Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 07/09

20090192711 - Data compression method for use in downhole applications: Borehole image data is compressed and transmitted to the surface one pixilated trace at a time. The compression methodology typically includes transform, quantization, and entropy encoding steps. The invention advantageously provides for sufficient data compression to enable conventional telemetry techniques (e.g., mud pulse telemetry) to be utilized for transmitting borehole... Agent: Smith International, Inc. Patent Services

20090192712 - System and method for waterflood performance monitoring: Method, system and computer program product for controlling a production/injection operation for an oilfield, the oilfield having a first wellsite with a producing well advanced into subterranean formations with geological structures and reservoirs therein. Data from a plurality of data sources is collected with respect to a production/injection operation, wherein... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090192714 - Characterization of fracture length and formation resistivity from array induction data: Measurements made by a multi-array/multi-frequency induction resistivity logging tool in a borehole are used for determining the length of fractures in an earth formation and the resistivity of the unfractured formation when the fractures have a resistive fluid. A look-up table based on modeling of a fracture by a pair... Agent: Madan & Sriram, P.C.

20090192713 - Determining structural dip and azimuth from lwd resistivity measurements in anisotropic formations: Cross-component measurements in combination with standard propagation resistivity measurements are processed to estimate the vertical and horizontal resistivities, relative dip and relative azimuth of an anisotropic earth formation.... Agent: Madan & Sriram, P.C.

20090192715 - System for tracking and maintaining on on-grade horizontal borehole: A tracking receiver system is used to track the progress of a downhole tool along a subsurface path having a desired grade. The tracking receiver system is adapted to detect a reference line originating from a reference line receiver and to determine the position of the downhole tool along a... Agent: Tomlinson & O'connell, P.C.

20090192716 - Determining in-situ the relation between seismic velocity and state of stress in an underground formation: A method of determining in-situ a relation between the seismic velocity and the state of stress in an underground formation located under a surface subjected to time-changing surface loading conditions. A relation is selected between the seismic velocity and the state of stress containing at least one unknown parameter. A... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090192717 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic filtering of geometric primitives in 3d space: Methods and systems for investigating subterranean formations are disclosed. A method for investigating subterranean formations includes obtaining formation property data for a volume of interest in the subterranean formation s; presenting the formation property data as a collection of objects in a three-dimensional volume that represents the volume of interest;... Agent: Spencer K. Warnick Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20090192718 - Subsurface prediction method and system: A method of predicting subsurface properties of a geologic formation includes acquiring seismic data for a subsurface region including the geologic formation of interest, computing seismic attributes of the measured seismic data over at least part of this geologic formation, determining internally consistent rock properties representative of the geologic formation,... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20090192723 - Dosimeter for vibrations: The present invention relates to an arrangement for calculation and presentation of transferred vibration dose from a handheld machine to the hand of a user, wherein a sensor unit 2 is arranged in the palm 9 of the user. The sensor unit is integrated in a thin textile 1, designed... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090192719 - Exploratory visualization of protein complexes by molecular weight: Methods, user interfaces, systems and computer readable media for visualizing data to facilitate analysis of the data. Mass data values are provided for a sample having been separated into portions according to a first characteristic of the sample, the slices having been processed to provide the mass data values of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090192721 - Metabolic phenotyping: A method of generating models with which to characterise selected aspects of the metabolic phenotype of subjects without dosing a test substance to those subjects or with which to predict, without dosing, the post-dose responses of subjects where those responses are dependent on metabolic phenotype, the method comprising: obtaining pre-dose... Agent: Pfizer Inc. Patent Department

20090192720 - Methods and compositions for determining enzymatic activity and specificity of methyltransferases: The invention provides crystalline O-methyltransferases and isolated non-native O-methyltransferases as well as sets of their structural coordinates. Also provided are methods of predicting the activity or substrate specificity of putative O-methyl-transferases, methods of identifying potential substrates of O-methyltransferases, and methods of identifying potential inhibitors of methyltransferases.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090192722 - Systems and methods for processing sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20090192724 - Transcutaneous analyte sensor: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20090192725 - Method and system for determining compound concentrations in a mixture: A method of determining a concentration level of a compound in a mixture is provided. A plurality of compounds are identified in the mixture based on intensity peaks identified from NMR data generated from the mixture. A compound is selected from the identified plurality of compounds for a concentration determination.... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (warf)

20090192726 - Electrochemical composition detection device and method thereof: A lighting system is provided that includes at least one lighting device, at least one connector, and a plurality of external power sources. The lighting device includes at least one lighting source, and an internal power source supplying a first electrical current to illuminate the lighting source. The connector electrically... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20090192728 - Apparatus, system, and method for onboard degraded and deadlined mechanical system alerting: An apparatus, method and system are provided for determining a mechanical-system-(MS)-health measurement and a MS-health state of an MS. The MS is a system that uses a fluid that can be measured by a sensor for purposes such as lubrication or cooling. The MS-health measurement is determined by processing MS-measurement... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090192727 - System and method for monitoring structures for damage using nondestructive inspection techniques: A system and method for monitoring a structure for damage is provided. The method includes stimulating a sensor in a sensor array to generate a plurality of waves. The sensor array includes one or more quadrants, wherein each quadrant includes one or more sensors. Sensor data from all sensors are... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090192729 - Method and system for the determination of damage location: A method for determining the health of a structural element. The method includes providing a plurality of transducer elements arranged and disposed to permit measurement of vibration generated by at least one of the transducer elements at one or more of the other transducers elements. Vibration is induced with at... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090192730 - Damage detection apparatus, damage detection method and recording medium: A damage detection apparatus and method which detect a damage occurring in a specimen include energizing means which energizes in order to put an inspection area on the specimen into a predetermined energized condition, potential difference measurement means which measures a potential difference at predetermined intervals in the inspection area,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090192731 - System and method for monitoring a health state of hydrocarbon production equipment: A device for monitoring the health state of hydrocarbon production equipment is disclosed. The device has a plurality of targets, which are associated with the hydrocarbon production equipment. A record of the initial target positions and/or dimensions relative to the hydrocarbon production equipment is created. A sensor that is compatible... Agent: John W. Wustenberg

20090192732 - Procedure for diagnosing a metering valve of an exhaust gas treatment device and device for implementing the procedure: Suggested are a procedure for diagnosing a metering valve (14) of an exhaust gas treatment device (22), which doses a reagent (16) into the exhaust gas area (11) of a combustion process, whereby the reagent (16) is brought to a metering pressure (p_Ds) by a pump (17) and which is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090192733 - Device and method for detecting a leak in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine: A device for detecting a leak in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a piston in the cylinder, the piston being attached to a crankshaft, includes a time interval determining unit which is designed to determine a first time interval in which the crankshaft... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090192734 - Corn head clutch monitor: A system for determining slippage of row unit or chopping unit slip clutches of a corn head includes a microcomputer coupled to at least one vibration sensor and a display or aural annunciator. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may be identified by recognizing a... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.c/deere & Company

