Waveform Analysis Patents (Class 702/66)
  • Patent number: 11955828
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery management apparatus and method, and more particularly, to a battery management apparatus and method using non-destructive resistance analysis for analyzing the change of resistance of a battery cell. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, even if the EIS (Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) analysis is not used, the resistance change rate of the battery cell may be calculated non-destructively using the QV curve and the Q-dV/dQ curve of the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Won Jee, Young-Deok Kim, Dae-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11894860
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for correcting a result of a quantum computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jarrod Ryan McClean, Ryan Babbush, Zhang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11860214
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the state of a cable, includes a plurality of reflectometry devices able to inject a test signal at a point of injection into the cable and to measure a signal having propagated back through the cable to the point of injection into the cable, the reflectometry devices being intended to be positioned along the cable so as to divide the cable into successive segments, the system comprising a control unit that is able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and that is configured so as to carry out at least one reflectometry test consisting in injecting a test signal into the cable by means of a first reflectometry device and measuring the test signal, by means of the first reflectometry device, after it has propagated through the cable and been reflected from an impedance discontinuity, the system further comprising a post-processing unit able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and configured to analyze the measurement of the test signal with a view to detecting an ampli
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Marie-Bénédicte Jacques, Wafa Ben Hassen, Cyril Chastang
  • Patent number: 11851096
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for anomaly detection in a grade crossing prediction system are disclosed. Aspects include receiving a training data set comprising a plurality of labelled time series of signal values from a track circuit in a grade crossing predictor system, removing one or more non-unique values from each labelled time series of signal values in the plurality of labelled time series of signal values, extracting a plurality of features from the plurality of labelled time series of signal values, the plurality of features comprising: a number of signal values for each labeled time series of signal values in the plurality of labelled time series of signal values that are larger than a first threshold and a standard deviation for each labelled time series of signal values in the plurality of labelled time series of signal values, and training a machine learning algorithm utilizing the plurality of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility, Inc.
    Inventor: Forooz Shahbazi Avarvand
  • Patent number: 11855250
    Abstract: Systems and methods for charging and discharging a plurality of batteries are described herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a battery module, an energy storage system electrically coupled to the battery module, a power source, and a controller. The energy storage system is operable in a first operating state in which energy is transferred from the energy storage system to the battery module to charge the battery module, and a second operating state in which energy is transferred from the battery module to the energy storage system to discharge the battery module. The power source electrically coupled to the energy storage system and is configured to transfer energy from the power source to the energy storage system based on an amount of stored energy in the energy storage system. The controller is operably coupled to the battery module and is configured to monitor and control a charging state of the battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: 24M Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony L. Taylor, Naoki Ota, Taison Tan
  • Patent number: 11709192
    Abstract: In an electromagnetic environment analysis system, an image creation unit creates an image for displaying information relevant to a measurement value in a position associated with a measurement position of each of the measurement values. A partition judgment unit judges a partition corresponding to the measurement position of each of the measurement values in a plurality of partitions forming a display range of the information relevant to the measurement value in the image, based on position information. A display information determination unit determines information relevant to the display of the partition, based on the measurement value corresponding to the partition. In a case where two or more measurement values measured at timings different from each other correspond to one partition, the display information determination unit calculates a representative value from the two or more measurement values, and determines information to be displayed in the partition, based on the representative value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunya Sato, Tatsuya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11651834
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a memory sub-system to compensate for memory device degradation. An example system including a memory controller operatively coupled with a memory device and configured to perform operations comprising: updating a setting of the memory device, wherein the setting changes a duty cycle of a signal of the memory device and comprises a first value for a first configuration and comprises a second value for a second configuration; storing error data that indicates errors when using the first configuration and errors when using the second configuration; determining a value for the setting based on the error data, wherein the determined value minimizes errors associated with the memory device; and storing the determined value for the setting of the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Lu, Zhenming Zhou, Jiangli Zhu, Tingjun Xie
