Abstract: A power line ampacity system called LINEAMPS is invented by object oriented modeling and expert rules of the power line environment. Ampacity is estimated by the solution of conductor temperature differential equations using synthetic generation of meteorological data adjusted to national weather service forecast. The line ampacity system provides hourly values of present and future power line ampacity up to seven days in advance. The program has steady state, dynamic and transient ampacity models which can accurately respond to any weather condition or line currents. The system does not require real time meteorological data, conductor temperature measurements or new hardware on power lines. In the absence of real time meteorological data the system generates power line ampacity from the stored weather patterns of the region located in the weather station objects. LINEAMPS is applicable to all overhead power lines and is easily implemented in all geographic regions.

Abstract: A system for interactively selecting and activating groups of electrically powered devices such as computer and computer peripheral devices. A preferred system includes computer and computer peripheral devices, an interactive video display and a controller. The computer and computer peripheral devices include a printer and at least two computers, each of the computers including a printer port. The computers include a controller interface computer which executes a controller interface software module to generate control signals including user interface control signals. The video display receives the user interface control signals and, in response to the signals, interactively prompts a user to provide user inputs to the controller interface computer. The user inputs include a designation of a selected group of devices from the plurality of electrically powered devices.

Abstract: The present invention allows for calibration of a scanning probe microscope under computer control. The present invention comprehends either the removal of nonlinear artifacts in the microscope output data after measurement has been taken (a off-line process), or the correction of nonlinear movements in the microscope scanner such that the scanner moves in a linear fashion during measurement (a realtime process). The realtime process may be operated in both an open-loop and a closed-loop process. The processes of the present invention uses an average cross-section of the scan in order to simplify the calculation and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Interpolation methods and centroid calculations are used to locate features on the scanned sample to subpixel precision.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the starting location and starting protocol of LAN data in a WAN frame. A list of offsets and a list of LAN protocols are maintained. For each offset in the offset list, the WAN frame is parsed beginning at the offset and each LAN protocol in the LAN protocol list is looked for, one at a time. If no LAN protocol is recognized to begin at this offset, the next offset in the offset list is chosen and all of the LAN protocols are tried once again beginning at the newly-chosen offset. This process is repeated until all of the LAN protocols are tried at all of the offsets, or until a LAN protocol is recognized. If a LAN protocol is recognized, the offset at which the protocol was recognized is reported, together with the identity of the LAN protocol that was recognized at the offset. If a LAN protocol is not recognized, an appropriate error message is reported.

Abstract: A control system for an automatic shutdown of a power supply constructed with a switching mode power supply (SMPS) receiving an AC voltage and converting the AC voltage into a DC voltage; a main board receiving the DC voltage output from the switching mode power supply; and a control circuit controlling and maintaining the supply of power from the switching mode power supply to the main board until a shutdown process is performed when power is turned OFF, wherein the control system enables the automatic shutdown of a power supply while preventing a file or a system from being damaged by automatically cutting off power after performing the shutdown process by the power control system even though the power switch is turned OFF due to the carelessness of the user or an external factor.

Abstract: An improved ratio type infrared thermometer utilizes integrating amplifiers for each waveband having the integration time automatically set so that the output voltage utilizes the full range of an analog to digital convertor. The gain and offset of the amplifiers is not ambient temperature dependent so accurate digital representations of the signal for each waveband are provided. The linearized output of each detector is optionally provided so that special or proprietary algorithms for computing the temperature of colored objects can be utilized. A special feature for downloading of updated new programs utilizes a "programming jumper" and an attenuation warning signal is provided for selected levels of attenuation.

Abstract: A method and system for preparing a suite of test scripts for testing a proposed network management application. The proposed network management application, termed a subsystem control facility (SCF), is first defined as a set of requirements with the aid of a developmental tool incorporating a subsystem knowledgebase and a test generation knowledgebase. The subsystem knowledgebase contains the rules governing the operation of a given network and a library of permitted commands, objects, attributes, modifiers and other data. The test generation knowledgebase includes information relating to those commands and object specific to the proposed subsystem control facility set of requirements. A user interface coupled to the knowledgebases permits the selection of types of tests and specific commands and objects to be tested.

Abstract: Video signals are encoded and decoded using a set of quantization tables that is generated from a base matrix and a scale matrix, which are both explicitly encoded into the encoded video bitstream. The sets of quantization tables may be changed as often as needed as long as the new base and scale matrices are explicitly encoding into the bitstream.

Abstract: A method for the continuous overall regulation of a single-layer or multi-layer headbox of a paper, board or pulp-draining machine. A physical fluid flow model of a pulp suspension flow discharged from the headbox to be regulated is formed and solved to obtain a simulated flow state based, e.g., on data on the geometry of the headbox and initial and boundary conditions related to the headbox. A target flow state based on the quality requirements of the paper produced from the pulp suspension flow and the costs of operation and runnability of the machine is obtained and a difference between the simulated flow state obtained as the solution of the flow model and the target flow state is determined. This difference constitutes a cost function which is optimized to determine optimal regulation values and set values for instrumentation devices and actuators of the headbox which affect the pulp suspension flow.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for calibrating an image system is disclosed. The method according to the present invention includes inputting data by scanning a plurality of lines into a computer, and analyzing the input data for generating intensity of the scanned lines. The inputting step is repeated when the intensity is less than a low threshold value or the intensity is higher than a high threshold value. Next, any scanned line that includes at least a special point is filtered out. After averaging the corresponding points of the scanned lines not filtered out in order to generate a calibration line, a predetermined number of points of the calibration line are averaged to generate a reference point, wherein the predetermined number of points of the calibration line are brighter than other points of the calibrated line. Finally, the calibration data are obtained by taking ratio of the reference point to each of the points of the calibration line.