20090192735 - Failure prediction apparatus and failure prediction method: An optical pickup which has a failure prediction apparatus for predicting a failure of a laser diode has an input inputting a value of a current that flows through the laser diode and is measured at predetermined time intervals, a storage storing the current values inputted by said input, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192736 - System and method for detecting impaired electric power equipment: A system and method for detecting impaired electric power equipment. An exemplary embodiment may receive electromagnetic radiation and process the resulting signal. For example, signal processing may be used to identify electromagnetic radiation having a particular pattern that is characteristic of electric power equipment. Furthermore, an embodiment may determine the... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090192737 - Method for estimating life status of lithium battery: A method for estimating a life status of a lithium battery applicable to a portable electronic device is described. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of lithium battery life status intervals are sectioned out by a plurality of voltage-electric quantity curves representing characteristics of the lithium battery.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090192738 - Calibration technique for power amplifiers: A method of calibrating an amplifier includes receiving input and output samples, wherein the input and output samples are time-aligned, assigning at least one of the input and output samples to one of a plurality of categories based on the input sample, and estimating at least one characteristic of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20090192739 - Automatic signal identifying method and automatic signal skew measurement method: In order to automatically measure a signal skew between a first test signal and a second test signal by using an oscilloscope, a method is provided by the present invention. The method includes: capturing a band center of the first test signal; capturing a first sampling point and a second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090192740 - Mark extension for analysis of long record length data: A method of analysis of long record length data using mark duration includes displaying together with a portion of the long record length data each mark that identifies a specified feature of interest together with the mark duration. Associated with the mark may be text identifying the feature of interest,... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20090192741 - Method for measuring field dynamics: The method patented enables robust and reliable relative measurements of the dynamics of a physical field (or: of a conceptual system). The patented method extends least squares spectral analysis (LSSA) technique's unique features. The LSSA has been proven over the past thirty years as being able of fully replacing the... Agent: Mensur Omerbashich

20090192742 - Procedure for increasing spectrum accuracy: The method patented enables increase in reliability of periodicity estimates, and consequently of the natural band (of an object; of a body; of a system; etc.) definition too. The patented method is based on the least squares spectral analysis (LSSA) method. The LSSA has been proven over the past thirty... Agent: Mensur Omerbaschich

20090192743 - Sampling estimating method, sampling inspection estimating apparatus, and computer readable medium storing sampling inspection estimating program: A sampling inspection estimating method comprises determining an acceptable range of a measured value and an acceptable range of a acceptance probability, determining a first sampling plan to be inspected and a condition of calculating a first acceptance variables of lots, obtaining a first measured value of a production lot... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090192744 - Determining an analyte by multiple measurements through a cuvette: A method for measuring the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample by spectrophotometry: providing an open top cuvette having a sample with an analyte to be measured; providing a light source and a detector for detecting emitted light; taking at least two measurements that includes: (i) directing... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090192746 - Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system: Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system are provided. One method includes analyzing a sample using the system to generate values from classification channels of the system for a population of particles in the sample. The method also includes identifying a region in a classification space... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20090192745 - Systems and methods for processing sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20090192747 - Measurement system and method for monitoring the measurement system: In a method for monitoring a measurement system having a transmitter which determines the position of a moveable element and has a transmitter clock, and an electrical energy store which, in the event of a failure of an external electrical supply voltage (for the transmitter, continues to supply electrical power... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20090192748 - System for changing fluid temperature and method for controlling such a system: A system for changing the temperature (T1) of a fluid such as an on-demand water heater is disclosed. The system comprises an input for receiving the fluid (120) at a first temperature (T1) and an output for delivering the fluid at a second temperature (T2). A conduit connects the input... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090192749 - Device, method, and system for calibration of a flow meter used in conjunction with a ventricular assist device: A blood flow calibration system 500 comprising a computer 400 operable to determine and store calibration data for a flow meter 124, a test system 530 operable to simulate blood flow for the flow meter 124, thereby allowing the computer 400 to determine the calibration data, and a programmer 300... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090192750 - Parallel testing system with shared golden calibration table and method thereof: A parallel testing system with shared golden calibration table includes: a storage unit, multiple testing platforms, and a server. The storage unit is used for storing the golden calibration table, and the testing platforms are used to test a device under test (DUT) respectively by utilizing the golden calibration table.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090192751 - Systems and methods for processing sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20090192753 - Apparatus and method for testing electronic systems: The technology and economics of system testing have evolved to the point where a radical change in methodology is needed for effective functional testing of systems at clock rates of 1 GHz and higher. Rather than providing a test fixture to interface between the system under test and an external... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP US Bank Center

20090192752 - Automated portable media device testing system: Circuits, methods, and apparatus for testing media devices. One example provides a test system for testing a number of media players. One or more computers can control the testing of the media players and collect results. Each media player tested may be connected to a computer via an adapter. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192754 - Systems and methods for test time outlier detection and correction in integrated circuit testing: Methods and systems for semiconductor testing are disclosed. In one embodiment, devices which are testing too slowly are prevented from completing testing, thereby allowing untested devices to begin testing sooner.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090192755 - Material property estimation using inverse interpolation: Magnetic field sensor probes are disclosed which comprise primary or drive windings having a plurality of current carrying segments. The relative magnitude and direction of current in each segment are adjusted so that the resulting interrogating magnetic field follows a desired spatial distribution. By changing the current in each segment,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090192756 - Utilizing gross vehicle weight to determine passenger numbers: A method, system, and computer program for determining the number of passengers riding on a vehicle in real time is presented. A total weight of passengers on the vehicle is divided by an estimated weight of each of the passengers to estimate how many passengers are on the vehicle in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090192757 - Apparatus for measuring surface temperature using embedded components: In one embodiment, a temperature sensing apparatus includes two temperature sensors that are disposed at differing depths from a surface and a measurement circuit that is coupled to the temperature sensors. The measurement circuit is operable to calculate the temperature of the surface based on a first temperature of one... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090192758 - System, method and kit for measuring a distance within a railroad system: A system is provided for measuring a distance within a railroad system. The railroad system includes a rail vehicle having a plurality of pairs of wheels, where the plurality of pairs of wheels are in respective contact with a pair of rails. The system further includes a transducer positioned on... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090192759 - Footwear based information display case design: The present invention is directed to an information display unit containing a power source, a program for gathering and calculating information and a display means on an upper surface for displaying the information. A side or lower surface of the information display unit is provided with a means for releasably... Agent: Dennison Associates

20090192760 - System for estimating a vehicle mass: A vehicle mass estimation system for use in a vehicle, such as a truck, including a transmission is provided. A processor may be operable to receive a signal relating to a mass of at least a portion of the vehicle. The processor may be further operable to estimate a vehicle... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090192761 - Performance-testing a system with functional-test software and a transformation-accelerator: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates testing a system-under-test with functional-test software and a transformation accelerator. During operation, the system receives a functional-test template at the transformation accelerator. The system also receives a test signal at the transformation accelerator, wherein the test signal comprises testing... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090192762 - Method for measuring quantity of usage of cpu: The present invention relates to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU, in particular to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU which is capable of getting a credible quantity of usage of a CPU without amending an algorithm in order to... Agent: Carlineo, Spicer & Kee, LLC

20090192763 - Method and apparatus for automatic pest trap report generation and additional trap parameter data: A reporting system for collecting, communicating and analyzing information from a plurality of pest monitoring locations is disclosed. The monitored locations include activity sensing pest devices. These devices can include traps and/or passive and active monitoring devices not having a trapping or killing functionality. While traps may constitute the majority... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090192764 - Systems and methods for wirelessly monitoring a brochure box: This invention relates generally to electronics, mechanics, and software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for wirelessly monitoring a brochure box. In one embodiment, the invention includes an apparatus that provides for remote content monitoring, the apparatus including a receptacle, the receptacle configurable to storing content; and a sensor... Agent: Ruttler Law PLLC One Union Square