  • Patent number: 11636356
    Abstract: Embodiments implement non-intrusive load monitoring using a novel learning scheme. A trained machine learning model configured to disaggregate device energy usage from household energy usage can be stored, where the machine learning model is trained to predict energy usage for a target device from household energy usage. Household energy usage over a period of time can be received, where the household energy usage includes energy consumed by the target device and energy consumed by a plurality of other devices. Using the trained machine learning model, energy usage for the target device over the period of time can be predicted based on the received household energy usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Selim Mimaroglu, Arhan Gunel, Oren Benjamin, Anqi Shen
  • Patent number: 11598805
    Abstract: A method determines scattering parameters, S-parameters, for a device under test for a first frequency range. The method includes receiving S-parameters for the device under test for a second frequency range, the second frequency range greater than the first frequency range. Generally, the S-parameters for the device under test for the second frequency range can be determined using known methods. The method further includes measuring an actual response of the device under test, determining a desired signal of the device under test, and determining the S-parameters for the device under test for the first frequency range based the S-parameters for the second frequency range, actual response of the device under test and the desired signal of the device under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Pickerd, Kan Tan
  • Patent number: 11569066
    Abstract: Embodiments provided herein generally include apparatus, e.g., plasma processing systems, and methods for the plasma processing of a substrate in a processing chamber. Some embodiments are directed to a waveform generator. The waveform generator generally includes a first voltage stage having: a first voltage source; a first switch; and a second switch, where a first terminal of the first voltage source is coupled to a first terminal of the first switch, and where a second terminal of the first voltage source is coupled to a first terminal of the second switch. The waveform generator also includes a current stage coupled to a common node between second terminals of the first switch and the second switch, the current stage having a current source and a third switch coupled to the current source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Fabrice Cubaynes, Dmitry Grishin
  • Patent number: 11567106
    Abstract: Measurement apparatus and method for digital data acquisition. A first operation mode is provided for real-time processing of digital data having a reduced sample rate or resolution. Furthermore, a second operation mode is provided for processing the measurement signal off-line with a higher accuracy. In particular, the high accuracy data may be temporarily stored and analyzed upon the operation mode is changed from the real-time mode to the off-line mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Gerd Bresser, Friedrich Reich
  • Patent number: 11460489
    Abstract: A first power consumption measuring unit 5 measures only the power consumption of a pump 21 that is a reference unit of a liquid chromatograph 2. A second power consumption measuring unit 6 measures only the power consumption of a gas chromatograph main body 31 that is a reference unit of a gas chromatograph 3. An operating information acquiring unit acquires pieces of operating information on an automatic sampler 22, an oven 23, and a detector 24 that are target units of the liquid chromatograph 2 based on information on the power consumption of the pump 21. The operating information acquiring unit acquires the operating information on a head space sampler 32 that is a target unit of the gas chromatograph 3 based on information on the power consumption of the gas chromatograph main body 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Isoi
  • Patent number: 11463099
    Abstract: A resolver signal processing apparatus processes a resolver signal output from a resolver by applying an excitation signal generated by an excitation signal generating unit. In particular, the resolver signal processing apparatus includes: a resolver signal processing unit, in which the resolver signal processing unit includes a resolver signal acquiring unit receiving the resolver signal and extracting pole information of the resolver signal, a resolver phase compensating unit compensating a pole acquisition time of extracting the pole information of the resolver signal acquiring unit, and a resolver-digital converter outputting a digital signal by using the pole information extracted from the resolver signal acquiring unit, and a resolver signal processing method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Won Choi, Sung Hoon Bang
  • Patent number: 11442102
    Abstract: A test and measurement system for parallel waveform analysis acquires waveforms resulting from performing tests on a device under test (DUT) and performs, at least partially in parallel, respective analyses of the waveforms resulting from performing tests on the DUT. The system also acquires a first waveform resulting from performing a first test with an oscilloscope on a DUT and performs analysis of the first waveform at least partially in parallel with acquiring a second waveform. Additionally, the system tracks a plurality of testing assets using inventory information of a plurality of testing equipment on the network and enables remote users to access equipment logs and results of the respective analyses of the waveforms stored on a cloud computing system for performance of analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Mandyam Krishnakumar, Sunil Mahawar, Mahesha Guttahalli Lakshmipathy, Satish Kumar Makanahalli Ramaiah
  • Patent number: 11431424
