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| 20120126811 | Methods and apparatuses for 3D magnetic density imaging and magnetic resonance imaging Methods and apparatuses for 3D tomographic imaging of objects such as soft-tissues in humans are disclosed. They are similar to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods and apparatuses but they are based on the new Field Paradigm founded on the principle that the fi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120008722 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR, RECEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD A processor (110) is disclosed for processing a plurality of Fourier-transformed instances of a symbol, each instance being comprised in one of a plurality of frequency-divided multiplexed subcarriers, said processor being arranged to estimate, for each instance,... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110270905 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFECTLY INCOHERENT SAMPLING TO A HAAR DOMAIN The present invention relates to a method for converting a signal, including the steps of: providing a first representation of the signal in a first domain; converting the first representation of the signal into a second representation of the signal in a second domain, ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264724 | Apparatus, Methods, and HDL Code for Determining the Coefficients of a Function With Decreased Latency The present invention provides apparatus, methods, and computer program products that can decrease the latency with which the coefficients of a function representative of signal are determined Specifically, the apparatus, methods, and computer program products of the pr... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110172974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIA STRUCTURE MEASUREMENT A system for via structure measurement is disclosed. The system comprises a reflectometer, a simulation unit and a comparing unit. The reflectometer is configured to collect a measured diffraction spectrum of at least a via. The simulation unit is configured to provide ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110137968 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF IMPACTS A method for determining the position of impacts on an object comprising two acoustic sensors, and N active areas of said object, comprises the steps of: (a) receiving two acoustic signals S1(t) and S2(t); (b) calculating a sample signature functio... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110119038 | PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM THAT PERFORMS SPHERICAL HARMONIC TRANSFORMS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM A parallel computing system that performs simulation of a sphere by using a spherical harmonic function, and comprises a plurality of computing nodes interconnected with each other via a communication path, wherein each of the computing nodes includes: a storage unit th... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110090100 | TRANSFORMING SIGNALS USING PASSIVE CIRCUITS Passive signal combiners are employed to transform at least one signal from one domain to another. In some aspects the transformation comprises an NFL an IFFT, a DFT, or an IDFT. In some implementations the passive signal combiners comprise a set of planar waveguides (e... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20100325185 | ALGORITHM FOR ADIABATIC PULSE DESIGN USING THE SHINNAR LE-ROUX TRANSFORM A method for providing an adiabatic RF pulse that is an inversion or refocusing pulse for a RF pulse sequence is provided. A linear phase frequency profile (Flp(ω)) is determined for the adiabatic RF pulse. A quadratic phase is applied to the linear phase fr... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325184 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD A digital signal processing apparatus includes a frame generator configured to generate a plurality of frames from a row of sample data of a time-domain, a part of each frame overlapping with adjoining frames, a Fourier transform unit configured to transform at least on... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100241399 | Statistical Processing Methods Used in Abnormal Situation Detection Detection of one or more abnormal situations is performed using various statistical measures, such as a mean, a median, a standard deviation, etc. of one or more process parameters or variable measurements made by statistical process monitoring blocks within a plant. Th... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100205234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SIGNAL USING CYCLO-STATIONARY CHARACTERISITICS A method and apparatus for detecting a signal using a cyclo-stationary characteristic value is provided. A method of detecting a signal using a cyclo-stationary characteristic value includes: calculating cyclo-stationary characteristic values with respect to a cyclic fr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100190198 | ASYMMETRIC SYSTEMS Among other things, a combination comprises interaction with a system that has a perturbation. In such perturbed system, a non-directional input is applied to a first variable of the system. Based on an asymmetry of the perturbed system, a directional effect is achieved... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100121793 | PATTERN GENERATION METHOD, PATTERN GENERATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Disclosed is an apparatus that generates automatically a characteristic pattern in time series data by clustering a plurality of time series subsequences generated from the time series data. The apparatus includes a time series subsequence generation unit that generates... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100082721 | IMAGE AND AUDIO TRANSFORM METHODS Inverse discrete cosine transform (type-III DCT), used in video/image and audio coding, is implemented in the form of FFT to lower computational complexity.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100030830 | Method of predicting of signal processes via separation on band-limited and high-frequency components A method of prediction is suggested for the characteristics of future values of processes that can be expressed as integrals over future times with different weight functions (kernels), or as anticausal convolution integrals. In particular, all band-limited processes pr... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090309725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURITY BREACH DETECTION A system for detecting and classifying a security breach may include at least one sensor configured to detect seismic vibration from a source, and to generate an output signal that represents the detected seismic vibration. The system may further include a controller th... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090285551 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Pre-Inserted and/or Potential Advertisement Breaks in a Video Sequence The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying advertisement breaks in digital video files. Generally, an advertisement break identification module receives a digital video file and generates an edge response for each of one or more frames extract... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090267603 | System and method for synthesizing crossing ADC distributions via reassembly of multiple k-spaces A method for synthesizing crossing ADC distributions via reassembly of multiple k-spaces is disclosed. The method includes the steps of scanning a test object having a plurality of anisotropic structures to acquire a first set of DTI data using gradient directions; rota... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090254317 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGHLY EFFICIENT BIT ERROR RATE MODELING IN QUASI-LINEAR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS The present invention provides systems and methods for highly efficient bit error rate (BER) modeling in quasi-linear communication networks. In the present invention, nonlinear noise is treated within a linearization approach along with the amplified spontaneous emissi... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090216137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTRUM ESTIMATION The invention relates to a method for transforming physiological data from the time domain to the frequency domain. The method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of digital data in the time domain; providing a microcomputer programmed to run a recursive Fourie... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090182797 | CONSISTENT CONTINGENCY TABLE RELEASE Techniques for contingency table release provide an accurate and consistent set of tables while guaranteeing that privacy is preserved. A positive and integral database is constructed that corresponds to these tables. Therefore, a database can be generated that preserve... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090172061 | INVERSE HADAMARD TRANSFORM CONVERTER AND SYSTEM The present invention provides an Inverse Hadamard Transform (IHT) converter which comprises a first group of registers for receiving coefficients inputted to the IHT converter; a first adder for adding selected the coefficients stored in the first group of registers; a... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090164811 | Methods For Analyzing Environmental Data In An Infrastructure Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for analyzing data in an infrastructure. One embodiment includes a method that senses environmental data at equipment racks in an infrastructure, identifies patterns in the environmental data, and uses the patterns to ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090164542 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING COEFFICIENTS OF FILTER AND METHOD FOR FILTERING A method for calculating coefficients of a filter and a method for filtering are provided. The invention directly factorizes a specific function in a cepstrum domain by spectral factorization and cepstrum technique to obtain coefficients of denominator function from the... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090157786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FAIL SAFE FOURIER TRANSFORM MATRIX A base station transmitter for maintaining data rate transmission between a set of Fourier Transform matrices, having a digital Fourier Transform Matrix (FTM), and analog FTM, and a plurality of transmit paths therebetween. During the occurrence of a power amplifier fai... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090094305 | System for Displaying Spectral Trends in Complex Signals A method for displaying changes in spectral content of data signals over periods of time using a computer system. The method includes the steps of transforming time segments of digitized data signals into a frequency based spectral representation of the digitized data. ... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090093994 | ROTATION INVARIANT 2D SKETCH DESCRIPTOR A system, method, and computer program for determining a descriptor, comprising calculating a maximum distance for a plurality of points in a sector between each of said plurality of points and an origin; calculating a minimal distance from one of said plurality of poin... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090013020 | Method and device for restoring degraded information The present invention provides a technology which can perform a precise restoration to a distribution of original information by carrying out an iterative calculation using only a distribution of degraded information. The method according to the present invention perfor... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080307025 | LOCATION DETERMINATION IN SENSOR NETWORKS USING TIME-WINDOW ALGORITHM A network system and a method of determining a location of a transmitter are described. The method includes reading a signal strength of a signal transmitted by the transmitter by each of a plurality of receivers, at each frequency in a plurality of frequencies, extract... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080228844 | Method of Enhancing Spectral Data A method of enhancing spectral data such as a frequency, wavelength or mass spectrum comprises applying an inverse Fourier Transform to the data in the frequency, wavelength or mass spectrum, zero-filling and, optionally, apodizing that inverse transform data, and then ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080215655 | Multi-carrier transmission process and system in a difficult environment with optimisation of emission power The invention proposes a data transmission process, from a first unit (1) situated at a predetermined depth of an oil well to a second unit (2) situated at the surface of this well, the process comprising a digital-analog conversion stage (8) of the... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080172435 | FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY USING MINIMUM OR MAXIMUM PHASE FUNCTIONS A method determines a transient response of a sample. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex electric field temporal profile of a pulse sequence comprising a first pulse indicative of the transient response of the sample... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080170219 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing real-time quadrature projection based Fourier domain optical coherence tomography Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing real-time quadrature projection based FDOCT are disclosed. According to one method, a plurality of interferogram signals is phase shifted. A Fourier transform is applied to each of the plurality of interfero... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080140659 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPARING PROTEIN STRUCTURE USING 3D RDA AND FOURIER DESCRIPTOR Provided is an apparatus and method for comparing a protein structure, which can search a protein similar to an inquiry protein in a 3D protein database in real time by describing a feature of a protein structure by using a three-dimensional (3D) relative directional an... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080140746 | Fast Quantum Mechanical Initial State Approximation A system and method efficiently prepare the initial state of q quantum computer required by the eigenvalue approximation method of Abrams and Lloyd. The system and method can be applied when solving continuous Hermitian eigenproblems, e.g. the Schrodinger equation, on a... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080126461 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM EMPLOYING TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN PARTITIONING The present invention relates to a method for processing a digital input signal by a Finite Impulse Response, FIR, filtering means, comprising partitioning the digital input signal at least partly in the time domain to obtain at least two partitions of the digital input... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080114822 | Enhancement of extraction of film thickness from x-ray data A method embodiment of the present method and apparatus may comprise: transforming raw data into flattened data; taking a first derivative of the flattened data to produce derivate data; and applying a Fourier transform to the derivate data to produce transformed data. ... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080095358 | Method and Device for Restoring Degraded Information The present invention provides a technology which precisely restores a distribution of original information by carrying out an iterative calculation based on a distribution of degraded information and a transfer function including a phase characteristic of a transfer sy... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080071719 | Action efficiency support apparatus and method An action efficiency support apparatus includes a detection unit, a storage unit, a calculation unit and a judgment unit. The detection unit detects an activity to acquire activity information. The storage unit stores the activity information. The calculation unit calcu... | 03/20/2008 |