20090192765 - Techniques for filtering systematic differences from wafer evaluation parameters: A method, system and computer program product for filtering systematic differences from wafer evaluation parameters provides an efficient visual display and numerical map technique for observing wafer-level process variation. Measurement data is gathered from electronic circuits at multiple positions within multiple regions on one or more wafers and parameters are... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20090187344 - System, method, and computer program product for analyzing power grid data: A system, device and method for analyzing power grid data is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a data collection module comprising a plurality of database adapters configured to retrieve non-operational utility data, a data storage module in communication with said data collection module and comprising a database for... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090187345 - Apparatus and method for time measurement in downhole measurement processes: A time measurement device for a geologic downhole measurement tool is provided. The device includes a plurality of oscillators for measuring a time value. At least one of the plurality of oscillators has a first temperature range that is different from a second temperature range of at least another of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090187346 - Methods for the identification of bubble point pressure: A method includes acquiring formation fluid sample information including pressure, volume, and temperature. Monotonic formation fluid information is extracted from the formation fluid sample information and a pressure, volume, temperature information set is constructed. A curvature sequence is estimated using a first partial derivative and a second partial derivative of... Agent: Edmonds, P.C.

20090187347 - Vh signal integration measure for seismic data: A method and system of processing seismic data includes acquiring three-component seismic data and combining horizontal components of the three-component seismic data to obtain a merged horizontal component. Frequency spectra are determined for the acquired three-component seismic data. A ratio of a vertical component of the seismic data to the... Agent: Spectraseis Ag

20090187351 - Analyte testing method and system: Described and illustrated herein is an exemplary method of operating an analyte measurement device having a display, user interface, processor, memory, and user interface buttons. Such method can be achieved by measuring an analyte with the analyte measurement device, displaying a value representative of the analyte, prompting a user to... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090187350 - Biosensing apparatus and system: A bio-sensing system comprises a light source, a bio-sensing apparatus, a detecting platform, and a processing unit. A bio-sensing apparatus further comprising a substrate, a sample with at least one analyte, at least one grating bound on the substrate for diffracting a light beam in a reflection mode and outputting... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090187349 - Consumption monitoring device: Described is a consumption monitoring device for monitoring the amount of consumables consumed by an animal during a monitoring period. More specifically, the consumption monitoring device measures the weight of the consumables, which are contained within a receptacle, and detects any change in the weight, such as when additional consumables... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20090187348 - Sample processing apparatus, method of outputting processing result by sample processing apparatus, and computer program product: Disclosed is a sample processing apparatus, comprising: a sample processing unit for processing a sample with an auxiliary item used to process the sample; an output device for outputting a processing result by the sample processing unit; and a controller for determining whether or not the auxiliary item is appropriate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090187352 - Method and apparatus for managing denitration catalyst: Data on a secular change of each denitration catalyst is managed based on data obtained by a periodic maintenance and a daily management. Management of a secular change and prediction on performance variations that occur until a next periodic check is performed. It is determined whether the denitration catalyst is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090187353 - Crack growth evaluation apparatus, crack growth evaluation method, and recording medium recording crack growth evaluation program: An element damage determination unit calculates a cumulative value of a damage value using a Manson-Coffin law for a plurality of finite elements of a continuum based on a result of a stress/distortion analyzing process, and determines whether or not the cumulative value of the damage value is equal to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090187354 - Inspection apparatus and inspection method: The invention is directed to detect a warp amount in a real-time manner in a wafer rotating at high speed under inspection. An inspection apparatus includes: a first light irradiating unit for irradiating an object to be inspected with light; a first detector for detecting scattered light from the object... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090187356 - Flow meter diagnostic processing: Apparatus and associated systems and methods relate to automated learning of a baseline differential pressure (dP) characteristic to monitor the performance of a field-installed gas flow meter by comparing on-line dP measurements to the learned baseline dP characteristic. In an exemplary embodiment, a first baseline dP characteristic may be learned... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090187355 - Force beam elevator and method of use: A system for ascertaining absolute fluid flow in a passage way comprises: a force beam that is inserted into a fluid; a carriage to support the beam, the carriage enabling the beam to move vertically in a fixed plane; one or more load cells incorporated with the beam to measure... Agent: Albuquerque Engineer District Attn: Cespa-oc

