Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 10/06

20060241865 - Audio hazard warning system: The invention provides a system and method for receiving weather forecast information in a mobile unit and using that information to warn a user of a future weather hazard with reference to the mobile unit's location and/or intended direction of travel. A hazard location algorithm compares a forecast location of...

20060241866 - Method and apparatus for estimating of fluid contamination downhole: The present invention provides method and apparatus for quantifying sample clean up in real time by providing curve-fitting measurements of optical or other physical properties of fluid downhole. Fluid is extracted from the formation surrounding a borehole. As fluid continues to be extracted the composition of the extracted fluid changes,...

20060241867 - System and methods of characterizing a hydrocarbon reservoir: A technique is described for interpretation of IPTT tests. In one implementation, the technique may be configured or designed to standardize the complete interpretation procedure of IPTT in a heterogeneous reservoir, using if available, modern wireline logs (such as, for example, nuclear magnetic resonance and imaging), dynamic data from wireline...

20060241869 - Computer systems and methods for inferring causality from cellullar constituent abundance data: Methods for determining whether a molecule affects a disorder are provided. A cell from an organism is contacted with the molecule, or the molecule is expressed within the cell. A determination is made as to whether the RNA or protein expression in the cell of at least one open reading...

20060241868 - System, method, and computer product for simplified instrument control and file management: An embodiment of a system for managing files generated from biological probe arrays is described that comprises a first generator that produces a first data file comprising a plurality of raw intensity values, and metadata comprising a first identifier that uniquely identifies the first data file; a second generator that...

20060241870 - Method for selection of optimal microarray probes: The invention relates to a method for selecting a partial sequence from a nucleic acid sequence whose similarity to a given total sequence is as low as possible. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for selecting partial sequences of a given nucleic acid sequence, which are suitable for...

20060241871 - Chemical analysis apparatus and method: A chemical analysis apparatus and method is disclosed. The purpose of the method is to identify subranges in data produced by a programme of chemical analysis such as QSAR or QSPR analysis. The method comprises iteratively selecting subranges of the data and calculating a regression value from a relationship between...

20060241872 - Method for classification of carbon nanotubes and other materials: A method for identification of a material by analysis of a sample of the material is disclosed. The method comprises illuminating the sample to be identified with excitation light at a plurality of excitation wavelengths. The intensity of light emitted is measured at a plurality of emission wavelengths for excitation...

20060241873 - Minimum force output control method for counter-mass with cable: Embodiments of the invention relate to a cable force feedforward approach that takes into account the cable force in the counter-mass trajectory computation to reduce or eliminate vibration of the lens body caused by the cable force disturbance and corrective force exerted by the trim motors. In one embodiment, a...

20060241875 - Method and device for hydrometeor detection: This publication discloses a method and apparatus for measuring hydrometeors. According to the method, the mechanical impulses of hydrometers falling on a detection surface are measured. According to the invention, part of the measuring device (1) is used to perform a continuous measurement, in order to define a threshold value...

20060241874 - Monitoring system: A monitoring system for monitoring fluid used in an environment such as a trade/industrial waste plant or air conditioning cooling tower installation is disclosed. The system includes sensors (26 to 34, 53 to 55) for sensing parameters of the fluid, a remote monitoring system (40) for receiving signals indicative of...

20060241876 - Method and apparatus for managing ultracapacitor energy storage systems for a power transmission system: A method and apparatus for automatically monitoring and controlling various parameters of individual ultracapacitor cells in a series string of such cells. These parameters are monitored, and a replacement charge current is delivered to any cell which has lost charge due to discharge either external or internal to the cell....

20060241877 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of testing delay thereof: A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises: a first area, formed on a semiconductor chip, which operates at a first predetermined voltage and a first predetermined frequency; a second area, formed on the semiconductor chip, which operates at a second voltage and a second frequency lower than the first voltage and the...

20060241879 - Arc detection and handling in radio frequency power applications: A radio frequency power delivery system comprises an RF power generator, arc detection circuitry, and control logic responsive to the arc detection circuitry. A dynamic boundary is computed about the measured value of a parameter representative of or related to the power transferred from the power generator to a load....

20060241880 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring power flow in a conductor: An energy monitoring device includes means for sensing current in a power line and generating an analog signal representative thereof. The energy monitoring device includes means for generating a digital representation of the current. The energy monitoring device includes means for assuming a voltage value and calculating at least one...

20060241878 - Surface paneling module, surface paneling module arrangement and method for determining the distence of surface paneling modules of the surface paneling module arrangement to at least one reference position, processor arrangement, textile fabric structure: The invention relates to a surface paneling module that includes a power supply connection and a data transfer interface as well as a processor that is coupled to the power supply connection and the data transfer...

20060241882 - Automated utility meter reading system with variable bandwidth receiver: The present disclosure introduces a simple method for an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) system 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, the embodiments of this invention, with minimum pre-processing of...

20060241881 - Networked power line parameter analysis method and system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining power line parameter of a system. Specifically, there is provided a system for determining comprising a networked device including a voltage perturbation circuit coupled to a voltage source and configured to perturb the waveform of the voltage source, and a voltage measurement...

20060241883 - Method of compensating tilt using two-axis geomagnetic sensor, and acceleration sensor, and apparatus thereof: The present general inventive concept relates to a method of compensating tilt using a two-axis geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor and an apparatus. Using the principle where a geomagnetic field value measured in a state where one axis of the two-axis geomagnetic sensor is set up vertically is identical...

20060241884 - System and method for rapid testing of intermittently operated devices: Methods and systems for efficient testing of intermittently operated devices in networks....

20060241885 - Test apparatus and program therefor: There is provided a test apparatus having a plurality of test modules for supplying test patterns used in testing devices under test to the devices corresponding to a given timing signal, a reference clock generating section for generating a reference clock, a plurality of timing supply sections, provided corresponding to...

20060241886 - Method and apparatus for gas turbine engine ignition systems: A method for testing an igniter coupled within a gas turbine engine, wherein the gas turbine engine includes a combustor, a pressure transducer coupled to the combustor, and a spark detector. The method includes operating the gas turbine engine, monitoring the operating pressure within the gas turbine engine, operating the...

