Abstract: Systems and methods for well integrity management in all phases of development using a coupled engineering analysis to calculate a safety factor, based on actual and/or average values of various well integrity parameters from continuous real-time monitoring, which is compared to a respective threshold limit.

Abstract: A method of determining a migration pathway of a subterranean fluid through a geological volume is provided. The starting object is located within the geological volume. The starting object defines an initial fluid boundary. Data points are distributed through the geological volume. The data points are associated with values of one or more geological attributes. The method includes the steps of: defining an expression which determines a change in position of the fluid boundary at the data points over an iteration based on the values of the one or more attributes; and applying the expression at the data points for successive iterations to evolve the fluid boundary over the successive iterations. The migration pathway of the subterranean fluid through the geological volume can then be determined from the evolution of the fluid boundary.

Abstract: A method of extracting a salt body from a geological volume is provided. A starting object is located within the geological volume. The starting object defines an initial salt body boundary. Data points are distributed through the geological volume. The data points are associated with values of one or more geological attributes. The method includes the steps of: defining an expression which determines a change in position of the salt body boundary at the data points over an iteration based on the values of the one or more attributes; and applying the expression at the data points for successive iterations to evolve the salt body boundary over the successive iterations until a final form for the evolved salt body is achieved.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing a plurality of datasets acquired from a plurality of data sources includes identifying at least one descriptor common to the datasets. The method also includes using the at least one descriptor to calculate intra-data-source signed matrices and generating a similarity matrix based on the intra-data-source signed matrices. The method further includes analyzing an alignment of the data-sources using the similarity matrix and at least one analysis metric and generating a report indicating at least a similarity of the data sources.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for collecting patient data via a monitoring system, with reduced power consumption. In one embodiment, the monitoring system is configured to emit pulses of light, and detect the light after passing through patient tissue. The light data is emitted sporadically, and a waveform is reconstructed from the sporadically sampled light data. Physiological parameters from the patient may be calculated from the reconstructed waveform. The sporadic sampling may reduce the power consumption by the monitoring system.

Abstract: A computer method of detecting interacting DNA loci by constructing a contingency table from samples of a first trait and samples of a second trait. The samples of the first and second trait are associated with one of a plurality of genotype calls, each relating to an interaction between multiple DNA loci. The contingency table includes frequencies of each genotype call in the samples. Based on the contingency table, measuring the association between the plurality of genotype calls and the first and second traits. Classifying the genotype calls into a first group that is statistically associated with the first trait and a second group that is statistically associated with the second trait.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for recombining genome sequence in consideration of a read length, and a method thereof. An exemplary embodiment of the sequence recombination apparatus includes a seed length calculating unit configured to calculate a seed length based on a read length of an input read, a seed generating unit configured to generate at least one seed having the seed length from the read, and an alignment unit configured to perform global alignment operation on a reference sequence of the read using the generated seed.

Abstract: A system and a method for analyzing and evaluating genome data in the course of personalized medicine. In-memory technology is provided for processing of genome data and its real-time analysis as a holistic process in the course of personalized medicine. The cloud application helps physicians and researchers to identify the genetic roots for certain tumor types in the treatment of diseases correlating to genomic variants or mutations, such as cancer diseases. The system combines the latest international research results with patient-specific genomic data while eliminating the need for long-lasting manual searches of all dispositions in distributed international research and literature data sources.