20090187357 - Liquid level determination by capacitive sensing: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for determining a liquid level inside a container by using an effective capacitance associated with one or more sense electrodes that are located inside the container. Embodiments may support different types of liquids, including water, and support different electrical appliances, including electric kettles,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090187358 - System, device and method for determining power line equipment degradation: A system, method and device for detecting power grid equipment degradation is provided. In one embodiment, a method of using a device comprises measuring a first voltage of a first energized conductor of a power line connected to the output of a distribution transformer supplying power to one or more... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090187360 - Data collection device and associated system for monitoring and storing performance and maintenance data related to a component of an electrical system: The present invention provides systems and methods for testing and storage of information related to a component. A data collection device having a memory is fixedly connected to the component. A test device communicates with the data collection device to store test data concerning the component in the data collection... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090187359 - System and method for estimating battery state of charge: A battery system is disclosed herein. The battery system includes a battery and a controller operatively connected to the battery. The controller is configured to estimate a battery state of charge based on a history of the battery current such that the battery state of charge estimate is obtainable during... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090187361 - Transient detection circuit for esd protection: A transient detection circuit including a detecting unit, a setting unit, and a memory unit. The transient detection circuit provides an information signal to an external instrument when an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event occurs. The detecting unit is coupled between a first power line and a second power line for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090187362 - Interference rejection through circle fitting: A method and apparatus for measuring electrical signals measures an electromagnetic wave having an interference component at a center frequency and at multiple times to obtain data points. The positions of the data points on a complex plane are calculated. Chords of a circle on the complex plane, wherein the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090187363 - Method for optimization of a frequency spectrum: A method for optimization of a frequency spectrum includes the following steps: sampling a time domain signal to obtain an initial sampling signal based upon a first subset of sample points; transforming the initial sampling signal to a frequency domain signal; determining a frequency parameter and an amplitude parameter for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090187364 - Authentication of pharmaceuticals using molecular computational identification: A method, apparatus and computer program product for authenticating a pharmaceutical product is provided. The method includes receiving an identifier and a quantity for the pharmaceutical product and receiving a photonic signal from the pharmaceutical product, wherein the photonic signal includes a frequency and amplitude. The method can further include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187365 - Method for assessing absorption properties of low solubility compounds: The invention deals with a method for the assessment of the effect of excipients, pH and combinations thereof on the predicted absorption properties of low solubility compounds, comprising the step of assessing a change in a flux function for a combination of a low solubility compound and an excipient at... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20090187367 - Electronic load device for power supply product to be tested and method for regulating bandwidth thereof: An electronic load device provided for testing an OT (power supply to be tested) and the working bandwidth is regulated and set according to the output impedance of the OT. The electronic load device comprises a CPU, an impedance-bandwidth table, a voltage-current measurement unit, a power stage and a control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090187366 - Test apparatus and methods thereof: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus for testing having a controller to perform test case conflict resolution by comparing an execution descriptor to one or more platform descriptors. The execution descriptor can have one or more platforms to be tested, each... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090187368 - Burn-in tests to produce fabricated integrated circuits with reduced variations due to process spread: An aspect of the present invention enables burn-in tests to reduce variations due to process spread in fabricated integrated circuits (IC). Fabricated ICs are classified into multiple categories based on performance characteristics (e.g., operational speed) indicative of the extent of process spread in the ICs. The ICs are subjected to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090187369 - Estimation of subsurface thermal structure using sea surface height and sea surface temperature: A method of determining a subsurface temperature in a body of water is disclosed. The method includes obtaining surface temperature anomaly data and surface height anomaly data of the body of water for a region of interest, and also obtaining subsurface temperature anomaly data for the region of interest at... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090187370 - Method and device for detecting anomalous events for an electronic apparatus, in particular a portable apparatus: Detection of an anomalous event in an electronic apparatus includes detecting accelerations acting on the electronic apparatus, establishing a normal-mode range of accelerations that corresponds to normal operation of the apparatus, and detecting the anomalous event when a level of acceleration of the electronic apparatus exits the normal-mode range and... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090187372 - Sin-cos sensor arrangement, integrated circuit and method therefor: A Sin-Cos sensor arrangement comprises a Sin-Cos sensor operably coupled to signal processing logic via a hardware interface. The hardware interface is arranged to provide the signal processing logic with analogue sine and cosine waveforms indicative of fine position data and binary counterparts of the analogue sine and cosine waveforms... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090187371 - Storage medium storing information processing program and information processing apparatus: A game apparatus stores, when an output value is equal to a boundary value of a predetermined range, boundary angle data representing a boundary angle corresponding to a tilt angle of an input device. The game apparatus obtains, from an input device, data including a value changed in accordance with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090187373 - Portable coordinate measurement machine with integrated line laser scanner: A portable coordinate measurement machine for measuring the position of an object in a selected volume comprises includes an a positionable articulated arm having a plurality of jointed arm segments. The arm includes a measurement probe having an integrated line laser scanner mounted thereon. The laser may be a fiber... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090187374 - Wireless position sensing in three dimensions using ultrasound: According to various embodiments, the invention provides a method for establishing communication between a computer program in a computing system and a controller held in a hand of a user, comprising: capturing image data in a capture area in front of a display, the capturing configured to identify a two-dimensional... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090187377 - Cable length detection apparatus and method for a keyboarding video mouse switch: A cable length detection apparatus is provided to detect the length of a cable having at least three pairs of wires for transmitting video signals. The cable length detection apparatus has a signal compressing circuit, a signal converting circuit and a length calculating circuit. The signal compressing circuit compresses an... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090187376 - Sample data reliability evaluation method and sample data reliability evaluation apparatus: A sample data reliability evaluation method includes a first calculating step of calculating a representative distance between samples of a same cluster, which is a representative distance between the sample and the sample belonging to the same cluster to that to which the sample belongs, a second calculating step of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090187375 - Touch sensor, method and program for controlling touch sensor: To detect a position an object is brought into contact or brought into proximity of the contact regions arranged with a capacitance sensor at high precision by successive values with a small number of capacitance sensors. An intensity acquiring unit acquires intensities of change in capacitance detected by capacitance sensors... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090187378 - Depth measurement apparatus and depth measurement method: A depth measurement apparatus and a method capable of measuring a via hole having a high aspect ratio with a high resolution is provided. The depth measurement apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided with means (1) for generating a light beam of white light; a beam splitter... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090187379 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and memory medium: An information processing apparatus for processing information generated by an exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate to radiant energy, comprises an information collecting unit configured to collect first apparatus information obtained by the exposure apparatus via an operation thereof with respect to each of a plurality of first regions which... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090187380 - Root median square power measurement: A handheld computing device comprises a data processor configured to allocate a set of measurements of a wireless signal amongst partitions of a hierarchical multi-level partition space. Each level has a plurality of the partitions. Each partition has a respective numerical range, and the value of each allocated measurement is... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20090187381 - Novelty detection: A method and apparatus for detecting an abnormality in e.g. in operating characteristics or function of a machine, apparatus or system, the method including providing a data sample set comprising n values of a measured physical parameter associated with the apparatus or system generated by repeating a measurement of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090187382 - Remote pumping station monitoring: The present invention relates to a monitoring method for monitoring a remote pumping station in communication with a computational device via the Internet. An embodiment of a method may comprise requesting, using the computational device, pumping station information from the pumping station. The pumping station information may then be received... Agent: Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090187383 - Noise-reduction metrology models: The invention can provide apparatus and methods for processing wafers using Noise-Reduction (N-R) metrology models that can be used in Double-Patterning (D-P) processing sequences, Double-Exposure (D-E) processing sequences, or other processing sequences.... Agent: Tokyo Electron U.s. Holdings, Inc.

20090182507 - System and method for predicting tornado activity: The present system and method detects and predicts potential tornadic activity. In one aspect, the invention predicts potential tornadic activity based on radar data. In another aspect, the invention predicts potential tornadic activity based on an integrated and composite... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20090182508 - Efficient transmission of electricity from a wind farm located remote from a power grid: A method for the cost-effective transmission of electricity to a power grid capable of receiving it from a wind farm located remote from the power grid is provided wherein mapping information available for unused or abandoned pipelines, high voltage electrical transmission lines and average wind power locations is utilized to... Agent: Grace J Fishel

20090182509 - Combining reservoir modeling with downhole sensors and inductive coupling: A method is disclosed of characterizing a well using a series of measurements taken along the sandface of that well in order to optimize a well model. The method may comprise providing a well model with a plurality of adjustable physical parameters, providing a data set made up of a... Agent: Schlumberger Reservoir Completions

20090182512 - Gene information processing apparatus and gene information display apparatus: For automatic genotype determination based on microsatellites, when a +A peak occurrence pattern largely varies due to excessively intense fluorescent signal, incapability of separating peaks completely, and incomplete experimental conditions, a decreased precision in noise removal and time requirement for visual check and correction become bottlenecks in the analysis. On... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090182513 - Method for analyzing biological networks: Methods and systems for predicting the significance of a biological pathway in a disease state, the method and system comprising: (a) providing data on the expression levels of a plurality of biomolecules differentially expressed in a disease state as compared with the same biomolecules expressed in a non-diseased state within... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090182510 - Method for determining colour perception in multilayer systems: A method for determining the color perception of multi-layer dispersive materials or biological materials for layer thicknesses that are respectively selective, by the determination of the diffuse reflectance based on the respective intrinsic optical parameter using Monte Carlo simulations and taking into consideration the measurement geometries, anisotropy and the dispersion... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20090182511 - Methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial dna and characterization of mitochondrial dna heteroplasmy: The present invention provides methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA and methods for characterizing heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA, which can be used to assess the progression of mitochondrial diseases.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20090182514 - Molecular force field assignment method, molecular force field assignment apparatus and molecular force field assignment program: A molecular force field assignment method for assigning a molecular force field to a molecule having a desired molecular structure, includes a step of specifying a combination according to whether or not an interatomic distance between a first and second atoms, obtained by analyzing a molecular structure with a molecular... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090182515 - High density structural health monitoring system and method: A method for monitoring and diagnosing the health of a structure. The method includes providing a plurality of damage monitoring units each having at least one actuator, at least one sensor and a data collection device. The sensors are arranged and disposed to measure vibration produced by the actuator and... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090182516 - Water level measuring apparatus and measuring method: A water level measuring apparatus and a water level measuring method, in which a water level L0 of a liquid is read from a water level indicator secured to a liquid tank, and a filter value FLT is calculated by applying a filter with a time constant greater than one... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090182517 - Abnormal battery depletion detection in an implantable device: Abnormal battery depletion can be detected in an implantable medical device. Battery capacity consumed can be measured using a coulometer and using a capacity-by-voltage device, and the measurements can be blended to determine battery status. A drop in battery voltage below a specified threshold can be detected to identify a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/bsc-crm

