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Generic Control System, Apparatus Or Process

Generic Control System, Apparatus Or Process patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/23/06 - 20060265083 - Controlling device and method and program
A controlling device that controls an apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an image representing a certain scene included in content that is being played back by the apparatus; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain image data of the image from an apparatus that is providing the ...

11/09/06 - 20060253204 - Method and apparatus for designing and manufacturing electronic circuits subject to leakage problems caused by temperature variations and/or ageing
First several possible working points are stored with different mappings to available modules. Each of these working points involves different trade-offs for important criteria related to performance and costs. At the design stage, these trade-off points for the criteria are not calibrated to the actual run-time conditions. Subsequently, based on ...

11/02/06 - 20060247795 - Detection systems for power equipment
Improved methods to detect when a human body contacts a predetermined portion of a machine are disclosed. The methods distinguish contact with a person from contact with other materials. The methods are particularly applicable in woodworking equipment such as table saws to distinguish contact between a person and the blade ...

10/19/06 - 20060235546 - Object identifier
A method and apparatus record a first object identifier in a memory associated with an object and record a second object identifier in the memory in place of the first object identifier. ...

10/12/06 - 20060229737 - Coupling of safe fieldbus systems
Generally, a means for coupling widely differing fieldbus or network systems to their own respective safety mechanisms is provided, in such a way as to ensure the transmission of safety data between at least two bus/network systems with different safety mechanisms. A method and an apparatus are provided for coupling ...

10/05/06 - 20060224251 - Duplex system and method of switching control right in duplex system
A duplex system has a control station which has a pair of input/output modules duplicated on control and standby sides, which is disposed between a higher-level device and a lower-level device, and which sends and receives data. The duplex system further has a module information storing section which stores information ...

10/05/06 - 20060224250 - Industrial automation interface systems and methods
The subject invention pertains to a system and method of interacting with industrial automation devices such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs). A client computer can include a browser and one or more application components such as applets that are executed by the browser. The application components retrieve and receive data ...

09/21/06 - 20060212133 - Method and apparatus for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system
Techniques to mitigate inter-cell interference using joint time and frequency division are described. A frequency band is divided into multiple non-overlapping frequency subbands. The transmission timeline is divided into Tin and Tout time intervals. Data is exchanged with users in at least one inner region of a cell on the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212132 - Real time-capable control system having an sps application under a non-real time-capable operating system
The invention relates to a real time-capable control system essentially consisting of a software-implemented SPS application that exchanges the output data and input data by means of a field bus connecting module. The SPS application runs on a computer under the control of a non-real time-capable operating system, whereby the ...

09/07/06 - 20060200252 - Diversatives
A method and system is disclosed for creating and managing Diversative Financial Instruments. Diversative Financial Instruments are designed to increase the risk-adjusted return of investment portfolios and other collections of assets and/or liabilities. The method and system also addresses the problem of the Regime Switching Effect, which tends to destroy ...

09/07/06 - 20060200251 - Systems and methods for optimal component composition in a stream processing system
A system and method are provided for optimizing component composition in a distributed stream-processing environment having a plurality of nodes capable of being associated with one or more of a plurality of stream processing components. The system includes an adaptive composition probing (ACP) module and a hierarchical state manager. The ...

08/31/06 - 20060195199 - Monitoring device
A monitoring device includes: a moving object image generation unit which receives, on a frame-by-frame basis, an overall image captured by a camera and performs inter-frame differential processing on the overall image or background differential processing between the overall image and a background image that is previously prepared; a density ...

08/31/06 - 20060195198 - Interactive orthopaedic biomechanics system
Methods of selecting a configuration of fixation and compression screws for a bone plate to be installed on a bone of a patient. A computer or website allows a user to load images of a fractured bone and specify a particular configuration of fixation and compression screws with a plate ...

08/24/06 - 20060190094 - Coupling device for three bus systems
Coupling of bus systems is simplified. To this end, a coupling device is disclosed that is used to couple two field buses to a periphery bus. The periphery bus can be used to connect input/output modules for the central monitoring or processing of data. For example, the coupling device can ...

08/10/06 - 20060178755 - Bit log likelihood ratio evaluation
A system and method are provided for generating bit log likelihood ratio (LLR) values for two-layered Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK) turbo decoding in a wireless communications user terminal (UT). The method includes receiving a two-layered QPSK signal with an energy ratio that is unknown, but typically defined as either k12 ...