Abstract: A high performance, low-cost, gapped read alignment algorithm is disclosed that produces high quality alignments of a complete human genome in a few minutes. Additionally, the algorithm is more than an order of magnitude faster than previous approaches using a low-cost workstation. The results are obtained via careful algorithm engineering of the seeding based approach. The use of non-hashed seeds in combination with techniques from search engine ranking achieves fast cache-efficient processing. The algorithm can also be efficiently parallelized. Integration into an in-memory database infrastructure (IMDB) leads to low overhead for data management and further analysis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biologically and behaviorally based methods of measuring audience response to a short stimulus.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for quantifying the response of a biological system to one or more perturbations based on measured activity data from a subset of the entities in the biological system. Based on the activity data and a network model of the biological system that describes the relationships between measured and non-measured entities, activities of entities that are not measured are inferred. The inferred activities are used for deriving a score quantifying the response of the biological system to a perturbation such as a response to a treatment condition. The score may be representative of the magnitude and topological distribution of the response of the network to the perturbation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining particle size distribution from electrical mobility spectrometry (EMS) measurements in the presence of multiply charged particles. EMS data comprising zeroth order singly-charged particle size distribution information for one or more EMS channels is obtained and fitted using a Gumbel distribution function to obtain a fit function value. The obtained fit function value is used to correct for multiply-charged particle contribution to the received EMS data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for analyzing side chains of a polymer. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for analyzing the number of side chains of a polymer.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying outliers among chemical reaction assays, the apparatus comprising a transition point finder, configured to find at least one transition point in a cumulative function, the cumulative function giving a quantitative indication based on a count of points in a calculated space as a function of distance from a function dividing the calculated space into at least two groups, each one of the points representing results of a respective assay of a chemical reaction. The apparatus further comprises an outlier identifier, in communication with the transition point finder, configured to use a distance of the found transition point from the function dividing the calculated space, as a threshold, for identifying an outlier among the chemical reaction assays.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for detecting at least one periodically occurring defect on an object, in particular on a metal strip, in which at least one time signal is recorded from the moving object using a measuring method, the time signal is converted into a quality function using a stochastic method and one or more periodic signals in the time signal are inferred on the basis of this quality function in order to thereby detect at least one periodically occurring defect on the object. In order to obtain advantageous method properties, it is proposed to convert the time signal recorded by means of the measuring method, in particular the electromagnetic measuring method, into the quality function using a model-based estimation method, in particular using a maximum likelihood method.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a valve having at least two input ports. A first of the at least two input ports connected to a first source of material and a second of the at least two input ports connected to a second source of material. The also valve includes an output port and a valve selector for selectively connecting one of the at least two input ports to the output port. An electric circuit selectively connects an output device to receive data from a first sensor associated with the first source of material that senses at least one characteristic associated with the first source of material when the valve selector is in a first position connecting the first of the two input ports to the output port, and a second sensor associated with a second source of material that senses at least one characteristic associated with the second source of material when the valve selector is in a second position connecting the second of the two input ports to the output port.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for verifying sensitivity test program stability. A sensitivity test program including a set of tests is run on a plurality of integrated circuit die fabricated on a silicon wafer, where each test in the set of tests specifies a different set of operating parameters for structures within each integrated circuit die. Results of the sensitivity test program are received for each integrated circuit die and the results of the sensitivity test program are stored in shadow bins allocated within a memory, where each shadow bin corresponds to a different test in the set of tests. The results may be used to verify and optimize operating voltage and operating frequency of different tests in the production test program and wafer fabrication process sensitivity.

Abstract: A device for detecting a failed rectifier in an AC/DC converter for converting three-phase AC power to DC power and having its AC side connected to a three-phase AC source and its DC side connected to a DC load, the AC/DC converter including a rectifier circuit including at least three legs, each of the legs connected to a corresponding AC phase and including at least one rectifier, the device including a measuring unit for measuring and sampling AC current for each of the phases and a calculating unit configured to estimate an instantaneous DC current based on the measured instantaneous AC currents during one period of the power supply frequency.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a detecting module, a calculating module, and a display module. The detecting module detects values for parameters of the electronic device. The calculating module calculates current energy efficiency information based on the detected values of the parameters. The displaying module displays a visual interface for indicating the current energy efficiency information of the electronic device.

Abstract: An energy monitoring system which in preferred embodiments employs at least one nodal junction receiving and creating data by analog to digital conversion from a plurality of local node sensors. Data accumulated by the nodal junction is used for analysis of wave patterns to detect anomalies in the local electrical network and/or loads connected to the local electrical network. Anomalies can be detected in various ways, including: comparison of data with historical data acquired from the local node sensors; comparison of data with known wave pattern profiles for similar loads; and comparison of data with data acquired from local node sensors at other locations. Thus, the accumulation of data in the system of the invention provides the ability to perform comparative analysis to a baseline or standard, and also the ability to perform comparative analysis at an enterprise level across different target locations.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and computer program product for estimating battery available power from a battery system in relation to a cell voltage, comprising: determining the cell voltage, a power command of the battery system; and a cell voltage threshold. The processes used by the present invention, include a static and a dynamic portion in which cell voltages, cell voltage thresholds and power command are associated and processed using a feed forward estimator and a proportional-integral-derivation (PID) controller to determine the final power command estimation for the requisite battery system.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for modeling changes in capacity and the state of charge vs. open circuit voltage (SOC-OCV) curve for a battery cell as it ages. During battery pack charging, voltage and current data are gathered for a battery cell. In one method, using multiple data points taken during the plug-in charge event, data optimization is used to determine values for two parameters which define a scaling and a shifting of the SOC-OCV curve from its original shape at the cell's beginning of life to its shape in the cell's current condition. In a second method, only initial and final voltages and current throughput data are needed to determine the values of the two parameters. With the scaling and shifting parameters calculated, the cell's updated capacity and updated SOC-OCV curve can be determined. The methods can also be applied to data taken during a discharge event.

