentified molecules into a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Mass Spectrometer (12) to obtain data...

20060080043 - Comparative genomic hybridization significance analysis using data smoothing with shaped response functions: Methods and systems for analyzing comparative genomic hybridization data. The methods comprise measuring comparative genomic hybridization data, and applying a shaped response function to the comparative genomic hybridization data, wherein the shaped response function has a central maximum. The comparative genomic hybridization data may be obtained from a comparative genomic...

20060080045 - Ion detection in mass spectrometry with extended dynamic range: In a method for optimizing an ion detector a control voltage, such as in a mass spectrometry system, an array of mass scan data is acquired. Based on the size of the largest peak in the array or part of the array, a determination is made as to whether the...

20060080044 - Measurement of the macromolecular proton density involved in magnetization transfer by means of magnetic resonance: applying a fourth RF pulse of flip angle α4 at a fourth time τ1+τ2+τ3 seconds after said first time, applying a second magnetic field gradient along the same pre-determined direction as said first magnetic field gradient, and detecting a stimulated echo at a fifth time....

20060080046 - Measuring flare in semiconductor lithography: Systems, methods, and lithography masks for measuring flare in semiconductor lithography. A layer of photosensitive material is exposed to a first test pattern and a second test pattern, the second test pattern comprising an opaque or attenuated region. The second test pattern is placed proximate features formed in a photosensitive...

20060080047 - Systems and methods for determining blood oxygen saturation values using complex number encoding: The disclosure includes pulse oximetry systems and methods for determining point-by-point saturation values by encoding photoplethysmographs in the complex domain and processing the complex signals. The systems filter motion artifacts and other noise using a variety of techniques, including statistical analysis such as correlation, or phase filtering....

20060080048 - Sensor infrastructure: A device for use in detecting an event in a structure comprises a sensor encapsulation, the encapsulation containing a sensor, an actuator positioned substantially in-plane to the sensor within the housing and a printed circuit board in communication with at least one of the sensor and the actuator. the printed...

20060080049 - Method for operating a process-measuring device: The process measuring device comprises a flow sensor having a measuring tube, a sensor arrangement for producing a measurement signal, and an evaluation and operating circuit. The method serves to compensate for the effects of interfering potentials which are caused especially by foreign particles or air bubbles in the liquid...

20060080050 - Fluid flow rate sensor and method of operation: A thermo-anemometer-type fluid flow rate sensor design and a method for its operation that overcome the response time limitations of prior known fluid flow rate sensors is disclosed. The fluid flow rate sensor comprises a probe having a detection module adapted to change condition in response to the presence of...

20060080051 - Power management scheme for external batteries: In a method and system for managing power provided to a load, a power supply system includes a first power peripheral operable to receive and convert a first type of power to a second type of power. Also included in the power supply system is a second power peripheral operable...

20060080052 - Determining a difference between a level of power to be supplied and an estimate: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a device to provide an estimate of supplied power circuitry configured to direct a level of power to be supplied to a load and configured to determine a difference between the level of the power and the estimate....

20060080053 - Method of measuring unnecessary electromagnetic radiation, apparatus and system for measuring unnecessary electromagnetic radiation: According to the present invention, unnecessary electromagnetic radiation from the hard disk alone is measured by connecting one end of a hard disk drive which has an interface cable and a power cable extending out from the other end thereof to a conductive jig extended along the extension direction of...

20060080054 - System and method for generating jitter analysis diagrams: A system and method for generating various jitter analysis diagrams and customized jitter analysis reports. The method includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a signal file; (b) determining a type of the signal file; (c) loading customized jitter analysis parameters; (d) generating a graphic function according to the customized jitter...

20060080055 - Automatic quality control method for production line and apparatus therefor as well as automatic quality control program: Production condition data and product quality data in a production line are monitored and stored in a production history database. When a quality deterioration event in the production line is detected while checking the product quality data, the improvement contents of the quality deterioration factor and production conditions are extracted....

20060080056 - Temperature measuring apparatus, and temperature correction processing device: In some embodiments, a temperature measuring apparatus is provided with a light receiving portion having a plurality of light receiving units for measuring heat quantity of divided temperature detecting area in a noncontact manner, a thermal sensor for detecting temperature of each of the plurality of light receiving units, a...

