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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175837 | Method of estimating support state of an electronic apparatus housing and electronic apparatus In a method of estimating one of mechanical supporting states of a housing for an electronic apparatus, a drive signal is supplied to an oscillation device from which first oscillation is applied to the housing. A sensor detects a second oscillation transferred thro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8140290 | Transmission characteristics measurement apparatus, transmission characteristics measurement method, and electronic device Provided is a transfer characteristic measurement apparatus that measures a transfer characteristic of a circuit under test between input and output, comprising a test signal input section that generates a test signal by adding together a carrier signal having a pre... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7912665 | Method and apparatus for driver hands off detection for vehicles with active front steering system A system and method for detecting the absence of contact between the hands of a driver of a vehicle and a steering wheel of the vehicle that have particular application in ensuring the proper functioning of various components of the driver assist steering systems an... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7869975 | Method of estimating support state of an electronic apparatus housing and electronic apparatus In a method of estimating one of mechanical supporting states of a housing for an electronic apparatus, a drive signal is supplied to an oscillation device from which first oscillation is applied to the housing. A sensor detects a second oscillation transferred thro... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7725282 | Method for providing a pattern forecast A method for providing a pattern forecast for an object from a number of objects that are associated with one another, in which the pattern forecast is provided by taking into account consumption series of these associated objects. A device for providing a pattern f... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7643957 | Bisect de-embedding for network analyzer measurement Techniques for bisecting a symmetric, substantially transmissive two-port network (a THRU structure) through an optimization solution of the relevant equations defined by transmission matrix mathematics are described. Bisect de-embedding may be performed using a sin... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7630850 | Integrated circuit tester information processing system for nonlinear mobility model for strained device A method for operating an integrated circuit tester information processing system includes: measuring current information from test structures for an integrated circuit having a stress liner; forming a transfer curve by simulating based on the current information wi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7426447 | Method and system for monitoring structural damage A method for monitoring damage to a structure having an actuator and a sensor. The method includes exciting the actuator across a predetermined frequency range to excite the structure, measuring a vibrational characteristic of the structure across the predetermined ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7414411 | Signal analysis system and calibration method for multiple signal probes A method and apparatus adapted to calibrate signal path of a signal analysis system such that loading effects of additional probes are substantially removed from the measurement. A signal under test from a device under test is coupled to a test probe and used with s... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408363 | Signal analysis system and calibration method for processing acquires signal samples with an arbitrary load A method and apparatus adapted to calibrate a signal path of a signal analysis system such that digital samples acquired by the system are processed for representing an arbitrary impedance loading of the device under test. The method and apparatus calibrates the sig... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405575 | Signal analysis system and calibration method for measuring the impedance of a device under test A method and apparatus adapted to calibrate a signal path of a signal analysis system such that digital samples of a signal under test acquired by the system are processed for representing the impedance of a device under test. The method and apparatus calibrates the... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400989 | RFID verifier system with grade classification An RFID verifier includes a transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) and a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI). Using the TSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power an interrogated RFID tag is illuminated with. Similarly, using the RSSI, the RFI... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7368919 | Wireless portable automated harness scanner system and method therefor A method for testing an installed wiring harness is provided. The method comprises providing a signal source testing module at a first node in the wiring harness and a measurement termination testing module at a second node in the wiring harness. A central managemen... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360184 | Method and apparatus for scenario search based random generation of functional test suites A method of describing a set of tests capable of being performed on a device under test (DUT) is disclosed. The method includes identifying a scenario space of the DUT. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346825 | Error method, system and medium Error detection methods, systems and medium are provided. The error detection method may comprise processing error conditions associated with transactions in a manner that may enable error source identification. The system may comprise a plurality of nodes of compon... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340365 | Method and apparatus for verifying the operation of a plurality of test system instruments In a method for verifying the operation of a plurality of test system instruments, a harness cable is electrically coupled to a plurality of test signal ports on the plurality of test system instruments. A first plurality of test measurements are then initiated via ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337552 | Method and apparatus for registration with integral alignment optics A method and apparatus for front to back substrate registration is described. Alignment characteristics of features on surfaces of substrates can be used to physically align substrates with a multiplicity of integrated alignment optics. Measurement of offsets of the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332359 | Semiconductor device inspection method Techniques for inspecting semiconductor devices. An inspection condition using chip matrix data and chip size data is set. The intricate circuit patterns of at least one semiconductor device is inspected with the inspection condition. In an embodiment of the present... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321845 | Method and system for removing very low frequency noise from a time-based data set A method and system are disclosed for removing very low frequency noise from a time-based data set for use in data analysis of the time-based data set having a plurality of data points, the method comprising providing the time-based data set to be analyzed, determin... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315967 | Method and apparatus for automatic rate adaptation in a DOCSIS upstream A process for automatically monitoring the packet error rate of a logical channel in a cable television DOCSIS data transmission system and automatically altering the bit rate on the channel or sending a message to a cable operator recommending a change in burst pro... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7304482 | Characterization of the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection with continuous user refinement A method for measuring and characterizing the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection using human perception for measurement. This method makes no assumptions about a display device's characteristics and can characterize any type of display device w... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289906 | Navigation system applications of sigma-point Kalman filters for nonlinear estimation and sensor fusion A method of estimating the navigational state of a system entails acquiring observation data produced by noisy measurement sensors and providing a probabilistic inference system to combine the observation data with prediction values of the system state space model t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286946 | Transmission characteristic measuring device transmission characteristic measuring method, and amplifier A transfer characteristics measuring device automatically measures the transfer characteristics of each channel of a multi-channel acoustic reproduction system m a multi-channel acoustic reproduction environment, while allowing normal multi-channel reproduction to p... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277311 | Flash cell fuse circuit Fuse circuits based on a single flash cell or floating-gate memory cell are adapted for use in memory devices, particularly in low-voltage, flash memory applications. The fuse circuits include a floating-gate memory cell for storing a data value and a fuse latch to ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271575 | Oscilloscope based return loss analyzer A system, apparatus and method for performing differential return loss measurements and other measurements as a function of frequency uses a digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) having spectral analysis functions. A waveform generator generates a differential test sig... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265536 | Procedure for reproduction of a calibration position of an aligned and afterwards displaced calibration substrate in a probe station A wafer probe station is provided with a wafer chuck, a wafer fastened on the chuck by vacuum suction, and a probe needle arrangement above the wafer to test the wafer at high frequencies by contacting selected pads on the wafer and alternately pads on a calibration... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254492 | Method of computing energy loss generated in viscoelastic material and method for evaluating energy loss of golf ball by using method of computing energy loss A method of computing an energy loss generated in a viscoelastic material, including analyzing a dynamic behavior of a to-be-analyzed object composed of the viscoelastic material by a numerical analysis method; and computing the energy loss of the object momently wh... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254508 | Site loops A method for use with a test system having sites that hold devices under test (DUTs) includes executing a first site loop to iterate through the sites, where the first site loop includes an instruction to program hardware associated with at least one of the sites, a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250772 | Method and apparatus for characterizing a signal path carrying an operational signal A method of characterizing a signal path includes (i) generating a reference spread-spectrum signal; (ii) coupling the reference spread-spectrum signal into the signal path while the signal path is carrying an operational signal; (iii) receiving a reflected spread-s... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245817 | Multimedia transfer system A multimedia transfer apparatus is described comprising: a plurality of media readers; one or more encoder modules, configured to encode data read by the media readers in a specified encoding format; and a data communication interface configured to copy the encoded ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243049 | Method for modeling system performance The present invention provides a method for modeling the performance of a system comprising computer software operating on computer hardware. In accordance with the present invention, system performance is modeled by fitting non-linear curves to data points for syst... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239155 | Electrochemical impedance measurement system and method for use thereof Disclosed is a method and apparatus for an electrochemical impedance measurement, and in particular circuitry and components employed for such measurements. The system employs an injected broadband AC signal to produce an associated response signal. The subsequent a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231308 | Test system dynamic range extension through compression compensation A method for extending dynamic range and a test system with extended dynamic range compensate for a compression effect on measured data caused by a receiver channel of the test system being compressed. The measured data is magnitude and phase data for one of a devic... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231311 | Method for characterizing high-frequency mixers Novel excitation signals are specifically designed for testing a high-frequency mixer such that all of the desired intermodulation products are measurable after being converted by a sampling frequency converter. This is achieved by using excitation frequencies which... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7220187 | Apparatus and method for computing and outputting golf ball putting instructions Apparatus and a method for computing and outputting a putting backstroke instruction for a planned putt of a golf ball during recreational play. A computing means includes means for initializing or customizing according to a specific golfer putting on a specific gol... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7191270 | Integrated PC Card host controller for the detection and operation of a plurality of expansion cards An integrated controller for the detection and operation of both PC Cards, smart cards and passive smart card adapter cards. In one aspect, the invention detects the presence of standard expansion cards or passive smart card adapters by utilizing the reserved detect... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170297 | Transmission response measurement system and method of using time gating A method and a measurement system determine a transmission response of a device under test (DUT). The method includes measuring a reflection response from a first port of the DUT while a known reflective termination is on a second port of the DUT, and time gating th... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155644 | Automatic test entry termination in a memory device A memory device has a control register comprising a test mode disable bit. The test mode is initially enabled. If the device does not receive an appropriate key or command as the next command received, the test mode is disabled. If the appropriate key is received, t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149607 | Driveability rating method and system The system carries out continuous in-vehicle data measurement and storage for subsequent processing. A given driving manoeuvre is sub-divided into facets and the measured vehicle data is processed to provide a local rating for each of the facets using empirically de... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7130748 | Simulation method for estimating performance of product made of viscoelastic material A simulation method includes the step of momently measuring a value of each of a strain, a strain speed, and a stress generated in the viscoelastic material, deriving time history data of a viscous drag, the strain speed and the stress, thereby deriving a relationsh... | 10/31/2006 |
