55results about "Counting input from several resources" patented technology

A signal monitor device that detects a signal propagating on a signal line and that generates a timestamp when the signal is detected. The timestamp may be used in a variety of applications including measuring the propagation delays on signal lines and determining the timing in a system.

Billing a customer through an intermediary billing system for a transaction by receiving, at the intermediary billing system, a transaction request associated with a transaction amount and a customer identification code, validating, in the intermediary billing system, the transaction request by determining whether the customer identification code corresponds to a customer that is registered with the intermediary billing system, and sending, in the case that the transaction request is valid, a billing event trigger associated with the customer identification code to an external billing mechanism, the billing event trigger representing the transaction amount.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image forming apparatus configured to perform printing when a reservation request including a count value for the printing is accepted by a management apparatus that performs charging management according to a print result, the image forming apparatus including: a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the management apparatus, a reservation request including a count value for printing a part of a print job before completing analysis on the entire print job; and a printing unit configured to perform printing according to an acceptance of the reservation request by the management apparatus.

A learning apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a network formed by a plurality of nodes each holding dynamics; a learning unit configured to learn the dynamics of the network in a self-organizing manner on the basis of observed time-series data; a winner-node determiner configured to determine a winner node, the winner node being a node having dynamics that best match the time-series data; and a weight determiner configured to determine learning weights for the dynamics held by the individual nodes according to distances of the individual nodes from the winner node. The learning unit is configured to learn the dynamics of the network in a self-organizing manner by degrees corresponding to the learning weights.

A system and method for performing counting operations for a plurality of components is disclosed. A memory stores a plurality of counts from different components. The memory is coupled to a counter and the plurality of counts are accessible to the adder for adding addends to the plurality of counts. A count engine controls the adding of the addends to the plurality of counts.

A performance monitor device includes an input unit to input both of address information and event occurrence information, an address mask unit to determine an address area to which each piece of the inputted address information belongs, an execution frequency counter to count a number of times of execution of programs in the address areas, an execution frequency holding unit to hold a counting result of the number of times of execution, an event occurrence information counter to count the event occurrence information corresponding to the address areas having the counting result of the number of times of execution included within a predetermined number of highest ranks, a holding unit to hold a counting results of the event occurrence information, and a storing unit to store the counting result of the event occurrence information corresponding to the address area having the highest number of times of execution in predetermined periods.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image forming apparatus configured to perform printing when a reservation request including a count value for the printing is accepted by a management apparatus that performs charging management according to a print result, the image forming apparatus including: a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the management apparatus, a reservation request including a count value for printing a part of a print job before completing analysis on the entire print job; and a printing unit configured to perform printing according to an acceptance of the reservation request by the management apparatus.

The present invention provides a paperless billing process for enabling expedited and simplified payments of print volume bills by customers of printing systems. A method of performing a billing process for the copies or prints produced by customer of a printing system is provided where the printing system comprises a memory that stores product usage data indicating a measurement of the actual use of the printing system. The printing system first accesses the memory to retrieve the product usage data. Then, the printing system calculates billing data using the retrieved product usage data. A bill is presented to the customer based on billing data, and the printing system receives user input from the customer indicating whether the customer authorizes the billing data. If so, a message is sent from the printing system to a billing service, wherein the message includes information indicating the authorized billing data. Thus, the bills are generated locally by the printing system using the printer user interface.

A money handling system includes a plurality of money handling machines that are configured to recognize and count money. A management device is provided to assign first and second recognition information for respectively recognizing a transaction of money and for recognizing a group that is created by dividing the money for one transaction. In addition, each money handling machine receives the second recognition information, counts the money of the group corresponding to the second recognition information, and associates the count result with the second recognition information, whereupon the associated count result and second recognition information is transmitted to a management device. The management device manages the count result for each group based on the association between the first recognition information and the second recognition information, as well as on the count results and second recognition information, respectively received from the plurality of money handling machines.

The present invention relates to an electronic industry control field, in particular to a counting device and a counting method used for the rocket missile launching in an artificial precipitation system. The present invention comprises a signal acquisition module, a counting information processing module and a counting information uploading module; wherein the signal acquisition module is used for acquiring the signal when a rocket missile is launched, the counting information processing module is used for analyzing in real time and processing the launching signal information on site, the counting information uploading module is used for processing the processing result of the counting information processing module and then transmitting the processing result to a control terminal; the output end of the signal acquisition module is connected with the counting information processing module, the output end of the counting information processing module is connected with the counting information uploading module, the output end of the counting information uploading module is connected with the control terminal. The present invention can realize the automated and intellectualized recordof the laughing amount of the rocket missile in the artificial precipitation process, and the security, the reliability and the accuracy when the rocket missile is launched is greatly improved.

A system and method are provided for filtering noise from a pulsed input signal comprising cyclically producing a change in an output signal only if changes in an input signal occur at least a desired time after a respective immediately previous change in the input signal, and otherwise rejecting the changes in the input signal; and counting the rejected changes in the input signal. More than one duration or frequency may be used for the filtering, enabling classification of noise by frequency. Resulting counts may be used to determine rates of occurrence of noise for evaluation of performance of equipment, installation of the equipment, and changes in performance over time.