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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6757450 | Negotiated image data push processing An improved image data processing architecture utilizes a negotiation protocol with an information push technique to provide a more efficient and effective image data rendering pipeline. The improved image data processing architecture allows the optimization of data... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6745083 | Method and device for safely monitoring a speed of an electric machine In a method and device for monitoring speed, in particular for monitoring the rotation speed of an electric machine, two processors are employed which monitor the speed using different checking modes and cross-compare results. The first processor executes a conventi... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6745085 | Fault-tolerant multi-node stage sequencer and method for energy systems A method for controlling energy systems such as multiple boiler systems to meet an energy need includes a controller configured as a sequencer with the remaining controllers act as individual boiler controllers which periodically send status messages to the sequence... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6735482 | Integrated sensing and processing An integrated sensor processing cell device capable of transforming, reshaping, and modulating an original sensed image includes a sensing medium. At least one memory device stores weight bits. Multiplexers are associated with at least one of the memory devices. At ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728618 | Method for activating a system for controlling and/or regulating operational sequences in a motor vehicle having several equal-access control units A system for controlling and/or regulating operational sequences in a motor vehicle having several equal-access control units for controlling and/or regulating certain functions in the motor vehicle. Control units each have a volatile memory, and a nonvolatile memor... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721605 | Multi-computer chamber control system, method and medium A system, method and medium for controlling a wafer processing chamber using two or more processors (within one or more computer processing systems), wherein specified functions are assigned to each processor. Some embodiments contemplate that each processor may res... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6714996 | Programmable controller system and method for resetting programmable controller system A CPU unit writes a command for instructing a control CPU specified information for each I/O unit, each I/O unit decodes a command instructed by the CPU unit so as to determine whether or not it is information specified by the control CPU, and holds the correspondin... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711446 | Two-wire field-mounted process device A two-wire field-mounted process device with multiple isolated channels includes a channel that can be an input channel or an output channel. The given input or output channel can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process device is wholly po... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6681253 | Adaptive processor system An arrangement and method for executing different applications associated with several connections using at least one processing unit is provided. The arrangement includes a controller and a database that has several applications. The at least one process... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6678586 | Vehicle built-in electronic control apparatus In a vehicle built-in electronic control apparatus, second control programs are written, second RAM memory for calculation processing and second input/output ports, and a serial-parallel converter for full duplex two-way serial communication for mutually ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6671563 | System and method for collecting data and managing patient care A care management system in which the management of the administration of care for patients is automated. Hospital information systems are monitored and the information from those systems is used in verifying the administrations of care to patients. The c... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6665566 | Electric control apparatus operable on object-oriented program An electronic control apparatus is designed to perform an engine control program in an object-oriented programming manner. A first type message, which does not contain a count value generated as a result of execution of a method of an object, is stored in... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662057 | Method and device for controlling processes in a computer system A computer system and method for executing several processes in tandem, that includes a scarce resource, which is accessed by the processes to be executed. A first device is provided for computing the capacity load of the scarce resource, a second device ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6654646 | Enhanced memory addressing control A processing or control system having arrangements for separately and simultaneously generating instruction addresses and data addresses having two bus systems for accessing instruction and data storage, and having a single address range for both instruct... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6654648 | Technique of monitoring abnormality in plurality of CPUs or controllers The technique of the present invention prevents endless circulation of reset operations of CPUs in a control system including a plurality of CPUs that mutually monitor the opposite CPUs. The plurality of CPUs, which are connected with one another and incl... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6640142 | System and method for controlling workspace environment An occupant of a cubicle or office can activate transparent partitions to partially or completely enclose a cubicle and/or office to minimize noise, optimize privacy, lighting, air flow and temperature. This transparent partition is coated with a thin lay... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6625498 | Numerical control system In a master unit, clock signals from a clock are counted by a counter, and clock data is generated. This clock data is outputted to a slave unit by a driver, and stored in clock data storage memory. The slave unit stores clock data received by a receiver ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6611722 | Control and data transmission installation and a process for the transmission of safety-related data A control and data transmission installation and a process for transmission of safely-related data in a control and data transmission installation. In accordance with the invention, safety procedures of existing field bus systems, particularly the interbu... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6609033 | Field programmable welding controller Welding controller 1 has CPU 1a, ROM1 1b, ROM2 1c and RAM 1d. Programs and data are written into the ROM1 1b and can be rewritten. Sequential welding data is written into the RAM 1d and can be rewritten. A write program for writing programs or data or seq... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6587736 | Distributed objects for a computer system A distributed object for use in a networked computer system including a host computer and a remote computer, where the remote computer is in electronic communication with a device, is disclosed in one embodiment of the present invention as including a fir... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587739 | Appliance communication and control system and appliances for use in same A system of intelligent appliances coupled by common household power lines or wireless links. In particular, the system includes one of more of a kitchen console, a breadmaker, a slow cooker, and a rice cooker/steamer. One or more of the appliances serves... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587735 | Data processing apparatus and processor selection method Disclosed are a data processing apparatus which, by being providing with a software processor for implementing prescribed data processing by software and a hardware processor for implementing the prescribed data processing by hardware, makes it possible t... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584364 | Controlled device, controller, information control center, initialization-allowing communication system, and communication control system and medium An initialization-allowing communication system is constituted with devices 70 and 80, a controller 400 for controlling the devices 70 and 80 through communication, and so on. Each device and the controller 400 are provided with communication means 31, a ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6577906 | Distributed optimization system and method A search system and method for controlling multiple agents to optimize an objective using distributed sensing and cooperative control. The search agent can be one or more physical agents, such as a robot, and can be software agents for searching cyberspac... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6574515 | Two-wire field-mounted process device A two-wire field-mounted process device with multiple isolated channels includes a channel that can be an input channel or an output channel. The given input or output channel can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process device i... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571132 | Component type adaptation in a transducer assembly A transducer intraconnection bus connects a limited number of transducer components chosen from a larger number of types of transducer components. The transducer components include functional variations in plant communication protocol, fluid variable, ope... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6544228 | Infusion device comprising a plurality of infusion pumps The infusion device comprises a central controller (10) and a plurality of infusion apparatus (12) each connected via a data channel (15) with the controller (10). Each infusion apparatus (12) is provided with a unique identification number. When an infus... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6532406 | Vehicle computer system A vehicle computer arrangement, particularly for a motor vehicle, a train, an airplane or a ship, which is provided with at least two computers (10, 20) and at least one data bus (60) via which the at least two computers (10, 20) are interconnected, and i... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6522934 | Dynamic unit selection in a process control system A process control system includes a controller that executes a control routine which performs a series of unit procedures within a process. The control routine is written or created to specify the class of unit to be used for each unit procedure, but not ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6516234 | Information transmitting system for use in factory An information transmitting system for use in a factory, which is capable of transmitting information among controllers simply without the complicated lead-around of a communication line nor the need of complicated communication protocol. A controller for... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6516233 | Pulse plating rectifiers and methods, systems and computer program products for controlling pulse plating rectifiers in master/slave mode Methods, systems and computer program products for controlling plating pulse rectifiers are provided by identifying one of the plurality of plating pulse rectifiers as a master plating pulse rectifier and identifying at least one of the plurality of plati... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6510354 | Universal robust filtering process A universal robust filtering process is adapted for eliminating the need of prediscretizing a continuous-time differential model into a discrete-time difference model. It provides a universal robust solution to the most general formulation, in the sense t... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6507760 | Numerical control unit with a spatially separated input device A method for the dependable operation of a spatially separated input device of a numerical control that includes inputting at an input device so as to generate output signals, supplying the output signals to at least two processors and checking the output... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501996 | Process automation system A process automation system includes terminals for operating and monitoring purposes, automation devices for executing control functions, and a host computer. Communication between the terminals and the automation devices is exclusively established via th... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6496740 | Transfer controller with hub and ports architecture The transfer controller with hub and ports (TCHP) performs the task of communication throughout an entire system in a centralized function. A single hub (435) tied to multiple ports (440, 447, 450, 452) by a central pipeline is the medium for all data com... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6493593 | Electronic control unit An electronic control unit includes a first microprocessor monitoring the operation of a second microprocessor and has a monitoring operation blocking unit for preventing the second microprocessor from being reset by the first microprocessor while the sec... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6487454 | Programmable-shape array An array of devices connected to each other, in a grid or other fashion, which are able to adjust their position and/or orientation relative to one another, in order to alter the overall structure that the devices form. Also, a controller that can determi... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6487464 | Power-on software for robust boot A processor-based system performs automatic reboot for some initialization failures. The processor-based system runs an operating system. When initialization failures occur, the operating system may reboot the processor-based system and control the direct... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6487455 | Distributed real time operating system An operating system for distributed industrial controllers ensures the completion of enrolled application programs within a predetermined time span as is required for robust industrial control by preallocating dynamic and static hardware resources on a pe... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6484065 | DRAM enhanced processor An efficient DSP or MPU is combined with efficient DRAM on a single IC die. To optimize the embedded memory, the chip includes wide-band connections to DRAM. Row and column addresses of DRAM can be applied at the same time using wide address busses. Addit... | 11/19/2002 |