20090182518 - Method of calculating power flow solution of a power grid that includes generalized power flow controllers: A method to incorporate the steady-state model of the generalized power flow controller into a Newton-Raphson power flow algorithm is disclosed. The disclosed method adopts a flexible steady-state model of the generalized power flow controller, which can be applied to calculate the power flow solution of a power grid embedded... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090182519 - Modeling and calibrating a three-port time-domain reflectometry system: A three-port TDR front end comprises numerous components. An exemplary three-port TDR front end is a DSL modem. Information-bearing TDR signals are distorted as they pass through these components. With a perfect model of the response of its front-end, a TDR system usually can compensate for the effects of its... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090182520 - Assessment of diamond color: Disclosed are methods and devices for assessing the colors of diamonds. In embodiments, the color of finished diamonds cut from a given rough diamond is assessed by analyzing the effect on light interacting with the rough diamond to give a reasonable (that is to say commercially significant) assessment of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090182521 - Reference sensor method for calibration of dynamic motion sensors: The invention disclosed includes a method for determining the magnitude and phase calibration of dynamic motion sensors (SUTs), such as accelerometers, velocimeters, and dynamically responding displacement transducers at low vibration frequencies, using an optical encoder as the reference. To calibrate the sensitivity, the dynamic motion sensor is mounted to a... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090182522 - Method and apparatus for computing test margins for at-speed testing: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for computing margins for at-speed testing of integrated circuit chips. One embodiment of a method for computing a margin for at-speed testing of an integrated circuit chip design includes computing a statistical chip slack for the chip, computing a statistical... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP IBM Corporation

20090182523 - Apparatus and method for connection test on printed circuit board: A connection test apparatus includes a controlling section, controlling each connection test device to switch the operation mode between the first and the second modes such that a first connection test device among the connection test devices is in the first mode and the remaining connection devices are in the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090182525 - Explosive device countermeasures: A method and system for mitigating the effectiveness of IEDs are disclosed. The method can include detecting IEDs by sensing the presence of a non-linear electronic component of an IED. The presence of a non-linear electronic component of the IED can be detected by illuminating the device with a high... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090182524 - System and method of event detection: A system and method of event detection is disclosed. The technology involves prequalifying an input signal received from an environmental monitoring device for a specific frequency band. The input signal is compared to a database of reference signals each having an associated event frequency range, and conditioned to generate a... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20090182526 - Guiding ir temperature measuring device with probe cover: The invention relates to an Infrared (IR) thermometer including an IR detector configured to provide an IR emission data representative of a temperature of an area of tissue. The IR thermometer also includes one or more secondary sensors configured to provide an IR thermometer positioning data. At least one microcomputer... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20090182527 - General information management system: e

20090182528 - Analyzing surface structure using scanning interferometry: A method includes comparing a scanning interferometry signal obtained for a location of a test object to each of multiple model signals corresponding to different model parameters for modeling the test object, wherein for each model signal the comparing comprises calculating a correlation function between the scanning interferometry signal and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090182529 - Determining signal quality of optical metrology tool: A method, system and computer program product for determining a signal quality of an optical metrology tool are disclosed. A method comprises: collecting a data pool regarding measurements of a target made by the optical metrology tool, the data pool including a wavelength of incident light used in a measurement;... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090182530 - Noise separating apparatus, noise separating method, probability density function separating apparatus, probability density function separating method, testing apparatus, electronic device, program, and recording medium: There is provided a noise separating apparatus that separates a probability density function of a predetermined noise component from a probability density function of a signal under test. The noise separating apparatus includes a domain transforming section that is supplied with the probability density function of the signal under test... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090182531 - Logging mechanism for an intelligent transmitter module: An optoelectronic device having an intelligent transmitter module (“ITM”) includes a mechanism for logging operational information regarding the ITM. The optoelectronic device includes a microcontroller and a persistent memory. The microcontroller is configured to identify the operational information, and write log information representing the operational information to the persistent memory.... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090182532 - Monitoring unit for photovoltaic modules: The invention relates to a monitoring unit for photovoltaic modules, wherein the modules are designed for a direct conversion of radiation energy, such as e.g. solar energy, into electric energy, and the system is designed function monitored, wherein each photovoltaic module (1-3) has assigned to it its own monitoring unit... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090182533 - Remote diagnostic service: Diagnostic events can be collected on electronic devices at geographically distributed service centers and transmitted to a remote (e.g., network-based) diagnostic service. The diagnostic service can aggregate and analyze the diagnostic events to determine, for example, one or more possible causes of the diagnostic events, and can provide information or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182535 - Accessory validation system: Circuits, methods, and apparatus for testing media player accessories. One example includes an accessory validation system including hardware, firmware, and software. This example provides two test modes, referred to a sniff mode and an emulation mode. In the sniff mode, a test box may be inserted between an accessory and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090182534 - Accurate measurement and monitoring of computer systems: Described is a technology that improves the quality of data collected during computer system monitoring for subsequent analysis via dynamic adjustment, prediction, and/or elapsed collection time considerations. An interval is computed from an actual iteration start time and a desired interval; a subsequent data collection iteration occurs after a sleep... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177402 - Method of interpolation between a plurality of observed tensors: reconstructing said structural matrices and said rotational matrices to yield field gradient tensors at the interpolation points, wherein the interpolation is between two said field gradient tensors, the field gradient tensors being expressed as 3×3 matrices of values, each resolved into a rotational matrix and a structural matrix with three... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090177401 - Methods and systems for mapping railroad tracks: A method for mapping a railroad track is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of track segments that form the railroad track and determining coordinates of each track segment. The method also includes storing the coordinates of each track segment in a database as map segments and linking the... Agent: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (12729 +2000) John S. Beulick

20090177403 - Logging while drilling system: A logging-while-drilling system for efficiently providing a reliable measurement of various petrophysical properties of subsurface earth formations. The logging-while-drilling system generally includes drilling a wellbore within an earth formation, circulating a fluid within the wellbore and injecting it inside the earth formation under pressure, taking a first measurement of the... Agent: Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

20090177404 - System and method for real-time quality control for downhole logging devices: An illustrative embodiment of a method is disclosed for assessing image quality of a down hole formation image, the method comprising collecting acquisition system data from a plurality of sensors down hole; applying a set of rules to the acquisition system data to obtain an acquisition quality indicator; and presenting... Agent: Michael Roebuck, P.C.

