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The present invention concerns a method of quantifying, detecting and localizing leaks or flows of liquid, gasses, or particles, in an oil or gas producing well (230). The method utilizes an acoustic transducer (150) arranged in the well (230). The method comprises steps of: (a) detecting signals (210) using the transducer (150), wherein the signals (210) are generated by acoustic noise from leaks (20) or flow of liquid, gasses, or particles in surroundings of the transducer (150); (b) amplifying the signals (210) to generate corresponding amplified signals for subsequent processing in a processing unit (170) disposed locally to the transducer (150); (c) filtering the amplified signals (210) over several frequency ranges using dynamic filtering for simultaneously detecting in these frequency ranges for better optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio by filtering away background noise in the amplified signals (210), and thereby generating corresponding processed data; and (d) sending the processed data from the processing unit (170) to a unit on the surface for storage and / or viewing of said data. The invention also comprises a corresponding system for implementing the method. The method and system are beneficially adapted for a continuous measurement up and / or down the oil or gas producing well. (230) in a non-stepwise manner.

A method and system for blind channel estimation comprises acquiring two mixtures of at least one at least weakly W-disjoint orthogonal source signal, calculating point-by-point ratios of a transform of a time-window of each of said mixture signals, determining channel parameter estimates from said ratios, constructing a histogram of said channel parameter estimates, repeating the calculating, determining and constructing steps for successive time windows of the mixture signals, and selecting as estimates of said channel parameters those estimates associated with identified peaks on said histogram.

An apparatus has an input section arranged to receive values representative of the total instantaneous supply of electrical current as a function of time from an alternating voltage supply. Current waveforms comprising sets of values representative of the cyclic waveform of the electric current supply are obtained. A delta waveform generator calculates the difference between a current waveform and an earlier current waveform. An edge detector is arranged to detect an edge or edges in the delta waveform. An analysis section is arranged to identify at least one appliance load based at least on information on the edge or edges detected by the edge detector, and to determine the electrical energy consumed by said appliance load. Another apparatus has an input section arranged to receive values representative of the current supplied to an installation, such as a house. A store contains appliance data characteristic of the use of electricity by each of a plurality of appliances. A processor is arranged to analyse the received values to detect when an appliance is switched on and determine the fractional change in resistance of a heating appliance from the when it is switched on until it reaches its operating temperature. This information is used to identify what the particular appliance is, and to determine the electrical energy consumption by that appliance. A utility meter for metering the use of at least one utility supplied to a plurality of appliances is also disclosed. An input section is arranged to receive values representative of the use of a first utility. A store contains appliance data characteristic of the use of utilities by each of a plurality of appliances. A processor is arranged to analyse the received values and to determine information on the use of a second utility by each appliance, based on the received values and appliance data.

According to one embodiment, an end station is provided for coupling to a communications network and participation in a communications session with another end station using the network. The end station includes encryption circuitry including a first linear feedback shift register (LFSR) and an associated first interconnect mask. The encryption circuitry is operable to generate an output sequence using the first LFSR and the first interconnect mask. A first table contains a plurality of polynomials each corresponding to an available interconnect mask. The end station is operable to receive a key specifying the first interconnect mask and to use the output sequence of the encryption circuitry to encrypt an information stream.

An optical metrology system includes model approximation logic for generating an optical model based on experimental data. By eliminating theoretical model generation, in which the fundamental equations of a test sample must be solved, the model approximation logic significantly reduces the computational requirements of the metrology system when measuring films formed on patterned base layers. The experimental model can be created by selecting an expected mathematical form for the final model, gathering experimental data, and compiling a lookup model. The lookup model can include the actual measurement data sorted by output (attribute) value, or can include “grating factors” that represent compensation factors that, when applied to standard monolithic model equations, compensate for the optical effects of grating layers.

The Fault Detection and Exclusion (FDE) system for use in navigational systems that rely upon multiple ranging signals, such as GPS satellites, uses an FDE algorithm to detect, as soon as possible, whether a fault exists in a signal associated with one or more of the GPS satellites. The system makes this determination by comparing a computed residual error with a first fault detection threshold. After determining that the computed residual error has exceeded the first, relatively low, fault detection threshold, the system transmits a signal to one or more external systems indicating that one or more signals associated with the various GPS satellites may be faulty. The system then monitors horizontal estimated position error (HUL) until this value has met or exceeded a relatively high fault isolation threshold value. The system then attempts to isolate and exclude the faulty satellite from the current navigational solution.

