Patents Examined by Shambhavi Patel
  • Patent number: 8744832
    Abstract: A hybrid electronic design system and a reconfigurable connection matrix thereof are disclosed. The electronic design system includes a virtual unit, a hybrid unit and a communication channel. The virtual unit further includes a plurality of proxy units, a plurality of virtual components and a driver. The virtual components are connected with the driver via the proxy units. The hybrid unit further includes an emulate unit, a physical unit and a chip level transactor. The chip level transactor is connected with the emulate unit and the physical unit. The communication channel is connected with the driver of the virtual unit and the chip level transactor of the hybrid unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Global Unichip Corporation
    Inventor: Peisheng Alan Su
  • Patent number: 8738348
    Abstract: A method and mechanism for implementing a general purpose scripting language that supports parallel execution is described. In one approach, parallel execution is provided in a seamless and high-level approach rather than requiring or expecting a user to have low-level programming expertise with parallel processing languages/functions. Also described is a system and method for performing circuit simulation. The present approach provides methods and systems that create reusable and independent measurements for use with circuit simulators. Also disclosed are parallelizable measurements having looping constructs that can be run without interference between parallel iterations. Reusability is enhanced by having parameterized measurements. Revisions and history of the operating parameters of circuit designs subject to simulation are tracked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Kundert
  • Patent number: 8738337
    Abstract: Methods for accurately predicting radio propagation from signal strength measurements. Dynamic range limitations in the measurement data are explicitly taken into account. The resulting propagation models accurately predict signal strength for calculation of coverage and interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Newfield Wireless
    Inventors: Nathan Hunt, Marc Bensadoun
  • Patent number: 8725476
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for applying details in a simulation includes obtaining first data corresponding to a first simulation of matter in a space domain. The method includes performing, using the first data, a second simulation of the matter producing second data representing details for the first simulation, the second data distributed in the space domain using a grid where each cell has a common depth-to-size ratio from a camera perspective. The method includes rendering an image of the matter, wherein the second data is obtained from the grid and used in the rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Frank Losasso Petterson
  • Patent number: 8725489
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method for testing is provided, which includes simulating a functional operational environment for a first type device-under-test with a tester. This includes recognizing a non-deterministic response signal having a predetermined protocol, receiving the non-deterministic response signal from the first type device-under-test, ascertaining an expected stimulus signal to be transferred to the first type device-under-test from the non-deterministic response signal based on the predetermined protocol, and initiating transmission of the expected stimulus signal to the first type device-under-test. The method further includes simulating a functional operational environment for a second type device-under-test with the tester after testing the first type device-under-test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventor: George W. Conner
  • Patent number: 8718999
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit simulation method of executing a high-precision circuit simulation. A voltage fluctuation analysis step at a gate level is executed (step S2). The voltage fluctuation analysis step at the gate level is executed on an entire chip TP. Next, a step of obtaining waveforms of power supply voltage and ground voltage (Vss) according to the voltage fluctuation analysis step is executed (step S4). Subsequently, a signal analysis step at a transistor level is performed (step S6). The signal analysis step at the transistor level is performed in an area narrower than the entire chip TP, for example, on one or more functional modules. After that, a step of obtaining a signal analysis result according to the signal analysis step is executed (step S8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Genichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8718989
    Abstract: In a non-destructive method for determining the internal structure of a heat conducting body, such as a cooling structure of a turbine blade, a flow medium is passed through the internal structure and the resultant thermal image on an external surface of the body is registered using a pixelised thermal image detector. Heat transfer coefficients and wall thicknesses of the internal structure are determined by means of a 1-,2-, or 3-dimensional inverse method that includes the numerical modelling of the surface temperatures using initial values for heat transfer coefficients and wall thicknesses and an optimization of the values using an iteration method. In a special variant of the method, the spatial geometry of the internal structure of the body is determined by means of the same inverse method and a geometry model that is optimised by iteration. No prior knowledge of the internal geometry is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Clifton, Martin Schnieder, Chiara Zambetti
  • Patent number: 8712737
