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| 8163263 | Catalyst for the growth of carbon single-walled nanotubes Methods and processes for synthesizing single-wall carbon nanotubes are provided. A carbon precursor gas is contacted with metal catalysts deposited on a support material. The metal catalysts are preferably nanoparticles having diameters less than about 3 nm. The re... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8135804 | Method for scheduling and rescheduling vehicle service appointments The present invention provides a computer based method for enabling or disabling an appointment feature which allows the scheduling of a vehicle service appointment from a vehicle. An embodiment of the method comprises monitoring for the ability to communicate with ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8093669 | Magnetic nanotransistor The present invention discloses methods and processes for producing magnetic nanotransistors containing carbon nanotubes. The nanotube is attached to at least one magnetic particle, the nanotube is then placed in between the two fixed magnetic moments, and subjected... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088488 | Method for synthesis of metal nanoparticles Metal nanoparticles are formed by heating or refluxing a mixture of a metal salt, such as a metal acetate, and a passivating solvent, such as a glycol ether, at a temperature above the melting point of the metal salt for an effective amount of time. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088485 | Method for synthesis of metal nanoparticles Metal nanoparticles containing two or more metals are formed by heating or refluxing a mixture of two or more metal salts, such as a metal acetates, and a passivating solvent, such as a glycol ether, at a temperature above the melting point of the metal salts for an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082062 | Regenerative actuation in motion control A motion controlled system for a robotic system stores energy when the robotic system uses negative power and releases the stored energy when the robotic system uses positive power. The motion controlled system calculates the power for causing the robotic system to ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8040958 | Method for measuring correlation between frequency response functions A method for measuring correlation between frequency response functions. A first frequency response function and a second frequency response function are acquired. The amplitude of the first and second frequency response functions are tabulated at a plurality of cor... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8012447 | Methods for controlling the quality of metal nanocatalyst for growing high yield carbon nanotubes Methods are provided for the preparation of single-walled carbon nanotubes using chemical vapor deposition processes. In some aspects, single-walled carbon nanotubes having narrow distribution of diameters are formed by contacting a carbon precursor gas with a catal... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7986118 | Open-loop torque control on joint position-controlled robots A joint of a robot is controlled by a torque command. The joint has a position controller with a position feedback loop. The torque command is received for the joint, and a velocity feedforward command is determined for realizing the torque command using the positio... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7981396 | Methods for production of carbon nanostructures Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the large scale synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal cata... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7853539 | Discriminating speech and non-speech with regularized least squares Sound discrimination techniques are disclosed that can be employed, for example, in the task of discriminating speech and non-speech in a noisy environment and other noise classification applications. In one particular embodiment, a classifier system is provided tha... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7794023 | Seat belt retractor mounting system A seat belt retractor mounting system for a vehicle seat includes a bracket having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A generally planar plate is located generally parallel to and spaced apart from the first sidewall of the bracket. The plate is coupled to the ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7778446 | Fast human pose estimation using appearance and motion via multi-dimensional boosting regression Methods and systems are described for three-dimensional pose estimation. A training module determines a mapping function between a training image sequence and pose representations of a subject in the training image sequence. The training image sequence is represente... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774177 | Exoskeleton controller for a human-exoskeleton system Techniques are provided for controlling an exoskeleton actuator at a joint of a human-exoskeleton system by receiving system parameters for the human-exoskeleton system, receiving generalized coordinates for the human-exoskeleton system, and determining an equivalen... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7735910 | Plasma wind deflector for a sunroof A wind deflector for a sunroof. The wind deflector includes a first electrode proximate an edge of a sunroof opening. A second electrode is proximate the first electrode. An insulator is intermediate the first and second electrodes. A power supply is coupled to the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7728839 | Discriminative motion modeling for human motion tracking A system and method recognizes and tracks human motion from different motion classes. In a learning stage, a discriminative model is learned to project motion data from a high dimensional space to a low dimensional space while enforcing discriminance between motions... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7712934 | Vehicle headlamp with daytime running light A vehicle headlamp. The headlamp comprises a light source and a reflector to direct light received from the light source out of the headlamp. A movable shade is positionable to control the light received by the reflector. A shade driver is coupled to the movable sha... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7684896 | System and method of estimating joint loads using an approach of closed form dynamics A method for estimating joint load at a joint of a segment. The method comprises the steps of receiving kinematic data, determining a modified acceleration using at least the kinematic data, estimating a joint load using at least the modified acceleration; and deter... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7650204 | Active control of an ankle-foot orthosis Techniques are provided for controlling a human-exoskeleton system including an ankle-foot orthosis by receiving system parameters for the human-exoskeleton system, receiving generalized coordinates such as an orientation of the foot, and determining a joint torque ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650011 | Visual tracking using incremental fisher discriminant analysis Visual tracking over a sequence of images is formulated by defining an object class and one or more background classes. The most discriminant features available in the images are then used to select a portion of each image as belonging to the object class. Fisher's ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648304 | Shield for a vehicle suspension ball joint A shield for a vehicle suspension ball joint having a receptacle configured to receive a flexible dust cover. The shield comprises a rigid shroud connected to the receptacle. The shroud generally surrounds the dust cover and is positioned proximate an arm of the veh... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7640825 | Tension compensating assembly for mechanical control cables A tension compensation assembly for a mechanical control cable. The tension compensation device has a housing with opposing ends. First and second sections of the control cable pass through but are attached at each end of the housing such that the sheaths of each se... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7635167 | Seat belt shoulder anchor A seat belt shoulder anchor for a vehicle seat. An anchor member having a web guide is attached to a frame of the vehicle seat. A housing having an opening generally encloses the anchor member and is coupled to the seat such that the web guide extends through the ho... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635155 | Vehicle door grip A door grip for a vehicle. The door grip comprises a base member having a central opening. A bracket is positioned proximate an interior portion of the base member. A cover having a shape generally corresponding to the base member at least partially encloses the int... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623944 | System and method of estimating joint loads in a three-dimensional system A method for estimating joint load at a joint of a segment. The method comprises the steps of receiving kinematic data, determining a modified acceleration using at least the kinematic data, estimating a joint load using at least the modified acceleration; and deter... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7623731 | Direct method for modeling non-rigid motion with thin plate spline transformation A system and a method model the motion of a non-rigid object using a thin plate spline (TPS) transform. A first image of a video sequence is received, and a region of interest, referred to as a template, is chosen manually or automatically. A set of arbitrarily-chos... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621599 | Vehicle seat having an integral, retractable step A vehicle seat with an integral retractable step. A generally hollow base is attached to a floor of a vehicle, the base having a pair of side walls. A generally horizontal seat cushion is attached atop the base. A generally vertical seatback is attached at a lower e... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7603330 | Meta learning for question classification A system and a method are disclosed for automatic question classification and answering. A multipart artificial neural network (ANN) comprising a main ANN and an auxiliary ANN classifies a received question according to one of a plurality of defined categories. Unla... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7573477 | System and method for activation-driven muscle deformations for existing character motion A system and method for animating a character with activation-driven muscle deformation. External loads can be estimated through an iterative joint torque estimation process, and the external loads reflected in a physical model. Kinematic motion and the physical mod... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565334 | Fully bayesian linear regression A simple yet powerful Bayesian model of linear regression is disclosed for methods and systems of machine learning. Unlike previous treatments that have either considered finding hyperparameters through maximum likelihood or have used a simple prior that makes the c... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7551801 | Classification of composite actions involving interaction with objects The present invention provides a method for using stored data associated with simple actions to identify and classify an observed composite action which comprises a combination of simple actions. Image data comprising the composite action is received and used to gen... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7519201 | Detecting humans via their pose A method and system efficiently and accurately detects humans in a test image and classifies their pose. In a training stage, a probabilistic model is derived in an unsupervised or semi-supervised manner such that at least some poses are not manually labeled. The mo... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7510245 | Seat belt webbing enclosure A seat belt webbing enclosure for a vehicle seat having a seat back and a seat cushion. The enclosure includes a bracket attached to a frame of the seat back. A cover is coupled to the bracket and extends downwardly to the seat cushion to enclose a gap between the s... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7499574 | Video-based face recognition using probabilistic appearance manifolds The present invention meets these needs by providing temporal coherency to recognition systems. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a manifold recognition module to use a sequence of images for recognition. A manifold training module receives a plurali... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497521 | Seat belt retractor mounting system A seat belt retractor mounting system for a vehicle seat includes a bracket having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A generally planar plate is located generally parallel to and spaced apart from the first sidewall of the bracket. The plate is coupled to the ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7475013 | Speaker recognition using local models A system and method for voice recognition is disclosed. The system enrolls speakers using an enrollment voice samples and identification information. An extraction module characterizes enrollment voice samples with high-dimensional feature vectors or speaker data po... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7469166 | System and method of predicting novel motion in a serial chain system A method of predicting kinematic data for a segment. The method comprises the steps of determining a modified acceleration using at least original kinematic data, estimating a joint load for a joint of the segment by using at least the modified acceleration, and pre... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7463754 | Adaptive probabilistic visual tracking with incremental subspace update A system and a method are disclosed for adaptive probabilistic tracking of an object within a motion video. The method utilizes a time-varying Eigenbasis and dynamic, observation and inference models. The Eigenbasis serves as a model of the target object. The dynami... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7450736 | Monocular tracking of 3D human motion with a coordinated mixture of factor analyzers Disclosed is a method and system for efficiently and accurately tracking three-dimensional (3D) human motion from a two-dimensional (2D) video sequence, even when self-occlusion, motion blur and large limb movements occur. In an offline learning stage, 3D motion cap... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445202 | Shield assembly for a vehicle suspension A shield assembly for a vehicle suspension. The shield assembly comprises a first shield portion attached to a lower arm of the suspension and a second shield portion attached to a lower spring seat of the suspension and at least partially surrounding the first shie... | 11/04/2008 |
