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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8036764 | Virtual sensor network (VSN) system and method A method is used for providing sensing data to a control system of a machine. The method may include providing a plurality of virtual sensors, each of which may have a model type, at least one input parameter, and at least one output parameter. The method may also i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7899562 | Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These featu... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7787969 | Virtual sensor system and method A method is provide for providing sensors for a machine. The method may include obtaining data records including data from a plurality of sensors for the machine and determining a virtual sensor corresponding to one of the plurality of sensors. The method may also i... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7443395 | Multi-variable operations Operation of a multi-variable process involves multidimensional representation of the value (p1-p12) of the process variables (P1-P12) according to individual coordinate axes, and an operational envelope (UB,LB) derived from a group of se... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7415311 | 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... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409247 | Method and system for estimating a quantity of particles emitted in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine for a motor vehicle The inventive system for estimating quantities of pollution compounds emitted in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine for a motor vehicle comprises means for regenerating a solid particle filter and an electronic control unit which manages the engine operation and is ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7379507 | Method and device for modulation recognition of digitally modulated signals with multi-level magnitudes A modulation recognition method and device for digitally modulated signals with multi-level magnitudes are provided. The modulation recognition method includes selecting plural quantization sizes used to construct plural statistic histograms related to the magnitude... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376090 | Method of detecting distributed denial of service based on grey theory A method of malicious network activity detection. An intrusion detection system provides defense against distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks through an efficient modeling process based on grey theory. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363094 | Multivariable controller design method for multiple input/outputs systems with multiple input/output constraints A method for dynamically controlling a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system having multiple input and output constraints, the method comprising. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes configuring a MIMO tracking controller to implement closed loop ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363279 | Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page represents an area of the web page that appears to relate to a similar topic. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356663 | Layered memory architecture for deterministic finite automaton based string matching useful in network intrusion detection and prevention systems and apparatuses The present invention provides a method and apparatus for searching multiple strings within a packet data using deterministic finite automata. The apparatus includes means for updating memory tables stored in a layered memory architecture comprising a BRAM, an SRAM ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349747 | Monitoring device and monitoring method for injection molding machine A monitoring device and a monitoring method for an injection molding machine, in which a trend chart is displayed on a common axis so that changes of set values of molding conditions and changes of measured values of monitoring items can be grasped correspondingly. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349174 | Soft sensor for operating shock in a disc drive A method of preventing a write operation to a disc in a disc drive during a shock event without the use of a separate shock sensor comprises steps of monitoring an actuator voice coil motor (VCM) control plant output signal, generating an actuator voice coil motor (... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345691 | Method of image processing and electronic device utilizing the same A method of image processing using neural networks. Images to be processed and displayed are received. Each image is divided into sections, each comprising pixels represented by color values. A neural network training procedure is executed for the sections to obtain... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337245 | Protocol adapter for passing diagnostic messages between vehicle networks and a host computer A protocol adapter for transferring diagnostic messages between networks within a vehicle and a host computer. The protocol adapter operates as a voltage translator to support J1708 software. The protocol adapter also recognizes when the protocol adapter is connecte... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337021 | Robust spacecraft controller and method for designing same A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for designing a robust controller. The method comprises the steps of determining a plant model G of the system dynamics; bounding system dynamics unmodeled by the plant model G of the system dynamic... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330804 | Computer method and apparatus for constraining a non-linear approximator of an empirical process A constrained non-linear approximator for empirical process control is disclosed. The approximator constrains the behavior of the derivative of a subject empirical model without adversely affecting the ability of the model to represent generic non-linear relationshi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7313552 | Boolean network rule engine A Boolean Network rule engine for evaluation of rules is described that comprises: a rules interface for receiving a set of rules, each rule having at least one condition; a network builder for building a Boolean Network representation of the set of rules including ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7286157 | Computerized method and apparatus for determining field-of-view relationships among multiple image sensors A computerized method of image analysis that includes receiving first image data for a plurality of first video frames representing a first scene. Each first video frame is composed of a plurality of image regions, and a first object is present in an image region of... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281005 | Backward and forward non-normalized link weight analysis method, system, and computer program product A method, system, and computer program product for hypertext link analysis that includes independently employing non-normalized backward and forward operators to obtain two independent weights for each document in a hypertext-linked graph, for subsequent ranking and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280673 | System and method for searching for changes in surveillance video Systems and methods for determining when a change has occurred in an area-of-interest included in an image region are disclosed. The system and methods may perform a specially modified background subtraction method. The systems and methods may initialize a backgroun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272531 | Aggregation of asset use indices within a process plant A method of monitoring an entity within a process plant wherein the entity includes a plurality of lower level entities, includes acquiring a plurality of use indices, acquiring a plurality of weighting values, and creating an aggregate use index from a combination ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272532 | Method for predicting the quality of a product A method is provided for predicting a quality characteristic of a product to be manufactured. The method may integrate one or more of feature and tolerance information associated with the product, manufacturing characteristic information associated with the manufact... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269482 | In-vehicle information system and software framework A software framework and method for generating a vehicle information system includes a communications manager that manages data inputs and outputs between the framework and vehicle devices, a data warehouse that registers abstract versions of vehicle device data, an... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262978 | Voltage conversion apparatus, voltage conversion method, and computer-readable recording medium with program recorded thereon to allow computer to execute voltage conversion control A control device receives an output voltage of a voltage-up converter from a voltage sensor, and calculates a feedback preliminary voltage control value determined by the difference between a voltage control value and the output voltage. The control device corrects ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251638 | Intelligent robust control system for motorcycle using soft computing optimizer A Soft Computing (SC) optimizer for designing a Knowledge Base (KB) to be used in a control system for controlling a motorcycle is described. In one embodiment, a simulation model of the motorcycle and rider control is used. In one embodiment, the simulation model i... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7233861 | Prediction of vehicle operator destinations A method for predicting vehicle operator destinations including receiving vehicle position data for a vehicle. The vehicle position data for a current trip is compared to vehicle position data for a previous trip to predict a destination for the vehicle. A path to t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233878 | Method and system for monitoring component consumption A method for monitoring consumption of a component, including the steps of emitting a radiation beam onto a first area of the component and detecting a portion of the radiation beam that is refracted by the component. A radiation level signal is generated based at l... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221775 | Method and apparatus for computerized image background analysis A computerized method of video analysis including receiving image data for a plurality of video frames depicting a scene that includes at least one of a plurality of background features. Each video frame includes a plurality of image regions and at least one video f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221988 | Creation and display of indices within a process plant A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222043 | Electronic device environmental effect prediction An apparatus in one example comprises one or more control components that regulate one or more thermal test components to adjust one or more emulated operational characteristics for one or more electronic devices. The thermal test components are coupled with one or ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219087 | Soft computing optimizer of intelligent control system structures The present invention involves a Soft Computing (SC) optimizer for designing a Knowledge Base (KB) to be used in a control system for controlling a plant such as, for example, an internal combustion engine or an automobile suspension system. The SC optimizer include... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216005 | Control apparatus for injection molding machine Test molding and mass-production molding are performed by an injection molding machine that includes a control apparatus in which neural networks are used. A quality prediction function determined based on the test molding is revised as necessary during mass-product... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216071 | Hybrid gas turbine engine state variable model The present invention relates to a system and a method for developing an engine model. The system broadly comprises a module for generating a state variable model of an engine, which module receives a plurality of inputs to an engine representative of a particular f... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209872 | System for simulating the conveyance of a flexible medium A design support system is provided, which accurately simulates the behavior of a flexible medium in a convey path even if the flexible medium exhibits different flexural stiffness in different bending directions. In a design support system which supports the user t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197365 | Controller, program product, and storage medium An object of the present invention is to realize an in-home network system that is capable of smoothly controlling an appliance even when a new kind of appliance that has not been obtained conventionally is connected to an in-home network or even when an unusual, sp... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
