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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 6886002 | Computational architecture for managing the transmittal and rendering of information, alerts, and notifications An architecture for managing alerts, notifications, and peripheral information is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized system includes three modules, an attentional status module, a peripheral information notification and alerts module, and an notifications ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6868413 | System and method for customizing and processing business logic rules in a business process system Systems and methods for customizing business logic rules within a business process automation system and for processing business logic rules in a business process automation system are disclosed. The method for customizing business rules of a business logic applicat... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865562 | Adaptive constraint problem solving method and system A method for problem solving in a computer system includes an applications module for sending a problem statement to a complexity module. The complexity module configures a solving module with configuration parameters and also determines expected solver behavior. A ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6853930 | System for aiding the preparation of operation and maintenance plans for a power generation installation In order to provide an operation and maintenance planning aiding system for a power generation installation which prepares an operation plan for a plurality of power generation units by making use of actual plant data and based on a total judgement including a varie... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6751600 | Method for automatic categorization of items A system and method for automatic categorization of items into categories. Machine learning establishes or updates a data structure including term weights for text fields and distributions for numeric fields, based on a sample of pre-categorized items. An automatic ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6691095 | Method and system to determine state-of-health of a fuel cell using an intelligent system A method of and system for determining the state-of-health of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack connected to a load comprises detecting the real part of the impedance Z1 of the fuel cell stack at a selected frequency; detecting the vol... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6668247 | Method and system for determining state-of-health of a lead-acid defibrillator battery using an intelligent system A method of and system for determining the state-of-health of a lead acid battery of the type commonly used in portable external defibrillators comprises detecting an impedance characteristic of the battery at at least one selected frequency, counting the... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6606610 | Feature interaction resolution using fuzzy rules An architecture of multiple agents is provided, based on a negotiating agents' approach to resolving feature interactions. An event-based model is used to detect feature interaction, and fuzzy constraints are applied to the policies that describe the syst... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6581038 | Automated profiler system for providing medical information to patients Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating individualized medical profiles based on information provided by a patient, and on data extracted from medical literature. In a first stage, medical literature is selected for inclusion in a database by u... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6567795 | Artificial neural network and fuzzy logic based boiler tube leak detection systems Power industry boiler tube failures are a major cause of utility forced outages in the United States, with approximately 41,000 tube failures occurring every year at a cost of $5 billion a year. Accordingly, early tube leak detection and isolation is high... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6456988 | Method for determining state-of-health using an intelligent system A method for determining state of health (SOH) of an electrochemical device using fuzzy logic (i.e., an intelligent system) is presented. State of health of an electrochemical device is determined by an internal characteristic parameter (or external opera... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6272477 | Hypertrapezoidal fuzzy dynamic state interpreter An apparatus for determining the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more sensors operable to sample physical parameters of a system, and a mode interpreter. The mode interpreter is operable to receive data from the sens... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6086617 | User directed heuristic design optimization search A directed heuristic search (DHS) has been developed for an optimization design system. The DHS an optimization simulation system has been developed. The DHS directs a design optimization process that implements a user's selections and directions, the ord... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5835682 | Dynamical system analyzer A dynamical system analyser (10) incorporates a computer (22) to perform a singular value decomposition of a time series of signals from a nonlinear (possibly chaotic) dynamical system (14). Relatively low-noise singular vectors from the decomposition are... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5790761 | Method and apparatus for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer A process is set forth in which cancer of the colon is assessed in a patient. The probabilities of developing cancer involves the initial step of extracting a set of sample body fluids from the patient. Fluids can be evaluated to determine certain marker ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5787233 | Route generating device A route generating device has an elevation map memory storing elevation data for subareas defined by division of an operations zone. A gradient map creating section calculates gradient data based on the elevation data and creates a gradient map from the g... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781699 | Method for optimization of channel parameters in a data storage device A method is disclosed for tuning parameter values in a recording channel of a data storage device. The parameter values are tuned using a genetic process based on the principles of simulated evolution. An initial population of individuals is generated whe... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5740324 | Method for process system identification using neural network The method of making the tool, for process system identification that is based on the general purpose learning capabilities of neural networks. The method can be used for a wide variety of system identification problems with little or no analytic effort. ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5692206 | Method and apparatus for automating the generation of a legal document The contract generation system of the present invention automates the generation of various legal documents related to a negotiated agreement. The contract generation system provides various standard documents that can be customized for each deal. The con... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5524086 | Dipole parameter estimation method and apparatus A trained neural network is used, for estimating the number, positions or moments of one or more dipoles which are assumed as sources of the electromagnetic field distribution based upon an electromagnetic field distribution of a living body or an object.... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5515503 | Self-repair system for an image forming apparatus The present invention makes it possible to effectively make self-repair of a fault by referencing repair analysis cases. The cases are hierarchically classified according to the fault symptom, the fault and the class, and a case suitable for a fault devel... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5463552 | Rules-based interlocking engine using virtual gates A method of implementing a computer based interlocking system for automatic train protection includes providing a data base of prestored rule sets for a plurality of guideway objects, the guideway objects being represented as one or more virtual gates of ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5308915 | Electronic musical instrument utilizing neural net An electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets comprises parameter input device for inputting a parameter and a neural net device for calculating the parameter. The neural net device is in advance learning therefore, any input parameter results in... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5289563 | Fuzzy backward reasoning device A sequential type Fuzzy backward reasoning device is disclosed, which is capable of performing computation progressively every time a feature quantity is observed to update reasoning, and of performing the reasoning even if the order of observations is ar... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5247303 | Data quality and ambiguity resolution in a doppler radar system The pulsed Doppler weather radar system reduces ambiguities in measured parameters by staggering at least one pulse of each frame of n pulses transmitted by the radar system. The staggered pulse creates an isolated pulse doublet pair to provide three or m... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5224040 | Method for translating chinese sentences The character string of a Chinese sentence is input into the memory of a personal computer, and the first six characters of the sentence are taken from that memory and placed in a main buffer. A segment processor fetches the first three of those six chara... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5218153 | Technique for selecting a chord progression for a melody A microcomputer based music apparatus allows a user to gain efficient access to a desired chord progression (CP). To this end, the apparatus includes a chord progression database (CPDB) containing a large collection of practical CPs with various kinds of ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5200890 | Computerized bridge game including storage of deals used for constructing players The invention relates to a method and to a bridge game using a computer system comprising: a board (10) having a microprocessor (28), a memory (30, 32) and input/output units such as a display screen, an alphanumeric keyboard, and a playing card reader, w... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5195173 | Integrated multi-visual expert system maintenance advisor An integrated multivisual expert system maintenance advisor system includes an expert system module, a photo-library module and a hypermanual module. The photo-library module and the hypermanual module are linked to each other and to the expert system mod... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5138928 | Rhythm pattern learning apparatus A rhythm pattern generating apparatus is provided having a layered neural network to perform learning with feedback to generate an output pattern signal indicative of a musical sound pattern. The output pattern signal is generated by the layered neural ne... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5138924 | Electronic musical instrument utilizing a neural network A musical tone parameter generating method and a musical tone generating device of this invention feature that when data inputted by a player is inputted into a neural network as input pattern, the neural network infers the parameters necessary to specify... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5129009 | Method for automatic semiconductor wafer inspection An automatic integrated circuit inspection method is provided wherein an image of an integrated circuit is obtained and a direction edge enhancement is performed. An image of an integrated circuit under inspection is then obtained and the direction edge e... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5091780 | A trainable security system emthod for the same A security system comprised of a device for monitoring an area under surveillance. The monitoring device produces images of the area. The security system is also comprised of a device for processing the images to determine whether the area is in a desired... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5083268 | System and method for parsing natural language by unifying lexical features of words A method for parsing for natural languages includes a grammar and a lexicon. A knowledge base may be used to define elements in the lexicon. A processor receives single words input by a user and adds them to a sentence under construction. Valid next words... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5043891 | Document generation apparatus and methods A document generation system which employs a definition-based expert system and an editor to produce an output document from a template document and expert system responses. The knowledge base of the expert system consists of a hierarchy of terms and thei... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5018215 | Knowledge and model based adaptive signal processor A knowledge and model based adaptive signal processor for ensuring optimum performance in automated object recognition (AOR) systems. The invention does not require ground-truth information but uses predictive performance models for parameter adaption and... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4982643 | Automatic composer An automatic composer comprises an input unit which inputs a melody forming part of a music piece and a chord progression of music, a melody analyzer which extracts parameters characterizing the input melody and a melody generator which develops a melody ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4951544 | Apparatus for producing a chord progression available for a melody A melody harmonization apparatus is disclosed which can determine and produce available chords as many as there are for each segment (e.g., bar) of a given melody. In determining available chords, the apparatus does not need excessive constraints or merel... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4841473 | Computer architecture providing programmable degrees of an almost condition This invention features a new computer system architecture comprising a variable comparison of input data with programmable Template data. The system has the capability to provide an "almost" condition, which is a similarity match between a near or close ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4736296 | Method and apparatus of intelligent guidance in natural language A method and apparatus of intelligent guidance in a natural language in which the user of an information terminal apparatus is only required to input the content of a job to be executed, in a natural language which is used in usual conversation, and not i... | 04/05/1988 |