20060241887 - Calibration apparatus and method using pulse for frequency, phase, and delay characteristic: In a device for measuring the properties of a device under test connected by a signal transmission path having reciprocity, a terminal on the device under test side of the signal transmission path is opened; pulse signals are transmitted to a terminal on the measuring apparatus side of the signal...

20060241889 - Multi-channel array processor: A method and apparatus for monitoring one or more environmental parameters using interferometric sensor(s), a cross-correlator, a two-dimensional photosensitive array and optical focusing means are described. The method and apparatus allows for near simultaneous monitoring of the parameter(s) of interest....

20060241888 - Working system for circuit boards: In a working system for circuit boards such as, typically, as an electronic component mounting apparatus, an image pickup camera mainly for detecting the position of a reference mark on a circuit board or/and for detecting the misalignment of an electronic component from the axis a mounting head holding the...

20060241890 - Radiant heater in a cooking hob with a thermal switch: The electric radiant heater (101) adapted to a cooking hob is attached to the cooking plate (2a) forming with it an air cavity (13) in which the extended heating resistor (105) is housed on an insulating base (104). A peripheral outer wall (3,6) of the heater defines said cavity (13)...

20060241891 - Wafer curvature estimation, monitoring, and compensation: A method of determining wafer curvature in real-time is presented. The method includes establishing a first temperature profile for a hotplate surface, where the hotplate surface is divided into a plurality of temperature control zones. The method further includes positioning a wafer at a first height above the hotplate surface...

20060241892 - Method and system of determining the absolute velocity of a vehicle: A method of determining the velocity (ν) of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has at least one pair of a front and a rear wheel which are spaced by a wheel spacing (B). Front and rear wheel speed signals (ω) are determined which are indicative of the time dependent...

20060241893 - Analysis and annotation of printed time-varying signals: A system for analysing and annotating time-varying signals comprises a substrate for carrying the time-varying signal in printed form, a printer for printing the time-varying signal over the substrate and a reading and writing device for reading a local background pattern of the substrate and writing on the substrate, the...

20060241894 - Position detecting device and position detecting method: A position detection method for detecting the position of marks comprises the following steps: a step for detecting first information relating to the position of the mark by detecting light from the mark under first measurement conditions; a step for detecting second information relating to the position of the mark...

20060241896 - Rotation angle calculating method of wire harness, rotation angle calculating apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium: In a rotation angle calculating method of a wire harness, a rotation angle of the wire harness is calculated at an arbitrary measuring point of the wire harness when the wire harness is deformed from a first shape to a second shape while a fixed point of the wire harness...

20060241895 - Sensing wheel: A sensing wheel for a device for measuring the rotational speed and/or rotational angle of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine has a plurality of peripherally arranged teeth, which each have a front edge and a rear edge, which define the width of the respective tooth, and tooth gaps...

20060241898 - Automated alignment of spatial data sets using geometric invariant information and parameter space clustering: A method for automatically registering spatial data sets using geometric invariant-information and parameter space clustering to determine the opimum alignment of at least two geometric features taken from two images. The method first identifies geometric features, a hierarchical scheme is then used to find the best fit for the corresponding...

20060241897 - Fibre tracking magnetic resonance imaging: A method of deriving a directional structure from an object dataset is proposed. The object dataset assigns local directions to positions in a multidimensional geometrical space. For example the local directions concern local flow directions in a diffusion tensor magnetic resonance image at least one ‘region of interest’ is selected...

20060241899 - System and method for transforming three-dimensional measurement programs: The present invention provides a method for transforming 3-D measurement programs. The method includes the steps of: loading a 3-D measurement program; determining a transforming direction of the 3-D measurement program; establishing a transforming sequence; transforming each part of the 3-D measurement program; and storing the transformed 3-D measurement program...

20060241903 - Apparatus and method for probabilistic population size and overlap determination, remote processing of private data and probabilistic population size and overlap determination for three or more data sets: The invention determines the population size and population overlap in data containing records on the unique entities without unique identifiers for the unique entities and having at least one common type of information with a known distribution of finite expectation by decomposing probabilistic calculations. The computer determines population overlap of...

20060241902 - Method and apparatus to group sets of computers into classes for statistical analysis: A method of grouping sets of computers into a single class for statistical analysis is disclosed. The method my look at various factors to create equivalent classes of computers depending on the level of aggregation desired which then may be used to provide more statistically reliable information on the uptime...

20060241901 - Method and system for performing searches and returning results based on weighted criteria: A method and system are provided for comparing a focal product with several comparison products. First, selecting a focal product and several attributes relating to the focal product and the comparison products, standardizing and weighting the attributes, and determining for each weighted attribute an attribute score. Next, based on the...

20060241900 - Statistical data analysis tool: A functional model for a set of experimental data has K independent parameters. The parameters are to be estimated from an experimental data-set of N data points, comprising “inlier” data points representative of the model and “outlier” data points which are not representative of the model. Multiple subsets of the...

20060241904 - Determination of standard deviation: One embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining the standard deviation of a data sample. The method considers the distribution of the data in the context of cumulative probability. The empirical probability of a plurality of values is determined. The quantiles of the normal distribution for each empirical...

20060241907 - Method and apparatus for performing a function in a process plant using monitoring data with criticality evaluation data: A method and system for monitoring an entity within a process plant includes collecting entity status data pertaining to the status of an entity within the process plant collecting criticality data pertaining to the importance of the entity within the process plant, and using the entity status data and the...

20060241905 - Method and system for assessing energy performance: A computerized system and method for benchmarking energy performance in a building are provided. The method includes receiving utility use data for the building, receiving weather data for the building, and computing a best thermodynamic break-even temperature for the building based on the utility use data and the weather data....

20060241906 - Statistical method and system for taking performance measurements: A method of determining a performance characteristic of a system is accomplished through the use of descriptive statistics and key ratios. A predetermined amount of measurements are taken to test a system performance characteristic. The measurements are compiled and descriptive statistics and key ratios are determined from the measurements. The...

20060241908 - Diagnostic report improvement utilizing unobtrusive workflow logging: The subject invention leverages data logging of responses to diagnostic reports to provide data that can be mined for diagnostic report quality information. Instances of the subject invention provide an initial diagnostic report assessment means to facilitate review by an entity. The entity's responses to the sorted diagnostic reports are...

