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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7596462 | Systems, methods, and devices for generating variable-frequency pulses At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising obtaining a first frequency and a second frequency. The method also comprises creating a table of values comprising a plurality of target frequencies intermediate to the first an... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7409320 | Complex signal decomposition and modeling A system, method and program product for monitoring a complex signal for ultrasensitive detection of state changes, or for signature recognition and classification is provided. A complex signal is decomposed periodically for empirical modeling. Wavelet analysis, fre... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403016 | Car power source apparatus A car power source apparatus is provided with a battery having a plurality of battery modules connected in series on positive and negative sides of a midpoint reference node, and a voltage detection circuit that detects the voltage of one or a plurality of battery m... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7369619 | Intercircuit communications apparatus and method A communication apparatus comprises accumulator logic managing reference data. First, second, and third inputs are communicatively coupled to the accumulator logic and capable of receiving first, second, and third signals respectively. The first and second signals e... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363175 | Query based electronic battery tester An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery provides a test output indicative of a condition of the battery. Electronic measurement circuitry provides a measurement output related to a condition of the battery. The battery condition is determined base... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363195 | Methods of configuring a sensor network A sensor network collects time-series data from a process tool and supplies the data to an analysis system where pattern analysis techniques are used to identify structures and to monitor subsequent data based on analysis instructions or a composite model. Time-seri... | 04/22/2008 |
| RE40188 | System and method for providing an integrated circuit with a unique identification An integrated circuit identification device (ICID) to be incorporated into an integrated circuit (IC) includes an array of electronic cells in which the magnitude of an output signal of each cell is a function of randomly occurring parametric variations which vary f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346464 | Gait waveform feature extracting method and individual identification system A gait waveform feature extracting method and an individual identification system extract features of the gait waveform. A one-step waveform corresponding to one step of a walking movement is specified using, as an index, a peak amplitude corresponding to a state wh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336219 | System and method for generating a radar detection threshold A method for generating a radar detection threshold includes computing a first plurality of percentile values associated with frequency domain values of frequency domain signals. The first plurality of percentile values is used to generate detection threshold values... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336705 | Smart receiver for wireless peripherals Systems and methods for evaluating a signal containing pulses received from a wireless computer peripheral device are provided. A received signal is analyzed to measure the strength of the received signal and determine whether sources of interference exist. Correcti... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7318051 | Methods for feature selection in a learning machine In a pre-processing step prior to training a learning machine, pre-processing includes reducing the quantity of features to be processed using feature selection methods selected from the group consisting of recursive feature elimination (RFE), minimizing the number ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301325 | Method and apparatus for creating performance limits from parametric measurements A measurement device includes a measurement circuit that generates a parametric measurement data signal including parametric characteristics of an input signal. In an exemplary embodiment, the parametric characteristics are measured at predetermined increments of ti... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295977 | Extracting classifying data in music from an audio bitstream The method of the present invention utilizes machine-learning techniques, particularly Support Vector Machines in combination with a neural network, to process a unique machine-learning enabled representation of the audio bitstream. Using this method, a classifying ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289930 | Method for monitoring tyre pressure monitoring systems in a motor vehicle Disclosed is a method of monitoring tire pressure monitoring systems in a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has a tire pressure monitoring system with indirect measurement which detects tire inflation pressure loss on the basis of wheel speed data, and a tire pressur... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283956 | Noise suppression A method and apparatus for noise suppression is described herein. The channel gain is controlled based on a degree of variability of the background noise. The noise variability estimate is used in conjunction with a variable attenuation concept to produce a family o... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268783 | Image alias rejection using shaped statistical filtering Image alias rejection when converting a high resolution rasterized waveform to a lower resolution rasterized waveform for display uses a statistical filter. The statistical filter provides a shaped probability density function either by combining the outputs of mult... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260485 | Method and systems for distinguishing between materials having similar spectra Various computer-implemented methods and systems are provided. One computer-implemented method includes determining a ratio between output signals generated by detecting spectra for a single event in two or more detection windows. The spectra are characteristic of d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254500 | Monitoring and representing complex signals A method of displaying signals containing a spatial and a temporal aspect, where multiple signals are received by multiple sensors. The received signals are decomposed into separate signal components within one or more distinct frequency bands. Signal components are... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251572 | Finding random jitter in an arbitrary non-repeating data signal Discovery of RJ assumes an Adjusted TIE Record for TJ from which DDJ has been removed. What remains is PJ+RJ, from whose Fourier Transform PJ is ‘synthetically de-convolved’ to leave just RJ: Calculate the Power Density Spectrum of PJ+RJ, and determine a thresho... