Patents Examined by Arleen M. Vazquez
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Patent number: 11232011Abstract: A method for testing performance of a page control comprising: testing each of multiple evaluation dimensions for a page control, the multiple evaluation dimensions comprising at least one of an FPS (Frames Per Second) at the time of scrolling a page, an FPS at the time of opening a message, the number of times of adding a message, an FPS at the time of cutting an image, an FPS at the time of adding a message, and the number of times of rendering a page; determining a test result of each of the evaluation dimensions; determining operation performance of the page control according to the test result of each of the evaluation dimensions. Also disclosed is an apparatus for testing performance of a page control, and an electronic device. Operation performance of the page control can be tested in multiple aspects and the credibility of performance evaluation results is improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: ZHUHAI JUNTIAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhenbei Yu
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Patent number: 11231306Abstract: An ultrasound flow measurement apparatus (10) for determining the flow rate of a fluid flowing in a line (12) is provided having at least one measurement path (18) at which a first ultrasonic transducer (16a) and a second ultrasonic transducer (16b) are arranged opposite one another with the flowing fluid between them, and having an evaluation unit that is configured to calculate the flow rate from a time of flight difference of ultrasonic pulses along the measurement path (18) in the direction with the flow (14) and against the flow (14). The ultrasonic transducers (16a-b) here are positioned such that a specific part pulse is isolated in time in a received signal of the respective receiving ultrasonic transducer (16a-b), with the part pulse corresponding to a direct sound, a reflected sound, an axially broken fluid sound, or an azimuthally broken fluid sound.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SICK ENGINEERING GMBHInventors: Alexander Nerowski, Henri Kirmse, Martin Oberländer
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Patent number: 11224404Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program, and one or more processors that, by executing the program, function as an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to a posture of an imaging device that is imaging a region of a subject, and a determination unit configured to perform a determination, based on the information relating to the posture, regarding which region of the subject corresponds to the region imaged by the imaging device. The determination unit performs the determination based on the information relating to the posture obtained at a timing when a posture of the imaging device satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Naganawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takaaki Endo
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Patent number: 11221410Abstract: A light sensor or the like that has an improved measurement speed is realized. A light sensor includes a computation unit that computes a distance between the light sensor and a sensing object on the basis of a difference between a center position of reflection light, which indicates a center position of distribution of light reception probability of a first light receiving unit in a first histogram, and a center position of reference light, which indicates a center position of distribution of light reception probability of a second light receiving unit in a second histogram.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Ikuta, Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu, Hideki Sato
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Patent number: 11209521Abstract: Methods and systems for developing a prototype pulse in real-time. A method includes detecting, by a signal processor, a plurality of repetitive pulse signals carried in energy waves received at an antenna. The method further includes estimating time intervals corresponding to occurrences of the plurality of repetitive pulse signals and extracting a plurality of pulse signal segments detected by the signal processor during each of the time intervals over a time period. The signal processor selects a first pulse signal segment received during one of the time intervals and calculates respective time delays relative to the first pulse signal segment for each remaining pulse signal segment of the plurality of pulse signal segments. The signal processor then time-aligns the extracted pulse signal segments with the first pulse signal segment and averages the pulse signal segments to establish a prototype pulse signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: James B. Baker
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Patent number: 11209456Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an inertial measurement unit, a lidar sensor, and one or more processors configured to perform operations. The operations include receiving data from the lidar sensor. The operations include determining movement data based on the data received from the lidar sensor. The operations include receiving data from the inertial measurement unit. The operations include determining, based on the movement data and the data received from the inertial measurement unit, one or more calibration factors for the inertial measurement unit. The operations include applying the one or more calibration factors to a measurement received from the inertial measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Woven Planet North America, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Oliver Nichols, Mayur Nitinbhai Shah
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Patent number: 11204391Abstract: A method and system for monitoring a charge capacity of a battery includes determining a predicted charge capacity and a first uncertainty parameter based upon the current, voltage, and temperature of the battery, wherein the predicted charge capacity is determined by executing a charge capacity degradation model. A measured charge capacity and an associated second uncertainty parameter of the battery are also determined, by executing a charge capacity update routine. A charge capacity estimate for the battery is determined based upon the predicted charge capacity and the measured charge capacity, and an updated uncertainty parameter for the charge capacity estimate is determined based upon the first and the second uncertainty parameters. An estimated covariance parameter, and a covariance ratio are determined based upon the updated uncertainty parameter and the estimated covariance parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Charles W. Wampler, Justin R. McDade