20060241909 - System review toolset and method: A method and toolset to conduct system review activities. The toolset may include a set of quality attributes for analysis of the system. For each quality attribute, a set of characteristics defining the attribute is provided. At least one external reference tool associated with at least a portion of the...

20060241910 - Methods and systems for diagnosing machinery: A method of predicting the remaining operational life of a component including generating a plurality of component data utilizing a machinery monitoring system including a database having at least one rule set, the component data indicative of a least one operational parameter of the component, trending the component data utilizing...

20060241912 - 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....

20060241911 - Systems and methods for aggregating telephony and internet data: Teleranking is the aggregation and analysis of customer call and click data through any communication device (“Device”) that provides relevancy and rankings of a Target(s) that is being searched for by the user. The Target can be a location(s), a business(es), a person(s) or a website(s). By combining call and...

20060241913 - Method for monitoring a field device: In a method for monitoring a field device connected via a databus with a control unit, the control unit requests, in intervals of time, an individual identifier of the field device and compares such with a stored identifier....

20060241915 - Quadrature phase-shifting timebase system: A system includes providing a first signal in response to a received signal that has a first timing relationship to an applied signal, adjusting the phase of the first signal to provide a second signal, receiving the second signal and generating a strobe based on a counted number of cycles...

20060241914 - Subarray matching beamformer apparatus and method: A method of beam forming an array (60), by computer processing a cross covariance (30), of the reference sub array seismic signal data signal (120), by having an unknown shape comprising receiving acoustic signals (120), via the aray (100), and computing the date (20) and segmenting the array into an...

20060241916 - System and method for acoustic signature extraction, detection, discrimination, and localization: A system and method whereby acoustic signals can be classified and identified as to nature and location of the original signal. The system and method determine from an arbitrary set of signals a signature or other characterizing feature and distinguish signals associated with a plurality of conditions by means of...

20060235616 - System and method for extracting optical properties from environmental parameters in water: A method for predicting water clarity at a plurality of water depths for a location including providing training data to a neural network, the training data representative of water measurements at the location, thereafter receiving inputs including temperature, salinity, tidal information, water depth, and sediment data, and generating values for...

20060235618 - Pump off measurements for quality control and wellbore stability prediction: A method for obtaining high-quality well logging data acquired during a drilling operation includes acquiring well logging data during a pump-off period when a mud pump is turned off; and extracting a subset of data from the acquired well logging data, wherein the subset of data corresponds to a quiet...

20060235617 - System and method for detection of near-wellbore alteration using acoustic data: A method for monitoring a formation property includes determining at least two slowness values from at least two datasets each characterizing an acoustic wave having a different frequency traversing a formation; and deriving an indicator based on the at least two slowness values. A system for monitoring a formation property...

20060235619 - Shoulder bed effects removal: Various technologies for removing shoulder-bed effects from measurements of an earth formation made in a wellbore. In one implementation, a methodology for removing the shoulder-bed effects includes receiving the measurements and constructing a layered model of the earth formation. Each layer has a set of parameters corresponding to one or...

20060235620 - Method for treating seismic cubes corresponding to obtained for common zone at different times: Method of processing a collection of seismic cubes corresponding to one and the same acquisition zone and to various moments of acquisition, characterized in that at least one seismic cube which is an estimate of the component common to at least two seismic cubes corresponding to different moments of acquisition...

20060235621 - Imaging techniques and associated apparatus: Imaging techniques of pharmaceutical preparations such as tablets are disclosed. The techniques combine the measurement of reflected/transmitted terahertz radiation originating from within the tablet and data analysis localised in frequency and time in order to enable a three dimensional image indicating composition to be obtained....

20060235623 - Method of processing biological analysis data and expert system of biological analysis applying this method: Expert system of biological analysis includes comprising: a collecting engine to collect and represent data resulting from biological measurements carried out on a human or animal subject and defining a biological profile, and personal data relating to the human or animal subject....

20060235622 - Statistical methods for analyzing biological sequences: Statistical algorithms that are useful to aid in the identification of evolutionarily conserved amino acid positions within a family of proteins, and in the identification of interacting amino acid positions within a protein sequence are disclosed. The algorithms may also be useful in the analysis of other polymer sequences such...

20060235626 - Gene synthesis software: Pieces of software and databases are used to facilitate the design and synthesis of genes. The synthesis techniques allow identification, quantification, transcription, translation, and manipulation of portions of the gene sequence represented as 0's and 1's in a computing system. These pieces of software and databases compile constraint information provided...

20060235625 - Methods and materials for canine breed identification: In one aspect, the invention provides methods for determining the contributions of canid populations to a canid genome. The methods comprise the steps of: (a) obtaining the identity of one or both alleles in a test canid genome for each of a set of markers; and (b) determining the contributions...

20060235624 - System reconstruction: integrative analysis of biological data: The process of System Reconstruction is used to integrate sequence data, clinical data, experimental data, and literature into functional models of disease pathways. System Reconstruction models serve as informational “skeletons” for integrating various types of “high throughput” data. The present invention provides the first metabolic reconstruction study of a eukaryotic...

20060235627 - Methods and systems for estimating density of a material in a mixing process: A density observer for estimating an actual density of a material comprises a proportional integral controller responsive to a density error determined by subtracting a feedback estimated density from a sensed density. A method of estimating a density of a material comprises determining a sensed density of the material, determining...

20060235628 - Method for the detection and quantitative evaluation of a balance error in a shaft-bearing system: A method for detection and quantitative evaluation of a balance error occurring in a component-bearing system. Static and dynamic forces (F<SB>S>/SB>, F<SB>U</SB>) acting upon the bearing are determined by sensors of a measuring bridge, which are disposed on a rolling bearing and which change the inherent electrical resistance according to...

20060235629 - Flow meter monitoring and data logging system: A flow meter monitoring system (400) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The flow meter monitoring system (400) includes a communication interface (401) configured to receive flow meter output, a pre-error memory (407), an error log (409), and a processing system (403) configured to communicate with the...