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246014 | Human machine interface for an energy analytics system An Enterprise Energy Management (“EEM”) software system is disclosed that displays EEM data and allows a user to interact with the data to better understand and manage their electrical system. The EEM software system collects real-time, near real-time and histor... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240207 | Fingerprinting media entities employing fingerprint algorithms and bit-to-bit comparisons A system and methods for the creation, management, and distribution of media entity fingerprinting are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal processing analysis of media entities for purposes of classifying the ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7193379 | Electronic circuit arrangement for switching an electrical load in a fail safe manner An electronic circuit arrangement for switching an electrical load disposed intermediate a power source and a ground includes a combinatorial logic block for receiving and processing at least one condition signal and for generating a first enabling signal. A biasing... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174293 | Audio identification system and method A method and system for direct audio capture and identification of the captured audio. A user may then be offered the opportunity to purchase recordings directly over the Internet or similar outlet. The system preferably includes one or more user-carried portable au... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166981 | Actuator, motor unit and controller unit An actuator, which allows a controller to be commonly applied to a plurality of models without requiring complicated setting operation of control parameters, and is superior in cost effectiveness, reusability and expandability, is provided. And further, a motor unit... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158900 | Pulse output function for programmable logic controller At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising obtaining a first frequency and a second frequency. The method also comprises creating a table of values comprising a plurality of target frequencies intermediate to the first an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7135862 | NMR logging using time-domain averaging Method for data acquisition and processing, which uses time-domain averaging to increase the signal to noise ratio (SNR) in single-event measurements. In a preferred embodiment, NMR echo-trains obtained using high-speed NMR logging are provided, the echo trains are ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136766 | Vehicular accessory diagnostic system A control unit receives a sensor output and performs signal processing on the sensor output to produce an internal signal. The control unit produces internal data by adding time data to an internal signal and transmits the internal data to an in-vehicle network. A d... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133701 | Microphone position and speech level sensor Improper microphone position and speech level on a telephone headset is sensed by comparison of a speech envelope to multiple signal threshold levels. A first threshold is used to determine whether a headset user is talking. A second threshold is used to determine w... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126341 | Automotive vehicle electrical system diagnostic device An automotive vehicle electrical system diagnostic apparatus includes first and second electrical connections configured to electrically couple to an electrical system of an automotive vehicle which includes a battery. Digital samples are obtained during operation o... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117149 | Sound source classification A system and method to identify a sound source among a group of sound sources. The invention matches the acoustic input to a number of signal models, one per source class, and produces a goodness-of-match number for each signal model. The sound source is declared to... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7103750 | Method and apparatus for finding repeated substrings in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for compressing a reference pattern (RP) with repeated substrings by encoding produce compressed reference patterns (CRPs) with reduce storage requirements. Operation codes and a flag are stored with the CRPs. During comparison of reference el... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085613 | System for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast A method is provided for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast. According to the method, an audio datastream from the video broadcast is received, and audio identifying information is generated for audio content from the audio datastream. It is determined wh... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080253 | Audio fingerprinting A system and methods for the creation, management, and distribution of media entity fingerprinting are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal processing analysis of media entities for purposes of classifying the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072795 | Method and system for modeling a system The invention relates to a method and a system for detecting at least one partial model of a model pertaining to a system. A state of the system is described by state variables. At least on e of the state variables is a discrete state variable. Several value sets of... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7034701 | Identification of fire signatures for shipboard multi-criteria fire detection systems A multi-criteria fire detection system, comprising a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is capable of detecting a signature characteristic of a presence of a fire and providing an output indicating the same. A processor for receiving each output of the plural... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034541 | Query based electronic battery tester An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery provides a test output indicative of a condition of the battery. Electronic measurement circuitry provides a measurement output related to a condition of the battery. The battery condition is determined base... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7013249 | Method for detecting near neutral/low pH stress corrosion cracking in steel gas pipeline systems A method for predicting the location of stress corrosion cracking in a steel gas pipeline in which in-line stress corrosion cracking smart tool data, external low level metal loss data and soil characterization data are compiled to predict the location of stress cor... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999905 | Method for extracting significant signal, recording medium and program A method for extracting a signal of interest from a signal generated from at least one subject, comprises the steps of (A) obtaining a time-series signal generated from the subject as a data group consisting of a plurality of pieces of data, (B) obtaining a pluralit... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995553 | User interface for operating upon an eye diagram to find optimum sampling parameters for a receiver Measurements for an eye diagram of a signal of interest are placed in a data structure that is examined to locate an eye opening of interest. The eye opening of interest has already been, or is subsequently, normalized into figure of merit units related to the opera... | 02/07/2006 |