    Abstract: A test device suitable for a predetermined wireless communication protocol includes a remote RF test box and a cloud server. The remote RF test box used to control a DUT to transmit or receive an RF signal includes an RF processing unit and a low-level processor. The RF processing unit receives the RF signal from the DUT, and down-converts the RF signal from the DUT into a baseband signal. The low-level processor converts the baseband signal into a digital signal. The cloud server stores an algorithm corresponding to the predetermined wireless communication protocol, communicates with the remote RF test box through a communication interface, receives and decodes the digital signal, and determines whether the DUT meets the predetermined wireless communication protocol through the algorithm of the predetermined wireless communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Tsung-Ying Hsieh, Chi-Hsuan Lee
  • Patent number: 11346867
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus that measures a facility of a measurement target and that is able to transmit measurement data as intermittent data and an analysis apparatus. An analysis apparatus includes: a communication part that receives the intermittent data from the measurement apparatus; and an analysis part that estimates a standard data pattern serving as a reference, based on a common portion between a pair of the data in a set of the intermittent data received and determines presence of an anomaly for intermittent data of a determination target received from the measurement apparatus by referring to the standard data pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Koumoto
  • Patent number: 11237532
    Abstract: A hysteresis compensation systems and methods. Hysteresis compensation is provided using a known response curve for each of a plurality of different state conditions. In response to determining that a state transition has occurred (i.e., from one response curve to another), the system generates a transition response curve extending from an origin point on a first response curve to an end point on a second response curve based at least in part on a known or determined difference between the input value of the origin point and the input value for the end point. In some embodiments, this difference is determined experimentally and, in others, it is estimated based on measured feedback. Hysteresis compensation is then provided by identifying an input value on the transition response curve that corresponds to a target system output value for the received indicated input value (e.g., as defined by a reference curve).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Jeff Dobchuk
  • Patent number: 11165517
    Abstract: A MIMO transceiver may include a communication chain configured to generate a signal at a first frequency and that includes a pre-distorter configured to accept pre-distortion parameters to pre-distort signals and a PA to amplify the signals. The MIMO transceiver may include a DPD chain configured to receive the signal at the first frequency and that includes a data converter to sample the signal using a sampling rate based on a baseband frequency and to generate a sample signal based on the sampling of the signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a buffer configured to buffer the sample signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a DPD circuit configured to calibrate the pre-distortion parameters based on the buffered sample signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a CTS circuit to transmit a CTS-to-Self signal within an operational environment to reserve a duration of time for the MIMO transceiver to perform DPD calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar Agrawal, Hossein Dehghan
  • Patent number: 11114843
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for protection in response to a fault in a mixed line. The mixed line comprises two or more sections, with a first substation at a first end and a second substation at a second end. Every two consecutive sections of the mixed line are separated at a junction. The method is performed by an IED, and comprises obtaining one or more measurements of current at the first end, and one or more measurements of current at the second end. The method also comprises identifying a section of the two or more sections having the fault, by estimating a value of current for each junction and comparing the estimated value with the one or more measurements of current. In addition, the method comprises controlling a switching device based on the section identified with the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Obbalareddi Demudu Naidu, Vinay Kariwala
  • Patent number: 11103162
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises receiving, at an apparatus, a sampled data associated with an activity from one or more sensors wirelessly coupled to the apparatus. The sampled data is generated at the one or more sensors based on a compressive sampling of an activity data associated with the activity. The compressive sampling is performed based on a sampling information. The activity is classified based at least on the sampled data. An error associated with the classification of the activity is determined. The sampling information is updated or retained based on a comparison of the error with a threshold error. The updated sampling information is utilized for generating an updated sampled data. The updated sampled data facilitates in reclassification of the activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Niskanen, Joachim Wabnig
  • Patent number: 11032141
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes: a memory, a signal processor, and a microcomputer. The memory stores a setting file including: a common portion that holds at least one common parameter that is used in common for functions performed by the signal processing apparatus; individual portions that each individually hold parameters; and a changer that holds change information to change the at least one common parameter. The microcomputer (a) reads the common portion and the individual portions from the memory, and sends the read portions to the signal processor, and (b) selects one of the functions, and controls the signal processor in accordance with the selected function and the change information so that the signal processor uses i) the parameter in the individual portion corresponding to the selected function, and ii) the at least one common parameter of the common portion that has been changed based on the change information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Kazuya Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 11016123