20060235630 - Semicondustor device: The present invention provides a semiconductor device capable of realizing power saving and improvement in reliability or reduction in area. A semiconductor device includes: a power switch connecting an internal power supply in which power is not shut down and an internal power supply in which power is shut down;...

20060235631 - Digital power metering system for reducing spectral leakage when determining the frequencies present in a power signal: A digital power metering system reduces spectral leakage when determining the frequencies present in a power signal by a technique that includes sampling the signal and performing a transformation from the time domain to the frequency domain. The system initially measures the fundamental frequency of the power signal, and samples...

20060235632 - Device for the management of electrical sockets: Described herein is a device for the management of electrical socket connected to a branch of an a.c. electrical network for domestic or industrial use, capable of monitoring the presence/absence of a connected load, as well as possible conditions of overload and short circuit thereof; the device advantageously enables variation...

20060235633 - Poynting-vector based method for determining the bearing and location of electromagnetic sources: A method and apparatus is utilized to determine the bearing and/or location of sources, such as, alternating current (A.C.) generators and loads, power lines, transformers and/or radio-frequency (RF) transmitters, emitting electromagnetic-wave energy for which a Poynting-Vector can be defined. When both a source and field sensors (electric and magnetic) are...

20060235634 - Method for operating a measuring instrument: A method for operating a measuring instrument whose measuring operation is clocked at a measuring frequency. The measured data acquired in the measuring operation are subjected to a frequency analysis and the measuring frequency is automatically controlled as a function of the frequency spectrum thus acquired. In this fashion a...

20060235635 - Apparatus and method for performing the delay estimation of signals propagating through an environment: A system and method for increasing the accuracy of time delay estimates of signals propagating through an environment. The system includes one or more sensors for receiving a plurality of signals, and a time delay estimator for measuring time delays between multiple pairs of signals. At least some of the...

20060235636 - Method and device for measuring workpieces with a measuring probe on a machine tool: A method for measuring workpieces with a measuring probe on a machine tool with linear axes of motion and at least one pivoting axis is provided, whereby the deviation of an actual position of a calibrating body in a pivoted position, in relation to a theoretical pivoted position which the...

20060235637 - Simulator cart: Methods and apparatus are provided which allow control systems to be tested. Specifically, a test system is coupled to a control system in a manner which allows the test system to communicate with and drive the control system by sending and receiving signals via both the controller-I/O communication channel and...

20060235638 - Method and an apparatus for measuring high-frequency intermodulation products: Novel excitation signals are specifically designed for testing a nonlinear device-under-test such that all of the desired intermodulation products are measurable after being converted by a sampling frequency convertor. This is achieved by using excitation frequencies which are equal to an integer multiple of the sampling frequency of the sampling...

20060235639 - Method for calculating temperature as a function of time: A system and method is provided, comprising a sensor for monitoring surrounding temperature; a timer for generating clock data; a controller for reading temperature at predetermined intervals, storing temperature data and corresponding time data in memory and executing software commands; a data display; a calculator for calculating temperature as a...

20060235642 - Activity monitoring systems and methods: An activity monitor, comprises housing for attachment to a person; at least one accelerometer disposed within the housing; and a processor disposed within the housing, for processing signals from the accelerometer to assess activity of the person. A method assesses activity of a person, including: sensing acceleration at a first...

20060235640 - Method for detecting external acceleration to a hard disk drive by a spindle motor: A method for detecting an external acceleration applied to a hard disk drive is described. The method includes obtaining a running current value for a spindle motor operating a hard disk drive. The running current is provided from a controller coupled with the hard disk drive. The method further includes...

20060235641 - Methods for determining the direction of rotation of rotating bodies: A method determines a direction of rotation of a rotating body about its axis of rotation by measuring two acceleration signals x and y with an acceleration sensor. The two acceleration signals x and y are at a 90° angle to each other, are oriented not parallel to the axis...

20060235643 - Information processing apparatus and program: An information processing apparatus includes a motion information receiving portion that receives multiple pieces of motion information, which is time-series information, a motion information alteration portion that alters a positional relationship in a time axis direction between the multiple pieces of the motion information, a correlation information acquisition portion that...

20060235644 - Wire-like structure torsion angle calculating method, and device and program therefor: A method which can correctly calculate a twist angle in a wire harness, an apparatus for the method, and a program for the method are provided. In the invention, a shape obtained by deforming a reference shape model and superimposing the deformed reference shape model on a deformed shape model...

20060235645 - Method for automatically determining the fitting positions of tires in a motor vehicle: The present device relates to a method for automatically determining the installation positions of wheels in a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a direct measure tire pressure monitoring system includes individual wheel tire pressure measuring devices and transmitting devices for the transfer of TPMS data containing tire air pressure...

20060235646 - Methods for eliminating false data from comparative data matrices and for quantifying data matrix quality: This invention provides methods for eliminating false data from a comparative analysis of analytical data matrices, such as gene expression microarrays. The invention also provides methods for quantifying the quality of data provided by such comparative assays....

20060235647 - On-wafer method and apparatus for pre-processing measurements of process and environment-dependent circuit performance variables for statistical analysis: An on-wafer method and apparatus for pre-processing measurements of process and environment-dependent circuit performance variables improves yield/performance test and analysis throughput. An on-wafer circuit calculates the sums of multiple exponentiations of outputs of one or more measurement circuits, thereby reducing the amount of data that must be transferred from the...

20060235649 - Automated detecting and reporting on field reliability of components: An automated system to identify, categorize, detect, and report on unreliable components based on defining, generating, transmitting, collecting, aggregating, and operating on product operational data for observations received from devices in the field, such as over a network. In response to an observation for a product, the automated system automatically...

20060235648 - Method of efficient performance monitoring for symetric multi-threading systems: Efficient performance monitoring for symmetric multi-threading systems is applicable to systems that have limited performance monitoring resources and enables efficient resource sharing on a per-execution unit basis. The performance monitoring unit being shared is programmed to reset its counter and to start performance monitoring operation if there is only one...

20060235650 - Model-based system monitoring: Model-based system monitoring includes identifying multiple monitors configured to monitor multiple components in a system, and accessing multiple health models associated with the multiple monitors. A monitoring policy is generated to monitor the system. The monitoring policy is derived, at least in part, from the multiple health models....