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Patent number: 11199429Abstract: A method for measuring a speed of a fluid includes transmitting an ultrasonic measurement signal; acquiring and digitizing a measurement portion of an ultrasonic measurement signal received after traveling a defined length to obtain measurement samples; estimate, from the samples, an amplitude of the measurement portion; access reference samples forming a reference curve which is an interpolation of the measurement samples; produce adjusted measurement samples by multiplying the samples by ratio between an amplitude of the reference curve and the amplitude of the measurement portion; determine a unit time delay between the adjusted measurement sample and the reference curve; estimate a zero-crossing time of the measurement portion from the unit time delay and from the reference samples, estimate, from an average of the zero-crossing times, the time it takes the ultrasonic measurement signal to travel the defined length; estimate the speed of the fluid from the travel time measurement.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SASInventor: Henri Teboulle
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Patent number: 11199566Abstract: Non-fault disturbance-based method and system for measuring short-circuit capacity of a power grid on site including: connecting or disconnecting a reactive compensation device to or from a power grid point of common coupling, to generate a disturbance on a power grid; obtaining total active power and total reactive power of a load of the point of common coupling before the disturbance; determining a vector difference between a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance and a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling after the disturbance; obtaining a voltage effective value of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance; obtaining a capacity of the reactive compensation device; and determining a short-circuit capacity of the point of common coupling according to total active power, total reactive power, vector difference between voltages, voltage effective value, and capacity of the reactive compensation device.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Power Grid Planning Research Institute of Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pu Deng, Zhenghang Hao, Zhenming Liu, Yi Xue, Guangmei Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Qingming Zhao, Xueyong Tang, Qingsheng Li, Yu Zhang, Sha Zhang, Xianggang He, Jian Wang, Sibin Lu, Ke Yang
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Patent number: 11175342Abstract: In order to determine a monitoring circuit having a leak current equal to or more than a predetermined reference, the monitoring device 20 includes the determination unit 13 that determines whether a leak current of a specific monitoring circuit 11, among a plurality of monitoring circuits 11 that are driven using electric power stored in two or more battery units 10 associated as a monitoring target, is equal to or more than a first reference using: a comparison result of comparison between a proportion of the specific monitoring circuit 11 being associated with a low-voltage battery unit having the lowest voltage value among the plurality of battery units 10 and a predetermined threshold value; and information indicating whether or not the number of low-voltage battery units associated with the specific monitoring circuit 11 is 2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Nagano, Masataka Atsuki
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Patent number: 11164806Abstract: A system may include determination of a spatial power map associated with an integrated circuit based on an architecture of the circuit, generation of a spatial thermal map associated with the integrated circuit based on the spatial power map, and determination of a spatial leakage power map based on the spatial thermal map. In some aspects, a system includes determination of a temperature of an integrated circuit, comparison of the temperature with a thermal divergence temperature, determination that the temperature of the integrated circuit is primarily due to leakage power, and disabling of power to the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Dhananjay Adhikari, Zhong-Ning George Cai, Jacob Schneider
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Patent number: 11067639Abstract: A method for determining a dynamic rating for a conductive path includes using a sensor to measure a value for a load parameter and selecting a heating process associated with the load parameter. A rated temperature change is changed by removing temperature changes due to a heating process other than the selected heating process to produce an impaired rated temperature change. A thermal load percentage is determined from the impaired rated temperature change. The thermal load percentage and the measured value are then used to determine the dynamic rating for the load parameter. A method also includes measuring a temperature rise, a current, and a voltage on the conductive path multiple times. Using at least two basis functions and the multiple measured temperature rises, currents and voltages, the values for at least two variables are determined. Trends in each variable are determined to determine a condition of electric equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.Inventors: Jeffrey C. Andle, Thomas M. Cunneen, David Lane
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Patent number: 10288657Abstract: A sensor device for detecting a number of objects, has a number of electrode configurations forming a sensor surface, each electrode configuration having a number of measurement electrodes and each electrode configuration being associated with at least one transmitter electrode, and an evaluation device coupled to the measurement electrodes and the transmitter electrodes, which is adapted for using a time multiplexing method for applying an alternating signal to one of the transmitter electrodes, and to apply a predetermined constant electrical potential to the remaining transmitter electrodes, and tapping an electrical signal indicating the position of the object relative to the sensor surface at the measurement electrodes associated with the transmitter electrode having the electrical alternating signal applied.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBHInventors: Artem Ivanov, Axel Heim