20060080057 - System or method for calibrating a radiation detection medium: Methods and devices for calibrating a radiotherapy system are disclosed. The method includes providing a detection medium that responds to exposure to ionizing radiation, and preparing a calibration dose response pattern by exposing predefined regions of the detection medium to different ionizing radiation dose levels. The method also includes measuring...

20060080058 - Built-in self test for memory interconnect testing: In some embodiments, built-in self-test logic is provided for an integrated circuit (IC) device having memory controller logic to generate address and command information for accessing a memory device. Driver circuits are on-chip with the memory controller logic. The driver circuits have outputs that are coupled to on-chip signal pads,...

20060080059 - Apparatus for collecting information: An apparatus, and related method, for collecting information, such as that associated with one or more variables, is described. The apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module may be stored in the memory and may be configurable...

20060080060 - System and method for automatic testing of output device capabilities via electronic document: A system and related techniques automatically exercise the output capabilities of a printer or other output device, and return a log or record of those capabilities to the print manager of a host operating system or other destination. According to embodiments, the host, client or other machine may decide to...

20060080061 - Non-uniformity pattern identification systems and methods thereof: A system for non-uniformity pattern identification. A storage device stores multiple theoretical patterns and measurements. Each measurement corresponds to a region on a wafer. The processing unit acquires the theoretical patterns and the measurements on at least two wafers, calculates pattern scores for the respective theoretical patterns of each wafer...

20060080062 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and enhancing on-chip microprocessor reliability: A system and method for projecting reliability to manage system functions includes an activity module which determines activity in the system. A reliability module interacts with the activity module to determine a reliability measurement for the module in real-time based upon the activity and measured operational quantities of the system....

20060080063 - Systems and methods for externally monitoring equipment use: Systems and methods that can externally meter and display cumulative, noncumulative, and re-settable service hours for monitored equipment as well as provide data associated with incremental amounts of equipment usage (e.g., hours, days, etc.). System external interfaces with metered equipment to determine usage. Systems and methods of use for recording...

20060080064 - Oilfield equipment identification method and apparatus: An oilfield equipment identifying apparatus comprising a computer loaded with an oilfield equipment database. A unique identification code is input into the computer for each piece of oilfield equipment in the drill string to form a reference in the oilfield equipment database to each piece of oilfield equipment in the...

20060080065 - High bandwidth oscilloscope: A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques to achieve a system bandwidth that significantly exceeds the bandwidth attainable through interleaving alone. In an illustrative embodiment the technique involves separating an input signal into a high frequency content and...

20060074560 - Method and system of evaluating performance of a crop: A method and system of evaluating crop performance facilitates characterization of the environmental impact of a geographic region or areas within the region for growing plant-life. Environmental measurements are obtained. The environmental measurements are associated with a geographic region. Each environmental measurement includes at least one of soil data and...

20060074561 - Methods for visualizing distances between wellbore and formation boundaries: A method for displaying a formation model includes displaying a trajectory representing a three-dimensional structure of the wellbore; and displaying objects representing a bed boundary along the trajectory, wherein the objects are displayed at distances from the trajectory according to measurement data, wherein the objects are displayed in orientations reflecting...

20060074562 - Processing seismic data: A method of determining a vertical component of particle velocity from seismic data acquired using at least one receiver disposed within a water column comprises determining the vertical component of particle velocity from the pressure at a first location and a second location. The first location is the location of...

20060074564 - Micropressors, devices and methods for use in analyte monitoring systems: The present invention comprises one or more microprocessors programmed to execute methods for improving the performance of an analyte monitoring device including prediction of glucose levels in a subject by utilizing a predicted slower-time constant (1/k2). In another aspect of the invention, pre-exponential terms (1/c2) can be used to provide...

20060074563 - System and method for programatic access to biological probe array data: An applications programming interface is described that includes code libraries that enable transfer of pixel data, intermediate results data, or both, from a data structure or data file directly or indirectly to a user-provided application. The pixel data and intermediate results data may include data from biological experiments related probe...