20060235653 - Analysis model producing system: An analysis model producing system, having an analysis model producing means therein, for newly producing an analysis model with using an existing analysis model therein, the analysis model producing means comprising: a geometric characteristic acknowledging portion 103 for acknowledging a geometric characteristic from an outer surface element of the existing...

20060235651 - System and method for determining the cause of tire pressure change: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the cause of tire pressure change. The method comprises obtaining a first tire pressure (P1) at a first tire temperature (T1) and obtaining a measured second tire pressure (P2) at a second tire temperature (T2). The tire pressure is then estimated (Pest) at...

20060235652 - System and method for warm tire fill pressure adjustment: A method is provided for recommending proper tire pressure using a tire pressure recommendation system having a processor. The method comprises obtaining a cold placard tire pressure (PPl) for a cold placard air temperature (TPl) and obtaining a measured outside air temperature (TOutside). The cold placard tire pressure (PPl), the...

20060235654 - Apparatus and method for adaptive data transmission: An apparatus and method for adjusting bandwidth utilisation between a group of different participating users accessing client terminals in a common media event in a computer network. The apparatus includes a distributing unit which distributes address information and bandwidth limitation to the users connectable via the computer network to the...

20060235655 - Method for monitoring function execution: An endless script or other function is considered to be malicious as it exhausts system resources such as CPU time and memory. Therefore, the handling of an endless function execution is crucial, particularly in a wireless runtime environment. A combination of time-out and user-interruption scheme is used to detect and...

20060229813 - Ionospheric forecast system (ifs): The shorter-term variable impact of the Sun's photons, solar wind particles, and interplanetary magnetic field upon Earth's environment is colloquially known as space weather. Ionospheric perturbed conditions resulting from space weather can be specified in real-time or predicted using linked models and data streams based upon multi-spectral solar observations, solar...

20060229814 - Method of optimizing remote sensing operation timing: Presented herein is a method for predicting suitability for performing a remote sensing operation over a particular field. The method includes the step of accessing predicted operation variables at points within the field. These operation variables may include values for weather, crop, and soil conditions. Based on operation suitability parameters...

20060229815 - Method and apparatus for shale bed detection in deviated and horizontal wellbores: A relative dip angle of a deviated borehole is determined from natural gamma ray measurements. Dip corrected measurements are processed to determine the thickness of thin beds, and the peak gamma ray response in thin beds....

20060229816 - Method, media, and signals for processing seismic data to obtain a velocity field: A method and apparatus for estimating a seismic velocity field from seismic data including time-amplitude representations associated with source-receiver locations spaced apart by an offset distance and having a midpoint therebetween, the seismic data being arranged into common midpoint (CMP) gathers associated with respective CMP locations. A control plane having...

20060229824 - Arrays of nucleic acid probes for analyzing biotransformation genes: The invention provides arrays of immobilized probes, and methods employing the arrays, for detecting mutations in the biotransformation genes, such as cytochromes P450. For example, one such array comprises four probe sets. A first probe set comprises a plurality of probes, each probe comprising a segment of at least three...

20060229820 - Chemical sensor array evaluation method: A method is proposed for identifying a chemical substance from a set of output states provided by a chemical sensor array being exposed to the chemical substance. The method comprises steps for selecting from a set of class descriptions for different chemical substances a first class description and one or...

20060229817 - Concurrent two-phase completion genetic algorithm system and methods: A genetic algorithm architecture implements a two-stage completion genetic algorithm with respect to an evolving current population data set. The two-stage completion genetic algorithm that includes genotype and phenotype completion loops. The genotype completion loop operates to compete the current population data set based on genotype field fitness scores. The...

20060229825 - Database system including computer code for predictive cellular bioinformatics: According to the present invention, computer based techniques for using information technology in therapeutics or drug discovery. In an exemplary embodiment, computer based techniques for determining information about the properties of substances based upon information about structure of living or non-living cells exposed to substances are provided. Computer software according...

20060229818 - Method for eliminating crosstalk between waveguide grating-based biosensors located in a microplate and the resulting microplate: The present invention includes several methods for modifying the current processes of manufacturing optical sensing microplates that use continuous waveguide films to reduce/eliminate crosstalk between the biosensors that are incorporated within wells. The methods include (1) physically deteriorating/removing the waveguide film between individual biosensors; (2) chemically depositing highly absorbing materials...

20060229819 - Method for imaging an array of microspheres: A method for imaging an array of microspheres. The method employs a wavelength tunable light source and camera for detecting and quantifying the presence of biological probes that indicate the presence of specific chemical moieties within a biological system....

20060229821 - Method for measuring the incidence of hospital acquired infections: Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing patient hospitalization data to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient, calculating from the hospitalization data the number of specimens with non-duplicate hospital isolates (SNDHI) markers, calculating from...

20060229823 - Methods and computer software products for analyzing genotyping data: In one aspect of the invention, methods, systems and computer software products are provided for analyzing genotyping data. In exemplary embodiment, genotype data are analyzed using a model based classification method....

20060229826 - Quantitative structure - activity relationships (qsar): A method for estimation of the distance from a domain by means of a fragment-based model, the method comprising the steps of identifying the fragments [r1 to rn] in a structure, comparing the or each fragment with one or more fragments in the model, if the or each fragment substantially...

20060229822 - System, method, and software for automated detection of predictive events: A system for the automatic detection and communication of detection of nosocomial infection and/or antimicrobial resistance events in a health care environment includes an input unit that receives nosocomial infection and/or antimicrobial resistance related data, an an event detection machine, and a knowledge discovery unit. The event detection machine sorts...

20060229827 - Intelligent network of hydrogen supply modules: A method and apparatus for managing hydrogen deployment within a heterogeneous hydrogen supply environment is provided. An electronic controller monitors hydrogen supply modules, evaluates conditions relating to the hydrogen supply modules, and affects hydrogen deployment. The electronic controller may also monitor hydrogen utilizers within the heterogeneous hydrogen supply environment. Various...

20060229828 - Voltage dependent parameter analysis: A method of, and a system for, determining an extreme value of a voltage dependent parameter of an integrated circuit design is provided. The method includes determining a plurality of current waveforms, each of the plurality of waveforms corresponding to one of a plurality of aggressor objects in the design...