Abstract: A method of displaying color images, intended to be displayed on a first color display device, on a second color display device having a color gamut (2) different from a color gamut (1) of the first color display device. The method includes a first step of determining a plurality of input extrema color values (RGB), within the color gamut (1) of the first color display device and at the extrema of the gamut of the first color display. Next, the method determines a plurality of output extrema color values (R'G'B') corresponding to the input extrema color values (RGB), within the color gamut (2) of the second color display and at the extrema of the gamut (2) of the second color display.

Abstract: A method and apparatus with an integral security system. The apparatus includes an electronic device for sending signals to a remote station, such as a pre-determined telephone number, at spaced-apart intervals of time. The signals include identifying indicia for the apparatus. The identifying indicia may be a characteristic serial number. The apparatus may include a computer and software for providing the signals to a communication interface on the computer. Preferably the software is programmed on a memory device for the computer at a location not normally accessible to operating software for the computer such as a boot sector of a disk thereof. The system should contact the remote station without visual or audio signals apparent to the user. The remote station is able to determine the identification and location of the computer from the signals received including the identifying indicia and caller I.D. signals provided by a telephone company.

Abstract: Given the current operating condition of a power-generating system (obtained from real-time data), the near-term (e.g., after 25 min.) load demand at each bus (obtained from short-term load forecast) and the generation dispatch (based on economic dispatch), a load margin measure (MW and/or MVAR) is determined in order to assess the system's ability to withstand the forecasted load and generation variations. The invention has a method to predict near-term (e.g., after 25 min.) system voltage profiles. The proposed look-ahead measure and/or the system voltage profiles are then applied to contingency selections for the near-term power system, in terms of load margins to collapse and bus voltage magnitudes. The proposed load margin measure and the voltage profiles are based on the power flow technique and the saddle-node bifurcation theory.

Abstract: At least two different time constants are used to produce the polarizing memory reference voltage which in turn is used in a protective relay for power transmission lines. For most conditions, a relative short time constant of 1.75 cycles is used, while under other specific conditions, determined automatically, a longer time constant of 15.75 cycles is used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to simultaneous computer screen and voice monitoring from a remote location, and particularly relates to synchronized telephone and screen monitoring of a computer workstation from a remote location. Such monitoring is useful for providing training and assistance to those using such workstations, especially in connection with telephone use, can also be useful for providing an audit trial of significant on-screen events, or can be used as a trigger to initiate other separate events. In one embodiment, graphics primitives are used to determine localized screen changes which are periodically copied from the monitored workstation desktop and sent over a network to a remote, monitoring, workstation. In another embodiment, localized screen changes are determined by full screen comparison, and sent over a network to a remote, monitoring, workstation.

Abstract: A sensor apparatus is described that detects and indicates the quantity of cryogenic liquid in a Dewar container independent of the spatial orientation and physical motions acting on the Dewar container. The sensor apparatus comprises a first conductor, preferably positioned adjacent to the container inner shell wall and a second conductor comprising a plurality of axially spaced and concentric conductor bands mounted inside the container in a proximately spaced and a parallel relationship with respect to the first conductor. The second conductor bands divide the first conductor into zones that provide a plurality of distinct and separate capacitors. A computer measures the capacitance of each capacitor and compares the individual capacitance measurements to reference capacitance values corresponding to a known quantity of cryogenic fluid filled in the container at known angles of inclination. The sensor apparatus is also useful as a motion detector.

Abstract: A data acquisition device permits plotting of cylinder firing cycles, of varying-frequency, on a fixed-plot area of a CRT screen. Each cylinder firing cycle is sampled, at a constant sample rate, and consecutive sets of sample points, each containing a fixed number of sample points, is generated. On the basis of a unique data reduction technique triggered after the collection of each consecutive sample-point set, certain of the sample points considered superfluous are deleted from the set and the remaining appended to a temporary buffer. The sample-points in the temporary buffer further undergo reduction of the sample points when certain conditions occur, such as buffer full, at which time certain ones are discarded and others are kept. At the end of a cylinder firing cycle, the remaining points are further reduced and a final-set is generated, representative of a full cylinder firing waveform, consisting of sample points equal in number to the plot-width of the CRT screen.

Abstract: A packet encoder includes various sources of data, a state machine and additional circuitry. The state machine provides an S-bit output signal. N of the output bits of the state machine, (N<S), are coupled to directly control a multiplexer without an intervening state decoder. The multiplexer combines data from the various sources into a packet signal.

Abstract: A filtering processor for performing filtering by use of an N-tap filter (N is a natural number) of this invention includes: means for transforming a first signal series having M.sub.1 signals (M.sub.1 is a natural number) into a second signal series having M.sub.2 signals (M.sub.2 is a natural number); and means for performing filtering on the second signal series to generate a third signal series having M.sub.3 signals (M.sub.3 is a natural number), wherein the second signal series is composed of the first signal series and signals of a predetermined value added to precede the start and follow the end thereof, and M.sub.1 signals among the M.sub.3 signals included in the third signal series is independent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method (200, 400) and device (500) for, within a variable or fixed block size video compression scheme, providing optimal bit allocation among at least three critical types of data: segmentation, motion vectors and prediction error, or DFD. Since the amount of information represented by one bit for a particular type of data is not equivalent to the information represented by one bit for some other data type, this consideration is taken into account to efficiently encode the video sequence. Thus, a computationally efficient method is provided for optimally encoding a given frame of a video sequence wherein, for a given bit budget the proposed encoding scheme leads to the smallest possible distortion and vice versa, for a given distortion, the proposed encoding scheme leads to the smallest possible rate.