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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160729 | Application of microsystems for a building system employing a system knowledge base An arrangement for use in a control system within a building includes a plurality of sensor microsystems (12, 406, 407, 408) configured to obtain environmental information regarding a plurality of areas in a building and a processing circuit (18, 318, 412,... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8099181 | Method for the computer-aided regulation and/or control of a technical system, especially a gas turbine A method for the computer-aided regulation and/or control of a technical system is provided. In the method, first a simulation model of the technical system is created, to which subsequently a plurality of learning and/or optimization methods are applied. Based on t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086329 | Method of actuator control The present invention is related to a method of controlling a device having a calibration process. The calibration process has a partial calibration routine and a calibration routine. A detector within the control system is capable of receiving one or more input sig... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7881816 | Method for controlling an industrial automation device A method for controlling an industrial automation device or process including a control unit, at least one actuator, and at least one device arranged for wireless communication with the control unit. The method determines characteristics of the wireless transmission... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7590458 | Conversational numerical control apparatus Step data are sequentially read out from a conversational program created in a conversational format. The processor 13 determines whether or not leaning control in the step is possible. When the leaning control is possible, a learning start command is added t... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7460917 | System and method for identifying manufacturing data deviations Systems and methods of industrial control processes that employ a data matching component associated with a programming logic controller (PLC), to substitute a plurality of collected data points with a data pattern (e.g., a curve). Such data matching component can f... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444190 | Method for creating a non-linear, stationary or dynamic model of a control variable of a machine A method for creating a non-linear, stationary or dynamic overall model of a control variable of a combustion engine or partial systems thereof is based on simplified partial model functions that are used to determine in a weighted fashion at each desired operating ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434011 | Apparatus, system, and method for modifying data storage configuration An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for modifying storage configuration. A monitor module monitors a storage fullness of a storage configuration. If the storage fullness exceeds a policy threshold, a modification module modifies the storage configuration.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7417399 | Integrated motor device and method of setting and reading driver configuration parameters using driver configuration data embedded in driver control signals An integrated motor device with driver circuitry and method of setting and reading configuration parameters of the driver circuitry uses configuration data embedded in driver control signals to set at least one configuration parameter of the driver circuitry. ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415313 | Spatial coordination system A system and process uses pheromone propagation to provide direction and/or distance information to a remote destination through the use of localized decision making processes. Locally available information is exchanged and translated with global information through... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400933 | SISO model predictive controller A method of predictive control for a single input, single output (SISO) system, including modeling the SISO system with model factors, detecting output from the SISO system, estimating a filtered disturbance from the output, determining a steady state target state f... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7353188 | Product selling system and method for operating the same A product selling system is provided which allows clients with networks accessible to the Internet to contact a service provider network for purchases. The service provider network includes a database with three dimensional (3D) image data for a variety of its produ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351274 | Air filtration system control An intense field dielectric air filtration system associated with an air conditioning unit includes a microprocessor based control system which may be connected to the thermostat of the air conditioning unit to energize the air filtration system in response to a cal... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346440 | Vehicle air conditioner having learning function and correcting function A vehicle air conditioner includes an operating unit operated by a passenger for setting an air conditioning state in a passenger compartment, and a control unit for automatically controlling the air conditioning state in accordance with a detection value of an envi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7332019 | Air filtration system An air filtration system includable in and for HVAC equipment includes one or more intense field dielectric filter units and a field charging unit retained in a support structure or cabinet by a removable door which includes control circuitry and contactors engageab... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7308134 | Pattern recognition with hierarchical networks Within the frameworks of hierarchical neural feed-forward architectures for performing real-world 3D invariant object recognition a technique is proposed that shares components like weight-sharing (2), and pooling stages (3, 5) with earlier approaches,... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7242989 | Apparatus and method for batch property estimation A method and apparatus that generates an estimate of a property of a batch process uses a non-parametric model to generate a plurality of rate of reaction estimates associated with the batch process. Each rate of reaction estimate may correspond, for example, to a p... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7216113 | Remote Execution of Materials Library Designs Methods, apparatus, and business processes enabling individual chemists to design, order, and obtain data for multiple experiments or measurements in a timely and cost-effective manner. In particular implementations, the invention includes methods and apparatus for ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203635 | Layered models for context awareness The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing layered probabilistic representations for sensing, learning, and inference from multiple sensory streams at multiple levels of temporal granularity and abstraction. The methods facilitate robustness... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203368 | Embedded bayesian network for pattern recognition A pattern recognition procedure forms a hierarchical statistical model using a hidden Markov model and a coupled hidden Markov model. The hierarchical statistical model supports a pa 20 layer having multiple supernodes and a child layer having multiple nodes associa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196611 | Barrier movement operator human interface method and apparatus Improvements in human interaction with barrier movement operators are disclosed. A controller of the barrier movement operator is capable of a number of learning modes in which the controller cooperates with a user to learn operating parameters. The controller guide... | 03/27/2007 |
| RE39534 | Method and apparatus to calibrate a semi-empirical process simulator A method and apparatus for calibrating a semi-empirical process simulator used to determine process values in a plasma process for creating a desired surface profile on a process substrate includes providing a test model which captures all mechanisms responsible for... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7177710 | System and method for adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear processes A computer system for controlling a nonlinear physical process. The computer system comprises a linear controller and a neural network. The linear controller receives a command signal for control of the nonlinear physical process and a measured output signal from th... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174226 | Numerical controller for carrying out learning control A numerical controller having a learning control function executes commands in an NC program, starts performing learning control from a location where the same operation pattern starts occurring, and stops performing learning control at a location where the same ope... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171043 | Image recognition using hidden markov models and coupled hidden markov models An image processing system useful for facial recognition and security identification obtains an array of observation vectors from a facial image to be identified. A Viterbi algorithm is applied to the observation vectors given the parameters of a hierarchical statis... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167815 | Measuring the intensity of odors The intensity of an odour can be quantified by determining what is the response of an odour sensing device to that odour, then transforming the response data to an odour intensity value based on transformation data relating to a set of selected reference odours. The... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164954 | 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... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162319 | Manufacturing information and troubleshooting system and method Systems and methods for providing alarming indications and troubleshooting indications and actions in connection with a web converting manufacturing process such as that used for manufacturing disposable absorbent garments. Some of the disclosed embodiments include ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7136719 | Method for the computer-assisted regulating of a plurality of serially coupled machines, regulating device and machine arrangement A method for stabilizing machine processes in which the machines are regulated by a machine regulation matrix selected from a plurality of machine regulation matrixes using a detected machine sensor value, set-point values of the machines being stored in each machin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134015 | Security enhancements for pervasive devices A method, apparatus, and program product for tiered, multi-state intelligent detection and enforcement of security on a pervasive device is provided. The method/apparatus first monitors the pervasive device for the presence of a security identifier, then establishes... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7107107 | Predictive action decision device and action decision method In a predictive action determination apparatus (10), a state observation section (12) observes a state with respect to an environment (11) and obtains state data s(t). An environment prediction section (13) predicts, based on the state da... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103774 | Method of establishing secure communications in a digital network using pseudonymic digital identifiers A system and method of relating a public key to a compact identification string in a digital certificate to enable an entity to construct a certificate chain from a root certificate authority to an end-entity efficiently and further allow a certificate holder to sto... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099505 | Method for boosting the performance of machine-learning classifiers A novel statistical learning procedure that can be applied to many machine-learning applications is presented. Although this boosting learning procedure is described with respect to its applicability to face detection, it can be applied to speech recognition, text c... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092922 | Adaptive learning enhancement to automated model maintenance An adaptive learning method for automated maintenance of a neural net model is provided. The neural net model is trained with an initial set of training data. Partial products of the trained model are stored. When new training data are available, the trained model i... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7069198 | Method for formulating paint A method for formulating paint is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of color coordinates of paints formed from a plurality of formulations and providing durability data related to the paints. Thereafter, the color coordinates, the formulations and... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7051011 | Device controller Disclosed is apparatus for controlling devices comprising a data structure representing devices to be controlled; means for controlling the state of the device controller; means for dynamically determining the current sub-state within a state of the device controlle... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047089 | Kiln thermal and combustion control A method and apparatus for controlling a non-linear mill. A linear controller is provided having a linear gain k that is operable to receive inputs representing measured variables of the plant and predict on an output of the linear controller predicted control value... | 05/16/2006 |