20060229830 - Brown out detection circuit and method: A brown out detection circuit includes a sense amplifier for sensing a current level exhibited by a flash cell. Combinatorial logic is coupled to the sense amplifier for identifying a program condition of the flash cell based on the sensed current level, including a brown out condition, in order to...

20060229829 - Method and system for the validating fault symptoms: For the purpose of validating fault symptoms appearing at driver outputs (10), a symptom validation unit (14) is provided, within a final stage (18), which undertakes a validation or a preliminary validation, as applicable, on the basis of a classification of symptoms. By assigning the item of validation data “invalid”...

20060229831 - Power line parameter analysis method and system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the incident energy of a system. Specifically, there is provided a technique comprising measuring a voltage of an ac waveform, causing a resonant ring in the ac waveform, measuring a frequency of the resonant ring, computing a line impedance based upon the...

20060229832 - Method and system for charging management: A method and a system for charging management are applied in an electronic device. The system includes a sensing unit, a detecting unit, a signal output unit, a receiving unit and a processing unit. By the method, when the sensing unit senses an external power source inputted to the electronic...

20060229833 - Eddy current inspection method and system: An eddy current inspection system and method for inspecting a component is provided. The system includes an eddy current probe for sensing eddy currents from the component and an analog to digital converter configured for converting eddy currents to digital signals. The system also includes a processor configured for generating...

20060229834 - Dual connection power line parameter analysis method and system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the power line parameters of a system. Specifically, there is provided a method comprising perturbing a voltage waveform through a first connection, measuring a characteristic of the perturbation through a second connection, and calculating a line impedance based on the characteristic of...

20060229836 - Separation of a random component of jitter and a deterministic component of jitter: A random component of jitter and a deterministic component of jitter are separated. A measured jitter distribution is obtained. A form is selected for a selected component of jitter. The selected component of jitter is either the random component of jitter or the deterministic component of jitter. A remaining component...

20060229835 - Separation of random and deterministic components of jitter: Random and deterministic components of jitter are separated. A measured value for deterministic jitter and a plurality of values for random jitter are used to calculate a plurality of first ratios (ξml) of random jitter to deterministic jitter. For each of the plurality of values for random jitter, the value...

20060229837 - Acoustic signature testing for electronic, electromechanical, and mechanical equipment: A method for testing a unit is described where the unit includes one or more of electrical, electronic, mechanical, and electromechanical components. The described method includes applying at least one stimulus to the unit, receiving sound emissions from the unit, converting the sound emissions into one or more acoustic signatures,...

20060229838 - Support apparatus for optical characteristic measurement, and program product used for same: A support apparatus for optical characteristic measurement includes a measurement data inputter configured to input measurement data obtained by an optical characteristic measuring instrument, an image inputter configured to input an image of a measurement object, a measurement table in which the measurement data and the image of the measurement...

20060229839 - Temperature sensing and monitoring technique for integrated circuit devices: A temperature sensing and monitoring technique for integrated circuit devices, particularly dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which incorporates the comparison of a voltage inversely proportional to temperature to a voltage proportional to temperature thereby increasing the differential voltage vs. temperature. In a representative embodiment disclosed herein, these two voltages are...

20060229840 - Rumble strip responsive systems: discrimination of types of rumble strips: There are basically two types of rumble strips: shoulder/center rumble strips and in-lane rumble strips. In an embodiment of the invention, there is a device that automatically identifies the type of rumble strip with which a vehicle tire is in contact with. The device may include a processor adapted to...

20060229841 - Position sensing system for moveable member: A method of monitoring a position of a movable member having a surface is provided. The method includes sensing an image of a portion of the surface of the movable member and identifying a stored image in a memory corresponding to the sensed image. The method further includes identifying a...

20060229842 - Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached probe: Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached magnetic probe are disclosed. One system for controlling motion of mechanically unattached magnetic probe may include a magnetic coil and pole assembly. The magnetic coil and pole assembly includes at least one pole carrier. The pole carrier includes...

20060229843 - Racecourse lap counter and racecourse for radio controlled vehicles: A combination of a racecourse and a plurality of racing vehicles where the racecourse has a predefined path defined by at least one gate. This gate further includes a unique identifier. Each of the plurality of racing vehicles has a sensor capable of detecting the unique identifier and the sensor...

20060229845 - Method for detection of a stable installation of a system having a rotating device therein: In a method for detection of a stable installation of a system that has a rotation device mounted to rotate around a system axis and an arrangement for detection of measurement values indicative of oscillation of the rotation device, a statistical spread of the measurement values is calculated from N...

20060229844 - Method for monitoring laboratory samples: For monitoring samples to be analyzed, the samples are registered in a client data system and a lab order regarding tests to be performed is generated. A data set of each sample is transmitted to a lab system of a commissioned lab and to a sample monitoring system. Samples assigned...

20060229846 - Playbook automation: Systems and methods for playbook automation are described. In one aspect, a user selects operational knowledge associated with an application. The user associates one or more playbook-based tasks, playbook-based views, or playbook-based links with the operational knowledge. The playbook-based tasks, playbook-based views, and playbook-based links are for diagnosing, resolving, and/or...

20060229847 - Diagnostic method for analyzing power consumption of electrical equipment: The method of the present invention permits an on-site diagnosis to be made of the performance and/or production activity of one or more units of electrical equipment in a facility such as a shop, building, plant or factory to determine if power is being wasted. The method comprises measuring the...

20060229848 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and performing corrective measures in a process plant using monitoring data with corrective measures data: A method and system of monitoring corrective measures within a process plant includes receiving equipment data pertaining to the status of equipment within the process plant, receiving corrective measure data pertaining to the status of a corrective measure associated with the equipment, and using the equipment data and the corrective...

20060229849 - Using highly skewed clocks for application based tracing and application based normalization of processor clocks in an smp environment: A method, apparatus and computer instructions for application based tracing and for normalization of processor clocks in a symmetric multiprocessor environment. By deliberately establishing a large skew among processor clocks, it is possible to perform application based tracing by directly using the processors. In addition, the identity, time stamp, and...