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for using a signal analyzer are disclosed. The apparatus includes an input port having a first plurality of input channels. The input port generates a digital data stream from each of the first plurality of input channels. The apparatus also includes a trigger bank having a second plurality of trigger processors, each trigger processor receiving a digital data stream chosen from the digital data streams and generating a trigger output having one of a plurality of possible values from the digital data stream. A trigger combiner that receives each of the trigger outputs and generates a trigger signal if the combined trigger outputs satisfy a predetermined criterion. A controller copies the digital data streams to a memory and copies the trigger processor outputs to the memory in response to the trigger combiner generating the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Lehane, Ian Reading, Masaharu Goto
  • Patent number: 10935589
    Abstract: A method for detecting soft faults in a transmission line includes the following steps: acquiring a measurement, called time-domain reflectogram, of a signal characteristic of the reflection of a reference signal previously injected into the line, determining the difference between the time-domain reflectogram and a time-domain reflectogram measured previously for the same line or an identical line of similar characteristics, in order to obtain a corrected time-domain reflectogram, applying a plurality of independent transformations to the corrected time-domain reflectogram in order to obtain a plurality of independent transformed reflectograms, converting the transformed reflectograms into a plurality of mutually independent probabilities of occurrence of a fault, applying a data merging method to the probabilities of occurrence of a fault to deduce therefrom a unified value of the probability of occurrence of a fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Wafa Ben Hassen, Julien Mottin, Antoine Dupret, Miguel Gallego Roman, Suzanne Lesecq, Diego Puschini Pascual, Nicolas Ravot, Armando Zanchetta
  • Patent number: 10921249
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an optical differential interrogation method for surface plasmon resonance imaging including: letting first incident light of a first wavelength and second incident light of a second wavelength to be incident on a sample while varying an incident angle; detecting intensity of first reflection light of the first incident light and intensity of second reflection light of the second incident light; and identifying the sample by using a difference between the intensity of the first reflection light and the intensity of the second reflection light, can be provided, and thus it is possible to obtain much better angular resolution while using a detector or a camera, which has a relative low receiving sensitivity and a sensor chip where samples having various characteristics are two-dimensionally arrayed and integrated can be effectively measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jong Deog Kim, Yo Han Choi
  • Patent number: 10880959
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for heating an object in a cavity by feeding the cavity with RF signals. One of the disclosed methods includes simultaneously feeding the cavity with at least two RF signals. Of the at least two RF signals, a first RF signal is fed to the cavity via a first antenna and a second RF signal is fed to the cavity via a second antenna. The first and second RF signals have a common frequency and differ in phase by a first phase difference. The method also includes measuring the first phase difference and adjusting the feeding based on measurements of reflected RF signals reflected from the cavity. Conducting the measurements of the reflected RF signals may also be part of the disclosed method. A disclosed apparatus includes the structure required for carrying out the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: GOJI LIMITED
    Inventors: Iddo Nachtom, Lior Darshan
  • Patent number: 10823762
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically adjusting the hold-off time of a DSO based on real-time cycle measurements of the system trigger signal: obtaining a cycle sequence by measuring the system trigger signal, the maximum cycle and minimum cycle, then judging the difference of the maximum cycle and minimum cycle: if the difference is greater than a threshold set by user, setting the hold-off time to the maximum cycle, the minimum cycle or the median cycle, then returning; otherwise terminating the adjustment of the hold-off time. At this point, the hold-off time is correctly set. Therefore, the present invention reduces the complexity and time consumption of the hold-off adjustment, and allows the test signal to be quickly and stably displayed on screen of DSO, meanwhile, which makes the trigger adjustment of DSO more convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Qinchuan Zhang, Feng Tan, Huiqing Pan, Hao Zeng, Luonan Zheng
  • Patent number: 10771348
    Abstract: A method for inferring component parameter values for components in a network is disclosed. The components comprise at least one of network nodes or network links and the method comprises identifying a plurality of paths through the network (100), measuring values of a path parameter for identified paths (410), generating a set of constraints by expressing individual measured path parameter values as a function of component parameter values of the components in the path associated with the measured path parameter value (420a), and generating an estimate of the component parameter values by solving an optimisation problem defined by the generated constraints (420b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Marzio Puleri, Teresa Pepe
  • Patent number: 10740683