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Patent number: 10288451Abstract: A rotation angle sensing device is provided with a magnet that has a component with a magnetization vector in a direction orthogonal to a rotary shaft, a magnetic sensor part that outputs a sensor signal, and a rotation angle sensing part that detects a rotation angle of a rotating body based upon the sensor signal; the magnet has first and second surfaces substantially orthogonal to the rotary shaft, and a concave side surface that is continuous throughout all circumferences in the circumferential direction; the magnetic sensor part is placed within the space surrounded by the concave side surface, and at a position where an amplitude of a magnetic field intensity Hr and an amplitude of a magnetic field intensity H? on the virtual plane are substantially identical to each other, and outputs either the magnetic field intensity Hr or the magnetic field intensity H? as the sensor signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Masaki Nagata, Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 10238313Abstract: A sensor unit for use in measurements on a subject is presented. The sensor unit includes a near field electromagnetic sensor and a flexible signal transmission structure, which are integral with one another by means of at least one common continuous surface. The flexible signal transmission structure is constructed from a first layer including signal connection lines associated with sensor cells near field electromagnetic sensor and a second electrically conductive layer electrically coupled to the electrically conductive material of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: DUNE MEDICAL DEVICES LTD.Inventors: Gil Cohen, Dan Hashimshony, Iddo Geltner, Harel Golombek
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Patent number: 10048318Abstract: An automatic transfer switch (ATS) detection system is configured to detect an ATS. The ATS detection system includes an AC source configured to transfer a power signal to the ATS, a power switch, and an electronic load. The power switch includes a first input terminal coupled to a first signal lamp, a second input terminal coupled to a second signal lamp, and an output terminal. The AC source is coupled to the ATS and the second input terminal of the power switch, and the ATS is coupled to the first input terminal of the power switch. The electronic load is coupled to the output terminal of the power switch. The power signal is transferred through the ATS and the power switch, and is received by the electronic load.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Gi-Lung Lin
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Patent number: 10048287Abstract: A tachometer system for an aircraft landing gear. The tachometer system includes a tachometer arranged to generate a variable voltage signal in response to the rotation of a wheel of the aircraft landing gear, and a processing system arranged to output a speed signal indicative of the rotation speed of the wheel of the aircraft landing gear. The speed signal is determined from the variable voltage signal from the tachometer using a set of determined parameters. The determined parameters of the processing system are determined from the voltage levels of the variable voltage signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventor: Ashley Bidmead
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Patent number: 10048308Abstract: An electricity meter for metering an amount of energy in accordance with a primary AC current and an AC supply voltage. The electricity meter comprises a current transformer comprising the primary conductor, a secondary winding, an auxiliary winding, and a magnetic core arranged to be magnetically coupled with the three windings. The electricity meter further comprises a circuit configured to provide the auxiliary winding with a test signal modulated in accordance with at least one of a first and a second modulation state. The test signal has the same frequency as the AC supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ENEL DISTRIBUZIONE S.P.A.Inventor: Fabio Veroni
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Patent number: 10042010Abstract: A Hall sensor (HS) comprises at least four sensor terminals (EXT_A, EXT_B, EXT_C, EXT_D) for connecting the Hall sensor (HS) in at least two Hall sensing elements (11, 12, . . . , 44) connected together, element terminals (A, B, C, D) of the Hall sensing elements (11, 12, . . . , 44) are connected in between the sensor terminals (EXT_A, EXT_B, EXT_C, EXT_D). Each of the Hall sensing elements (11, 12, . . . , 44) is configured to provide an individual sensor value between two of its element terminals (A, B, C, D). The at least two Hall sensing elements (11, 12, . . . , 44) are distributed basically equally into two halves (B1, B2) and are connected such that a difference value is electrically formed between two of the sensor terminals (EXT_A, EXT_B, EXT_C, EXT_D) resulting from the respective individual sensor values.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: ams AGInventor: Georg Röhrer
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Patent number: 10033080Abstract: A disclosed electrical cell enables experimental measurements of dielectric properties of an electrochromic material in the radio-frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum. In an example embodiment, the electrical cell includes a layer of the electrochromic material under test that is sandwiched between a conducting base plane and a microstrip line. The conducting base plane and the microstrip line are electrically connected to a co-planar waveguide configured for application of superimposed DC-bias and RF-probe signals using a conventional probe station and a vector network analyzer. The S-parameters of the electrical cell measured in this manner can then be used, e.g., to obtain the complex dielectric constant of the electrochromic material under test as a function of frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Senad Bulja, Rose F. Kopf