20090177407 - Method and device for analysis, verification and quality assurance of drugs for injection or infusion: The present invention relates to a method and device for non-invasive analysis of the identity and concentration of drugs that are to be administered by injection or infusion.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177405 - Method, a computer program and a computer system for determination whether a subject has an increased risk for acquiring a disease: A method, a computer program and a computer system are described for determining whether a subject has an increased risk for acquiring a disease, said method comprising selecting at least one disease, for example using a user interface wherein in a field 23a suitable plurality of diseases is provided. In... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090177408 - Methods and systems for high confidence utilization of datasets: Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a metric for determining substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives in a data set, applying an optimization technique, and obtaining, from the results of the optimization technique, a value for... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20090177406 - Slope-based compensation: A biosensor system determines analyte concentration from an output signal generated from a light-identifiable species or a redox reaction of the analyte. The biosensor system adjusts a correlation for determining analyte concentrations from output signals with one or more index functions extracted from the output signals. The index functions determine... Agent: Blanchard & Associates

20090177409 - Method and system of computing and rendering the nature of atoms and atomic ions: A method and system of physically solving the charge, mass, and current density functions of atoms and atomic ions using Maxwell's equations and computing and rendering the nature of bound using the solutions. The results can be displayed on visual or graphical media. The display can be static or dynamic... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20090177410 - Real-time monitoring device and operation method thereof: A real-time monitoring device includes a microcomputer, a conductor, and a capacitor. The microcomputer monitors changes during plasma processing in a potential of a semiconductor wafer surface that are read by a sensor. The conductor is disposed in a vicinity of the microcomputer. The capacitor connects the conductor and a... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090177411 - Method at spectrometry for investigation of samples, where the sample contains at least two elements: Process of placing a sample of known concentrations of known elements in a spectrometer; measuring the intensity II, I2 . . . In of the different elements included in the sample, by relating known concentrations C1, C2 . . . Cn for the elements included in the sample to the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177412 - Detection apparatus and method utilizing membranes and ratio of transmembrane pressures: The failure of an upstream filtration membrane, or the presence of a foulant in a fluid is detected using a membrane-based detector. The fluid or an effluent from the filtration membrane is directed to permeate through a first permeable membrane, and from the first membrane to permeate through a second... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20090177413 - System for monitoring foreign particles, process processing apparatus and method of electronic commerce: A system for monitoring foreign matter includes a manufacturing line having plural process processing apparatuses, a production management system which manages the processing of workpieces in the manufacturing line, plural optical heads which monitor foreign matter in relation to at least one of the workpieces, and which provide an output... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090177414 - Diagnostic tool for an energy conversion appliance: A diagnostic tool for an energy conversion appliance, which may be a heating, ventilating or air conditioning appliance, comprises a sound receiving transducer (1) coupled to output means (5) to identify, discriminate and log the acoustic signatures of a sequence of events within an operating sequence of an appliance. Individual... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177415 - Surface roughness inspection system: [Means for Solution] A system having an imaging unit 20 having a line sensor 22 and scanning the surface of an object being inspected 101 in a direction perpendicular to the direction of extension of the line sensor 22 and outputting a density signal for each pixel from the line... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090177416 - Positioning pattern: An absolute position detection device, system and method using a pattern comprising two types of position data: location of the pattern relative an object and position of the pattern relative a sensing device, e.g. a camera. The device comprise the sensing device acquiring images of the pattern located on the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090177417 - Fracture prediction method, device, a program arrangement and computer-accessible medium therefor: According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, using a fracture limit stress line obtained by converting a hole expansion ratio into a stress as a criterion for a fracture, the risk of fracture in a material can be evaluated quantitatively by comparing the relationship between data obtained from a... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090177418 - Milking machine testing: The invention relates to dynamic/wet testing of a milking machine (i.e. during extraction of milk from at least one animal). A proposed testing arrangement includes a number of sensors(111, 112, 113, 114, 121, 122, 123, 124, 2, 21, 22, 23, 24, 3, 31, 32, 33, 34, 4, 41, 42, 43,... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090177419 - Adjustment device of rotary machine, adjustment method of rotary machine, and manufacturing method of rotary machine: An adjustment device of a rotary machine including a movable base formed rotatable around an axis, vibration sensors formed so that the sensors can measure amplitudes of longitudinal vibration and transverse vibration of the rotary machine, an adjustment weight to be arranged on the movable base, and a PC including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090177420 - Detection, localization and interpretation of partial discharge: In order to detect, localize and interpret a partial discharge occurring in a partial discharge site along an electrical equipment, two measurement probes and a synchronization probe are installed along the electrical equipment. The measurement probes detect pulses travelling in the electrical equipment while the synchronization probe detects a phase... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090177421 - Electric energy meter: An electric energy meter comprises a terminal unit and a measurement unit. The terminal unit includes plural electric lines each of which carries an electric current supplied from an external power source to a load, and a coil which is provided to at least one of the plural electric lines... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090177422 - Forced idle of a data processing system: Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a data processing system are described. A constraint parameter of a system operating at a first frequency and a first voltage is monitored. The system is, based on the monitoring of the constraint parameter, forced into an idle state... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090177423 - Signal detection using delta spectrum entropy: Disclosed is a method of signal detection. A received input signal is divided into a frame unit and each input signal present in a first frame and a second frame is transformed into a frequency signal. Then, first power spectrum information and second power spectrum information are computed utilizing the... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090177424 - 3-dimensional method for determining the clock-to-q delay of a flipflop: A 3-dimensional flipflop timing model is described, which allows a flipflop to be presented with a smaller setup time in comparison to a 2-dimensional timing model. Because of this, fewer timing errors will be encountered during chip timing analysis, fewer timing errors will have to be fixed, and the user... Agent: Law Office Of Mark C. Pickering

20090177425 - Correction device for acceleration sensor, and output value correction method for acceleration sensor: An attitude angles calculation device (14) calculates attitude angles of a robot from the output values of an acceleration sensor (10). An attitude angles comparison device (16) compares attitude angles in a specified attitude which have been set in a register (20) and the attitude angles which have been detected,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090177426 - Light measurement method and apparatus: A light measurement method is provided comprising: determining one or more correction factors for at least one image capture device, using the image capture device to receive light output from at least one source of illumination, obtaining an output from the image capture device which corresponds to the light output... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090177427 - System and a method for managing sample test results and respective sample result context information: A system and method for managing sample test results and respective sample result context information within a laboratory environment are disclosed. The system provides an analytical unit configured to run at least one test on a sample, and a management unit connected with the analytical unit for data interchange, wherein... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP One Dayton Centre

