Abstract: A voice-controlled elevator security system. Access to an elevator system servicing a plurality of landings of a structure is controlled by comparing a voice signal of a potential user of the elevator system with stored voice signals of all authorized users. The comparison is accomplished by first digitizing the potential user's voice signal and comparing it, on a bit-by-bit basis, with a digital representation of the voice signals of all authorized users. Various criteria can be established for determining the number of binary bits that must agree to conclude that the potential user is an authorized user. Once this determination has been made, the authorized user can initiate car call signals for those landings to which the authorized user is permitted access.

Abstract: A manipulator control system uses a microprocessor to compute appropriate control parameters in order to maintain constant tangential velocity of a spray nozzle in relation to the inside surface of a spherical portion of a nuclear steam generator. The microprocessor also computes, in one of the three modes of operation, of the control system, appropriate control parameters for maintaining a predetermined distance between the nozzle and the center of the spherical enclosure.

Abstract: A system for discriminating between hard object impact detected by a transducer and background noise or electrical noise spikes, which uses the detection of a series of cross-over points during a plurality of time intervals as an indication of a true impact signal.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for decoding a shortened cyclic block code in which the received codeword is serially shifted forwardly through a bidirectional syndrome register with the generator word being so subtracted from the register content as to effect division of the received codeword leaving the remainder in the register, and, if the remainder is larger than the maximum correctable error, the register contents are so reverse shifted as to reverse the division operation until the register contents are not larger than the maximum correctable error, the register contents then being combined with the received codeword to produce a corrected word. The codeword length does not have to be artificially increased to that of the maximum length code, and thus a reduction of the processing time can be obtained.