20060074566 - Methods and systems for gene expression array analysis: Disclosed are methods and systems for applying independent component analysis (ICA) and other advanced signal processing techniques to automatically identify an optimal number of independent gene clusters and to efficiently separate gene expression data into biologically relevant groups. Embodiments of the methods and systems of the present invention provide an...

20060074565 - Methods, systems, and compositions for classification, prognosis, and diagnosis of cancers: The present invention provides methods, systems and compositions for predicting disease susceptibility in a patient. In some embodiments, methods for the classification, prognosis, and diagnosis of cancers are provided. In other embodiments, the present invention provides statistical methods for building a gene-expression-based classifier that may be employed for predicting disease...

20060074567 - Exhaust opacity measuring device: A remote emissions sensing system and method for sensing exhaust emissions from motor vehicles is provided where the system determines the opacity of an exhaust plume. The system comprises a radiation source that emits radiation which is passed through the exhaust plume of a motor vehicle to one or more...

20060074568 - Method and device for determination of the condition or a turbine blade, and utilizing the collected information for estimation of the lifetime of the blade: A method and device for determining the condition of a turbine blade (2, 4) in a compressor and utilizing the collected information in an estimation of the lifetime of the turbine blade (2, 4), wherein a measured value reflecting the condition of the turbine blade (2, 4) is generated by...

20060074569 - Device for the determination of flow parameters for a fluid and method for operatng such a device: The invention relates to a device for the determination of flow parameters of a fluid, in particular, the temperature and flow speed and changes therein, in a fluid flow for monitoring, a method for operating such a device, a determination method itself and a fire recognition or oxygen measuring device...

20060074570 - Electronic gas flow measurement and recording device: An electronic flow measurement device (EFM), for use in conjunction with a flow meter in a pressurized gas line, has a microprocessor and read-only memory (ROM), and calculates and records gas flow rates corrected for variable factors such as gas pressure, temperature, and density. Look-up tables stored in the ROM...

20060074571 - Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system and method for communicating with same: A method and apparatus for metering catalyst to a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst unit are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for metering catalyst to a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst unit includes a low pressure storage vessel coupled to a pressure vessel by a metering device. A controller is provided...

20060074572 - Portable hearing-related analysis system: An improved hearing-related analysis programming system with a host computer for providing at least one hearing aid program and having at least one personal computer memory card international association (PCMCIA) defined port in combination with a PCMCIA Card inserted in the port and arranged for interacting with the host computer...

20060074573 - Method and apparatus for sizing a power processing device serving multiple drive units: A method for determining supply requirements for a motor control system includes determining a performance profile for each of a plurality of drive units. A power supply parameter for each drive unit is generated based on the performance profiles. The power supply parameters for the drive units are combined to...

20060074574 - Technique and apparatus to measure a fuel cell parameter: A technique includes introducing an electrical perturbation to a fuel cell system during operation of the fuel cell system. This electrical perturbation does not substantially disrupt the operation of the fuel cell system. In response to the perturbation, an electrical parameter of the fuel cell system is measured....

20060074575 - Control circuit of a dc fan motor for start with high voltage and high rotational speed with low voltage: A control circuit of a DC fan motor for start with high voltage and high rotational speed with low voltage at least includes an input unit, an output unit, a control unit and a comparator. The input unit is connected to the comparison unit and the control unit for the...

20060074576 - Operating voltage determination for an integrated circuit: Voltage-binning of individual integrated circuits is achieved by operating those integrated circuits at a plurality of required clock frequencies and for each of those frequencies determining the minimum supply voltage level which produces a pass result for a series of applied test vectors....

20060074577 - Multi channel multiplexed inspection system and method: Provided are systems and methods for multi-channel non-destructive inspection which provide high data throughput, logarithmic amplification of large dynamic range, and simplicity of supporting electronics. More specifically, provided are systems and methods for inspecting a structure that may use an interface board, two pulser boards, each coupled to 16 transmit...

20060074578 - System for detecting an incorrect payload lift: A system for validating a payload weight measurement for a machine includes a pressure sensor configured to generate a pressure signal indicative of an actuating fluid pressure associated with a fluid cylinder operatively coupled to a work implement of the machine. An extension sensor is configured to generate an extension...