20060229850 - Handheld device for retrieving and analyzing data from an electronic monitoring device: The invention is a handheld device that is adapted for wireless communication with an electronic monitoring device, and includes a control unit and dedicated operating system configured to analyze data retrieved from a data logger and determine if the electronic monitoring device has been exposed to an environmental condition exceeding...

20060229851 - System and method of monitoring machine performance: A method of monitoring machine operation includes sensing an operating characteristic of a plurality of machines and calculating a performance metric. The performance metric is indicative of the operating characteristic of at least a portion of the plurality of machines. The method also includes storing the performance metric and comparing...

20060224323 - Chinese lunar calendar-based tidal prediction system and method thereof: The present invention provides a Chinese lunar calendar-based tidal prediction system and method that generate tidal predictions using empirical prediction models, wherein the empirical prediction models are generated using Genetic Algorithms-based regression analysis for a given set of observed tidal data collected at a water level station during a period...

20060224324 - Method and system for creating astronomical observing plans for automated observatories: A method and system for creating astronomical observing plans is disclosed. The method provides the observer with a visual means to allocate observing time to multiple astronomical objects when each of said objects are in a favorable sky position for observation. The system uses a separate planetarium program as a...

20060224326 - Integrated data collection and analysis for clinical study: A data collection system includes remote, implantable sensors for monitoring one or more patient parameters, collecting and processing data from those sensors and utilizing that data in the performance of a clinical study of a drug or other pharmacological agent. The system assists with preparation of a protocol for a...

20060224325 - Predictive indicator model: A predictive indicator tool for predicting the risk of a manufacturing process producing products having defects. Manufacturing sub-processes are identified for the process and s a series of 12 questions is applied to each sub-process. The questions are generated using Six Sigma statistical techniques. The questions are scored and an...

20060224327 - System and method for plant selection: Processes, systems and databases are provided for plant selection. The processes may include providing a database of plant species and eliminating a portion of the plant species based on at least two search criteria including a user's desired climate zone or location plant cultivation, plant size, plant type, plant leaf...

20060224330 - Pcr elbow determination by rotational transform after zero slope alignment: Systems and methods for determining the elbow or Ct value in a real-time, or kinetic, PCR amplification curve data set. A PCR data set may be visualized in a two-dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity vs. cycle number. The data set may be adjusted to have a zero slope. In one...

20060224329 - Protein arrays and methods and systems for producing the same: Methods of rapidly generating and analyzing a plurality of polypeptides are disclosed. More specifically, libraries and arrays of polypeptides are assayed in order to determine their individual immunogenic effect. Based on the immunogenic effect of polypeptides, specific subunit vaccines can be developed....

20060224331 - Protein fragment complementation assays for high-throughput and high-content screening: The present invention provides protein fragment complementation assays for drug discovery, in particular to identify compounds that activate or inhibit cellular pathways. Based on the selection of an interacting protein pair combined with an appropriate PCA reporter, the assays may be run in high-throughput or high-content mode and may be...

20060224328 - System and method for searching patents using dna fragment number: Provided is a system for searching for patent documents by using a DNA fragment number. The system includes a DNA fragment sequence database storing information about DNA fragment sequences; a patent sequence database storing information about patent DNA fragment sequences of patent documents; a patent database storing information about patent...

20060224332 - System and method for identifying molecules: A system and method for identifying molecules. Molecules are identified from a gaseous matter having the molecules and flowing at two different flow rates. A system and method for identifying a substance. A particle which is indicative of a substance is identified from matter having the particle and flowing at...

20060224333 - Method for determining the content of at least one given gas in a drilling mud, associated device and rig: The method includes the phases of measuring the quantity (q1, q2) of given gas in the gases extracted from a calibration sample of a calibration mud, in at least two stages for extraction under predetermined conditions; and establishing a family (310) of curves (303, 305, 309) representing the extraction, under...

20060224334 - Precision gas flow meter: A precision gas flow meter that is capable of measuring small flow rates of gasses precisely in the range of 0.01 to 10 L per minute. The meter is designed to measure the gas flow in small volume increments of predetermined value, and therefore can be used to measure a...

20060224335 - Collecting interval data from a relative time battery powered automated meter reading devices: The invention provides a system and method for providing a time reference in utility meter network. The novel method includes transmitting a message from a meter to a receiving device (e.g., another meter, a collector, a data collection server), where the message includes an interval and a sequence number. The...

20060224336 - System and method for transmitting power system data over a wide area network: Provided is a system for transmitting synchronized phasors over a wide area network. The system generally includes a plurality of phasor measurement units (PMUs). Each of the PMUs are associated with a secured portion of a power system and measure power system data from the secured portion of the power...

20060224338 - Method and device for verifying an electrical coupling state of an inductive load: An electrical coupling state is monitored between an inductive load and a circuit configuration. The latter has a first and a second coupling point for coupling to the inductive load. A first voltage value is determined between the first and second coupling points. The first voltage value is tested for...

20060224337 - Programmable current load systems and methods: One disclosed system includes a plurality of current sink elements coupled between a power supply and a reference potential. A plurality of multiplexers are configured to enable the current sink elements to sink current, and a plurality of selection inputs are configured to control the state of the multiplexers....

20060224339 - Circuit, apparatus and method for capturing a representation of a waveform from a clock-data recovery (cdr) unit: A circuit, apparatus and method obtains system margin at the receive circuit using phase shifted data sampling clocks while allowing the CDR to remain synchronized with the incoming data stream in embodiments. In an embodiment, a circuit includes first and second samplers to sample a data signal and output data...

20060224340 - Waveform display device capable of connecting to network: A waveform monitor comprises: means (35) for generating image data including at least waveform display data of a video signal; means (36) for displaying the image data; means (71) for generating moving image data compressed in a predetermined format from the image data; a converter (38) for packetizing the moving...

20060224341 - Method and apparatus for displaying a current configuration of test instruments to a user: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method 1) determines a current configuration of instruments which are connected in a user's test system; 2) retrieves an icon associated with each instrument (the icons being sized proportionally to the instruments they represent); 3) displays the icons within a GUI; and 4) graphically connects...