20090177428 - Method of measuring peripheral tilt angle, method and device for inspecting inspection object having surface mounds, method of determining position of illumination means, irregularity inspection device, and light source position determining device: The method of measuring a peripheral tilt angle in accordance with the present invention, to address the problems, is a method of measuring a peripheral tilt angle on an inspection object having surface mounds, the method including: the step A of projecting light onto the inspection object; the step B... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090177429 - Digital controller: An input processing unit of safe digital controller includes units for determining ground when a voltage V from an input terminal is equal to or lower than a ground determination value; for outputting a first specified value regardless of the voltage V during a first given period immediately after the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090177430 - Method for reconstructing the distribution of fluorophores in a non-homogeneous medium by optical tomography in continuous mode: In the diffusion equation, AS is a constant, {right arrow over (r)} the spatial coordinate of any point of the mesh of a volume at least partially containing the object, and {right arrow over (r)}S the spatial coordinate of the light source. The transfer functions of an equation used for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090177431 - Combination weather station and usb hub with heat sink: A combination weather station and USB hub having an AC power source and a heat sink. The heat sink serves to dissipate heat generated by the AC power source and the internal components of the hub, in order to prevent the temperature readings of the weather station's thermometer from being... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20090177432 - Apparatus and method for real time measurement of substrate temperatures for use in semiconductor growth and wafer processing: The invention is an optical method and apparatus for measuring the temperature of semiconductor substrates in real-time, during thin film growth and wafer processing. Utilizing the nearly linear dependence of the interband optical absorption edge on temperature, the present method and apparatus result in highly accurate measurement of the absorption... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090177433 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed of shaft: Method and apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed of a shaft, in particular a shaft having a number of spaced features on or rotating with the shaft. Preferred embodiments of the invention are concerned with methods and apparatuses for processing signals in order to calculate, with high accuracy and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090177434 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed of the shaft of a gas turbine: A method (and corresponding apparatus) for monitoring the rotational speed of the shaft of a gas turbine having a number of spaced blades on or rotating with the shaft. The invention compensates for the errors which arise from the relative movement of turbine blade tips by deriving a correction factor... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090177437 - Indoor navigation system and method: This document discusses, among other things, a portable device that generates position and orientation data to facilitate movement within a building. The device can be, for example, handheld or affixed to a cane. Data for navigation is derived from reflections from interior surfaces and dead reckoning sensors.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090177435 - Method, system and computer program product for locating a measuring device and for measuring large objects: For the measurement of a large object, a reference point known in the coordinate system of the measuring arm is located by using an optical locating system, when the measuring arm is in the first location. The sensors of the sensor-equipped measuring arm indicate how the measuring tip moves between... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090177436 - Position detecting device and position detecting method: The present invention relates to a position detecting device capable of canceling an error due to looseness in a vertical direction and of eliminating variation in temperature characteristics by calculating a ratio between output voltages of a plurality of Hall elements. Assuming that the Hall voltage Vhe1 of a Hall... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090177438 - Apparatus and method for relocating an articulating-arm coordinate measuring machine: A measurement apparatus, system and method for measuring objects which is easily relocatable about the object is described. The system uses an articulated-arm coordinate measuring machine (CMM) and a laser tracker. A retroreflector for use with the laser tracker is located on the arm of the articulated-arm (CMM). A common... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090177439 - Process monitoring technique and related actions: The invention provides a novel method of monitoring a process. The method also has the ability to take predetermined actions based on the monitored data. These actions avoid or mitigate process abnormalities or upsets that might impact product quality, production, and/or process efficiencies. The method includes the steps of: obtaining... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20090177440 - Diagnostic methods and apparatus for an accelerator using induction to generate an electric field with a localized curl: Methods and apparatus are described wherein a charged beam in an enclosed conducting cavity in an accelerator is monitored for position, current, and energy. One method uses induced electric signals on non-intercepting conducting electrodes. Another method uses an intercepting and moving electrode than can be moved into the beam to... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20090177441 - Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance: A remote maintenance system has a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility and a monitoring center computer for maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer a database for storing CAD data for the monitored facility. The monitoring... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090177442 - On-chip variation, speed and power regulator: Operational speed of an integrated circuit chip is measured using one or more speed measurement elements, such as ring oscillators, disposed at various regions of the chip. Each speed measuring element can include several ring oscillators, each corresponding to a different technology threshold voltage. The speed measurement data collected from... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090177443 - Method and system for detecting changes in sensor sample streams: A method detects a change in a stream of samples acquired by a sensor. A stream of samples acquired by a sensor over time is stored sequentially in a buffer in which an oldest sample is discarded and a newest sample is stored when the buffer is full such that... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090171587 - Method for determining receiver orientations: Method for completely specifying orientation of electromagnetic receivers dropped to the ocean bottom in an electromagnetic survey. Survey data are selected, rejecting noisy data with long offsets and data where the receiver has saturated with short offsets (61). A model is developed comprising three independent receiver orientation angles completely specifying... Agent: J. Paul Plummer(corp-urc-sw 341) Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20090171588 - Attenuating noise in seismic data: Noise may be filtered or attenuated from seismic data by building a four-dimensional volume using the acquired seismic data and then applying a random noise attenuation filter to the four-dimensional volume. The dimensions of the four-dimensional volume may include a trace number dimension, a time dimension, a shot number dimension,... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20090171592 - Homology models of mammalian zinc transporters and methods of using same: The present invention is a method of identifying a compound that has a sufficient level of binding with a target site on a mammalian zinc transporter, or a portion thereof. The method comprises (a) providing a homology model of a mammalian zinc transporter, or portion thereof, comprising at least one... Agent: Brookhaven Science Associates/ Brookhaven National Laboratory

20090171589 - Method, system and computer program product for evaluation of blood glucose variability in diabetes from self-monitoring data: A system, computer program product, method and algorithm for evaluation of blood glucose variability—one of the most important parameters of diabetes management. An embodiment of the method may use routine self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) data collected over a period of 2-6 weeks, for example, based on a theory of risk... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20090171591 - Methods for classification of somatic embryos comprising hyperspectral line imaging: The present invention relates to methods, apparatus, and imaging systems for using near-infrared spectroscopy imaging of plant embryos for classifying plant embryos. In one embodiment, a method is provided for classifying a plant embryo of an unknown type based on near infrared spectroscopy imaging.... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20090171590 - System and methods for sample analysis: The invention encompasses analyzers and analyzer systems that include a single particle analyzer, methods of using the analyzers and analyzers systems to analyze samples, either for single particles or for multiple particles (multiplexing), methods of doing business based on the use of the analyzers or analyzer systems of the system,... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090171593 - System and method for partitioning chemometric analysis: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for conducting a spectral library search to identify an un-known compound by acquiring one or more spectra of the compound; representing each spectrum as a target vector; providing an n-dimensional space having a plurality of partitioned spaces, at least one of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Chemimage (chemimage CorporationIPDepartment)

20090171594 - Machine diagnosing method and device therefor: A machine diagnosing device 20 includes a drive object driving force estimating unit 21 for estimating drive object driving force based on a torque command value toward a servo motor 3 which is acquired using a position command value, an elastic deformation error estimating unit 23 for estimating an elastic... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090171595 - Automatic system for monitoring the mixing of conglomerates: The invention relates to an automatic system for monitoring the mixing of conglomerates. The inventive system can be used to monitor and measure the volume of a conglomerate, i.e. a concrete, mortar or other similar product, and the conditions in which the conglomerate is being mixed inside a mixer. The... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090171596 - Fast characterization of fluid dynamics: Methods and apparatus for fast computation of fluid velocity fields in the presence of objects causing flow discontinuity are disclosed. Rigorous evaluation of perturbed velocity fields, each resulting from placing an object in a bounded space sustaining a reference velocity field, are determined for different orientations of the object with... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090171597 - Evaluation method: t