07/20/06 - 20060161268 - System for operating and monitoring having integrated historian functionality
The invention relates to a system for operating and monitoring a production process and for filing process data for a historian system, the operating and monitoring functionality and the historian functionality being integrated in a single system. A historian database is used for storing process data. The production process and ...

07/13/06 - 20060155387 - Architecture for control systems
An architecture for control systems including multiple control devices. The control devices include standardized software objects having functions, application programs for engaging these functions and thereby defining the operation of the control devices, and an engine for executing the application programs. The standardized software objects implement different types of internal ...

07/06/06 - 20060149393 - Computerized system for monitored retrograde perfusion of tumor sites
A computerized system collects, organizes and stores various sets of data during several phases of treatment relating to monitoring and location of a route in vivo and a visible image of that route for retrograde perfusion of a tumor with a therapeutic agent and for monitoring treatment procedures during such ...

06/29/06 - 20060142875 - Appendable system and devices for data acquisition, analysis and control
An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that ...

06/29/06 - 20060142874 - System for reducing electrical wiring in complex apparatus, such as vehicles and aircraft
A system for controlling multiple processors, each of which controls a group of hardware devices. Each processor is equipped with storage space for a database. A single, shared, database circulates among the processors, and only a single processor receives the database at any given time. All processors are idle, except ...

06/29/06 - 20060142873 - Method to increase the safety integrity level of a control system
Controller capable of executing non-safety-related control logic. A safety module is added to the controller in order to increase the safety-integrity level of a control system. The controller is able to execute safety-related control of real-world objects. Such a control system may exist at an offshore production platform or in ...

06/22/06 - 20060136073 - Ophthalmic surgical system with embedded product catalog
An ophthalmic surgical system 10 includes an ophthalmic surgical console 12 and a plurality of surgical modules 14 for performing a plurality of surgical tasks. Surgical console 12 includes a memory 16. A display screen 18 forms a part of surgical console 12 for displaying a variety of surgical information, ...

06/01/06 - 20060116776 - Method and base chip for monitoring the operation of a microcontroller unit
To enable a method and a base chip (200) for monitoring, by means of at least one base chip (200), the operation of at least one microcontroller unit (300) that is intended for at least one application and is associated with a system (100) to be further developed in such ...

05/18/06 - 20060106466 - Process and method for limiting the behavior of an electromechanical device being controlled by one or more remote users
A process enabling an individual to dynamically refine limits that govern the behavior of an electromechanical device (40) being controlled by a remote operator (10) residing in a different location. The process defines a means by which the control requests created by a remote operator are compared to one or ...

04/06/06 - 20060074494 - Automated position detection for wireless building automation devices
In a building environment, a coordinate location or local position of various automation devices is determined. The location or position may be determined using a wireless distance measurement. Applications, associations, and utilizations for wireless building automation devices are developed according to location and/or positions of the devices. The position may ...

03/23/06 - 20060064177 - System and method for measuring confusion among words in an adaptive speech recognition system
A system and method are proposed for measuring confusability or similarity between given entry pairs, including text string pairs and acoustic model pairs, in systems such as speech recognition and synthesis systems. A string edit distance (Levenshiten distance) can be applied to measure distance between any pair of text strings. ...

03/09/06 - 20060052881 - Telemetry signal collection, process and provision equipment
This patent refers to an electronic equipment unit, which is intended to collects, process and transfer data from a certain area, which it monitors, to a telemetry system. In more detail, data are collected from various intrusion monitoring sensors (e.g. infra-red or microwave detectors), water level detectors, smoke detectors, electrical ...

03/02/06 - 20060047344 - Methods and apparatus for operating a speedcooking oven
A method of operating a cooking appliance including an input interface panel and a processor includes: inputting a first cooking time and a first cooking power level; manually changing the first cooking time such that the first cooking time is either extended or shortened; and automatically determining the actual cooking ...

02/16/06 - 20060036334 - Remote controller for portable electronic device
The control device (1) for operating electronic equipment includes a generally elongated body (2) and rotatable selection means (6) rotatable to any one of a plurality of operation mode positions, display means (3, 8) for displaying information associated with each mode, and a single common activating means (7) for activating ...

12/29/05 - 20050288799 - Field-mounted process device
A field-mounted process device with multiple isolated connections includes a connection that can be an input or an output. The given input or output can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process device can be wholly powered through its communication I/O port. The process device includes a controller ...

10/27/05 - 20050240285 - Method and system for rapidly starting up an ieee 1394 network
According to one embodiment of the invention, a network system for carrying control data between a controller and a device to be controlled is provided. The network system comprises a bus system operable to carry data between the controller and the device according to an IEEE 1394 standard. The IEEE ...

10/13/05 - 20050228507 - Process board with modular spc integration and expansion
A control apparatus for controlling a machine, especially an injection molding machine, includes a bus board providing communication connections between different units, a wiring board, and a separate process module. The process module includes one or more process boards providing a base range of input/output (I/O) connections for the machines ...

10/13/05 - 20050228506 - Process data management
A process data management system (1) has a number of modules (2-6) each of which can operate independently to capture, process, and record process data from machines (P1-P6). The modules also communicate with each other via a messaging service (21, 40) so that data can be routed between components (22-24, ...

10/06/05 - 20050222689 - Method of determining performance of an application server environment relating to a transaction
The disclosure is directed to a method of determining performance of an application server environment relating to a transaction. The method includes executing a program application within the application server environment, determining whether tracing has been activated for the application server environment, and executing a non-instrumented program segment in response ...

09/29/05 - 20050216099 - Computerized system for remote diagnostics and configuration on a field device
A computerized system for performing remote diagnostics and configuration operations of a field device comprising a control unit, the system comprising: first computerized means, connected to a first communications network and to a second communications network, the first computerized means comprising: a first communications module suitable to automatically handle the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197719 - System for controlling and operating technical processes
A system for operating and controlling technical processes having at least one component fashioned as a measuring instrument and a control device, which is connected by electrical lines to sensor and actuators of processes, and having a control program, a measurement and control unit, an operating and observation component, optionally ...

09/08/05 - 20050197718 - High reliability system, redundant construction control method, and program
A high reliability system in which a plurality of apparatuses each having a variable function unit whose function is changed by replacement of software and a fixed function unit according to hardware or fixed software are mutually connected through an internal network, pairs are constructed with respect to the plurality ...

08/25/05 - 20050187642 - Signal monitoring system and method
A signal monitoring system (10) includes: four sensors (11, 12, 13, 14), a multiplexer (20), a signal converting circuit (30), and a monitor chip (40). The multiplexer is electrically connected to the sensors for receiving the signals generated by the sensors. The multiplexer includes two selecting ports (22, 23) for ...

08/25/05 - 20050187641 - Two-wheeled vehicles and control systems and methods therefor
A two-wheeled vehicle motion simulation arrangement comprising a platform; a simulated two-wheeled vehicle; an arrangement for retaining the simulated two-wheeled vehicle relative to the platform with a roll axis; and a control system for imparting motion to the platform in response to control inputs from a rider. The arrangement can ...

07/14/05 - 20050154474 - Sensor element for vehicle bus system
A sensor element for a bus system in a motor vehicle has a first number of pins by which it can be connected to the bus lines of the bus system, having differing potentials. The first number of pins is larger than the number of bus lines. A first device ...

07/07/05 - 20050149204 - Configuring network settings using portable storage media
A portable computer-readable media device and method of use enable automatic configuration of a computing device, such as a conventional network device or a thin client device, for operation in a network. Configuration information, including network settings and security information, is incorporated in an XML file written to the portable ...

06/23/05 - 20050137718 - Method, system and program product for rendering state diagrams for a multi-dimensional enterprise architecture
The present provides a method, system, and program product for rendering state diagrams for a multi-dimensional enterprise architecture. The rendered state diagrams illustrate the actual or planned use, assignment, retirement, interdependence, etc., of enterprise elements in a multi-dimensional enterprise architecture within a user-specified time frame, from a user selected frame ...

06/16/05 - 20050131551 - Apparatus, system, and method for automation using automation modules
A system, apparatus and method for performing automation is disclosed. An apparatus configured to control an automation function includes one or more automation modules connectable into an assembly. The automation modules include a data interface for exchanging data with other automation modules and a processor coupled to the data interface. ...

06/09/05 - 20050125079 - Interactive instructions in sequential control modules in controllers
Interactive instructions in sequential control modules in controllers supports the integration of manual operations with automated process actions in the sequential control module function block, which executes in various controller platforms. Also supported is a table view operator display for effective interaction with the manual instructions. Manual interactions and changes ...

06/02/05 - 20050119764 - Suite of configurable products which can be configured during fitting, configuration tool and configuration process for such products
The present invention relates to a suite of configurable products which can be configured during fitting. It also relates to a configuration tool tailored to this suite of configurable products. It relates finally to a configuration process for such products. A configuration tool (19) linked by an infrared channel (18) ...



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