Abstract: A method of communicating with an electric vehicle wherein the method includes a step of installing a communication device in the electric vehicle. The method also includes establishing a connection from the vehicle to a network. The methodology also includes controlling and monitoring a battery in the electric vehicle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 18, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 13, 2010
Assignee:
Tesla Motors, Inc.
Inventors:
Kurt Kelty, Marc Tarpenning, Scott Kohn
Abstract: A method for providing data useful in procedures associated with the oral cavity, in which at least one numerical entity representative of the three-dimensional surface geometry and color of at least part of the intra-oral cavity is provided and then manipulated to provide desired data therefrom.
Abstract: A field bus distribution unit (VE) designed for use in process automation technology involving several field devices. The unit is equipped with a microcontroller ?C, which is connected to the field bus (FB) and transmits device-specific information of the field devices that are connected to a field bus distribution unit (VE).
Abstract: A position detecting system and method for an electronic device used an audio signal input module of the electronic device and a signal receiver to connect to the audio signal input module convert an external position signal into an audio signal. A position detecting software running on the electronic device analyzes the audio signal. Accordingly, the current position of the electronic device is obtained. The audio signal input module of the electronic device is employed as an input port for the external position signal, thus saving the construction cost of the system. Besides, the current position of the electronic device with an ever-changing position can be obtained during a test process, such that the electronic device can start or stop a test item accordingly.
Abstract: The stability index objectively reflects system reliability and yet intuitively reflects the user experience on the system while also providing an understanding of how/when/why problems began.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 14, 2007
Date of Patent:
March 23, 2010
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation
Inventors:
Mario R. Garzia, Mingtian Ni, Todor Ivanov Jivakov, Peng Li
Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated circuit or chip is supplied to its intended application and a measurement quantity representing the state of one or a plurality of electrical connections in the chip is determined within the application environment of the chip and, if the measurement quantity determined does not correspond to predefined criteria, a corresponding signal is output.
Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for detecting and transmitting test data from a housing (10) including a pressure chamber (11) that is filled with a high-pressure fluid and is homogeneously pressurized via strip conductors (21) which are connected to a sensor (23) and are guided out of the housing (10). A circuit board (12), both faces of which are subjected to the pressure prevailing in the pressure chamber (11) and at least one portion (30) of which extends out of the housing is disposed inside the pressure chamber (11) as a support of the strip conductors (21). The housing (10) that encloses the pressure chamber (11) is separated on the plane of the printed board (12), the faces of the housing halves (13, 14) clamping the printed board (12) in such a way that radial forces exercised within the printed board when pressure is applied are absorbed by the housing.
Abstract: A method for data processing includes transforming measurement data acquired in the time domain during an oilfield operation into a second domain to produce transformed data; identifying distortions in the transformed data; removing the distortions from the transformed data; and transforming back from the second domain to the time domain to produce cleaned-up data. The transforming measurement data may use a Fourier transform or a wavelet transform. The method may further include compressing the cleaned-up data or reconstructing signals from the cleaned-up data. A method for data processing includes decomposing measurement data, which are acquired in an oilfield operation, using a low pass filter to produce a first dataset; decomposing the measurement data using a high pass filter to produce a second dataset; removing distortions from the second dataset to yield a corrected second dataset; and reconstructing a corrected dataset from the first dataset and the corrected second dataset.
Abstract: A system for analyzing linear data is provided. The system comprises a datastore of linear data correlated by distance; a library of functions that may be performed on the linear data; computer executable code stored on a computer readable medium for performing an analysis of the sets of linear data based on the functions in the library.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2005
Date of Patent:
March 16, 2010
Assignee:
Bentley System, Inc.
Inventors:
Ernest Theodore Selig, IV, Gerald Cardillo
Abstract: An integrated circuit comprises a power device located on a die. The power device is operably coupled to a processing function, wherein the signal processing function is operably coupled to two or more temperature sensors. A first temperature sensor is operably coupled to the power device to measure a temperature of the power device and the second temperature sensor is located, such that it measures a substantially ambient temperature related to the die. The signal processing function determines the temperature gradient therebetween.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 13, 2005
Date of Patent:
March 16, 2010
Assignee:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Inventors:
Philippe Dupuy, Laurent Guillot, Eric Moreau, Pierre Turpin
Abstract: A test instrument network for testing a plurality of DUTs includes a plurality of communicating script processors, the script processors being adapted to execute computer code; and a plurality of measurement resources controllable by the script processors in response to executed computer code, the measurement resources being adapted to test the DUTs. Each script processor and measurement resource may be arbitrarily assigned by the controller to one of at least two groups, only one script processor being assigned to be a master script processor, any other script processor being a slave script processor and any group not including the master script processor being a remote group. The master script processor is exclusively authorized to initiate code execution on any script processor in a remote group. Any slave script processor is only able to initiate operation of measurement resources in it own group.