A narrowband signal detector has an adaptable filter and controller for controlling the centre frequency and the bandwidth of the filter, to track the narrowband signal. Better control of the filter can be achieved by basing the filter control on a comparison of output and input to the filter. The comparison gives a more direct measure of how well the filter is tracking the narrowband signal. In the case of a notch filter, if there is poor tracking. The control should be biased rapidly towards improved tracking speed. Otherwise, for good tracking, the control should be biased towards accuracy of tracking. This enables speed and accuracy of detection requirements to be met with less computational load. Applications include telecommunications signalling or data tone detection. Multiple narrowband signals can be detected by a cascade of filters.

The invention relates to methods for clustering gene and protein sequences. In particular, it involves generation of networks of sequences where the interconnections are based upon a measure of similarity. The invention also provides methods of optimizing and improving the networks by re-wiring of the network based upon overlap of the nearest neighbors of given pairs of nodes. The invention further provides methods of identifying clusters of sequences within the networks and the optimized networks based upon the topology of the network. The clusters identified represent groups of sequences that are related by function and / or evolution. The invention has particular applicability in annotation of sequences in databases and identification of functional homologs which can be very useful for novel therapeutic and diagnostic targets based upon such targets belonging to a cluster or family that contains a known sequence such as a diagnostic sequence, antigen or other therapeutic target.

A method for animating an image is useful for animating avatars using real-time speech data. According to one aspect, the method includes identifying an upper facial part and a lower facial part of the image (step 705); animating the lower facial part based on speech data that are classified according to a reduced vowel set (step 710); tilting both the upper facial part and the lower facial part using a coordinate transformation model (step 715); and rotating both the upper facial part and the lower facial part using an image warping model (step 720).

A model reduction system and method that facilitates improved component lifing is provided. The model reduction system and method uses a range of operating conditions and system identification techniques to reduce a physics-based component model. Specifically, system identification techniques are used to create a reduced component model. The reduced component model facilitates the use of measured operating conditions in calculating component lifing. Specifically, the reduced component lifing model provides the ability to predict selected parameters of interest at specified critical locations without requiring excessive computations. Thus, the reduced component model can be used with actual measured operating conditions to calculate component lifing over the life of the component. Thus, the reduced component lifing model facilitates improved component lifing calculation.

The invention presents a method of applying forward error correction selectively to an encoded video sequence before it is transmitted. Forward error correction is targeted at portions of the video that will be most noticeably affected by any potential packet loss during transmission. The targeting is done using a perceptual error sensitivity model, which effectively maps an error visibility rating onto content-dependent and content-independent properties associated with a given portion video. The encoder and decoder settings will be used for the actual video sequence where forward error correction is to be applied are used in the training of the model, as they have a significant effect on the perception of any errors. Then, to adaptively apply forward error correction, a selected video sequence is encoded, and the encoded bitstream is analysed to determine content-independent properties. A decoded version of the video sequence is also analysed to determine content-dependent properties being determined. The content-independent and content-dependent properties are used in conjunction with the perceptual error sensitivity model to predict which slices of the video sequence will be most significantly affected perceptually by packet loss, and thus target FEC to those areas accordingly.

A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and / or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion performs block-based motion detection. If no motion is detected for a given block of pixels, then interline gaps in the block are filled using temporal interpolation. If motion is detected, then interline gaps are filled using spatial interpolation. To maintain accuracy without unduly increasing computational complexity, a less complex high angle spatial interpolation method is employed where a low angle tilt condition is not detected. A more computationally intensive low angle spatial interpolation method can therefore be employed in low angle tilt conditions. Integrated circuit cost is reduced by employing pipelining to write parts of segment buffers at the same time that other parts are being read to perform the interpolation process.

A method of ultrasound receive beamforming includes receiving a first plurality of sensing signals from target tissue, forming a first plurality of digital sensing signals, and data processing the digital sensing signals along a first plurality of data paths to form a first plurality of delayed and apodized digital sensing signals. Data path combining generates data combinations of the delayed and apodized digital sensing signals to include two or more of the delayed and apodized digital sensing signals that originate from different ones of the transducer elements. The data combinations are interpolation filtered using a plurality of interpolation filters to form a second plurality of delayed and apodized digital sensing signals, which are then summed to form an ultrasound receive beamformed signal. The interpolation filters can be interpolation filters in a single shared filter bank, with each interpolation filter providing a different fractional delay.