Abstract: A method estimates a state-of-charge (SoC) of a battery by constructing a set of two or more battery models. Each battery model is associated with an adaptive SOC estimator. A set of intermediate SOCs is estimated using the models and the associate adaptive SoC estimators. Then, the set of intermediate SoCs are fused to obtain a final SoC of the battery.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a condition of a battery includes a mode identifying unit configured to identify a usage mode of the battery during a period of time and its corresponding attenuation curve, according to recorded data on battery usage, stored usage modes of the battery and attenuation curves corresponding to the various usage modes, the attenuation curve representing a change of a fully charged capacity of the battery with battery usage; and a condition estimating unit configured to calculate battery degradation according to the recorded data, the identified usage mode and its corresponding attenuation curve, the degradation representing a quantity of the fully charged capacity of the battery that is reduced over the battery usage. The condition of the battery is estimated so as to rationally judge the residual value of the battery in operation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining wafer bias are described. One of the methods includes detecting output of a generator to identify a generator output complex voltage and current (V&I). The generator is coupled to an impedance matching circuit and the impedance matching circuit is coupled to an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The method further includes determining from the generator output complex V&I a projected complex V&I at a point along a path between an output of a model of the impedance matching circuit and a model of the ESC. The operation of determining of the projected complex V&I is performed using a model for at least part of the path. The method includes applying the projected complex V&I as an input to a function to map the projected complex V&I to a wafer bias value at the ESC model.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining ion energy are described. One of the methods includes detecting output of a generator to identify a generator output complex voltage and current (V&I). The generator is coupled to an impedance matching circuit and the impedance matching circuit is coupled to an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The method further includes determining from the generator output complex V&I a projected complex V&I at a point along a path between an output of a model of the impedance matching circuit and a model of the ESC. The operation of determining of the projected complex V&I is performed using a model for at least part of the path. The method includes applying the projected complex V&I as an input to a function to map the projected complex V&I to a wafer bias value at the ESC model and determining an ion energy from the wafer bias value.

Abstract: A circuit for use in conditioning a signal from a speed sensor. The circuit is configured to receive an analog signal from a speed sensor coupled to the circuit, acquire a threshold of the analog signal, generate a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal, based on the threshold, and output the digital signal.

Abstract: A wearable fall-detection device has a variety of sensors, including a pressure sensor, that provide signals for sampling environmental conditions acting on the device. An average of pressure data samples is used to determine a resultant that may indicate an amount of noise in a pressure data signal, and statistical analysis of the noise and the pressure signal average may be used to determine a confidence estimate value that indicates a level of confidence in the amount of noise that a pressure signal is subject to, or includes. The confidence estimate and known fall data, such as change in pressure between a person standing and lying, can create a threshold function that may adapt according to sampled data thus providing a customizable (either statically or dynamically) threshold function for comparing sensor data against rather than comparing data with just a linear threshold function.

Abstract: The invention described here enables in-operation, low-cost, non-invasive measurement of component performance and condition for assessing device longevity prediction, resilience and reliability. The non-invasive component measurements to be performed and subsequently evaluated are based on at least a set of physically unclonable functions and other measurements which can be error corrected, and the error correction factor and other measurements provides insight to the device condition. The system as well is adaptive and allows the introduction of new measurements across not only similar components but to include the family of components similarly fabricated.

Abstract: A verification test is performed on a device containing master and slave units connected via a bus. In the verification test, a first signal is transferred between a first master unit and a first slave unit during a first transfer period while a second signal is transferred between a second master unit and a second slave unit during a second transfer period. The second transfer period overlaps at least a part of the first transfer period. When the first transfer period is longer than a third transfer period, first combination information indicating the combination of the first master unit and first slave unit is stored in a storage unit, in conjunction with second combination information indicating the combination of the second master unit and second slave unit.

Abstract: A data acquisition system (DAS) includes a plurality of processors comprising at least one first processor and a plurality of second processors. The at least one first processor is configured to receive at least one configuration file and generate at least one measurement data application from the at least one configuration file. The DAS also includes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the plurality of processors. The FPGA is configured to receive the at least one measurement data application and allocate at least a portion of one of the FPGA and at least one second processor of the plurality of second processors to calculate measurement data at least partially based on the at least one measurement data application and an availability of the at least a portion of the FPGA.

