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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185357 | Nonlinear blind demixing of single pixel underlying radiation sources and digital spectrum local thermometer Changes, increase or decrease, in the body fluid are passively detected by using a single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure, which can be extended to general biomedical measurement and diagnosis instruments. More specifically, the single pixel, non-linear ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175850 | Monitoring system with dynamically configurable non-interfering signal processing A monitoring system with dynamically configurable non-interfering signal processing is disclosed. In one aspect, data relating to the management of the operation of a machine and data relating to the safety protection of the machine are combined in a non-interfering... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170838 | Simulating two-dimensional periodic patterns using compressed fourier space The process of modeling a complex two-dimensional periodic structure is improved by selectively truncating the Fourier expansion used in the calculation of resulting scatter signature from the model. The Fourier expansion is selectively truncated by determining the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165849 | Medical equipment monitoring method and system A system and method to facilitate device monitoring and servicing is provided. In one embodiment, a system may include a medical device having at least one component, and monitoring circuitry configured to measure operational data of the component. The system can al... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160839 | System and method for device recognition based on signal patterns A computationally implemented method for recognizing devices based on detected signal patterns includes generating a plurality of signal pattern templates for a plurality of radio frequency communication signals, determining a matching signal pattern template for th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155926 | Method and apparatus for accommodating device and/or signal mismatch in a sensor array Noise discrimination in signals from a plurality of sensors is conducted by enhancing the phase difference in the signals such that off-axis pick-up is suppressed while on-axis pick-up is enhanced. Alternatively, attenuation/expansion are applied to the signals in a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150657 | Physical quantity measuring instrument and signal processing method thereof The present invention relates to a physical quantity measuring instrument and signal processing method thereof capable of reducing noise components and improving reliability without increasing size or cost of the circuit. A physical quantity detecting unit (11 | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150658 | Three-dimensional object recognition system and inventory system using the same A system recognizes an arrangement of an object and counts the number of objects, comprising: a sensor for measuring a distance between the sensor and an object; a moving mechanism for moving the sensor; and a computer that is connected with the sensor and includes ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145451 | Digital filtering system, method, and recording medium thereof A digital filtering system, method, and recording medium thereof are described. In the system, firstly a sensor obtains an analog physiological signal, a quantizing module transforms the physiological signal to a digitalized frequency domain signal, and then a speci... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145452 | Serial interface amplitude selection for a disk drive in an unknown interconnect environment A disk drive including a method for determining an amplitude for signal transmission over an interconnect is disclosed. The drive includes a processor that is coupled to a signal measurement circuit and is under the control of a program in conjunction with the signa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131511 | Apparatus for registering and analyzing the spectral signature of a dynamic event Apparatus for registering the spectral signature of a dynamic source event include an imaging-sensor array configured to register electromagnetic energy over a predetermined range of electromagnetic wavelengths and an optical system configured for imaging onto the i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121819 | Deriving values of parameters in electrical machines An electrical drive system includes an electrical machine controlled by an electronic controller and requires control signals representing quantities associated with the operation of the electrical machine. These signals may represent, for example, rotor position an... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8082127 | Method for determining the spatial distribution of magnetic resonance signals through multi-dimensional RF excitation pulses A method for determining the spatial distribution of magnetic resonance signals from an imaging area, wherein nuclear spins are excited in a spatially encoded fashion through multi-dimensional RF pulses, is characterized in that in a definition step, a resolution gr... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078599 | Method and system for evaluating environmental impact occurring during an activity cycle A system for evaluating an environmental impact during a life cycle of an activity includes a controlling unit, which controls the system with a plurality of data storage elements connected to the controlling unit. The plurality of data storage elements includes a f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073656 | High bandwidth oscilloscope for digitizing an analog signal having a bandwidth greater than the bandwidth of digitizing components of the oscilloscope A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, the use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques. In an illustrative embodiment the technique involves separating an input signal into a high frequency content a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069015 | Pseudo noise sequence acquisition in spread spectrum systems Systems and methods for signal analysis are described. The method can include digitizing a signal modulated by a pseudo noise (PN) sequence, dividing the digitized signal into a plurality of sample blocks, and estimating a PN phase embedded in a sample block of the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055479 | Simplified algorithm for abnormal situation prevention in load following applications including plugged line diagnostics in a dynamic process Systems and methods are provided for detecting abnormal conditions and preventing abnormal situations from occurring in controlled processes. Statistical signatures of a monitored variable are modeled as a function of the statistical signatures of a load variable. T... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032335 | Evaluating magnetic resonance spectra Provided are methods, systems and computer program products evaluating magnetic resonance (MR) signals from a sample. The methods and systems can be used to evaluate MR signals from various constituents (e.g., metabolites, macromolecules) of the sample. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027811 | Processing of spectrometer pile-up events In an energy dispersive spectrometer wherein event (particle/photon) detection is performed by counting events spaced by greater than a shaping time, events which are spaced by less than the shaping time are also collected and counted. These “combined events” ar... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027810 | sensor networks A plurality of mobile sensor devices each periodically measure a property of their environment, and determine the rate of change in that property. Neighboring devices also co-operate to determine the values of the property being measured by each other. If the proper... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024155 | Sample data reliability evaluation method and sample data reliability evaluation apparatus A sample data reliability evaluation method includes a first calculating step of calculating a representative distance between samples of a same cluster, which is a representative distance between the sample and the sample belonging to the same cluster to that to wh... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019572 | Method and apparatus for exploring by wave propagation A method of exploring by wave propagation, in which method an incident wave is emitted a plurality of times towards the same target zone (r0) in a diffusing medium, and then the backscattered signals generated by the waves are averaged. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014977 | Serial interface amplitude selection for a disk drive in an unknown interconnect environment A method for determining an amplitude for signal transmission over an interconnect is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a first signal to a host over a transmission medium at a first transmission frequency according to a first speed negotiation process and... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010323 | Information providing system and analyzer An information providing system comprises an analyzer and an information server communicatively connected to the analyzer through a network, which stores coping information regarding apparatus abnormalities of the analyzer, and the analyzer obtains the coping inform... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010322 | Signal conditioning IC with conditioning-coefficient memory A signal conditioning integrated circuit includes both signal conditioning circuitry and memory devoted to storing end-user downloadable coefficients. In a preferred embodiment, the integrated circuit is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), and the end... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005649 | Device for validating measurements of a dynamic magnitude The invention relates to a device for validating measurements of a dynamic magnitude x coming from an article having main sensors placed thereon on three main axes for measuring of said dynamic magnitude x. The device includes at least two additional sensors for mea... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000940 | Shape parameter for hematology instruments Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for describing characteristics of a data sample. This description is used to represent the shape of a histogram of the data sample. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000939 | Charged particle beam apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a synthesized signal forming method and an apparatus thereof for realizing both noise reduction and dosage reduction when synthesizing signals detected based on scans performed on a charged particle beam. In order to ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996188 | User interface for a flow cytometer system A method of extracting and analyzing a data set from a flow cytometer system of the preferred embodiment comprises the steps of (1) running a sample and saving all collected raw data, (2) viewing raw (or “unmodified”) data, (3) modifying the raw data (e.g., scal... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996189 | Event-detection in multi-channel sensor-signal streams Multiple parallel signal streams are produced by the sensors (20, 30, 40, 50) associated with a device (10). Events corresponding to real-world activities, contexts, environments, internal-states, uses, interactions and the like involving the device ( | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991589 | Polarization analysis and polarization filtering of three-component signals using the S-transform The present invention relates to a method and system for processing time-varying three-component signals to determine polarization dependent features therefrom. Relation data indicative of a predetermined expression relating ellipse elements describing an ellipse in... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7974816 | Sensor registration by global optimization procedures Disclosed are method and apparatus for registering multiple sensors collecting data from multiple objects. Sensor registration is decomposed into a two-step procedure. The first step corrects systematic errors. The second step assigns objects measured by one sensor ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970586 | Method and apparatus for a virtual accelerometer system A method and apparatus for a virtual accelerometer is described. The virtual accelerometer includes an active process identifier engine to identify any active application that may use accelerometer data. The virtual accelerometer also includes an intelligent signal ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957938 | Method and apparatus for a high bandwidth oscilloscope utilizing multiple channel digital bandwidth interleaving A method of digitizing an analog signal is provided, comprising the steps of separating the analog signal spanning a frequency range into a plurality of frequency bands, and then translating at least one of the signals to a lower frequency band in accordance with a ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949498 | Method, system and computer program product for registration of multi-dimensional datasets Methods, systems and computer program products for estimating changes in an object represented by first and second multidimensional datasets. The first dataset is a reference dataset and the second dataset is an altered dataset. Discrete data samples of the first da... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945428 | Multi-gain adaptive linear processing and gated digital system for use in flow cytometry Disclosed is an electronic processing system for a flow cytometer that uses a processing chip that processes data in a parallel architecture on a sample by sample basis and provides for high throughput of data. In addition, multi-gain linear amplifiers are used whic... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937245 | Rendering of subsurface scattering effects in translucent objects Embodiments are directed to modifying an existing scheme for providing translucent illumination in order to take account of subsurface scattering. The color of a selected point of a translucent object can be determined using existing methods. The existing methods ne... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937247 | Virtual metering Methods for improving the accuracy of characterizing unmonitored paths or virtual meters in a utility system. The hierarchical arrangement of IEDs in the utility system is determined. Measured quantities of a characteristic of the utility being monitored are receive... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937246 | Vertical track modulus trending Systems and methods for determining a trend in vertical track modulus are described. Vertical deflection data is collected along a particular section of railroad track. A first set of vertical track modulus is determined, based in part, on the collected vertical def... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930147 | Sensor response time accelerator A sensor response time acceleration method including the steps of reading a signal step and an operating on the signal step. The reading a signal step includes reading a signal from a sensor, the signal representative of an environmental attribute as detected by the... | 04/19/2011 |
