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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185333 | Automated load assessment device and method A device for automatically assessing the nature of an electrical load includes electrical transducers. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170819 | Systems and methods for measuring non-linear characteristics of a power amplifier A method for measuring non-linear characteristics of a power amplifier is described. A calibration waveform is calculated during a testing procedure period. Amplitude characteristics of the calibration waveform at the output of the power amplifier are measured durin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170820 | Virtual probing A method and apparatus for generating one or more transfer functions for converting waveforms. The method comprises the steps of determining a system description, representative of a circuit, comprising a plurality of system components, each system component compris... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165836 | Measurement apparatus and computer readable medium storing program for measuring error of a quadrature demodulator or quadrature modulator A measurement apparatus that measures, as an error under measurement, at least one of a gain error and a phase error of a quadrature demodulator or a quadrature modulator as a measurement target. The measurement apparatus includes an output control section that caus... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155905 | Method of extracting a time constant from complex random telegraph signals A method and apparatus for extracting a time constant from a time series of values of a signal that varies in accordance with multiple charge carrier trap defects that cause Random Telegraph Noise (RTN), using transition-based assignment of states. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155904 | Vector signal measuring system, featuring wide bandwidth, large dynamic range, and high accuracy A new measurement system, with two receiver channels per measurement port, has been developed that provides absolute magnitude and absolute phase relationship measurements over wide bandwidths. Gain ranging is used at RF to provide optimum noise performance and a sw... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140282 | Determining a total length for conductive whiskers in computer systems One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that determines a total whisker length for conductive whiskers on a circuit in a computer system. During operation, a target electromagnetic signal radiating from the computer system is monitored. Then, the t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8112237 | System and method for correcting signal polarities and detection thresholds in a rail vehicle inspection system A method for identifying a location of a wheel of a rail vehicle includes producing a first signal representative of a potential difference between leads electrically coupled with a wheel gate transducer and modifying the first signal that is received over a first c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103469 | Transceiver link bit error rate prediction A method for predicting a predetermined bit error rate for an actual data transmission from a transmitter to a target receiver over an actual backplane link is disclosed. The method involves defining a simulated backplane corresponding to an actual backplane link in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095327 | Power supply apparatus for operation A power supply apparatus for operation for outputting power to a surgical instrument includes a temperature detection section for detecting a temperature of the surgical instrument, and an abnormality detection section for detecting an abnormality of the surgical in... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8065101 | Electromagnetic field intensity calculating method and apparatus There is provided an electromagnetic field intensity calculator for calculating the intensity of electromagnetic field radiated from an electric circuit device based on a moment method. A conductor pattern obtained from CAD data is divided into a square mesh pattern... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060325 | Variable sensing using frequency domain Embodiments of a method and apparatus for variable sensing using the frequency domain are taught herein. An exposure of a system to a physical variable is determined by periodically sensing the physical variable to produce a plurality of digital samples. The plurali... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8024140 | Waveform anomoly detection and notification systems and methods Systems and methods to automatically detect anomalies in waveforms. In addition, the systems and methods alert a human operator of the anomaly and provide suggestions as to the cause of the problem and/or possible solutions to the problem. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7991569 | Mobility normalizer, normalizing method, normalizing program, self-organized map, substance detecting method, detecting program, detection rule creating method, and data structure The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus, a method, a program, and a self-organizing map which are capable of normalizing mobility without using a marker, as well as a substance detection method, a program, a detection rule creating method, and... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991570 | Poynting-vector filter A determination is made of frequency components associated with a particular bearing or location resulting from sources emitting electromagnetic-wave energy for which a Poynting-Vector can be defined. The broadband frequency components associated with a specific dir... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987059 | Real-time power system oscillation detection using modal analysis A power system oscillation detection device is provided for use in an electric power system. A plurality of sample signals are acquired from the electrical power system via a plurality of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in communication with the power system. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970564 | Enhancement techniques for blind source separation (BSS) This disclosure describes signal processing techniques that can improve the performance of blind source separation (BSS) techniques. In particular, the described techniques propose pre-processing steps that can help to de-correlate the different signals from one ano... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962301 | Method of processing and storing mass spectrometry data A data compression technique is disclosed for Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS). A statistical analysis is applied to the data in the frequency domain since most of this data is a result of randomly distributed electronic noise. A fit of the whole frequency... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7945403 | Signal measurement apparatus, signal measurement method, recording media and test apparatus Provided is a signal measurement apparatus, including sampling sections that each sample a signal under measurement having a cycle T with a threshold value, where the threshold values of at least two of the sampling sections are different from each other; a waveform... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941286 | Variable density scanning Systems and techniques for varying a scan rate in a measurement instrument. The techniques may be used in scanning probe instruments, including atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and other scanning probe microscopes, as well as profilometers and confocal optical micros... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937230 | Display digital signal visualizations with increasing accuracy Digital signal visualizations may be displayed with increasing accuracy as the signal data is processed. According to one embodiment, an entire digital signal visualization is displayed as data processing begins. As the digital signal data upon which the visualizati... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933725 | Using sensor spectral energy to detect and/or isolate sensor faults A method of detecting and/or isolating a fault of a sensor in a system in substantially real time or in non-real time (e.g., using off-line analysis). A spectral energy of a signal of the sensor is determined over a predetermined range of frequencies within a window... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920979 | Signal generation circuit A signal generation circuit that uses a waveform generation mechanism to generate predetermined waveform(s) when triggered. A triggering mechanism is configured to repeatedly trigger the waveform generation mechanism at times that are dependent on data provided by a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917318 | Structure for a duty cycle measurement circuit A design structure for a circuit for measuring the absolute duty cycle of a signal anywhere on an integrated circuit device is provided. The circuit has a plurality of substantially identical pulse shaper elements, each of which expand the pulse of an input signal w... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917317 | Ultrasonic inspection using acoustic modeling Configuration of an ultrasonic inspection system is facilitated using an ultrasound response predicted by a simulation tool. In one embodiment, estimated material properties of an object to be inspected are input to the simulation tool. Also input to the simulation ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913200 | Nonlinear driver model for multi-driver systems A precharacterized cell library for EDA tools includes driver model data includes output current signals indexed by output voltages. The driver model can then generate a model output by interpolating the output current signals using the output voltage to generate an... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895005 | Duty cycle measurement for various signals throughout an integrated circuit device A mechanism is provided for measuring the absolute duty cycle of a signal anywhere on an integrated circuit device. The mechanism employs a circuit having a plurality of substantially identical pulse shaper elements, each of which expand the pulse of an input signal... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885774 | System and method for analyzing power flow in semiconductor plasma generation systems A system and method for measuring and analyzing power flow parameters in RF-based excitation systems for semi-conductor plasma generators. A measuring probe (8) is connected to an RF transmission line for receiving and measuring voltage (10) and curren... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877218 | Signal outage detection Disclosed are various embodiments for outage detection. In one embodiment, an outage detection system includes a signal sampler configured to sample a signal on a communications link and to determine a noise level and a signal level of the sample. An outage detectio... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7856329 | Method and apparatus for processing an under-sampled chirped sinusoidal waveform using a complex-heterodyne A method of processing data acquired by under-sampling a chirped, sinusoidal waveform comprises complex-heterodyning the under-sampled data with a chirped signal having characteristics similar to the sinusoidal waveform to generate a demodulated signal and analyzing... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853418 | Frequency error estimation algorithm A frequency error estimation algorithm is presented for use in radio receivers, for example. The present algorithm utilizes irregular time intervals between pilot symbols to improve the frequency range of the estimate. First, a first phase rotation indicator compris... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7805266 | Method for automated detection of data glitches in large data sets Embodiments of the invention allow the efficient detection of glitches in a set of data. In one embodiment, a set of datapoints is received. The datapoints are transformed into a transformed space, and the transformed space is segmented into a plurality of regions. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797116 | System and method of acoustic detection and location of fire sprinkler water discharge A system and method to detect acoustic signals from fire sprinkler heads discharging water and to locate such devices in a public building, airport, sports stadium or other structure which can include a system to measure speech intelligibility. Time and frequency do... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7765074 | Circuit, apparatus and method for capturing a representation of a waveform from a clock-data recovery (CDR) unit A circuit, apparatus and method obtains system margin at the receive circuit using phase shifted data sampling clocks while allowing the CDR to remain synchronized with the incoming data stream in embodiments. In an embodiment, a circuit includes first and second sa... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747401 | Fast intrinsic mode decomposition of time series data with sawtooth transform Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for decomposing a signal using a sawtooth, or triangle wave, transform. Specific embodiments transform an input signal into a piecewise-linear sawtooth or triangle wave function, and construct upper and lower e... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7725276 | Signal waveform analyzing device A signal waveform analyzing device includes an extracting unit that extracts, from waveform information indicating temporal variation in signal level of a component of an electronic circuit, a signal level that satisfies a condition for a phenomenon to be observed, ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706992 | System and method for signal decomposition, analysis and reconstruction The present invention provides a system and method for representing quasi-periodic (“qp”) waveforms comprising, representing a plurality of limited decompositions of the qp waveform, wherein each decomposition includes a first and second amplitude value and at l... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706993 | Method and program for correcting peak position of spectrum waveform pattern The invention relates to a peak position correcting method that is a pre-process for testing whether properties of a product, a raw material, etc., are good or defective from a spectrum waveform pattern. The method involves setting a reference peak position in a sin... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7660685 | Virtual probing A method and apparatus for generating one or more transfer functions for converting waveforms. The method comprises the steps of determining a system description, representative of a circuit, comprising a plurality of system components, each system component compris... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657387 | Method of processing and storing mass spectrometry data A data compression technique is disclosed for Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS). A statistical analysis is applied to the data in the frequency domain since most of this data is a result of randomly distributed electronic noise. A fit of the whole frequency... | 02/02/2010 |
