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6809526 QSD apparatus and method for recovery of transient response obscured by superposition  
Apparatus and method for testing a system having a transient response that is longer than the intervals between stimulations, using a sequence of stimuli containing a small jitter. The timing...
6807517 Method to estimate the parameters of a propagation channel  
A method for estimating one or more parameters of a propagation channel, with a priori knowledge of at least one signal, in a system having one or more sensors. The method includes correlating one...
6804624 System and method for determining the location of remote devices  
A system and method for determining the physical location of a target device. Using communications network trace route and pinging commands, the distances of three test devices of known locations...
6804633 Fast eye diagram analyzer uses nearest neighbor transverse to quickly discover basic eye diagrams  
The time needed to perform an eye diagram measurement is minimized by initially randomly investigating the (X, Y) i that lie on a “starting” line crossing the sample space and expected to...
6803579 Technique for removal of picket fence effect in PET imaging systems  
A method and apparatus for eliminating the picket fence effect in PET scanners where the scanner includes a master clock and an event processing circuit that generates time stamps during each clock...
6804632 Distribution of processing activity across processing hardware based on power consumption considerations  
Distribution of processing activity across processing hardware based on power consumption and/or thermal considerations. One embodiment includes a plurality of processing units and a monitor to...
6804625 Subsurface modeling method  
A method is provided for detecting and locating anomalies in soil subjacent to an existing structure. Electrodes are placed into the soil both outside the structure and through the structure's...
6801879 Method and apparatus for monitoring processes in a web-processing printing machine  
A method for monitoring processes includes identifying process variables in a process space as operating values, carrying out a measurement of actual values of the operating values, presetting or...
6799131 Calibration of a loss of signal detection system  
An integrated circuit has a loss of signal (LOS) system for detecting a loss of signal condition for an input data stream according to a LOS threshold. The LOS threshold specifies a minimum signal...
6795783 Method of and apparatus for accurate resistance measurement with a programmable current source  
Remote resistance measurement technique using a programmable current source to enable accurate measurement of resistance, such as physical parameter sensing resistors such as for the remote...
6792321 Remote web-based control  
Real-time remote monitoring and controlling of a device is described via a network such as the Internet. A virtual presence is accomplished between geographically distributed remote users and...
6792387 Wiper blade assessment system and a method thereof  
A system for assessing an edge of a wiper blade includes a detector, a transport system, and an evaluation processing system. The detector provides an indication of each identified defect in an...
6785639 Signal processing apparatus  
A threshold value at a side of a bottom value of a sensor signal is renewed by a value calculated by multiplying a minimum value of a deviation between the bottom value and a reference value for...
6780158 Signal processing method and pulse wave signal processing method  
A first signal and a second signal are provided as two continuous signals having an identical fundamental frequency. A first spectrum which is either one of a frequency spectrum or a frequency...
6782347 Method for optimizing electromagnetic interference and method for analyzing the electromagnetic interference  
A method for optimizing electromagnetic interference (EMI) comprising: an EMI analyzing step of analyzing a quantity of electromagnetic interference of an LSI by execution of simulation; a step of...
6776030 Method of information collection and processing of sample's surface  
The applied method is implemented in AFM[-microscopy] to get space distributions of surface properties and layers, placed on it. This method includes successive reading in predetermined points of...
6777897 Motor control apparatus and motor control method  
When a switch between sine wave voltage drive and rectangular wave voltage drive is effected based upon the motor rotation speed and a motor torque command value, an AC voltage forming an...
6772100 Multipath mitigation filter  
A technique for estimating the position of an object from sensor measurements in the presence of multipath conditions is disclosed. In one aspect, the technique includes a position estimator...
6768971 Instantaneous measurement of signal polarization  
A polarization measurement system and method that determines the polarization of a received signal within one received pulse. The polarimeter accepts series of samples representing horizontal and...
6768972 Method and device for reducing a number of measured values of a technical system  
A method and system for screening out empirically data collected from various steps of a technical process operating based on a first set of parameters, by utilizing a screening algorithm to reduce...
6766258 Method and apparatus for dynamically enabling trace data collection  
A method includes identifying a degraded condition associated with the processing of a workpiece. At least one process tool associated with the degraded condition is identified. Trace data...
6763322 Method for enhancement in screening throughput  
The present invention provides methods and an apparatus for the rapid analysis of data from imaging, spectroscopic, scanning probe, or sensor methods. By application of mathematical transform...
6760688 Appliance maintenance apparatus and appliance remote maintenance system  
An appliance maintenance apparatus for contactlessly detecting the operation states of appliances and operating the appliances in response to the operation states of the appliances, and an...
6754613 High resolution time-to-digital converter  
A time to digital converter (TDC) has a pair of digital oscillators. The periods of the oscillators differ by T Δ . The oscillators are triggered by START and STOP pulses. A counter counts a...
6751578 Method and apparatus for evaluating a digital information signal  
An apparatus and method for evaluating a digital information signal to be transmitted. A superimposition of the information with an interference signal can endanger an error-free data transmission....
