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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175845 | Space- and time-efficient management and summarization of data using intermediate summary structure and hierarchical multidimensional histogram A method maintains a multidimensional histogram for a data array having a data array size, the method having a processing time substantially less than proportional to the data array size. The method involves (104) receiving a data update that indicates a chan... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8131503 | Method and system for determining histogram density estimators A method and system for determining histogram density estimators for data samples. A supremum and/or infimum of a likelihood function of histogram densities for each histogram shape in a generated set of all possible histogram shapes is determined. The supremum and/... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8055471 | Method of discriminating particle groups and particle analyzer A method for discriminating particle groups comprises generating, by a particle analyzer, a particle characteristic distribution histogram in which the abscissa indicates respective channels for representing the characteristics of the particles, and the ordinate ind... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8014973 | Distance histogram for nearest neighbor defect classification A method for constructing a distance histogram for nearest neighbor classification. A training sample is determined for each of two classes. For each defect, a distance is measured in the feature space between the defect and the training sample for each of the class... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000929 | Sequential fixed-point quantile estimation Disclosed are method and apparatus for calculating a quantile estimate of a data stream. A quantile estimate is calculated iteratively by calculating a first quantile estimate and then calculating a second quantile estimate by adding a first update increment to the ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7930139 | Probability density function separating apparatus, probability density function separating method, program, testing apparatus, bit error rate measuring apparatus, electronic device, and jitter transfer function measuring apparatus There is provided a probability density function separating apparatus that separates a predetermined component in a given probability density function. The probability density function separating apparatus includes a domain transforming section that is supplied with... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7885789 | Recipe parameter management system and recipe parameter management method In operation to obtain an optimal observation condition in a review system, the number of trial reviews can be reduced to improve efficiency of the operation. For a defect review conducted by the review system, a recipe parameter management system stores, as recipe ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865332 | Scaled exponential smoothing for real time histogram A system, method and program product for processing a stream of data events using scaled exponential smoothing for maintaining a histogram. A system is provided having: a set of histogram data that maintains a running value for each of a plurality of buckets; a buck... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7783452 | Signal measurement apparatus and test apparatus A signal measuring apparatus that measures a first input signal and a second input signal is provided, including a first measuring section that measures the first input signal at a plurality of strobe timings arranged in each cycle of a measurement cycle, a second m... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774163 | Method, system, program for determining frequency of updating database histograms A method, system and computer program product for a database management system to be operatively coupled to a data processing system. The data processing system includes memory for storing a data table. The method, system and computer program product for determining... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7720633 | Bivariate histogram for impulse noise monitor A method and apparatus for creating a bivariate histogram with a plurality of variables using impulse noise data is disclosed. The bivariate histogram describes the joint statistics between at least two of the variables. Also disclosed is an impulse noise monitor (I... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720634 | Apparatus and method for automatically improving a set of initial return on investment calculator templates A method for updating the return on investment (ROI) templates used by business consultants. The present invention comprises a Template Evaluation Program (TEP) and a Template Analysis Program (TAP). The TEP compares the default template to the templates modified by... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707005 | Generating histograms of population data by scaling from sample data Histograms formed based on samples of a population, such as histograms created from random page-level samples of a data store, are intelligently scaled to histograms estimating distribution of the entire population of the data store. As an optional optimization, whe... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702699 | Dynamic data stream histograms for large ranges A method for creating a histogram from a plurality of data elements that includes specifying a plurality of internal buckets, wherein each internal bucket of the plurality of internal buckets represent values between an internal minimum value and an internal maximum... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7603253 | Apparatus and method for automatically improving a set of initial return on investment calculator templates A method for updating the return on investment (ROI) templates used by business consultants. The present invention comprises a Template Evaluation Program (TEP) and a Template Analysis Program (TAP). The TEP compares the default template to the templates modified by... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603254 | Method and system for determining histogram appearances from small data samples A method and system for determining histograms and histogram appearances from small data samples. The method and system determine relevant histogram appearances (i.e., bin frequency lists) for uniform bin width sample histograms, exactly determine error minimizing h... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7565262 | Bayesian sensor estimation for machine condition monitoring A method for monitoring a system includes receiving a set of training data. A Gaussian mixture model is defined to model a probability distribution for a particular sensor of the system from among a plurality of sensors of the system based on the received training d... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7444263 | Performance metric collection and automated analysis A metric monitoring and analysis system including dynamic sampling agents located in monitored system elements and a service management platform. Each sampling agent includes a data adapter collecting metric data in a common format, a threshold generator for determi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430494 | Dynamic data stream histograms for no loss of information A method for creating a histogram that includes identifying a lower extreme range counter and an upper extreme range counter for a plurality of data elements. The method further includes incrementing a value counter when the value counter corresponds to a value of a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7395181 | Motion tracking system Tracking a motion of a body by obtaining two types of measurements associated with the motion of the body, one of the types including acoustic measurement. An estimate of either an orientation or a position of the body is updated based on one of the two types of mea... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392156 | Method and system for determining histograms Histograms are widely used to explore data, to present data, and to persuade with data. A method and system for identifying all possible histograms from a data sample using histogram appearances. The method and system includes determining all possible one dimensiona... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386417 | Method and apparatus for clustering telemetry signals to facilitate computer system monitoring One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates computer system monitoring. During operation, the system receives monitored signals from a computer system. The system then computes cross-correlation coefficients between the signals. Next, ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379843 | Systems and methods for mining model accuracy display for multiple state prediction Systems and methods are provided for producing a mining model accuracy display that depicts the model's accuracy at predicting a state for a multiple-state variable. The model predicts a state and provides an associated probability for each case. Points are graphed ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366049 | Apparatus and method for updating data in a dual port memory A dual port memory is updated at substantially the same data sampling rate as a clock frequency of the dual port memory. The dual port memory stores data relating to each different parameter value in a stream of data samples, and provides the stored data from an add... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363192 | Noisy histograms A histogram can be generated and displayed with noisy category values, where the noise values are selected from a noise distribution that is calculated using a histogram diameter. The noise values are combined with histogram category values, thereby producing noisy ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359842 | Soft sensor device and device for evaluating the same A case base generator divides an input space of history data into unit input spaces according to a desired output allowable error, and creates a representative case from the history data arranged in the unit input spaces, thereby generating a case base. A case retri... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340375 | Method and apparatus for noise floor estimation A method and device are provided for an improved system and method of estimating the noise floor of a wideband signal without full knowledge of the nature of the narrowband signals contained therein, and provides digital characteristics to allow real-time signal pro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324925 | Method of information analysis The present invention is directed to a method for information analysis used to discriminate between biased and unbiased fits. A goodness-of-fit parameter becomes a quantity of interest for analysis of multiple measurements and does so by replacing a likelihood funct... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324903 | Method and apparatus for measuring signal quality using eye pattern A signal quality measuring method and apparatus in which a quality of a signal detected from an RF signal read out from a disk or a communications channel is measured by using eye pattern signals of the detected RF signals. Eye pattern signals representing time chan... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313495 | Method of processing marine magnetic gradient data and exploration methods using that data A method of processing marine magnetic data is disclosed which comprises towing first and second magnetometers M1 and M2 behind a ship (10). Raw magnetic gradient data is obtained from the sensors and the trend of the gradient of the shi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313551 | Processing device and method for an automatic perception system The invention relates to a processing device for an automatic perception system that involves the use of STN calculation units (1) which receive data from a data bus (7) and which are interconnected by a backannotation bus (6). According to the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7299152 | Correlating event data for large geographic area Event data associated with possible terrorist activities occurring at geographically-dispersed locations is monitored and analyzed. Event data collected from the locations is delineated by one or more data classes. Statistical analyses performed on the event data ar... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292365 | Methods and systems for determining distribution mean level without histogram measurement Techniques for estimating an average background value and an average foreground value of an image data formed by a plurality of pixels by selecting a first plurality of pixels forming a first calculation window from the plurality of pixels, determining at least firs... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293079 | Method and apparatus for monitoring a network using statistical information stored in a memory entry A method monitors a network. The method receives at least one data packet, and reads an entry of a memory device. The entry of the memory device containing a first statistical value and a second statistical value. The method determines a third statistical value base... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289862 | Methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding A number of methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding are provided. The methods provide, among other things: automatic process limit programming based on runtime data; user-initiated process limit prog... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289922 | Jitter decomposition for high speed serial interfaces An apparatus and method to decompose measured phase jitter into a deterministic component and a random component. After filtering a time-domain measured phase jitter signal, a discrete Fourier transform is applied, followed by squaring. A density function is formed ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286957 | Biometric quality control process Systems and methods configured to guide and manage laboratory analytical process control operations. A Biometric quality control (QC) process application is configured to monitor bias and imprecision for each test, characterize patient population data distributions ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283935 | Method and apparatus for monitoring grid-based computing resources Methods and apparatus for monitoring grid-based computing resources are disclosed. Example embodiments provide for the determination and display of a variety of metrics. Data related to processor utilization by a plurality of applications is accumulated, aggregated,... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277820 | Apparatus and method for generating a complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) curve In apparatus for generating a Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) curve for an input signal, an analog to digital converter (ADC) samples the input signal at sampling points to provide a parameter value corresponding to a desired parameter of the i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277821 | Method of collecting and storing storage network performance information, computer system, and program To provide a method of collecting and storing storage network performance information that allows tracking of the cause of application performance deterioration. It is automatically judged whether or not performance information collected, to be stored, from componen... | 10/02/2007 |