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for visually depicting health of a cognitive system. An example computer-implemented method includes accessing a query-log of a question input to the cognitive system. The method also includes generating a query-node corresponding to the question. The method also includes configuring animation parameters of the query-node based on the query-log. The method also includes displaying the query-node according to the animation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John J. Andersen, Jason E. Doucette, Sanjay F. Kottaram, Robert L. Turknett, Jr., Wilson L. Wu
  • Patent number: 10732007
    Abstract: A magnetic speed sensor may comprise a digital component configured to estimate a zero crossing event based on a plurality of sensor signal samples. The digital component may output, to a control unit, a speed signal that is based on the estimated zero crossing event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dirk Hammerschmidt, Muhammad Adnan
  • Patent number: 10718845
    Abstract: The method according to the invention enables the diagnosis (15, 16) of phase current sensor defects in a system for controlling a synchronous rotary electrical machine of a motor vehicle. According to the invention, the method takes into account the differences (îd, lq) between measurements provided (14) by the sensors, and nominal values of the phase currents (ia, ib, ic) in order to diagnose defects. The differences are calculated (18) in a rotating Park reference frame (17) and are separate from an electromechanical model of the machine. The method detects sensor defects if the differences are substantially non-zero (19) and an offset sensor defect if a residual pulsation (? res) of the differences is substantially equal to a measured speed (w) of the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Sidath Diao, Zaatar Makni, Demba Diallo
  • Patent number: 10697804
    Abstract: A vibration sensing optical fiber cable is provided. The cable includes at least one optical fiber embedded in the cable jacket such that vibrations from the environment are transmitted into the cable jacket to the optical fiber. The cable is configured in a variety of ways, including through spatial arrangement of the sensing fibers, through acoustic impedance matched materials, through internal vibration reflecting structures, and/or through acoustic lens features to enhance sensitivity of the cable for vibration detection/monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Riley Saunders Freeland, Michael John Gimblet, Jason Clay Lail, James Arthur Register, III, David Alan Seddon
  • Patent number: 10692691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for analyzing an analogue signal comprising randomly spaced events having an event height. The method includes irradiating a sample with a focused beam of energetic electrons, detecting emission from the sample in response to such irradiation, and converting an analog signal of the emissions to a stationary time signal. The method further includes determining an estimated noise contribution for the stationary time signal, and determining an estimated event height of an event based on the stationary time signal and the estimated noise contribution for the stationary time signal, and determining, based on the estimated event height, an energy of the emission detected by the detector. This method is particularly useful for X-ray detectors, such as Silicon Drift Detectors, used in a SEM. By estimating the noise contribution to the signal, the step height is estimated with improved accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FEI Company
    Inventors: Nikolaos Kontaras, Bart Jozef Janssen, Cornelis Sander Kooijman, Duarte Guerreiro Tome Antunes
  • Patent number: 10656183
    Abstract: A test and measurement instrument, such as an oscilloscope, including one or more ports to receive one or more signals from a device under test, a trigger enable logic circuit configured to output a trigger enabled signal when a trigger enable event occurs within the one or more signals, the trigger enable event being a real-time event of the one or more signals, one or more trigger logic circuits configured to generate a plurality of trigger signals when the trigger enable signal is received, each trigger signal being generated when a trigger event occurs within one of the one or more signals, and an acquisition circuit configured to acquire and store data in a memory in response to each of the trigger signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Kelly, Jed H. Andrews, Patrick A. Smith, Michael A. Martin
  • Patent number: 10530619
    Abstract: An integrated receiver supports adaptive receive equalization. An incoming bit stream is sampled using edge and data clock signals derived from a reference clock signal. A phase detector determines whether the edge and data clock signals are in phase with the incoming data, while some clock recovery circuitry adjusts the edge and data clock signals as required to match their phases to the incoming data. The receiver employs the edge and data samples used to recover the edge and data clock signals to note the locations of zero crossings for one or more selected data patterns. The pattern or patterns may be selected from among those apt to produce the greatest timing error. Equalization settings may then be adjusted to align the zero crossings of the selected data patterns with the recovered edge clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Palmer
  • Patent number: 10458863
    Abstract: Virtual sensors can be used to monitor the loads on the system in determining damage accumulation, remaining useful life or retirement time of the components. A virtual sensor is a mathematical construct to infer a desired system measurement (e.g. a structural load) from readily available system state parameters (e.g. speed, weight, load factors, control settings, etc.). The accuracy of the virtual sensor depends upon the mapping between the desired measurement and the state parameters. A hybrid load monitoring system and method includes one or more direct or physical sensor measurements in addition to the plurality of virtual sensors. Signals from the physical sensors are included as an input (as opposed to an output) to the mapping between system state parameters and the various target sensor feature amplitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas P. F. Bernhard, James Peter Cycon, Alexander I. Khibnik, Mark W. Davis