6748342 Method and monitoring device for monitoring the quality of data transmission over analog lines  
The method and respective device monitors the quality of data transmission over wavelength-division-multiplexed channels on an optical waveguide using an analog check signal. The analog check...
6748344 Method and apparatus employing a scaling factor for measuring and displaying an electrical parameter of an electrical system  
A meter includes an EEPROM storing a scaling factor; a divider providing a first analog voltage from an electrical system; an analog to digital converter (ADC) converting the first analog voltage...
6745155 Methods and apparatuses for signal analysis  
A basilar membrane model is used to receive an input signal including a target signal in step I. With successive further steps the target signal is filtered from the input signal. After the...
6741939 Calculation method of discharge and transfer amount of chemical substances and server and system therefor  
Data indicating a material, a use step of the material and a use amount of the material which are transmitted from a client terminal through a network are inputted and stored; a chemical substance...
6741938 Method for continuously predicting remaining engine oil life  
A method for continuously predicting remaining engine oil life includes counting down a remaining oil life (ROL) from 100% ROL to a predetermined warning threshold at a first rate. If an oil life...
6738733 G.723.1 audio encoder  
A method and apparatus for reducing the computational load of a dual-rate encoding system having a multi-pulse maximum likelihood quantization process configured to transmit at a first transmission...
6735538 Apparatus and method for measuring quality measure of phase noise waveform  
A clock signal x c (t) that has been converted into a digital signal is transformed into a complex analytic signal z c (t), and an instantaneous phase Θ of the z c (t) is estimated. A linear phase...
6732059 Ultra-low background gas-filled alpha counter  
A method and counter for reducing the background counting rate in gas-filled alpha particle counters wherein the counter is constructed in such a manner as to exaggerate the differences in the...
6732064 Detection and classification system for analyzing deterministic properties of data using correlation parameters  
A signal detection and classification technique that provides robust decision criteria for a wide range of parameters and signals in the presence of noise and interfering signals. The technique...
6731990 Predicting values of a series of data  
Communications data such as traffic levels in a communications network is analysed using techniques adapted from the study of chaos. Future values of a series of communications data are predicted...
6728663 Structure identification using scattering signatures  
A method of pruning a reference library of signatures and corresponding known structure parameter vectors, each signature composed of a reference signal vector, including, for a given reference...
6721693 Processing device comprising a covariance matrix correction device  
The correction device comprises a block for decomposition into total proper elements, according to the Kato spectral decomposition method, of the covariance matrix to be corrected. The block...
6721691 Metrology hardware specification using a hardware simulator  
A method and system in metrology for integrated circuits, for incorporating the effects of small metrology hardware-based and material-based parameter variations into a library of simulated...
6721689 System and method for hosted facilities management  
A hosted facilities management system and method capable of simultaneously monitoring a plurality of conditions, equipment, and systems within one or more facilities is described and claimed. The...
6721690 Microscope and method for analyzing acquired scan data  
A method and system for analyzing acquired scan data are disclosed. The method involves measuring physical values of a particular process, converting the measured values into two signals, such as...
6718272 Fast transient protection for RF plasma generator  
An apparatus and method for the detection of and recovery from a plurality of electrical transients in a plasma generator system is disclosed. The plasma generator system comprises a plasma chamber...
6718287 Watermark detection  
A method and arrangement for detecting a watermark in a suspect signal, in which the watermark is embedded by adding a watermark pattern w to a signal p with a given embedding strength s...
6714896 Method and apparatus for signal degradation measurement  
A method of measuring the degradation of a data stream owing to the influence of errors thereon is disclosed. Unlike known degradation measures, a measure calculated in accordance with the present...
6714881 Time reference compensation for improved metering accuracy  
A method for time reference compensation in a power metering system, the method comprising monitoring a time-dependent characteristic of incoming AC power over a predetermined local time interval,...
6714897 Method for generating analyses of categorical data  
According to the present invention, a conversion or representation of categorical data was created that allows a significant number of exploratory multivariate analysis methods to be brought to...
6711472 Method and device for controlling operational sequences, particularly in a vehicle  
A method and a device for controlling operational sequences, particularly in a vehicle, at least one sensor having a connection unit being connected via a bus system to at least one control unit...
6711528 Blind source separation utilizing a spatial fourth order cumulant matrix pencil  
Blind source separation (BSS) of statistically independent signals with low signal-to-noise plus interference ratios under a narrowband assumption utilizes cumulants in conjunction with spectral...
6708128 Device, computer program product and method for indicating a function deviation of one or more details of manufacturing equipment using frequency component analysis  
A device, method and computer program product are disclosed for indicating a function deviation of one or more details of manufacturing equipment using frequency component analysis for analyzing...
6704692 Method and system for tracking multiple objects  
An improved method and system for solving a combinatorial optimization problem, such as a tracking problem, to define a plurality of associations of measurements taken of a plurality of objects is...
6697766 System and method for detecting and characterizing gaussian pulses  
System and method for characterizing a Gaussian pulse in a signal. The system includes a computer operable to receive the signal, determine a set of estimated parameters for the Gaussian pulse...