Abstract: According to one aspect, a method of determining an attitude matrix on a portable electronic device. The method includes determining a first attitude matrix gradient using data from at least one of an accelerometer and a magnetometer, determining a second attitude matrix gradient using data from a gyroscope, fusing the first attitude matrix gradient and the second attitude matrix gradient based on a mixing coefficient to generate a fused gradient, and based on the fused gradient, updating a fine attitude matrix for the portable electronic device.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided to determine directional calibration parameters of an object. A method includes: disposing a tracking marker to the object, disposing the object on a calibration tool, rotating the object around its set linear axis while keeping the set linear direction unchanged, determining at least two three-dimensional rotation matrices of the tracking marker via a position tracking apparatus, and using the three-dimensional rotation matrices to determine the directional calibration parameters with the formula of two-point position relationship or rectilinear direction rotation relationship in the three-dimensional space. The action direction of the object is determined based on the determined directional calibration parameters and the current three-dimensional rotation matrix of the tracking marker.

Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and a system that includes a fuzzy logic module arranged to apply a fuzzy logic algorithm for calculating, in response to received echoes that are received by a receiver, confidence levels of origins of received echoes; wherein the received echoes are reflected or scattered from the origins; and a volume calculator that is arranged to calculate a volume of the content in response to (a) estimated locations of the origins, and (b) the confidence levels of the origins.

Abstract: A method and a system for automatically mapping obstacles within a bin that stores content, the system may include: a location estimator that is arranged to calculate, in response to detection signals, an estimated shape of an upper surface of the content; wherein the detection signals are generated by a receiver in response to radiation signals reflected or scattered from multiple points within the bin; and an obstacle detector that is arranged to detect at least one obstacle point that belongs to an obstacle in response to (a) the estimated shape of the upper surface of the content, and (b) an expected shape attribute of the upper surface of the content.

Abstract: A method and a system for automatically mapping obstacles within a bin that stores content, the system may include a location estimator that is arranged to calculate, in response to detection signals, multiple estimates of shapes of the upper surface of the content at different time periods; wherein the detection signals are generated by a receiver in response to radiation signals reflected or scattered within the bin; and an obstacle detector that is arranged to detect an obstacle in response to relationships between the multiple estimates of shapes of the upper surface of the content.

Abstract: A method of detecting a flickering frequency of an ambient light source includes the following steps. First, a light intensity of the light source is sensed in a predetermined time period according to a sampling frequency to obtain a plurality of sample values. Then, the sample values are calculated to obtain a median value. Next, the sample values are binarized according to a result of a comparison between the sample values and the median value to obtain a first sequence. The first sequence is differentiated to obtain a second sequence, and the second sequence includes numbers ?1, 0, and 1. Then, a distance between the same numbers in the second sequence is calculated, and the sampling frequency is divided by the distance to obtain the flickering frequency of the ambient light source. A system of detecting a flickering frequency of an ambient light source is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring operating machinery to identify fault frequency sets for consumable components used in the machinery. Data associated with characteristic behavior of the machinery being monitored is acquired and analyzed, comparing known vendor information regarding fault frequencies for specified components to vibration frequencies observed in the machine in service. The systems and methods described herein enable an operator to identify and confirm critical information such as the location of and/or vendor identity for components exhibiting fault vibration behavior.

Abstract: An offset estimation method calculates attitude data representing an attitude variation of equipment from a reference attitude thereof based on angular velocity data that is outputted from an angular velocity sensor and that represents angular velocity of the equipment. The offset estimation method further calculates an estimation value of the offset minimizing an error between first variable vectors associated to the attitude data and second variable vectors associated to magnetic data that are successively outputted from a magnetic sensor. The first variable vector is obtained by changing a reference variable vector in accordance with the attitude variation represented by the attitude data, the reference variable vector representing geomagnetism when the equipment is placed in the reference attitude, and the second variable vector is obtained by subtracting the estimation value of the offset from the magnetic data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the diagnostic analysis of a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system (HVAC), comprising at least one compressor (Comp) connected to an air condenser (Cond) and designed for the circulation of a coolant fluid (Ff), an evaporator (Ev) connected to the air condenser (Cond) via a expansion device (Det) and permeated by a heat transfer fluid (Fc), wherein said air condenser comprises at least one ventilator (Vent). Said method permits the determination of enthalpies in the system at the compressor intake, the compressor discharge, the inlet to the expansion device and the outlet of the expansion device, together with the superheating of the system, using only three temperature measurements and the command function of the compressor.

