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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7848831 | Real-time operating optimized method of multi-input and multi-output continuous manufacturing procedure A real-time operating optimized method of multi-input and multi-output continuous manufacture procedure includes steps as follows: first, using plurality of pivotal operation conditions in the manufacture procedure as optimized variables, and using the technical tar... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7587253 | Partial enumeration model predictive controller A partial enumeration model predictive controller and method of predictive control for a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, including providing a solution table with problem solutions to a model predictive control problem for the MIMO system over a parti... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7433402 | Finite-length equalization over multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels A MIMO Decision Feedback Equalizer improves operation of a receiver by cancelling the spatio-temporal interference effects caused by the MIMO channel memory with a set of FIR filters in both the feedforward and the feedback MIMO filters. The coefficients of these FI... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430168 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program Disclosed are a wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication method, and a computer program for intercommunication between a plurality of wireless stations. In a reception standby state, packet detection is performed by using a part of the plurality of... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415076 | Method and system for utilizing space-time codes for block fading channels A communication system for transmitting encoded signals over a communication channel is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter, which has a source that is configured to output a message signal, and an encoder that is configured to generate a code word in respo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7386354 | Apparatus and method for controlling a plant A control for a modeled plant is provided. The modeled plant is represented by a model expression that is based on an input into the plant, an output from the plant, model parameters, and an estimated value for disturbance that is applied to the plant. The model exp... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376471 | System and method for exploiting a good starting guess for binding constraints in quadratic programming with an infeasible and inconsistent starting guess for the solution The present invention provides an algorithm that does not relax the problem at the very onset, even if xf is infeasible. Instead, it solves the EQP with the initial guess for the active set without relaxing the problem. If this solution to the first EQP i... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373220 | Robot teaching device A teaching device and a teaching modification device capable of easily attaining conformity between an operation program of a robot prepared by off-line programming and an actual operation of the robot. A layout of a robot system including three-dimensional models o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7359313 | Space-time bit-interleaved coded modulation for wideband transmission A system employs space-time coding characterized at the transmitter by bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) combined with multi-carrier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. Space-Time coding techniques improve transmission efficiency in r... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352718 | Spatial division multiple access for wireless networks Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology in conjunction with the IEEE 802.11 standard enables simultaneous communication of data packets to or from multiple users in the same frequency. Spatial divisional multiple access (SDMA) is thus provided. In this way,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346402 | Technique for an integrated and automated model generation and controller tuning process A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing integrated model generation and controller tuning is presented. The method, apparatus, and computer program product acquires data regarding the system. The data is then analyzed and preprocessed to prov... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346401 | Systems and methods for providing constrained optimization using adaptive regulatory control Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the performance and/or allocation of constrained resources in a dynamic computing environment using adaptive regulatory control methods. For example, systems and methods for providing constrained optimization in a dyna... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337022 | Constraint and limit feasibility handling in a process control system optimizer An optimization technique for use in driving a process plant controller, such as a model predictive controller, uses an organized, systematic but computationally simple method of relaxing or redefining manipulated, control and/or auxiliary variable constraints when ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328074 | Real-time quadratic programming for control of dynamical systems Real-time control of a dynamical system is provided by determining control variables that get as close as possible to producing a desired response. Additional consideration of physical limitations leads to a convex Quadratic Program with inequality constraints that ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7277763 | Configurable controller A configurable controller, comprising a configurable digital unit having a synchronization control module; a plurality of signal acquisition modules connected with said synchronization control module for receiving reference control data therefrom; and a control logi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272454 | Multiple-input/multiple-output control blocks with non-linear predictive capabilities A process controller that may be used to control a process having a set of process outputs effected by a set of process control input signals includes a multiple-input/multiple output controller that uses the process outputs to develop the set of process control inp... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7242318 | Event detection and transmission system The present invention concerns a data acquisition and transfer device comprising a sensor responsive to change of predetermined nature, and a transmitter for transmitting over the mobile phone network data concerning the occurrence of such a change to a receiver sta... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7209522 | Blast MIMO signal processing method and apparatus A technique for generating a demodulation ordering used in receive signal processing operations in a BLAST MIMO receiver that is based on a relative comparison of near-to-far resistance measures among vectors forming the estimated channel transfer function matrix is... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197485 | Square root method for computationally efficient model predictive control An efficient method for solving a model predictive control problem is described. A large sparse matrix equation is formed based upon the model predictive control problem. The square root of H, Hr, is then formed directly, without first forming H. A square root (LSMr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194447 | System and method for processing welding data A system and method for evaluating the use of a welding process for welding a weld joint. The method comprises providing a user with requests for data to enable a processor-based system to establish various attributes of welding a specific weld joint using a specifi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7177369 | Multipath communication methods and apparatuses Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for identifying at least one multipath transmission delay within a reverse path data signal, determining at least one forward path pre-equalization parameter based on the transmission delay, and modifying a forward path ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154936 | Iterative detection and decoding for a MIMO-OFDM system Techniques to iteratively detect and decode data transmitted in a wireless (e.g., MIMO-OFDM) communication system. The iterative detection and decoding is performed by iteratively passing soft (multi-bit) “a priori” information between a detector and a decoder. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152052 | Apparatus and method of controlling single-input-multi-output systems An apparatus and method is disclosed for automatically controlling single-input-multi-output (SIMO) systems or processes. The control output signals of a plurality of single-input-single-output (SISO) automatic controllers are combined by a combined output setter so... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7133728 | Single-input multi-output control system A single-input multi-output control system particularly useful to equally distributing the noise effects and/or the parametric variations among the multiple outputs, comprising two or more control sub-systems, each of said two or more control sub-systems having a co... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123973 | Partitioned control system and method A method for controlling a controlled process in response to an input signal and a disturbance signal includes modeling the controlled process in a process model; controlling the process model by a first controller; isolating the first controller from the disturbanc... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110464 | Method and system for utilizing space-time codes for block fading channels A communication system for transmitting encoded signals over a communication channel is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter, which has a source that is configured to output a message signal, and an encoder that is configured to generate a code word in respo... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7096073 | Configurable controller A configurable controller, comprising a configurable digital unit having a synchronization control module; a plurality of signal acquisition modules connected with said synchronization control module for receiving reference control data therefrom; and a control logi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089066 | Distributed control systems and methods Distributed control systems and methods. An embodiment of distributed control system may comprise at least first and second nodes operatively associated with one another, the first node issuing a signal to at least the second node in response to an event. A load con... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7062259 | Configuration of wireless control systems for broadband wireless communications A communication system is disclosed that is comprised of a plurality of communication markets. Each communication market comprises a wireless control system. Each of the wireless control systems is configured to retrieve a general configuration file and a custom par... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050863 | Integrated model predictive control and optimization within a process control system A process control configuration system is provided for use in creating or viewing an integrated optimization and control block that implements an optimization routine and a multiple-input/multiple-output control routine. The configuration system may enable a user to... | 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 |
| 7046963 | Method and apparatus of signal estimation over generalized fading channel A methodology of signal estimation over the generalized fading channel can be applied to any parameter whose dB value is required to be estimated. The estimator is shown to be asymptotically efficient in a number of samples and the amount of fading. Theoretical and ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042956 | Method and system for utilizing space-time codes for block fading channels A communication system for transmitting encoded signals over a communication channel is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter, which has a source that is configured to output a message signal, and an encoder that is configured to generate a code word in respo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024252 | 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... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024261 | Modular automation apparatus A modular automation apparatus is provided that includes a base unit adapted to receive an automation module. The automation module includes at least one automation device for performing one or more specific automation functions and preferably a selectively programm... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020642 | System and method for pre-processing input data to a support vector machine A system and method for preprocessing input data to a support vector machine (SVM). The SVM is a system model having parameters that define the representation of the system being modeled, and operates in two modes: run-time and training. A data preprocessor preproce... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016743 | Model-free adaptive control of quality variables A Model-Free Adaptive Quality Variable control system is disclosed for effectively controlling quality variables on-line in closed-loop fashion. It is able to automatically control quality variables under the conditions where there are significant varying time delay... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6993064 | Multi-user receiving method and receiver A receiver is provided, in which the receiver includes K signal extraction parts, a signal estimation part, K joint probability calculation parts and a multiplying part, wherein: an ith (1≦i≦K) signal extraction part extracts ith to Kth user signals; an ith join... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988010 | System and methods for providing a portable object management terminal The invention provides an operation control system which is capable of allowing users to easily operate a controlled device over different control ranges, respectively. More particularly, when cards are brought close to a projector, a virtual object management devic... | 01/17/2006 |