  • Patent number: 10317334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical element rotation type ellipsometer, and more particularly, to an ellipsometer used to measure Mueller-matrix components of a sample by measuring and analyzing a change in a polarization state of light reflected or transmitted by the sample. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide the achromatic rotating-element ellipsometer and the method for measuring Mueller-matrix elements of a sample using the same capable of measuring the Mueller-matrix elements of the anisotropic sample as well as the isotropic sample by using four polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Yong Jai Cho, Won Chegal, Hyun Mo Cho
  • Patent number: 10270720
    Abstract: Recommendations, such as recipients and attachments, are determined from content that is associated with a message item. A user may enter one or more: recipients; attachments; and message content for the message that may be used in determining recommendations. Keywords may also be identified by analyzing the content of the message to determine recommended content/recipients. Behavior patterns may also be used to determine recommendations. The recommended users/content of a message may be obtained from a messaging program, a local data store, a network data store, a cloud service, and the like. The recommended items (e.g. users/content) determined from analyzing the content are displayed such that they may be used by the user when editing the message item. The recommended items may be ranked by relevancy using metrics such as keywords, people, time last viewed and use patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Jeffrey Kalvass, Yanling Wang, Diana Jaffe, Misty Pickford
  • Patent number: 10235339
    Abstract: A measurement instrument receives an analog input signal from a measurement target, converts the input signal into a digital signal, scans the digital signal and comparing the scanned digital signal with a pattern signature using a flexible matching procedure implemented by hardware, and triggers the measurement instrument according to a result of the flexible matching procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Lehane, Antony Kirkham, Martin Ware Curran-Gray
  • Patent number: 10184971
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for diagnosis by reflectometry of a bundle of power lines including an input point and a plurality of branches, including the following steps: inserting (S50) electric markers having different frequency characteristics onto the branches of the bundle; injecting (S52) a test signal into the bundle from the input point; receiving (S54) a set of reflected signals produced by reflections of the test signal in the branches; analyzing all the reflected signals by identifying the markers and by assigning (S56) each reflected signal to one of the branches according to the frequency characteristic of the marker inserted onto the branch; and identifying the presence/absence of a defect in the branch by comparing (S58) the reflected signal assigned to the branch with a reflected signal model obtained by modelling the reflection of the test signal in the branch in the absence of any defect in the branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS, CENTRALESUPELEC, INRIA—INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE
    Inventors: Florent Loete, Michel Sorine
  • Patent number: 10145785
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element rotation type Mueller-matrix ellipsometer for solving a problem of measurement accuracy and measurement precision occurring due to residual polarization of a light source, polarization dependence of a photo-detector, measurement values of Fourier coefficients of a high order term in dual optical element rotation type Mueller-matrix ellipsometers according to the related art capable of measuring some or all of components of a Mueller-matrix for any sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Yong Jai Cho, Won Chegal, Hyun Mo Cho
  • Patent number: 10025365
    Abstract: Examples described herein include receiving current values of a power device, determining a spike situation of the power device, determining a power course for the power device, and operating the power device according to the power course. The current values may include a first current value at a first time and a second current value at a second time. The power course may be determined based on a plurality of current change values associated with the spike situation, a total number of spikes associated with the spike situation, and a duration of at least one spike out of the total number of spikes associated with the spike situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventors: Abhishek Banerjee, James W. Hollas
  • Patent number: 10009796
    Abstract: A bandwidth adjustment method includes: determining a bandwidth update value of a channel of a first network system and a bandwidth update value of a channel of a second network system and a bandwidth update value of a protective bandwidth according to a request of a user or a channel condition, so that updated bandwidths of the channels of the first network system and the second network system meet the request of the user or are adapted to requirements of channel conditions. By using the technical schemes, a network resource can be adjusted between multiple network systems when the multiple network systems share one network resource, thereby helping improve the application efficiency of a bandwidth resource and ensuring anti-interference capabilities of the network systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Tianyu Wu
  • Patent number: 9998274
    Abstract: An optical channel between a coherent optical transmitter and a coherent optical receiver may include one or more components that act as a bandpass filter with a passband that is narrower than the signal bandwidth. Such a narrow filter may significantly attenuate the signal content close to the band edge of the data signal. As a result, timing error detection may work less effectively, and therefore clock recovery may be less effective or fail. Methods and systems are disclosed in which a single optical carrier is used to transmit a data signal that has multiple bands, and timing error detection is performed at the receiver using one or more inner bands of the multiple bands. The timing error detection may therefore be made more robust to the effects of the narrow filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mahdi Zamani, Mehdi Torbatian, Jeebak Mitra, Zhuhong Zhang, Chuandong Li
  • Patent number: 9983604
    Abstract: A low drop-out (LDO) regulator includes a pass transistor, a feedback circuit, an error amplifier, and a compensation unit. The pass transistor is configured to regulate a power supply and output an output voltage according to a control signal. The feedback circuit is configured to generate a feedback voltage based on the output voltage. The error amplifier is configured to output a comparison signal in response to a reference voltage and the feedback voltage. The compensation circuit is configured to generate a negative capacitance in association with a first node connected to a gate electrode of the pass transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: JaeYoul Lee, Jeongpyo Kim, Yong Sin Kim, Seong Jin Yun
  • Patent number: 9891248
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an acquisition system for oscilloscopes having n input channels. The acquisition system comprises n A/D converters (2.1, 2.2, . . . , 2.n) with each of the n A/D converters receiving a signal under test from one of n channels and digitizing the received signal into digital samples; an acquisition memory for storing the digitized samples from the n A/D converters; and a memory allocation processor for dynamically allocating memory lengths (or memory depths) for the selected n input channels within an acquisition memory based on the user setting from the oscilloscope. To efficiently use the acquisition memory, the acquisition system does not allocate any memory areas for the input channels that are not selected. In addition, the acquisition system can set up sampling rates for the n input channels based on the frequencies of the signals under test received from the n input channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Haiwen Yu
  • Patent number: 9893879
    Abstract: A system and method of multi-symbol communications from a transmitter to a receiver via a channel, including transmitting signals as a waveform representing a sequence of symbols, each symbol of unit-interval duration and each symbol associated with its own signal level. This method includes graphically representing the waveform as an eye diagram having a horizontal time axis and a vertical signal level axis arranged to form one or more eyes, and using a sampling point in each eye to determine which signal the waveform in any unit interval represents. Each sampling point has a phase and a decision threshold. The method further includes identifying the eyes in the eye diagram, finding a convex polygonal region fitting within each eye, finding a largest rectangle fitting the convex polygonal region of each eye, and positioning the sampling point in each eye at a center of the rectangle of that eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Poulo
  • Patent number: 9863864
    Abstract: Disclosed is a threshold selector that selects a threshold by generating a histogram from a detector signal and a flow cytometer. The detector signal includes both data and noise. A histogram is generated, which includes height data from the pulses of the detector signal as well as noise. The flow cytometer can be operated without samples to generate a histogram that includes only noise. The threshold signal can then be selected by selecting an intensity level on the histogram that is between the noise and data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Nelson Fox
  • Patent number: 9832009
    Abstract: A receiver serial data streams generates a local timing reference clock from an approximate frequency reference clock by phase-aligning the local clock to transitions in the data stream. This process is commonly known as clock and data recovery (CDR). Certain transitions of the data signals are selected for use in phase-aligning the local clock, and certain transitions are ignored. Phase-error signals from multiple receivers receiving the multiple serial data streams are combined and used to make common phase adjustments to the frequency reference clock. These common adjustments track jitter that is common to the received data streams. Local adjustments that better align each respective local clock to the transitions of its respective serial data stream are made using a local phase-error signal. These local adjustments track jitter that is more unique to each of the respective serial data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Masum Hossain, Nhat Nguyen, Yikui Jen Dong, Arash Zargaran-Yazd
  • Patent number: 9755819
    Abstract: A receiver with clock phase calibration. A first sampling circuit generates first digital data based on an input signal, a sampling phase of the first sampling circuit controlled by a first clock signal. A second sampling circuit generates second digital data based on the input signal, a sampling phase of the second sampling circuit controlled by a second clock signal. Circuitry within the receiver calibrates the clocks in different stages. During a first calibration stage, a phase of the second clock signal is adjusted while the first digital data is selected for generating the output data. During a second calibration stage, a phase of the first clock signal is adjusted while the first digital data is selected for the output data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Marko Aleksić, Simon Li, Roxanne Vu
  • Patent number: 9742550
    Abstract: Systems and methods for high speed communications are described herein. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include innovative transceiver architectures and techniques for re-timing, multiplexing, de-multiplexing and transmitting data. The systems and methods can be used to achieve reliable high-speed point-to-point communication between different electronic devices, computing devices, storage devices and peripheral devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marcel Louis Lugthart, Jeffrey Zachan, Linghsiao Jerry Wang