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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095477 | Load fuzzy modeling device and method for power system A load fuzzy modeling device for the power system based on the causality diagram, the composite cloud generator and the improved T-S fuzzy model, comprising: a hardware device, including: the sensors, a signal conditioning and filter module, an A/D conversion module... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7895135 | Human perception model for speed control performance A human perception model for a speed control method obtains a steering angle, a velocity error and a distance error. The steering angle and a measure of operator aggressiveness are applied to the model. The output is defuzzified. The steering angle, the velocity err... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7599892 | Method for secure diagnostic screening, servicing, treatment, and compliance monitoring for sleep apnea in truck drivers A secure method for delivering sleep apnea diagnostic services on an at least one commercial driver to a trucking company. The sleep apnea diagnostic services are delivered by a general coordinator using a system. The system includes at least one processor connected... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7353788 | Fuzzy logic based cam phaser control A method of controlling a valve of a cam phaser of an internal combustion engine includes determining a delta duty cycle from a position error and a rate of change of error (error dot). A fuzzy gain value is calculated from the delta duty cycle and a correction term... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351064 | Question and answer dialogue generation for intelligent tutors A question generation means is developed for intelligent tutors wherein a question menu having dynamic questions is capable of being displayed after each step of a problem. The generated question set contains both elementary and advanced questions and changes after ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346592 | Method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure of an internal-combustion engine A method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure are presented, to compensate for a large lag or a large time delay without producing an overshot or discontinuous behaviors of a predicted value. The method comprises the step of obtaining a differenc... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333439 | Sending/receiving method, and device for the same The packet loss in a wired section is reported to a receiving terminal (61) using a loss notification packet from a gateway (62) located at the boundary between a wired section and a wireless section, and thus the causes for packet loss are separated. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7248564 | Method for determining network congestion and link capacities Packet round trip times (RTT) within a communication network are measured and from those measurements information regarding congestion conditions within the network is extracted. The RTT measurements are organized into an invariant distribution (a histogram) and an ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7222195 | System and method for distributing information in a network environment A method for distributing information in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a communication flow and executing a routing decision for the communication flow that directs the communication flow to a selected one of a plurality of servers. The r... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7194320 | 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... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191425 | Method and apparatus for inserting extra tracks during library architecture migration One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that migrates a layout of a cell which is used in integrated circuit design. During operation, the system receives a layout for the cell, wherein one or more layers of the cell contain tracks for metal wires.... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177743 | Vehicle control system having an adaptive controller The vehicle control system having an adaptive controller is provided that accomplishes unsupervised learning such that no prior extensive training is needed for every situation. The inventive controller system is based on a neural network evolved with genetic algori... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7132926 | Smart tray system and method for restaurant inventory management A smart tray system includes a plurality of information tags and a plurality of communication devices, which can communicate with each of the information tags when the information tags are located in the proximity of the communication devices. Each information tag i... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124145 | System and method for dynamic business logic rule integration A system for dynamically integrating changes in rules governing business operations into a rule-implementing application program includes a dynamic business logic rule integrator (“DBLRI”) that provides rules to the application software as executable routines. T... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110988 | Automated system and method for creating aligned goals A method of aligning a new goal of an entity ensures that the new goal is a child goal of a parent goal. The method also ensures that a group is linked to the parent goal, and ensures that the entity is subordinate to the group. In one embodiment, selection lists co... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107108 | Controller and method of controlling an apparatus using predictive filters In the field of electronic or computerised control apparatuses, known methods of compensating for disturbance signals rely on less than ideal analytical or empirical models. There is provided a controller (200) or method of controlling which observes and lear... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098617 | Advanced programmable closed loop fan control method A fan control system and method that maintains the operating temperature of computer and electronic devices or components at about a predetermined control level to minimize power consumption and audible noise. The fan control system is a programmable closed loop sys... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089543 | Use of formal logic specification in construction of semantic descriptions An occurrence description scheme that describes an occurrence of a semantic entity in multimedia content is encoded into a content description for the content. The occurrence description scheme is extracted from the content description and used by an application to ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7078364 | Ship-in-a-bottle catalysts In accordance with the present invention there is provided a novel catalyst system in which the catalytic structure is tailormade at the nanometer scale using the invention's novel ship-in-a-bottle synthesis techniques. The invention describes modified forms of soli... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072871 | Fuzzy logic method and apparatus for battery state of health determination A system for determining the state-of-health of batteries has an adaptive component. The system tests a battery by measuring a number of electrochemical parameters and using fuzzy logic to compute a state-of-health for the battery. The fuzzy logic computations are b... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7051220 | Mechanism for reducing power consumption of a transmitter/receiver circuit A mechanism that reduces power consumption of a transmitter/receiver circuit in a wireless device. The transmitter/receiver circuit is powered down to a reduced-power state after transmitting a message. The reduced-power state is too low to be able to transmit or re... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050555 | System and method for managing interconnect carrier routing A system and method for managing a carrier's interconnect traffic across a telecommunications network, the method involving receiving cost and routing rules from the carrier, gathering performance data corresponding to the interconnect traffic, applying the cost and... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6928068 | Digital loop carrier or other multi-services access system as a data and voice packet server A multi-services access system, such as a multi-services digital loop carrier (DLC) system for a telecommunications network, has a packet-mode card, such as a digital subscriber line (DSL) card, configured to receive data packets corresponding to one or more data si... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917925 | Convergent actor critic-based fuzzy reinforcement learning apparatus and method A system is controlled by an actor-critic based fuzzy reinforcement learning algorithm that provides instructions to a processor of the system for applying actor-critic based fuzzy reinforcement learning. The system includes a database of fuzzy-logic rules for mappi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6901389 | Method to augment imagery to display 3-D probabilistic object locations The invention is a method for augmenting images to highlight regions where objects of interest are likely to appear. The method uses fuzzy set theory to classify locations that may contain objects of interest, uses fog volumes to represent the fuzzy sets in three di... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898585 | Fuzzy logic method for adaptively evaluating the validity of sensor data Machine operators rely on intuition and experience to evaluate vehicle performance. As we increasingly turn to automation, it is important to automatically evaluate sensor data and system performance. Fuzzy logic allows us to take advantage of domain knowledge to ev... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6807535 | Intelligent tutoring system A computer implemented method and apparatus for simulating an intelligent tutor for interactive adaptive training of learners in any domain includes a Domain Module, a Tutor Module and an Interface. Items to be learned, and their prerequisite and other dependency re... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6801879 | Method and apparatus for monitoring processes in a web-processing printing machine A method for monitoring processes includes identifying process variables in a process space as operating values, carrying out a measurement of actual values of the operating values, presetting or measuring actual values of at least one operating parameter that influ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6772085 | Device for self-verifying temperature measurement and control A measuring instrument includes a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor and circuitry. The first and second temperature sensors each generate a signal indicative of the temperature of a medium being detected. The circuitry is configured to activate v... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766309 | Method and system for adapting a network application based on classifying types of communication links using fuzzy logic In hybrid communication environments, in which both the wired and wireless communication links in a communication channel can exist in a communication channel, performance of a quality-of-service (QoS) provision can be enhanced if the application knows whether there... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6735576 | Method of real-time optimization of control device equipped with fuzzy inference system Real-time optimization is conducted for a control device having a fuzzy inference system that can optimize characteristics of the control device in real time, by coding parameters used in the fuzzy inference system into chromosomes, and optimizing in real time the o... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728687 | Electronic circuit for controlling a movement by a fuzzy cellular architecture A method of controlling the movements of a multi-actuator electro-mechanical system having a matrix of locally interconnected analog cells associated therewith is provided. Each cell represents a hardware implementation of a model of fuzzy inference rules. The model... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6578017 | Method to aid object detection in images by incorporating contextual information The invention uses fuzzy logic and/or probability distributions to automatically calculate and display the effects of contextual information on the confidence that an object in an image is an object of interest. The goal is to assist in determining the lo... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6535860 | Design and hardware synthesis of adaptive weighted fuzzy mean image filter This invention proposes a novel nonlinear filter called adaptive weighted fuzzy mean (AWFM) filter which is capable of removing high density Gaussian impulse noises in polluted images. Via a single epoch, weights of the filter are departed according to a ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6496811 | Fuzzy-logic based overload detection and correction for packet gateways A fuzzy-logic based overload control for packet switches wherein a distribution curve is developed regarding the overload possibility versus receive packet stream processing rate. The transmit packet stream is measured and a processing rate of the receive... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6473747 | Neural network trajectory command controller An apparatus and method for controlling trajectory of an object (47) to a first predetermined position. The apparatus has an input layer (22) having nodes (22a-22f) for receiving input data indicative of the first predetermined position. First weighted co... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6442534 | Hydraulic controller using multiple regime specific controllers combined with fuzzy logic A control system for an actuator employs a number of discrete feedback controllers each tuned to different operating conditions or parameters. The competing outputs of the feedback controllers are combined using fuzzy logic which dynamically effects a com... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6439254 | Mass flow controller automation method and related system An MFC controlling device automation method and related system. The method mainly comprises the steps of automatically controlled algorithmic obtaining of MFC open loop system parameters by an identification technique; automatically controlled algorithmic... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6347308 | Method for the processing of information by fuzzy logic In a system of information processing by fuzzy logic, force coefficients are associated with values of variables processed by a fuzzy logic processor. The force coefficients show the degree of urgency with which information sent has to be taken into consi... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6199056 | Apparatus for dividing an integer by 2n with over or under approximation An apparatus over or under approximates the result of dividing a binary number representing an integer 2n. The division by 2n is performed by truncating the n least significant bits of the integer. In order to over or under approxima... | 03/06/2001 |
