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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165700 | Complete integration of stand-alone batch operator interface capabilities into generic human machine interface using componentized objects Systems and methods for providing an integrated HMI application for monitoring and interacting with both batch and non-batch processes in a process plant are disclosed. A plurality of independent stand-alone software objects defining various batch process interface ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155769 | Industrial control with integrated machine vision System and method for performing industrial control. A vision engine operable to execute vision functions to control a vision element in response to received asynchronous commands is stored on a vision system. An application programming interface (API) that provides... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8073557 | Motion control systems A motion control system comprising an application program, a plurality of motion controllers, a set of software drivers, and a motion component. Each software driver exposes a service provider interface comprising a set of driver functions. Driver code of at least o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065025 | Configuration of a frequency converter A configuration tool for configuring a frequency converter includes an interface with connector poles for connecting the configuration tool to the frequency converter and feeding configuration data from the configuration tool to the frequency converter. To facilitat... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8000818 | Systems and methods for coordination motion instructions The invention provides systems and methods that integrate and/or control motion of a plurality of axes in a motion control environment. Grouped axes can be linked (e.g., via a tag) to provide desired multi-axis coordinated motion as well as provide control for corre... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7949418 | Safety programmable logic controller A safety PLC includes an I/O module to which a safety device for detecting a predetermined condition at any time is connected, a CPU module that executes a safety program for managing the I/O module, and a communication unit that interconnects the I/O module and the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937173 | Base display for an item of value and methods of making same The present invention is directed to a novel method for creating a display for a valuable item. On one example, the method includes the steps of selecting an item to be display, selecting a base material to create a display, creating a three dimensional map of the i... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937172 | Program creating device for programmable controller, program creating method for programmable controller, and recording medium having program recorded thereon It is an object to acquire a program creating device for a programmable controller which is able to create a sequence program without grasping a procedure of an address of an individual parameter area allocated to an object module when a setting of parameters of var... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7860589 | Programmatic access to controller construct and variable names The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method for employment in an industrial automation environment that facilitates utilizing data within a programmable logic controller. An interface component can facilitate receipt of a portion of data related to a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7822494 | Method for generating and using a plasma processing control program A method is provided of generating and using a control program for a obtain plasma process. The method comprises obtaining predetermined process data defining, in a series of time steps, changes in at least one control parameter for the plasma process during the sai... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809451 | Method for operating an automation device A method is specified for operating an automation system, wherein a description object appropriate to a type of the respective program code object and a description object reference referencing the respective description object are created when a program code object... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7747336 | Apparatus for creating a turning program One element is taken from a machined shape. When the element is a straight line element, whether or not the distance D between the start point and the end point of the element in a direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the workpiece is equal to or greater ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734360 | Industrial controller based on distributable technology objects A method and system for controlling an industrial controller based on technology objects are disclosed. Technology object types may be loaded and instantiated into the run time system of a controller, thereby increasing the functionality and providing technological ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706900 | Control apparatus with fast I/O function, and control method for control data thereof A control apparatus with a fast I/O function is adapted for storage of a control program, and to input a status of a target to be controlled as an input data from an I/O device, follow the control program to execute an operation of the input data, and output to the ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7561929 | Industrial controller based on distributed technology objects A method and system for controlling an industrial controller based on technology objects are disclosed. Technology object types may be loaded and instantiated into the run time system of a controller, thereby increasing the functionality and providing technological ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7505821 | Layout-oriented recording of automation information The invention relates to a system and a method for the graphical recording of system requirements and specifications in electronically readable form. Elements of a plant are graphically represented by selectable components. The components are graphically rendered in... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7444199 | Method for preparing mask and wafer data files A method for converting a data file into a writer file for a mask writer is provided. A plurality of sub-files is created from the data file. The plurality of sub-files is transferred to the mask writer. A plurality of writer files is created from the plurality of s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433743 | Process control using co-ordinate space In a control system for controlling a plant system or process (22), a model based problem is formulated and an explicit control solution is constructed off-line such that a parametric profile (24) is constructed using parametric optimisation techniques... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424328 | Apparatus and method for wireless process control An apparatus includes a programmable logic controller capable of receiving input data from and/or providing output data to at least one device in a process control system. The programmable logic controller is also capable of executing compiled code. The apparatus al... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421307 | Operating method and apparatus for controlling a machine tool The invention relates to a control device (5), controlling a machine tool (1), which processes a step sequence (S1-S11), by a wireless reading of a partial program (18) from a workpiece data support (15), provided for a work... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418300 | System and method for reusing project engineering data The invention relates to a system and a method for managing and/or providing elements, in particular technological objects. The system enables elements, in particular technological objects, to be reused in the development of a project engineering solution. Here, at ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409250 | Method and apparatus for the development of a control process for an instrument A method and an apparatus for the development of a control process for an instrument are disclosed. The method comprises a first step of selecting one or more commands from a plurality of pre-defined commands in which at least one of the selected one or more command... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409253 | System and method for processing a substrate and program therefor A substrate processing system allows to reduce the number of works that should be done by a software engineer. The system 100 includes a substrate processing apparatus 101; a substrate processing controller 102 for controlling the substrate proc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406353 | Method and system of programming at least one appliance to change state upon the occurrence of a trigger event An automation system for programming appliances having programmable controllers, programmable devices and trigger devices that communicate over a communication link. The user programs the programmable devices by placing the programmable controller in its training mo... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7389302 | Method for generating a structure representation which describes a specific automation system The invention facilitates the creation of a control software for a data processing device of a specific automation system. The method generates a structure representation, describing a specific automation system, from a model structure representation which describes... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7369917 | System and method for automatic sorting of elements in drawing specifications for efficient tracing using motion control System and method for utilizing a drawing specification for motion control. A plurality of elements in a drawing specification may be automatically identified. The elements may include one or more lines, polygons, arcs, splines, alphanumeric characters, and/or ellip... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367018 | System and method for organizing and sharing of process plant design and operations data Computer method and apparatus for managing process and plant engineering data for chemical or other engineering processes across applications. The method and apparatus include a respective class view for each of multiple software applications, a composite class view... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362213 | Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a plurality of devices Disclosed is a method for controlling usage times for at least one device, including the steps of: (a) identifying a device to be controlled; (b) utilizing the device by a user; (c) tracking a device usage value for the device as the user utilizes the device; and (d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356248 | Apparatus and method of reproducing subtitle recorded in digital versatile disk player In an apparatus and method of reproducing a subtitle recorded in a digital versatile disk player including a subtitle processing section for receiving, storing and reproducing multilingual subtitles, as well as video data and audio data of multiple titles which are ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353070 | Building control system using network global data An arrangement in a building control system includes a plurality of field panel devices. Each field panel device is configured to receive control inputs and further configured to provide control outputs to at least one building control device. Each field panel devic... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352886 | Error handling in a high throughput computer-aided detection environment A method and system for automated detection and handling of film feeding failures in a high-volume CAD environment. The method provides for batch processing a set of films including multiple film cases including the steps of providing a number count of the number of... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349748 | Development system for process control systems as well as associated method and computer program product The invention relates to methods and devices for developing programs for process control systems and in particular for mathematically intensive or, as the case may be, mathematically complex programs of said kind. According to the prior art programs of said kind wer... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349757 | NC hole-machining programming device and method A numerical control (NC) hole-machining programming device includes: a tool information storing unit for storing tool information, including types and sizes of tools used for hole machining; a form recognizing unit for extracting a cylindrical surface and conical su... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343605 | System and method for communicating between software applications, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications Applications to be connected, particularly MES (manufacturing execution system) applications, as well as the communications mechanisms are depicted in the object model of the framework (IF; IF meaning industrial framework) by using wrappers and/or adapters and, as a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339992 | System and method for extracting text captions from video and generating video summaries Caption boxes which are embedded in video content can be located and the text within the caption boxes decoded. Real time processing is enhanced by locating caption box regions in the compressed video domain (210) and performing pixel based processing operati... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340683 | Programming tool A programming tool has selection means for selecting a plurality of function blocks displayed in a library format, storage means for storing the function blocks selected through the selection means in the order as they are selected, and drawing means, as a plurality... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340737 | Wireless deployment / distributed execution of graphical programs to smart sensors System and method for deploying or executing a graphical program to a device in a wireless manner. A graphical program (GP) is created that implements a measurement function. Some or all of the GP is transmitted to a hub over a network. The hub executes the transmit... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340509 | Reconfigurable appliance control system A reconfigurable appliance control system includes a dedicated appliance control (DAC) for controlling operation of an appliance. The system further includes an appliance communication control (ACC) for communicating with at least one appliance. The system includes ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337430 | Optimized look-up table calculations in block diagram software Pre-lookup index search blocks and multidimensional interpolation blocks that use the results of the pre-lookup index search blocks in a block diagram to graphically specify (and perform) multidimensional interpolation calculations. The pre-lookup index search and i... | 02/26/2008 |