Abstract: A field device for determining or monitoring a physical or chemical process variable in automation technology, comprising at least one transmitting/receiving element, wherein an FPGA component is provided, the transmitting/receiving element is configured in the form of a spiral from existing internal connecting lines of the FPGA component, and the spiral of the transmitting/receiving element transmits data inductively to a second transmitting/receiving element in the form of a spiral.

Abstract: A light leakage testing method for a display device involves obtaining a brightness value of each pixel of a display device to be tested, and then dividing the display device into a plurality of testing points, each testing point comprising a plurality of adjacent pixels defining the testing points located on a centre of the display device as a reference area and the testing points surrounding the reference area as a plurality of testing areas.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus allow for easy and efficient structural design and/or reconfiguration while using existing stock components. One or more implementations allow a designer to import a stock file containing an inventory of stock components that are usable as part of a structural design. In particular, one or more implementations allow the stock components to be used in a structural design while tracking, in real-time, the availability of stock components. Furthermore, one or more implementations automatically correlate stock components with existing components of a structural design or with new components as a designer inserts them into the structural design. Additionally, one or more implementations visually distinguish between new components in the structural design and stock components in the structural design. Furthermore, one or more implementations auto-select or modify surrounding components in the structural design to match an inserted stock component.

Abstract: CAD data is provided by the steps of providing raw 2D data points of a given shape, fitting said data points with geometry using regression analysis; applying lines and arcs to the data with parametric statistics; editing the parametric data inside CAD software.

Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-assisted method for the optimization of the design of physical bodies, such as land, air and see vehicles and robots and/or parts thereof, is provided comprising the steps of: representing the design to be optimized as a mesh, generating update signals to optimize the mesh representation, applying an optimization algorithm until a stop criterion has been reached, and outputting a signal representing the optimized design.

Abstract: An exemplary method of 3-D printing user-designed creation design may comprise uploading, to a 3-D printing development application by a contributor, an asset file, setting parameters of the asset file in response to input from the contributor, generating an asset bundle based on the asset file and the parameters, rendering a snapshot of the asset bundle. Furthermore, the present disclosure includes a computer-based system configured to facilitate creating a user-designed creation for 3-D printing, said computer-based system to perform operations comprising displaying an asset bundle library for browsing by a consumer, receiving a selection of one or more asset bundles for purchase from the consumer, generating the user-designed creation in response to receiving manipulation instructions for the one or more asset bundles within pre-set limitations, and receiving an order for a 3-D user-designed creation of the user-designed creation.

Abstract: Embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for performing time alignments. The method includes receiving a specification request for generating a set of target time-series data from a set of source time-series data and obtaining specification information relating to the set of target time-series data and relating to the set of source time-series data. The specification also includes time intervals between data values. The method also includes converting the set of source time-series data to the set of target time-series data, wherein said converting includes calculating a set of cubic-spline interpolation constants.

Abstract: A method, performed by a computer device, may include generating a first executable graphical model representing a dynamic system and generating a second executable graphical model representing costs and constraints associated with the dynamic system. The method may further include generating an interface model based on the first and second executable graphical models; obtaining one or more solution parameters for solving a trajectory optimization problem defined by the dynamic system and the cost and constraints; expanding the generated interface model based on the obtained one or more solution parameters to generate a direct transcription representation of the trajectory optimization problem; evaluating the expanded interface model to obtain a solution to the trajectory optimization problem; and providing, in an interface, the solution as a solution to the trajectory optimization problem, wherein the solution has a reduced cost compared to a cost associated with an initial guess solution.

Abstract: A system for performing time conversions that includes a processor configured to generate a set of target time-series data from a set of source time-series data and a memory containing specification information relating to the set of target time-series data and also containing information relating to the set of source time-series data. The source time-series specification and the target time-series specification include time intervals between data values. The system also includes a time alignment algorithm used by the processor for converting the set of source time-series data to the set of target time-series data. The converting includes calculation of a set of cubic-spline interpolation constants and the cubic-spline constants.

Abstract: An arithmetic method executed by a computer, the arithmetic method includes performing arithmetic operation to simulate conveyance of an object by a conveying device in a three-dimensional simulation space in which the object and the conveying device are disposed, the conveying device moving the object by pushing the object with a pushing-out surface of a pusher or lifting up the object by supporting the object from below with a supporting surface of a lifter, and moving the object to a position where the object is in contact with the pushing-out surface of the pusher or the supporting surface of the lifter when it is detected that a certain reference point of the object is present in a certain region in a moving direction of the pushing-out surface of the pusher or the supporting surface of the lifter in the arithmetic operation to simulate the conveyance.