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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7400935 | Method for implementing indirect controller A system and method for implementing an indirect controller for a plant. A plant can be provided with both a direct controller and an indirect controller with a system model or a committee of system models. When the system model has sufficient integrity to satisfy t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395248 | Method for determining competing risks The invention concerns a method for determining competing risks for objects following an initial event based on previously measured or otherwise objectifiable training data patterns, in which several signals obtained from a learning capable system are combined in an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395316 | Establishing dynamic communication group by searching implicit information that is obtained through inference Mining human capital information includes defining one or more attributes of a communication group, extracting a target group by searching one or more of explicit and implicit data sources according to the defined attributes, communicating with the extracted target ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392230 | Physical neural network liquid state machine utilizing nanotechnology A physical neural network is disclosed, which comprises a liquid state machine. The physical neural network is configured from molecular connections located within a dielectric solvent between pre-synaptic and post-synaptic electrodes thereof, such that the molecula... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386523 | K-means clustering using t-test computation A method, apparatus, and system are provided for k-means clustering using t-test computation. According to one embodiment, k-means clustering is performed on a dataset. In performing k-means clustering, the dataset having various points is partitioned into several c... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383238 | Inductive monitoring system constructed from nominal system data and its use in real-time system monitoring The present invention relates to an Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), its software implementations, hardware embodiments and applications. Training data is received, typically nominal system data acquired from sensors in normally operating systems or from detailed ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383167 | Methods and systems for modeling power plants A modular method of modeling a power plant includes selecting a major component module model from a library of component module models for each major component of the power plant, with each major component module representing a power plant major component of a uniqu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379568 | Weak hypothesis generation apparatus and method, learning apparatus and method, detection apparatus and method, facial expression learning apparatus and method, facial expression recognition apparatus and method, and robot apparatus A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face p... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373334 | Most probable explanation generation for a Bayesian Network Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided to generate a most probable explanation (MPE) for a Bayesian Network (BN). A first data structure is populated by iterating from the leaves of a junction tree (derived from the BN) to the root and retaining maximum potent... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373664 | Proactive protection against e-mail worms and spam Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for detecting the presence of malicious computer code in a plurality of e-mails. In a method embodiment of the present invention, the following steps are performed for each e-mail: calculating a feature vector (80 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370020 | Sequence generator Apparatus for generating sequences of elements including at least one task unit, each of which has an upper and a lower neural network connected in a hierarchical relationship and is operable to output a sequence of elements. Each of the upper and lower neural netwo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370022 | Building plans for household tasks from distributed knowledge A system and a method are disclosed that provide plans for autonomous machines such as humanoid robots to perform indoor task. Human subjects contribute plans to a knowledge database. Information in the knowledge database is pre-processed to identify task steps and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369976 | Method of designing tire, optimization analyzer and storage medium on which optimization analysis program is recorded A design of a tire can be facilitated. An optimization apparatus 30 inputs known design parameters of the shape, structure, and pattern of a tire, and performances thereof by an experimental data input unit 40 and learns, as a conversion system of a ne... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366582 | Method for defining status index in copper electrolysis The invention is a method for controlling an electrolytic process and plant, utilizing history data collected in the process as well as mathematical and heuristic models created on the basis of empirical knowledge, and by means of said models, there are defined inde... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363185 | Fluxgate sensor for calibrating azimuth at slope and calibration method thereof A two-axis fluxgate sensor has a driving pulse generating circuit which generates pulse signal and outputs as a driving signal, and X-axis and Y-axis fluxgates which are in proportional relation with each other. The two-axis fluxgate sensor generates voltage values ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363308 | System and method for obtaining keyword descriptions of records from a large database A computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling is disclosed. The present invention includes a method for using the Internet to obtain inf... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363111 | Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving vibrational data from a plurality of locations distributed over an engine and a surrounding engine support structure, and inputting the vibrat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356611 | Method and apparatus for permissions based active document workflow Techniques for designing and processing a workflow that can be refined or modified based upon information associated with a document processed by the workflow. Since the author of the document may configure the information associated with a document that is used to ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356521 | System and method for automatic molecular diagnosis of ALS based on boosting classification A method for diagnosing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis includes providing surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometric (SELDI-MS) data of a plurality of proteins, said data obtained from a patient and comprising a plurality of peak values, and anal... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353088 | System and method for detecting presence of a human in a vehicle A system for detecting the presence of a human in a vehicle is provided. The system includes a vibration sensor that is configured to detect vibrations of the vehicle, and to output signals related to the sensed vibrations. A processor is configured to receive the s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349878 | Simulation method and system for the valuation of derivative financial instruments A Monte Carlo system and method are presented for the pricing of financial instruments such as derivative securities and for assisting a user in making an investment decision using the output of the system and method. A path-integral approach is described that relie... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346595 | Method and apparatus for learning data, method and apparatus for generating data, and computer program A learning apparatus for learning time series data in a link model including a plurality of input time series pattern storage networks and a plurality of output time series pattern storage networks with nodes of the input time series pattern storage networks linked ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340089 | Geometric pattern matching using dynamic feature combinations A geometric pattern matching method to locate instances of a template image in a target image using a plurality of models with different feature combinations. A learning phase involves learning geometric information about the template image and creating a model for ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340441 | Search directions in pattern search via rotation In performing a pattern search algorithm to find an optimal solution for an optimization, using a set of positive basis vectors that is non-maximal like a set of minimal positive basis vectors as search directions can sometimes causes the algorithm to converge at a ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340408 | Method for evaluating customer valve to guide loyalty and retention programs A method and apparatus for training a neural network to compute hazard functions for customers and analyzing hazard functions, both for an individual customer, and for set of customers to focus marketing techniques. The hazard function represents the likelihood of c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337458 | Content recommendation device with user feedback A content recommendation device is provided, including a selection engine selects content items from a content item pool and generates a selection list including the selected content items, wherein said selection engine selects the content items from a content item ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333963 | Cognitive memory and auto-associative neural network based search engine for computer and network located images and photographs Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331007 | Harnessing machine learning to improve the success rate of stimuli generation Test generation is improved by learning the relationship between an initial state vector for a stimuli generator and generation success. A stimuli generator for a design-under-verification is provided with information about the success probabilities of potential ass... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328146 | Spoken language understanding that incorporates prior knowledge into boosting A system for understanding entries, such as speech, develops a classifier by employing prior knowledge with which a given corpus of training entries is enlarged threefold. A rule is created for each of the labels employed in the classifier, and the created rules are... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324980 | Information processing apparatus and method This invention relates to an information processing device and method that enable generation of an unlearned new pattern. Data xt corresponding to a predetermined time series pattern is inputted to an input layer (11) of a recurrent neural network ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324979 | Genetically adaptive neural network classification systems and methods Genetically adaptive neural network systems and methods provide environmentally adaptable classification algorithms for use, among other things, in multi-static active sonar classification. Classification training occurs in-situ with data acquired at the onset of da... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321809 | Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving vibrational data from a plurality of locations distributed over an engine and a surrounding engine support structure, and inputting the vibrat... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321846 | Two-wire process control loop diagnostics A diagnostic device for coupling to a process control loop includes digital communication circuitry configured to receive a digital communication signal from the process control loop. The digital communication signal is a digitally modulated analog signal on the pro... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321882 | Method for supervised teaching of a recurrent artificial neural network A method for the supervised teaching of a recurrent neutral network (RNN) is disclosed. A typical embodiment of the method utilizes a large (50 units or more), randomly initialized RNN with a globally stable dynamics. During the training period, the output units of ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319943 | Optimum design method, and apparatus, and program for the same In an optimum design method comprising a first solution determining step of solving an optimization problem of a first evaluation function for a state variable vector with a design variable vector being as a parameter, and a second solution determining step of solvi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315846 | Method and apparatus for optimizing a system model with gain constraints using a non-linear programming optimizer Method and apparatus for training a system model with gain constraints. A method is disclosed for training a steady-state model, the model having an input and an output and a mapping layer for mapping the input to the output through a stored representation of a syst... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313550 | Performance of artificial neural network models in the presence of instrumental noise and measurement errors A method is described for improving the prediction accuracy and generalization performance of artificial neural network models in presence of input-output example data containing instrumental noise and/or measurement errors, the presence of noise and/or errors in th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305341 | Method of reflecting time/language distortion in objective speech quality assessment Disclosed is an objective speech quality assessment technique that reflects the impact of distortions which can dominate overall speech quality assessment by modeling the impact of such distortions on subjective speech quality assessment, thereby, accounting for lan... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302345 | Method and apparatus for generating magnetic field map and method and apparatus for checking pose of mobile body using the magnetic field map Provided is a method of generating a magnetic field map including obtaining magnetic field information, the magnetic field information being information on a magnetic field affecting a mobile body, for each position of the mobile body, and building a magnetic field ... | 11/27/2007 |