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for determining and displaying a simulated deformation of a 3D object data model. In one aspect, a method is disclosed that includes causing a force to be applied to an object to cause a deformation of the object and causing a plurality of reference scans of the object to be captured. The method further includes, based on the plurality of reference scans, generating a 3D object data model representing the object and, further based on the plurality of reference scans, identifying a constraint point of the 3D object data model, where the constraint point represents a point of minimum deformation of the object. The method still further includes selecting a predefined deformation model, where the predefined deformation model defines a simulated deformation, and where the simulated deformation simulates at least a portion of the deformation of the object proximate to the point of minimum deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Hickman, Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis
  • Patent number: 8706452
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for automated creation of collision-free paths for pipes and tubes in a CAD system. A method includes receiving inputs, in a data processing system, defining at least a start point and destination point for a pipe in a CAD environment, and a diameter for the pipe. The method includes determining sample points between the start point and destination point. The method also includes building a graph including the sample points and the start point and the destination points as nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes. The method also includes computing a path through the graph between the start point and the destination point. The method also includes, for each node in the path, testing each edge connected to the node to determine if there is a collision along the edge between a test object model and a background model geometry in the CAD environment, and removing from the graph any edge that has a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventor: Justin H. Miller
  • Patent number: 8706450
    Abstract: A method and engineering system by which relationships are automatically identifiable between CAD objects of different CAD models, where use of a transformation rule which maps points of the envelope geometry of a first CAD object of a first CAD model onto points in a second CAD model is used such that the points involved in the transformation rule each relate to the same modeled raw component. The transformation rule is applied to at least two CAD objects of the first CAD model. If the transformed points in the second CAD model are surrounded by a common-envelope geometry, this spatial relationship is interpreted as a grouping relationship. A hierarchical data structure is then formed automatically within the engineering system, taking account of the already recognized grouping relationship, and allowing synchronous data keeping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thilo Stolper
  • Patent number: 8700362
    Abstract: A designing method of a wind turbine rotor includes: providing operation environment data indicative of an operation environment of a wind turbine generator including the wind turbine rotor and design data of the wind turbine blade; calculating a position of a center of mass of the wind turbine blade in each position in a lengthwise direction of the wind turbine blade in the operation environment from the operation environment data and the design data; and calculating an evaluation value which is a value depending on an integral value obtained by integrating a product of the calculated position of the center of mass of the blade and a mass per unit length at each position in a lengthwise direction of the wind turbine blade from a blade root portion of the wind turbine blade to a blade tip end of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyasu Fujioka, Akihiro Nakamura, Takao Kuroiwa, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Yoshihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8688428
    Abstract: A performance evaluation device includes: a control timing model unit for outputting a timing for inputting a control signal input/output between plural function blocks contained in a simulation model corresponding to a hardware; a control signal transfer period calculation unit for calculating a transfer period of the control signal between the plural function blocks in accordance with the timing for inputting the control signal; a data timing model unit for outputting a timing for inputting a data signal corresponding to the control signal, which is input/output between the plural function blocks; and a data signal transfer period calculation unit for calculating a transfer period of the data signal between the plural function blocks in accordance with the timing for inputting the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventor: Masumi Hotta
  • Patent number: 8688416
    Abstract: Contemplated methods and devices for coagulation control allow to establish a more constant dosage of required medication and to quantify/take into account patient-specific sensitivity to warfarin and Vitamin K by using logit (1/INR) as the dependent variable to so stabilize the variance across all values of INR. Moreover, it should be noted that such use simplifies the relation between INR and dose of coumarins or Vitamin K and reduces the number of parameters to be estimated for each patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Fearon, Paul Wegener
  • Patent number: 8670968