20090171601 - Battery detection device and method thereof: A battery detection device for detection battery voltage of a device is provided. The device includes a voltage dividing circuit configured to provide an output voltage in proportion to the battery voltage, and a detection unit which includes a voltage detection module, a comparison module, a control module and a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090171599 - Battery discharge indicator for golf car: A system is disclosed for determining battery state-of-charge (SoC) in an electric vehicle. The system includes an inverter that converts battery power to an alternating current, a current sensor that generates a signal indicative of a magnitude and direction of the alternating current, a first analog-to-digital converter (A2D) that converts... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090171598 - Battery pack, electronic appliance, and method of detecting remaining amount of battery: A battery pack has a charge and discharge count measuring part (131) configured to measure the number of times of charges and discharges of a secondary battery based on the summed value of the charge current for the secondary battery, and a decay rate output part (132) configured to compute... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090171600 - Battery state judging method, and battery state judging device: A battery state judging method is provided capable of properly judging a state of a lead-acid battery by measuring voltages without measuring currents. A state of the battery is judged by obtaining, in advance, a DC internal resistance r0 of a same type battery in a new and fully-charged state;... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090171602 - Device for accurately measuring amplifier's open-loop gain with digital stimuli: A device capable of receiving one or more digital stimulus signals and accurately measuring an open-loop gain of an amplifier comprises: a digital charge converter (DCC), a charge integrator, an A/D converter, a control logic circuit and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The DCC and the charge integrator are composed... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090171603 - Methods of detecting series arcs in electrical signals: A method of detecting a series arc fault in an alternating current electrical signal is provided. A method for detecting a series arc fault in an alternating current electrical signal, comprising: a) calculating discrete wavelet coefficients using a current signal as an input for the discrete wavelet coefficient calculations, and... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090171604 - Method and apparatus for compensating s-parameters of passive circuits: The invention related to a method and circuit that is used to compensate for S-parameters of a passive circuit which do not satisfy passivity. The method includes the following steps: (1) getting S-parameters which do not satisfy passivity, these S-parameters being composed of an S-parameter matrix S; (2) computing matrix... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090171605 - Method and system for defect inspection: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving inspection data from an optical inspection tool. The inspection data represents a plurality of surface features of a substrate. The inspection data is compared to a first pattern. The first pattern corresponds to a second pattern formed by dispensing a flowing substance on... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090171606 - Semiconductor manufacture performance analysis: A software architecture, design and implementation that enables efficient transistor performance analysis across multiple levels of parameter granularity with interactive drill-down, drill-across capability, for use during semiconductor technology development. The software may include several features, such as highly modular, robust architecture to enable analysis across the multiple granularity of transistor... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090171608 - Magnetic data processing device, magnetic data processing method, and magnetic data processing program: In a magnetic data processing device, a magnetic data input part sequentially receives magnetic data output from a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic sensor. A storage part stores a plurality of the magnetic data as a data set of statistical population. An acceleration data input part receives acceleration data output from a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090171607 - Portable electronic device capable of re-calibrating azimuth and method thereof: One or more sensors in a portable electronic device have individual status parameter in response to different using configurations. When the portable electronic device operates in a first using configuration, an electronic compass in the portable electronic device loads a corresponding first default setting, according to the status parameter of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090171609 - Image forming apparatus and method for correcting position displacement: A disclosed image forming apparatus for detecting position displacement patterns and correcting position displacement of an image forming position in a main scanning direction according to the detection result, includes a position displacement amount calculating part configured to calculate the amount of the position displacement according to the detection result,... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090171610 - Surveying instrument and surveying compensation method: The present invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises rotating units (3) and (4) operated rotatably, supporting units (6) and (3) to support the rotating units, a reflection mirror portion provided on one of the supporting unit or the rotating unit, tilt sensors (15) and (24) arranged on the other... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090171611 - Reducing mission signal output delay in ic having mission and test modes: An integrated circuit apparatus includes a switching circuit that provides respective signal paths to permit a mission signal, a test signal, and a boundary scan test signal to share an output terminal. The signal path associated with the mission signal imposes a smaller switching delay than do the signal paths... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090171612 - Method and apparatus for determining whether components are not present in a computer system: A system that determines whether components are not present in a computer system is presented. During operation the system receives telemetry signals from sensors within the computer system. Next, the system dynamically generates a temperature map for the computer system based on the telemetry signals. The system then analyzes the... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090171613 - Information processing apparatus and nonvolatile semiconductor storage device: An information processing apparatus including: a main unit; a cooling fan that suctions open air into the main unit to cool inside the main unit with an air flow; and a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device that is provided within the main unit to be used as an external storage device,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090171615 - Apparatus and method for classification of physical orientation: A state classifier uses learning obtained from a plurality of training algorithms each adapted to differentiate between states of physical orientation of an object in response to input data from an tri-axial accelerometer. At least two of the training algorithms are trained using data from an accelerometer mounted at a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090171617 - Method of detecting free fall and apparatus to detect free fall using the method: A method of detecting a free fall of a device includes measuring an acceleration of the device, calculating an integral of the acceleration, and determining whether the acceleration is periodic. If the acceleration is not periodic, the integral of the acceleration is compared with a first critical value to determine... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090171616 - Motion detector module: In a data acquisition system a sensor module includes a motion sensor and a communication controller. The motion sensor and communication controller are prepared in a form factor adapted to be received within, or otherwise readily used with, the user appliance. A data signal produced by the motion sensor is... Agent: Bergman & Song LLP

20090171614 - System and method for processing raw activity energy expenditure data: According to one embodiment, a method is provided for calculating, by an activity monitor comprising one accelerometer, a raw activity energy expenditure data based on movement by a user. The method includes determining if the raw activity energy expenditure data is associated with a high intensity physical activity, wherein the... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090171618 - Surveying system: The present invention provides a surveying system, which comprises a surveying instrument 1 which measures a distance and an angle by projecting a distance measuring light toward a target 12 and can measure a three-dimensional position data of said target and has a function to track the target, and a... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090171619 - Surveying procedure and system for a high-rise structure: The invention concerns a surveying procedure for a structure (1′), more particularly a high-rise building, to be erected which has an ideal axis (a) oriented relative to the gravity vector. At least three reference points (A5′, B5′, C5′) are defined by receivers (AA, BB, CC) of a satellite-based positioning system... Agent: Workman Nydegger/leica 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090171620 - Autofocus control voltage for indicating package dimensions: A system and method for determining dimensions of a package during imaging for supply chain management is provided. The system and method utilize a value of an auto focus control voltage when an image of a package is in focus to calculate a magnification ratio. The calculated magnification ratio is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090171621 - Measuring the distance between devices: This invention provides compositions and methods for producing low cholesterol poultry eggs using hypocholesterolemic compounds, cholesterol lowering supplements, and feeds therefrom. Preferably, this invention provides microbial statins without methyl group in C6, as shown in formula V, in order to produce low cholesterol poultry eggs. The invention allows producing low... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090171622 - Distortion evaluating apparatus and distortion evaluating method: A distortion evaluating apparatus which can quantitatively evaluate distortion in a measurement object surface is provided. A distortion evaluating apparatus evaluates distortion based on three-dimensional measurement data obtained from a measurement object surface. The apparatus includes a secondary differential component adapted for effecting a secondary differential operation on two-dimensional measurement... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090171623 - Multimodal fusion decision logic system for determining whether to accept a specimen: The present invention includes a method of deciding whether a data set is acceptable for making a decision. A first probability partition array and a second probability partition array may be provided. One or both of the probability partition arrays may be a Copula model. A no-match zone may be... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090171624 - Method and apparatus to provide a data interface between equipment to be temporarily monitored and diagnostic data gathering apparatus: A channel (500) is configured and arranged to be fixedly mounted (401) to equipment (100) to be temporarily monitored. At least one sensor-engagement member (800) is movably captivated (402) within this channel and a sensor assembly (1000) (comprising a plurality of photosensitive receptors (1001) that are disposed in a pattern... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090171625 - Statement-based computing system: A computer-implemented system and method creates and stores measurement statement objects representing complete statements of measurement. Each measurement statement object represents a measurement, such as “the left wing of the F-16 aircraft has a span of 36 m,” and contains a value object, an aspect object, and an entity object.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP