2287 results about "Design systems" patented technology

A computer assisted design system (100) that includes a computer system (102) and text input device (103) that may be provided with text elements from a keyboard (104). A user may also provide oral input (107) to the text input device (103) or to a voice recognition software with in-built artificial intelligence algorithms (110) which can convert spoken language into text elements. The computer system (102) includes an interaction design heuristic engine (116) that acts to understand and translate text and language into a visual form for display to the end user.

A user interface, system, method and software for displaying a simulated three-dimensional display of menu options to a user, thereby maximizing use of a display's real estate by presenting all available options at once while at the same time presenting certain options in a more pronounced manner. The system monitors for running applications, polls the running applications for any available options, and displays the options in the simulated three-dimensional format. With this type of dynamic menu, standard means for bringing focus to a selectable target create complexities, and are thus avoided by designing the system's cursor to duplicate the appearance of the selected target's shape, preferably in a smaller size.

A method for predicting risk and designing safety management systems of complex production and process systems which has been applied to an FPSO System operating in deep waters. The methods for the design were derived from the inclusion of a weight index in a fuzzy class belief variable in the risk model to assign the relative numerical value or importance a safety device or system has contain a risk hazards within the barrier. The weights index distributes the relative importance of risk events in series or parallel in several interactive risk and safety device systems. The fault tree, the FMECA and the Bow Tie now contains weights in fizzy belief class for implementing safety management programs critical to the process systems. The techniques uses the results of neural networks derived from fuzzy belief systems of weight index to implement the safety design systems thereby limiting use of experienced procedures and benchmarks. The weight index incorporate Safety Factors sets SFri {0, 0.1, 0.2 . . . 1}, and Markov Chain Network to allow the possibility of evaluating the impact of different risks or reliability of multifunctional systems in transient state process. The application of this technique and results of simulation to typical FPSO/Riser systems has been discussed in this invention.

An intelligent lighting system employs energy efficient outdoor lighting and intelligent sensor technology in cooperation with video analytics processing. The lighting system selectively illuminates outdoor spaces and identifies and evaluates events in a scene monitored by a video camera, thereby to facilitate proactive and appropriate security responses to those events. Selective use of advanced lighting fixtures may significantly reduce costs of lighting areas that are monitored by security systems such as streets, public parks, and parking lots, while simultaneously improving security, safety, and traffic control. Energy savings alone, for a properly designed system, are estimated at 50%-90% of current usage. When combined with remote monitoring, such systems may prevent accidents and criminal activity.

A method for three-dimensional shape and size measurement of a three-dimensional body surface comprising providing a three-dimensional scanner, providing a processor, providing a three-dimensional Computer Aided Design system, scanning in three dimensions with the three-dimensional scanner at least a portion of the three-dimensional body surface, creating a data file representative of the three-dimensional body surface, processing the data file with the processor, importing the data file into the three-dimensional Computer Aided Design System, employing the three-dimensional Computer Aided Design System relative to the data file to define and record three-dimensional measuring data relative to at least a portion of the three-dimensional body surface, A and employing the three-dimensional Computer Aided Design System to exploit the three-dimensional measuring data.

Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting health needs of a consumer by processing input data. An integrated health management platform supports the management of healthcare by obtaining multi-dimensional input data for a consumer, determining a health-trajectory predictor from the multi-dimensional input data, identifying a target of opportunity for the consumer in accordance with the health-trajectory predictor, and offering the target of opportunity for the consumer. A health benefit plan is offered from a set of health benefit plan configurations. Responses from members of a consumer group are received that are responsive to a questionnaire and preferred health benefit plans chosen by members of the group are predicted. From the responses, an overall enrollment distribution is estimated. A plurality of health benefit plans is offered to the group when a minimum economic objective is obtained from the set of health benefit plan configurations.

A method for hierarchical layout of an electronic design using an electronic computer aided design system, wherein the method includes generating a parameterized pattern library and using an existing netlist and analyze in a pattern recognizer, from which a list of associations between the pattern library and the netlist is created. Renesting then occurs wherein the netlist using the list of associations is used for generating a hierarchical layout of the electronic components in the design.

Design and control systems, commissioning tools, configuration adapters and a method for wireless and wired networks design, installation and automatic formation, including binding of the networks devices are provided. In the design system a scheme that uniquely identifies each network device by its type and its physical location is created and information for logical binding between the devices is prepared. In the design system is also created a device mapping that maps between the devices on the scheme and their network configuration data such as, radio IDs and startup attribute sets and wired communication link address. The data prepared in the design system is transferred to or accessed by a master controller and dedicated commissioning tools in the control system. According to devices' physical locations, appropriate configuration data is loaded from the commissioning tools into the devices through dedicated configuration adapters. The devices and their configuration adapters not necessarily have to be powered-up during configuration data loading. After power-up, the devices automatically update themselves with the loaded configuration data and the control system may initialize itself and identifies all the devices. The master controller in the control system uses the design system defined binding information and transmits binding commands for creating logical links between the devices and so networks may be automatically formed.

A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain selected components for the communications network are identified by their attributes or frequency characteristics as well as by their interconnection compatability for a particular design. The effects of changes in frequency on component performance are modeled and the results are displayed to the design engineer. A bill of materials is automatically checked for faults and generated for the design system and provided to the design engineer. For ease of design, the design engineer can cluster several different preferred components into component kits, and then select these component kits for use in the design or deployment process.