20060074579 - Sensor calibration: A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for general use and for specific use when measuring pressure in well bores of hydrocarbon wells. A sensor, an interferometric optical pressure transducer 22, is disposed at the end if a fibre optic line 20 and illuminated by broadband light pulses from a...

20060074580 - Four point measurement technique for programmable impedance drivers rapidchip and asic devices: A four point measurement technique for testing programmable impedance drivers such as the BZIO buffers contained in RapidChip® and ASIC devices. Specifically, two test pads are added for taking voltage measurements at additional points. By taking the additional voltage measurements and performing some calculation using Ohm's law, the error components...

20060074581 - Test device and method for testing a rail car brake system: The present invention discloses and claims a test device and method for testing a rail car brake system. The test device includes a pneumatic circuit and electronic circuit connecting a supply of test air to the rail car brake system being tested. The pneumatic and electronic circuits operate to selectively...

20060074583 - Methods and systems for unattended tracking of device transfer rates and reporting of performance degradation: An operating system's input/output control (IOCTL) interface can communicate with one or more device drivers, which may be implemented as Message Passing Technology (MPT) based drivers. At start-up and at user-defined intervals, Message Passing Interface (MPI) pass-through messages can be sent utilizing the IOCTL interface. Such messages can be formatted...

20060074582 - Network analyzer applying loss compensation using port extensions and method of operation: In one embodiment, a method of operating a network analyzer, comprises applying a stimulus signal on at least one port of the network analyzer for provision to a device under test (DUT) within a test fixture coupled to the network analyzer; generating measurement data from the DUT in response to...

20060074584 - Synchronization of multiple test instruments: A test apparatus has multiple instruments that are synchronized with respect to one another so that test data generated by them arrive at the pins of a device under test at the time specified in a test program. The synchronization of the multiple instruments is carried out by introducing delays...

20060074586 - Temperature sensing device: The present invention relates to a temperature sensing device with a first temperature sensor mounted to a housing at a first location proximate a first surface of the housing. The first temperature sensor senses a first temperature while a second temperature sensor senses a second temperature. A processor circuit is...

20060074585 - Verifying heat dissipation apparatus in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a microprocessor connected to a circuit board and a fansink positioned on the microprocessor. The system includes dedicated code that causes the microprocessor to draw a predetermined level of power. A fan speed required to maintain the microprocessor at a targeted temperature while the microprocessor...

20060074587 - Measuring method of circular shape, measuring method of cylindrical shape, and measuring apparatus of cylindrical shape: The present invention aims at providing a measuring method of making loads of measurement few, making each measured value extremely exact, and efficiently reducing the number of measurement points, in cylindrical dimension measurement, and in particular, the measurement of a circumferential shape. In a measuring method of a shape of...

20060074589 - Method of predicting quiescent current variation of an integrated circuit die from a process monitor derating factor: In exemplary embodiments, a method and computer program product for predicting quiescent current variation of an integrated circuit die include steps of: (a) receiving as input a value of a derating factor from a process monitor cell on an integrated circuit die and an on-chip variation of the derating factor;...

20060074588 - System and method for gemstone cut grading: A system for grading the cut of a diamond utilizes a number of appearance metrics to generate scores for a number of cut components that affect cut quality. These cut components include brightness, fire, scintillation, overweight, durability, polish, and symmetry. The cut grading system employs a cut grading algorithm that...

20060074590 - Computer-implemented data presentation techniques for a plasma processing system: A computer-implemented data presentation technique for presenting a set of expected failure states of system-related constructs pertaining to a plasma processing system is disclosed. The technique includes receiving a set of indicia pertaining to a first system-related construct of said system-related constructs. The technique also includes computing, in accordance with...

20060074593 - Data management system and method: A management system manages data collected at a selected frequency and data collected at a lower frequency. If the lower frequency data is abnormal, it is deleted. Deletion of the data collected at the specified frequency is dependent upon the deletion of the data collected less frequently....

20060074595 - Method and apparatus for improved fault detection in power generation equipment: A method and apparatus for detecting faults in power plant equipment is discloses using sensor confidence and an improved method of identifying the normal operating range of the power generation equipment as measured by those sensors. A confidence is assigned to a sensor in proportion to the residue associated with...