    Abstract: A method for training a ranking application. The method includes ranking the help postings to create an initial ranking using initial parameter values, and storing user interactions with the help postings to obtain stored interactions. Simulations are performed using the stored interactions to generate revised parameter values for the ranking application. Performing the simulations includes calculating relevance values from the stored interactions, creating a test posting, assigning, to the test posting, an initial score and a relevance value randomly selected from the relevance values to generate a test ranking, and simulating user interactions with the test ranking to generate simulated rankings. The simulated rankings are analyzed to obtain revised parameter values. The method further includes ranking, using the revised parameter values, the help postings to generate a revised ranking, and displaying the help postings in the forum according to the revised ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Floyd J. Morgan, Derek Szydlowski
  • Patent number: 8666713
    Abstract: A method of stimulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias Heinz Müller-Fischer, Bruno Heinz Heidelberger, Matthias Teschner, Markus Gross
  • Patent number: 8666715
    Abstract: A computer-aided method suitable for assisting in the design of an aircraft by providing relevant dimensioning values corresponding to an aircraft component in transonic conditions inside a predefined parameter space by means of a reconstruction of the CFD computations for an initial group of points in the parameter space using a POD reduced-order model, comprising the following steps: a) Decomposing for each flow variable the complete flow field into a smooth field and a shock wave field in each of said computations; b) Obtaining the POD modes associated with the smooth field and the shock wave field considering all said computations; c) Obtaining the POD coefficients using a genetic algorithm (GA) that minimizes a fitness function; d) Calculating said dimensioning values for whatever combination of values of said parameters using the reduced-order model. The invention also refers to a system able to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Operations S.L., Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
    Inventors: Angel Gerardo Velázquez López, Diego Alonso Fernández, José Manuel Vega de Prada, Luis Santiago Lorente Manzanares, Valentin De Pablo Fouce
  • Patent number: 8660823
    Abstract: A computer modeling system for study of behavior of complex signaling pathways is described. The computer modeling system includes a computer representation of one or more nonlinear models of at least one signaling pathway arrangement involving enzyme cascades and/or allosteric enzymes and feedback. The computer representation of the model is transformed into at least portions of a bilinear dynamical system representation from which a series of Lie bracket operations are computed and the result tested for transitivity conditions of the associated semisimple Lie matrix algebra so as to determine potential instabilities and crosstalk susceptibilities. Also, the computer model can additionally comprise accurate numerical simulations, equilibrium condition analysis tools, and other algebraic structural tools involving graphs and matroids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 8655631
    Abstract: The accuracy or computation speed of mechanical analysis of a golf ball using the finite element method is increased. In the mechanical analysis, a model representing the golf ball is prepared on a computer, and computation is made by the finite element method using elements and nodes. At this time, the elements are made solid elements of hexahedron, the aspect ratio of the shape of each element is set so as to be not lower than 1.0 and not substantially higher than 6.5, and nodes are provided on the sides and at the vertexes of the hexahedron of element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuichi Shimizu, Hideo Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8635050
    Abstract: The size distribution f(r) of powder particles is found, and the packing rate p of the powder particles is found based on the size distribution f(r) according to the following formula (a): p = ? i ? ? ? j ? ? r i 2 ? r j 3 ? f ? ( r i ) ? f ? ( r j ) ? r 2 ? ? ? r 3 ? ? p ji ? ( max ) ( a ) where f(ri): a frequency of i-particles having a radius of ri contained in the powder particles, f(rj): a frequency of j-particles having a radius of rj contained in the powder particles, ri: the radius of the i-particles contained in the powder particles, rj: the radius of the j-particles contained in the powder particles, ? r 2 ? : ? i ? ? r i 2 ? f ? ( r i ) ? r 3 ? : ? i ? ? r i 3 ? f ? ( r i ) pji(max): a void fraction in a hypothetical sphere having a radius of rj+ri around a j-particle having a radius of rj when the j-particle has i-particles most closely packed therearound so as be
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Inventor: Yutaka Aikawa
  • Patent number: 8620629
    Abstract: A Discrete Event System model created or provided in a time domain modeling and simulation environment and/or an event domain modeling and simulation environment may be divided into multiple independent regions, e.g. “subgraphs”, to achieve interleaved execution of the components from different domains. The subgraphs are automatically identified by the modeling and simulation environment during the compilation. Each subgraph consists of one or more interconnected event-driven components. Each subgraph is associated with an event calendar that controls the execution of the associated subgraph. Such multiple event calendar design enables multi-domain simulation, where event-driven components modeled by an event domain modeling environment and time-driven components modeled by a time domain modeling environment are simulated in an integrated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The Mathworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Li, John Edward Ciolfi, Michael I. Clune