The present invention provides a system that utilizes radio signals, cellular network and GPS technologies to provide a multi task system that deals with a variety of traffic related aspects such as intersection design systems, in-car traffic light systems, in-car traffic light system app for both drivers and pedestrians, roadside assistance and safety alert systems, high speed chase systems, roadway radar systems, law enforcement safety systems, emergency vehicles preemption systems, vehicle location logging systems, security and crime-fighting systems, missing person search systems and children in vehicles safety systems. The system consists of a number of electronic units, each one of these units perform a number of programmed functions. Examples of these units are: Police Vehicle Unit, Emergency Vehicle Unit, Vehicle Unit and Roadway Intersection Unit.

An integrated circuit (IC) design system and method provide an optimization of a layout of an integrated circuit wherein an assessment is taken into account of the circuit performance characteristics and the layout of the IC design. The system and method assess associated circuit performance characteristics, each as a cost function of a local pattern of shapes in an initial circuit layout, aggregate cost functions of the associated circuit performance characteristics to derive an integral performance number associated to the initial global circuit layout, perturb the integral performance number by varying the global circuit layout, and select perturbations that optimize the performance number, so as to optimize the global circuit layout. Assessment is taken into account of the circuit performance characteristics based on the layout and the interdependence of the circuit performance characteristics for the IC design. The physical process related effects such as well proximity effect and stress/strain engineering and/or performance parameters such as the P-N transistor size ratio are taken into account to achieve optimization.

A design system is accessible to a designer and a plurality of manufacturers. The design system comprises a first user interface configured to receive design information for a component from the designer. The design system further comprises a second user interface configured to receive manufacturing information from the plurality of manufacturers. The manufacturing information comprises at least process cost information. The design system further comprises a database comprising the manufacturing information associated with each of the plurality of manufacturers. The design system further comprises a cost estimation module. The cost estimation module is configured to generate a cost estimate for producing the component for each of the plurality of manufacturers. The cost estimate is at least partially based on the process cost information. The cost estimation module is further configured to output the cost estimate for one or more of the plurality of manufacturers to the first user interface.

A system and method for designing or customizing a product, web page, or other item, via a global computer network. The system includes a web server, a client computer, a PDF rendering engine, and a manufacturing computer. A user may select preliminary design choices form a web page at the client computer. After preliminary design choices are made, a web-based design editor allows customization of many different features of the designed product. The design editor may include drag & drop capabilities for repositioning design elements and preferably needs little or no client-server interaction during product customization. A PDF rendering engine generates a PDF file describing the designed invention, and the PDF may be used to directly drive manufacturing equipment to produce the product. The web-based design system may be especially useful in designing printed or graphical products such as business cards, stationary, and stamps.

A pre-designed system-on-chip architecture and method includes several standard library devices, HDL source code, simulation environment and regression, synthesis scripts, software header files, software libraries, ASIC verification test suites, and makefiles. The standard library devices comprise an integrated CPU, a shared memory controller, a peripheral controller, system peripherals, a DMA controller, embedded memory, and general system control. CPU bridges are used to accommodate a variety of processor types and to insulate users from the complexities of interfacing to different kinds of processors. Such CPU bridges further allow the latest processors to be rapidly integrated into existing integration platforms and designs.

The invention discloses a flight program design system for performance-based navigation (PBN), a verification platform and a verification method, belonging to the field of aerial navigation. The program design system is based on an AIXM (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model) core database; a program protection region can be automatically drawn, an obstacle is evaluated, and a chart is generated; and thus, functions such as seamless connection and the like of the PBN program protection region and the conventional flight program protection region can be realized. According to the system, the chart can be automatically generated according to data finished by the flight program design, customized edition and modification can also be realized according to requirement, and program design and publishing are finished at one time. By using the flight program design system, the verification platform and the verification method, the PBN program can be directly added in a navigation database of the verification platform, and the navigation database can be edited and modified in a verification process. In addition, a visual scene database is increased; the defects and the disadvantages of the program design can be directly discovered according to geomorphology in a visual scene when the PBN flight program is verified; and the program is further modified perfectly.

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an interface for receiving an utterance of speech and converting the utterance into a speech signal, such as digital representation including a waveform and/or spectrum; and a processor for dividing the speech signal into segments and detecting the emotional information from speech. The system is designed by comparing the speech segments to a baseline to identify the emotion or emotions from the suprasegmental information (i.e., paralinguistic information) in speech, wherein the baseline is determined from acoustic characteristics of a plurality of emotion categories. Other embodiments are disclosed.

An automated custom power supply design system uses an expert system containing a set of rules, including manufacturing limitations to limit design choices and ensure feasibility and manufacturability of the design. A design interface collects specifications from a user. A complement of power components for satisfying the electrical specifications is defined and mechanical specifications for each component are provided by the system for use in creating the mechanical design. After the mechanical design is established a thermal analysis is performed and the completed design is returned to a host computer. After an order is received, a computer integrated manufacturing system generates all of the specifications required to manufacture the components for the system and the system.

The invention relates to the technical field of search engines, specifically relating to a distributed real-time search engine. A system construction and operation method of the search engine at least comprises the following steps: A, designing a functional structure of a system; B, designing a data index structure of the system; C, creating an index; D, updating the index; and E, searching the index. The distributed real-time search engine can construct an updating index and a combining index simultaneously in the memory of the system, and can access the updating index and the combining index simultaneously while searching the index; when the number of the documents of the updating index is accumulated to a threshold value, the updating index is submitted to a disk index and changed as a combining index, and the original combining index is changed as a new updating index; and therefore, the updating data can be searched, and the real time property of the retrieval data of the search engine can be improved.

Automated electronic document design systems and methods for appropriately sizing and positioning uploaded user images into predefined image areas in a product design being created in a Web environment. For an image that is not to be cropped when incorporated into the design, the image is sized to fit within the selected image area and positioned in the image area according to a predefined anchor location. The aspect ratio of the original image is maintained. For an image that is available for cropping when incorporated into the design, the image is sized and cropped to create a version of the image that fills the image container.