A method of de-mapping non-binary Galois field symbols from physical layer code-words in a data communication system, in which at least one physical layer code-word includes portions mapped from more than one non-binary Galois field symbol is provided. The method includes calculating at least a provisional likelihood estimate for values of a first non-binary Galois field symbol having at least portions within a first physical layer code-word, the calculating including selecting a first number of values of a second non-binary Galois field symbol having at least portions within the first physical layer code-word, the first number forming a subset of the possible values of the second non-binary Galois field symbol.

An object or body-mounted camera apparatus for recording surgery is provided that is adapted for tracking a relevant visual field of an on-going operation. To help maintain visibility and / or focus of the visual field, specific machine learning approaches are proposed in combination with control commands to shift a physical positioning or a perspective of the camera apparatus. Additional variations are directed to tracking obstructions based on the visual field of the camera, which can be utilized for determining a primary recording for use when there are multiple cameras being used in concert.

The object of the invention is to make sub-band processing in hearing aids less computationally intensive. For this purpose a filter bank system comprising an analysis filter bank for decomposing an input signal into sub-band signals, a processing device for amplifying at least one of the sub-band signals, and a synthesis filter bank for combining the processed sub-band signals into an output signal is provided. The sub-band signals are oversampled and downsampled compared to the input signal. The stopband attenuations of the individual filters of the AFB and SFB are at least as high as a predefined signal-to-noise ratio increased by an attenuation value which is a function of the oversampling factor, the downsampling factor and possibly the gain. The magnitude frequency response of the SFB is approximately matched to the magnitude frequency response of the AFB.

Summarizing, the present invention relates to a control system for a wind turbine including—a feed forward controller having a rotor effective wind speed of the wind turbine as an input parameter and having a plurality of output parameters—a feedback controller wherein an input parameter is based on a rotor speed or a generator speed of the wind turbine and having at least one output parameter and wherein o one output parameter of the feed forward controller is provided to the feedback controller as an input parameter and o another output parameter of the feed forward controller is used as a feed-forward control parameter for controlling the wind turbine and o one output parameter of the feedback controller is used as a feed-back control parameter for controlling the wind turbine, as well as a wind turbine and a control method.

Methods and apparatus for binarizing images represented by sets of multivalent pixel values in a computationally efficient manner are described In a grayscale image to be binarized, one group of pixel values represents “foreground”, e.g., text to be converted to black, while another group represents a shaded “background” region to be converted, e.g., to white. The difference between foreground and background is often a function of the scale of the image components, e.g., text and / or other images. Filters in the form of morphological operators, computationally efficient quick-open and quick-close morphological operators are employed to binarize images, e.g., grayscale images. The methods and apparatus effectively handle both smooth and sharp image background structures in a computationally efficient manner.

An image coding system includes an image encoder and a predictive image decoder. The image encoder encodes an input image to obtain encoded data, compares the input image with a reference image, generates error information identifying parts of the input image that are changed with respect to the reference image, and outputs the encoded data and the error information. The predictive image decoder predicts the image, using a simplified prediction method for parts of the image identified by the error information as not being changed, and decodes the encoded data and the predicted data to obtain decoded image data. Use of the simplified prediction method in unchanged parts of the image reduces the prediction processing load without significant loss of prediction accuracy.

The time-scale of a digital signal is efficiently modified. A system suitable for embedded or stand-alone processing includes a module that can transform the time-scale of the signal according to a user's preference. An improved method for time-scale modification is based on envelope-matching but introduces a new function that is very fast to compute, the use of which avoids the computation of correlation coefficients where they are not needed. The invention is demonstrably faster than other methods related to SOLA (synchronized-overlap-and-add) with envelope matching, yet with no sacrifice in quality of the processed output.

In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its vocabulary, the selected vocabulary entries which are most like the phoneme sequence.

Machine control parameters of a magnetic resonance apparatus are selected that influence the timing sequence of gradient pulses of the system's gradient system when a magnetic resonance measurement sequence is executed. The machine control parameters are compared with reference control parameters that indicate an increased mechanical force flow in the gradient system when the MR measurement sequence is being executed. As a function of the comparison, the MR measurement sequence is executed selectively with the selected machine control parameters.

In a method and a magnetic resonance (MR) system for automated determination of the resonance frequency of a nucleus for magnetic resonance examinations, at least one MR signal is detected, and is Fourier-transformed into a spectrum composed of elements that can be represented as a vector. An analysis of the spectrum is conducted, wherein at least two cross-correlation coefficients of at least one model spectrum are determined by use of the measured spectrum. Prior to the analysis, a spectrum matrix having at least two vectors is determined from the spectrum, with each vector of the spectrum matrix being formed using all or some of the spectrum.