20060074591 - Systems and methods for monitoring fouling and slagging in heat transfer devices in coal fired power plants: A system for isolating effects of one or more process parameters on performance of a heat transfer device is provided. The system includes an efficiency correction unit that is adapted to receive data from the heat transfer device. The data is representative of one or more measurable process parameters or...

20060074594 - Systems and methods for predicting materials properties: Systems and methods for predicting features of materials of interest. Reference data are analyzed to deduce relationships between the input data sets and output data sets. Reference data comprises measured values and/or computed values. The deduced relationships can be specified as equations, correspondences, and/or algorithmic processes that produce appropriate output...

20060074592 - User interface adapted for performing a remote inspection of a facility: A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing an evaluation of the quality of performance of a service involving a person at a remote facility. The method comprises providing a user interface; viewing, on the user interface, a moving video representative of a station showing the person; and using a...

20060074597 - Intelligent knowledge base for an alarm troubleshooting system: A method and apparatus for troubleshooting information system use a graphical user interface (GUI) to a knowledge base of troubleshooting procedures for presenting the procedures in a graphical form, including a flow chart form and a decision tree form. In one embodiment, the troubleshooting procedures are further prioritized in an...

20060074596 - Self diagnosing hvac zone configuration: In a drive circuit in which a plurality of drive motors are connected to a power source through a protective device which trips when the flow of current is excessive, provision is made to detect which circuit or circuits were active at the time of the failure. A microprocessor is...

20060074598 - Application of abnormal event detection technology to hydrocracking units: The present invention is a method for detecting an abnormal event for process units of a hydrocracking unit. The method compares the operation of the process units to a model developed by principle components analysis of normal operation for these units. If the difference between the operation of a process...

20060074599 - Application of abnormal event detection technology to olefins recovery trains: The present invention is a method for detecting an abnormal event for process units of an ethylene processing system. The method compares the operation of the process units to a model developed by principal components analysis of normal operation for these units. If the difference between the operation of a...

20060074600 - Method for providing integrity measurements with their respective time stamps: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises conducting a first integrity measurement to produce a first integrity measurement event. Thereafter, an integrity time stamp associated with the first integrity measurement event is created. The integrity time stamp is used to identify the actual time when the first...

20060074603 - Customer support system and method of customer support: A method is provided for centrally monitoring machines running at remote customer sites and providing customers with adequate support. The method includes collecting machine operating data, including data for each process stage, at the customer sites, and analyzing, at a central location, the collected machine operating data for each machine....

20060074601 - Endpoint location file format, such as for use in mapping endpoints in a utility meter reading system: A method and system for locating data collection points in a mobile data collection system includes receiving geographic location information for multiple data collection points used in collecting, for example, utility consumption information. In one embodiment, the geographic location information may be in the form of an endpoint location file...

20060074602 - System for monitoring the quality of industrial processes and method therefrom: The invention relates to a system for monitoring industrial processes, comprising sensor means for detecting one or more process quantities in at least one process station, acquisition and processing means operating on signals generated by said sensor means for obtaining information on process quality and means for managing the manufacturing...

20060074605 - Critical aperture convergence filtering and systems and methods thereof: A system for compressing a set of data points is provided. The system includes a critical aperture compression module that is configured to discard one or more data points from the set of data points. The discarded one or more data points fall within a tolerance band surrounding a straight...

20060074606 - High bandwidth real-time oscilloscope: A method and apparatus for digitizing a signal. The method comprises the steps of receiving an input analog signal, splitting the received input analog signal into a plurality of signals and frequency converting at least one of the signals in accordance with a predetermined periodic function having a predetermined frequency....

20060074604 - Identifying a state of a system using an artificial neural network generated model: The state or condition of a system may be evaluated by comparing a set of selected parameter values, converted into a trial vector, with a number of model or exemplar vectors, each of which was represents a particular state or condition of a sample system. Examples of such conditions may...

20060074607 - Digital trigger filter for a real time digital oscilloscope: A real time DSO is equipped with a Digital Trigger Filter that performs high frequency rejection, low frequency rejection, AC and DC triggering. The Digital Trigger Filter includes first and second digitally implemented IIR (Infinite Input Response) Filters. A digitized Conditioned Input Signal is applied to the first IIR Filter....