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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7180947 | Method and apparatus for a dynamic data correction appliance Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for a dynamic data correction appliance. A plurality of data points in a first domain may be sampled. The sampled data points may be transformed from the first domain to a second domain. The transforme... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177443 | Method and apparatus for associating identifiers with content Watermark detection in an image or the like can be optimized by exploiting the innate biases in the image to emphasize the watermark signal. The watermark signal can be trial-located with different origins in the image to find one that yields improved results. Simil... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167810 | Analytical estimation of performance of a sensor system The invention relates to a method for an analysis tool for analysis of the sensor performance of a system of sensors, which method comprises analytical calculation of a sensor system's measurement characteristics at each point in a given geographical area. The metho... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164863 | Network transceiver for extending the bandwidth of optical fiber-based network infrastructure A multimode wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network transceiver and method includes a plurality of optical transmitters and a multiplexer operatively connected to each optical transmitter for receiving optical communications signals and multiplexing the signa... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162396 | Measurement data displaying device, method, and program, and recording medium on which the program is recorded A measurement data displaying device includes a measurement data recording unit and charge displaying unit. The measurement data recording unit records a measurement subject channel, a spreading code length corresponding to the measurement subject channel and measur... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162397 | Decoding an alternator output signal An engine diagnostic system is provided that enables a service technician to evaluate engine cylinder contribution to output power. The service technician couples one or more signal leads to the vehicle's battery, alternator, or accessory receptacle (e.g., cigarette... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162160 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158920 | Noise checking method and apparatus and computer-readable recording medium which records a noise checking program The apparatus reduces the amount of correction for noise value error, so as to reduce work needed for correction to ensure error avoidance, and to improve the freedom of layout design, and to reduce load on DA. Based on a timing chart of signal transfer on each wire... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155133 | Avalanche photodiode controller circuit for fiber optics transceiver A controller for controlling the reverse-bias voltage of an avalanche photodiode in a transceiver or receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the avalanche photodiode, and analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving an ana... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152021 | Computing distortion of media signals embedded data with repetitive structure and log-polar mapping A digital watermark detection method uses a matched filtering technique on a log polar re-mapping of a watermarked signal to detect peaks associated with a repetitive structure of a watermark. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149430 | Optoelectronic transceiver having dual access to onboard diagnostics The optoelectronic transceiver includes first and second controller ICs. Each controller IC includes logic, a memory, an interface, and at least one input port. Each memory is configured to store digital diagnostic data and has a unique serial device address to allo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139989 | Semiconductor integrated circuit designing apparatus, semiconductor integrated circuit designing method, semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing method, and readable recording media In LSI design, gate level logic circuit information, standard cell library information, and package information of a circuit block constituting an LSI chip are inputted, noise analysis is performed for the LSI chip using the inputted information, and the processing ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139677 | Methods for consistent forewarning of critical events across multiple data channels This invention teaches further method improvements to forewarn of critical events via phase-space dissimilarity analysis of data from biomedical equipment, mechanical devices, and other physical processes. One improvement involves conversion of time-serial data into... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139674 | Systems and methods for filtering and smoothing data Methods and systems for generating a curve that represents raw data are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes memory for storing a curve generation application program, a user interface, a display device, and a processor. The processor executes the stored... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136519 | Specimen topography reconstruction This method removes high frequency noise from shape data, significantly improves metrology system (10) performance and provides very compact representation of the shape. This model-based method for wafer shape reconstruction from data measured by a dimensiona... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133791 | Two-mean level-crossing time interval estimation method N-sample level-crossing estimator methods and devices are provided that extract more information from given time samples than the current two-sample approach and that are more resistant to interference from noises. The two-mean level-crossing time-interval estimatio... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127065 | Watermark embedding and detection In a method and arrangement for embedding and detecting a watermark in an information signal, the embedded watermark (Wi) is selected (13) from a plurality of watermarks (W1 . . . WN) in dependence upon a property P of the sig... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7116114 | Power supply noise measuring device According to one embodiment, a signal from a power supply line is caused to pass through a high pass filter, and a first signal is generated by adding a voltage-divided signal to the signal. In addition, a second signal obtained by adding the voltage-divided signal ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113899 | Method and system for designing an electric machine stator including keybars Keybar voltages in electric machines are reduced by electromagnetically optimizing the positioning of the keybars with respect to stator winding phase belts, the selection of the number of keybars, the selection of the number of stator slots, and/or the direction of... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110801 | Voice activated wireless phone headset A voice activated wireless phone headset whereby power control, timer and noise level recognition circuits sample ambient noise/voice levels and at predetermined levels provide an “off-hook” telephone condition. The light weight headset fastens around the ear wi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107170 | Multiport network analyzer calibration employing reciprocity of a device A multiport vector network analyzer calibration employs measurements of an asymmetric reciprocal device to determine a value of a defining parameter of a calibration standard in a set of calibration standards. A method of determining a parameter value determines and... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103426 | Anticipatory high frequency noise compensation in a distributed process control system A control system includes a measurement device capable of gathering high frequency process parameter data, a modeling routine which uses the high frequency parameter data to develop a model of the high frequency noise and a compensation routine that employs the deve... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089158 | Real-time noise-suppression method and apparatus therefor A thorough error suppression signal measurement system (20) having a transmitter (300) for propagating a transmission signal to a first probe 100, through a device under test (26), and into a second probe (200), and for propagating... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085656 | Method for suppressing edge artifacts in magnetic microscopy A technique for eliminating edge artifacts in magnetic microscopy includes the steps of scanning a SQUID over an object under study to acquire values of magnetic fields produced by currents running in the object to create a first data set having N data points. At th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079961 | Method and apparatus for measuring impedance of electrical component under high interference conditions A test system and method having a test channel and an additional channel, and wherein the ratio of amplitude and phase between the interference current through the device under test and the interference signal on the additional channel are determined. The system fur... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079964 | Method for determining the frequency of the current ripple in the armature current of a commutated DC motor A method for determining the frequency of current ripples contained in the armature current signal of a commutated direct current (DC) motor includes determining frequency spectral results of the current signal and of a motor electric operating parameter. The freque... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079775 | Integrated memory mapped controller circuit for fiber optics transceiver A controller for controlling a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conversion circuitry for receiving a plurality of analog signals... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079838 | Communication system, user equipment and method of performing a conference call thereof This invention relates to a communication system (200), user equipment (201,211) and method of performing a conference call. The communication system (200) employs discontinuous transmission and has a plurality of user equipment (201, 211, 21... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079987 | Tunable filter device for spatial positioning systems A device for spatial positioning systems includes a programmable measurement filter that is dynamically tuned by the device signal processing unit. The signal processing unit analyzes available data including the measurement signal to determine the likelihood that a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076403 | Apparatus and method for dynamic smoothing An apparatus and a method for receiving and processing noisy communications signals automatically varies multiple processing parameters to both improve signal-to-noise ratio and to minimize delays in responding to changes in the incoming signal. The signal-to-noise ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076082 | Media signal filtering for use in digital watermark reading A curve fitting method is used to synchronize a reader of embedded data in a media signal. A circular reference signal is embedded in the media signal. After geometric distortion of the media signal, the reference signal is distorted, yet still detectable. The amoun... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072833 | Speech processing system A system is provided for detecting the presence of speech within an input audio signal. The system includes a memory for storing a predetermined function which gives, for a given set of audio signal values, a probability density for parameters of a predetermined spe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072863 | Forecasting using interpolation modeling The value of a target variable is predicted by obtaining historical values for the target variable at each of several time points and obtaining previously predicted values and currently predicted values for each of several predictor variables, the predictor variable... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072487 | Watermark detection using adaptive color projections Matching the color axis of the watermark detector to the color direction used by the watermark embedder: A preferred projection axis is determined for each pixel. The preferred projection axis for each pixel is determined by examining the color values of the surroun... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068780 | Hybrid echo canceller Systems and methods for reducing transmit echo in a transceiver are disclosed. A hybrid echo canceller includes a limited tap length FIR filter to cancel short-term echo, while an interpolated filter is used to cancel the long-tail echo. The limited tap length FIR f... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069190 | Estimator for determining signal-to-interference ratio with reduced bias effect A signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) estimator for estimating a SIR of baseband signals which are received and processed by a data demodulator to provide demodulated signals to the SIR estimator. The SIR estimator receives the demodulated symbols from the data demod... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069191 | Methods for reducing the susceptibility of a peak search to signal noise A method to minimize noise is used to analyze data generated from a measurement system such as a flow cytometer. One embodiment of a computer-implemented method includes determining sums of different subsets of sample values. The method also includes determining the... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065474 | Frequency rectification system: apparatus and method Frequency rectification system using a Van der Pol oscillator for processing an asset signal by obtaining a complex signal from an asset comprised of a noise signal and a signal of interest having a corresponding frequency of interest wherein the complex signal incl... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062393 | Polynomial fit for jitter separation A method for determining the amount of deterministic jitter and random jitter in a digital signal having transitions between logical levels, the method comprising the steps of: providing said digital signal, determining a plurality of bit error rate values, each bit... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058310 | System and method for protecting eye safety during operation of a fiber optic transceiver A single-chip integrated circuit, sometimes called a controller, controls operation of a transceiver having a laser transmitter and a photodiode receiver. The controller includes memory for storing information related to the transceiver, and analog to digital conver... | 06/06/2006 |