20060224342 - System and method for reducing jitter of signals coupled through adjacent signal lines: A method and system for coupling digital signals from a first location to a second location through respective signal lines includes a mode detector that detects each of the transitions of the digital signals. The mode detector determines respective propagation times of the signals through the signal lines based on...

20060224343 - Calibration of tester and testboard by golden sample: In performing testing on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) it is a challenge to accurately generate and measure RF (radio frequency) power. In an example embodiment, in a test apparatus (100) used for measuring the input and output characteristics of an amplifier (140), there is a method for determining test program...

20060224344 - Tire inflation pressure monitoring device and vehicle having the same: A tire inflation pressure monitoring device and a vehicle having the same have a battery-driven unit provided on the tire side that can be reduced in size and power consumption. In a diagnosing unit, an ID comparing section outputs the result of detection of a tire inflation pressure to an...

20060224345 - System and method for improving electrical equipment accuracy by environmental condition compensation: A system and method is designed to measure its own environmentally caused inaccuracies and, based upon these measurements, adjust itself to compensate for the inaccuracies. In one embodiment, a test system first measures the signal loss through a model “long” path constructed in the same substrate as is the main...

20060224346 - Operation testing method, operation testing apparatus and computer readable information recording medium: A processing apparatus is caused to execute predetermined processing operation in a predetermined processing condition; a processing load factor in the apparatus is measured for when the predetermined processing operation is carried out in the apparatus; the measured load factor is compared with a predetermined target processing load factor range;...

20060224347 - Semiconductor device test method using an evaluation lsi: An evaluation LSI includes a noise generation circuit generating a controlled amount of noise controlled from outside of the LSI, and a delay measurement circuit measuring a signal delay of a delay circuit influenced by the noise. The relationship between the amount of noise and the signal delay is determined....

20060224348 - Method for performing model based scanplan generation of a component under inspection: A method for generating a scanplan for inspection of a component is provided. The method includes loading a geometric model of the component and generating the scanplan of the component based on the geometric model and at least one scanning parameter. A method of inspecting a component is also provided...

20060224350 - Physical quantity detecting method and sensor device: A physical quantity is detected by approximating a relationship between an output of a sensor and the physical quantity to be determined by the sensor by setting as coefficients of a quadratic equation a temperature characteristic of non-linearity of the sensor to the physical quantity and temperature characteristics of parameters...

20060224349 - Temperature prediction system and method: A thermometer system and method that rapidly predict body temperature based on the temperature signals received from a temperature sensing probe when it comes into contact with the body. A nonlinear, multi-parameter curve fitting process is performed and depending on the errors in the curve fit, parameters are changed or...

20060224351 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit according to the examples of the present invention is applied to a system using a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage independent of the first power source voltage and includes a first area to which the first power source voltage is supplied,...

20060224352 - Portable unit for determining the position with respect to a reference, particularly for substantially shielded environments: A portable unit for detecting a position with respect to a reference, particularly for substantially shielded environments, comprising a suitable power supply element. The unit comprises a control and processing processor, a device for three-dimensional orientation with respect to geographical references, at least one accelerometer, a screen, a memory component...

20060224353 - Multiple sensor system: An extension unit provided adjacent to an amp unit comprises a measurement data accumulation memory, a measurement data acquiring part for acquiring measurement data coming through a transmission line and accumulating it in the above memory, a data analyzing part for analyzing an accumulated series of measurement data according to...

20060224354 - Multiple sensor system: An extension unit provided adjacent to an amp unit comprises a measurement data accumulation memory, a measurement data acquiring part for acquiring measurement data coming through a transmission line and accumulating it in the above memory, a data analyzing part for analyzing an accumulated series of measurement data according to...

20060224355 - Method for verifying and/or detecting tampering: There is disclosed method of shipment verification and/or tamper detection, wherein a purchaser generates an ordering document such as a purchase order RFID-encoded with data identifying items on the order. The supplier gathers the items into a package or packages for the shipment and RFID encodes the shipment with both...

20060224356 - Systems and methods for structural clustering of time sequences: Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The...

20060224357 - System and method for sensor data validation: In accordance with an implementation of the present technique, a method for processing data is disclosed. The method involves analyzing consistency of sensor readings obtained from a plurality of sensors monitoring a device, where each sensor reading is indicative of at least one operational parameter of the device. The method...

20060224358 - Method and system for inspecting a home for energy efficiency: A system is disclosed. The system includes a first information handling system (“IHS”) for receiving, via a user input, data associated with an inspection of a home for energy efficiency, and outputting the data to a network. The system also includes a second IHS for receiving the data from the...

20060224359 - Method and system for optimizing configuration classification of software: A method and system to minimize to redundancy in testing a new software system by utilizing a knowledge base is provided. The knowledge base may be represented in a form of a decision tree including leaf nodes which store previously tested optimal configurations. When the knowledge base does not contain...

20060224360 - Fault diagnosing apparatus for vehicle and fault diagnosing method for vehicle: A vehicle includes a direct current power supply, an electric circuit such as a DC/DC converter supplied with a current from the direct current power supply, a connecting portion that includes a plurality of relays and that connects and disconnects a path supplying the current from the direct current power...

20060224361 - Remotely monitoring/diagnosing distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application from a central location: A centralized diagnostics management tool is disclosed that facilitates centralized monitoring of distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application. The centralized diagnostics management tool includes a diagnostics management console shell that is customized according to a set of software modules that interface to data sources to...

20060224362 - Trendy information notifying system and trendy information notifying method: A trendy information notifying system and a trendy information notifying method are provided, the system and method being capable of providing a trend for a state in a group composed of selected members to a person (entity) who enjoys service and promoting active communication. When a medium state monitoring unit...

20060224364 - Instruments: A method and data processing system for monitoring radioactive emissions includes providing a processor, the processor having a plurality of potential data input channels, providing data input to the processor through two or more of the potential data input channels, that data input being generated by an instrument, combining all...

20060224363 - System and method for quantifying the quality of motion correction in image registration: m

20060224365 - Oscilloscope having an enhancement filter: An enhancement filter for an oscilloscope is disclosed wherein the enhacement filter may be initially calibrated for one or more channels and/or for one or more attenuation settings such as 50 mV per division, 100 mV per division, and/or 200 mV per division, for example....