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing the timing of circuits, including integrated circuits, by taking into account the location of cells or elements in the paths or logic cones of the circuit. In one embodiment, a bounding region may be defined around cells or elements of interest, and the size of the bounding region may be used to calculate a timing slack variation factor. The size of the bounding region may be adjusted to account for variability in timing delays. In other embodiments, centroids may be calculated using either the location or the delay-weighted location of elements or cells within the path or cone and the centroids used to calculate timing slack variation factor. The timing slack variation factors are used to calculate a new timing slack for the path or logic cone of the circuit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 29, 2007
Date of Patent:
March 16, 2010
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
David J. Hathaway, Jerry D. Hayes, Anthony D. Polson
Abstract: With regard to a temperature sensor, a control logic circuit conducts control of the temperature sensor. During preparation of the temperature sensor, the control logic circuit reads the result of measurement of the property pertaining to the ambient temperature from the temperature sensor circuit, obtains the initial value and correction value from the result, and stores the pertinent values in the fuse memory. At times of operation of the temperature sensor, the control logic circuit reads the initial value and correction value from the fuse memory, and corrects the measurement values of the temperature sensor circuit using the pertinent values.
Abstract: A method of compensating a measurement. The method includes determining a zero-point, determining a rate of change of the zero-point, and compensating the measurement based on the rate of change of the zero-point and/or the zero-point. In one embodiment, the compensated measurement is used to control a safety device in a vehicle.
Abstract: A technique for decomposing a recorded wave field represented in a set of multicomponent, marine seismic data centers around a computer-implemented method including: estimating the statistics of the noise terms in each one of a predetermined group of seismic measurements in a seismic data set acquired in a marine survey; modeling the physical propagation of a recorded wave field represented in the seismic data set from the estimated statistics; and estimating a directional component of the recorded wave field from the physical propagation model that minimizes error relative to the seismic measurements.
Abstract: A method and system of detecting and mapping a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir includes determining ratio data for a plurality of orthogonal spectral components of naturally occurring low frequency background seismic data. The ratio data may be compared, plotted, contoured and displayed as a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir map or a hydrocarbon potential map. The ratio data may represent a vertical spectral component of the seismic data over a horizontal spectral component of the seismic data. The subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir map may include contouring the ratio data over a geographical area associated with the seismic data.
Abstract: A method to be implemented on or in a computer is disclosed, where the method includes data collection, calibration, candidate selection, and analysis of data streams associated with each candidate to classify single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer events. Once classified, the classification can be related to the nature of the events, such as the identification of dNTP incorporation during primer extension to obtain a base read out of an unknown template.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 2007
Date of Patent:
February 23, 2010
Inventors:
Andrei Volkov, Costa M. Colbert, Ivan Pan, Anelia Kraltcheva, Mitsu Reddy, Nasanshargal Battulga, Michael A. Rea, Keun Woo Lee, Susan H. Hardin, Brent Mulder, Chris Hebel, Alok Bandekar
Abstract: A method of inspecting defect of a mask is provided. In this method, a database for storing a plurality of virtual simulation models is created. The virtual simulation models are determined by a plurality of factors including an optical effect and a chemical effect during the transferring the pattern of a mask to the photoresist layer on a wafer. A mask defect image is acquired. A simulation contour of the mask defect image is generated from at least one virtual simulation model in the database. Next, the acceptability of the mask is determined.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 2, 2007
Date of Patent:
February 16, 2010
Assignee:
United Microelectronics Corp.
Inventors:
Te-Hung Wu, Shih-Ming Yen, Chih-Hao Wu, Chuen-Huei Yang
Abstract: A pattern inspection apparatus which compares images of regions, corresponding to each other, of patterns that are formed so as to be identical and judges that non-coincident portions in the images are defects. The pattern inspection apparatus is equipped with an image comparing section which plots individual pixels of an inspection subject image in a feature space and detects excessively deviated points in the feature space as defects. Defects can be detected correctly even when the same patterns in images have a brightness difference due to a difference in the thickness of a film formed on a wafer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 12, 2007
Date of Patent:
February 16, 2010
Assignee:
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
Inventors:
Yuta Urano, Akira Hamamatsu, Shunji Maeda, Kaoru Sakai
Abstract: A method of increasing consistency between separate parametric measurement readings that are taken with an electron beam imaging tool at different times within a period of time, by correcting drift in the imaging tool at a time frequency that is less than a time period during which the drift is anticipated to be undesirably large.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 2006
Date of Patent:
February 9, 2010
Assignee:
KLA-Tencor Corporation
Inventors:
Indranil De, Mark A. McCord, David L. Adler