672 results about "Functional Relationship" patented technology

A system for generating software applications for a plurality of heterogeneous computing devices. Each computing device has different capabilities. The system outputs device-specific versions of a software application each tailored to the capabilities of the associated computing device in response to receiving device-independent modeling information characterizing the software application. The system includes a framework, a plurality of object types, a modeling tool, and a plurality of device-specific code generators. The framework defines common services on the computing devices. Each object type has a functional relationship to the common services provided by the framework. The modeling tool defines instances of the plurality of object types based on modeling information received as input, outputting a metadata structure describing the behavior and functionality of a software application. From the metadata, the code generators generate device-specific application code tailored to the capabilities of the associated devices.

The present invention is directed to a method of determining vein patterns from a colour image for personal identification, the method comprising forming a counterpart of the colour image by applying a functional relationship obtained from optimization on the colour image, wherein the counterpart of the colour image comprises the vein patterns. An apparatus for determining vein patterns from a colour image is also disclosed.

One or more objects placed on a display surface of an interactive display system are identified by a camera that receives infrared light reflected back by the object(s) through the display surface. The interactive display system displays images on the display surface that are produced by software applications, as well as sensing objects placed proximate to the display surface. If object(s) that were placed on the display surface are identified and determined to be associated with a predefined software application, the application is automatically executed. Objects can be identified based upon shape, a pattern applied to the objects, a size of the object, or a location on the display surface where the object is placed. The object may be used in the software application after it is executed or may simply be bear a functional relationship to the software application.

System, method, and apparatus are provided for harvesting electrical energy from a photovoltaic source of electrical energy. The photovoltaic source has power-generating characteristics defined by a family of voltage-current curves comprising points of maximum electrical power over a respective range of at least one of the following for the photovoltaic source: distinct illumination intensities and distinct temperatures. The apparatus is made up of a switching converter coupled to the photovoltaic source. The converter has an input voltage-current curve having a predefined functional relationship between the input voltage and the input current. The predefined functional relationship of the input voltage-current curve of the converter is configured to provide during operation of the converter an approximation with respect to at least some of the points of maximum electrical power for the photovoltaic source without having to perform current and voltage calculations corresponding to a maximum power from the photovoltaic source.

System and method for controlling an appliance for drying clothing articles is provided. The appliance has a container for receiving the clothing articles. A motor is provided for rotating the container about an axis. A heater is provided for supplying heated air to the container during a dry cycle. A sensor is provided for providing a signal indicative of moisture content of the articles. Memory is provided memory for storing historical stop time data of respective dry cycles. A noise-reduction filter is coupled to receive the signal from the moisture sensor to provide selectable filtering to that signal. A timer provides a signal indicative of elapsed time upon start of the dry cycle. A module is responsive to the historical data in the memory for determining an initial estimate of the stop time of the dry cycle to be executed. A processor allows for estimating the stop time of the dry cycle as the cycle is being executed. The estimation of the stop time is based on a respective functional relationship of the noise-reduced sensor signal, and the timer signal, relative to one or more characteristics of the articles and one or more desired values of predetermined dry-cycle parameters selectable by a respective user of the dryer. The initial estimate of the stop time is superceded by the stop time estimated by the processor as the cycle is being executed.

A lithium battery state of charge (SOC) estimation method is used for lithium battery energy storage equipment with a micro controller and a storer and used for correction of practical capacity of a lithium battery. The method comprises the following steps: utilizing an electromotive force method to establish a battery circuit model; determining the functional relationship between the electromotive force and the SOC; calculating the current SOC number value according to the obtained relationship between current and voltage; accurately calculating the original value SOC0 of the SOC according to the relationship between current and voltage; calculating the current SOC value by using a current integration in a real time manner; correcting the estimation values obtained through the electromotive force method and the current integral mensuration by using an expanded Kalman model; realizing real-time on-line accurate estimation for battery packs by using expanded Kalman filtering circular iterative computations.

Methods and systems for estimating values of parameters of interest of actual device structures based on optical measurements of nearby metrology targets are presented herein. High throughput, inline metrology techniques are employed to measure metrology targets located near actual device structures. Measurement data collected from the metrology targets is provided to a trained signal response metrology (SRM) model. The trained SRM model estimates the value of one or more parameters of interest of the actual device structure based on the measurements of the metrology target. The SRM model is trained to establish a functional relationship between actual device parameters measured by a reference metrology system and corresponding optical measurements of at least one nearby metrology target. In a further aspect, the trained SRM is employed to determine corrections of process parameters to bring measured device parameter values within specification.

A hybrid electric vehicle contains a powerplant for propelling the vehicle. The powerplant comprises a combustion engine (6) and a dynamoelectric machine (8). A control system (10) issues a wheel torque command corresponding to torque desired at road-engaging wheels, and includes an engine controller (16) for issuing an engine torque command and a dynamoelectric machine controller (18) for issuing a dynamoelectric machine torque command. Controller (18) contains one or more maps and/or profiles defining functional relationship of torque to engine crankshaft speed and/or position over a range of crankshaft speeds and/or positions. The maps and/or profiles are used to develop make-up torque that is delivered by the dynamoelectric machine to accomplish certain smoothing functions. Transmission gear shifts can be smoothed by using the dynamoelectric machine controller to slew the engine to a new target speed appropriate to the new gear. A dedicated, high-speed data communication link supplies crankshaft speed and position information from an engine-mounted sensor directly to controller (18).

A method of transforming the color appearance of a plurality of digital images includes receiving a plurality of digital images from a capture medium wherein each digital image includes a plurality of pixel values relating to at least three basic colors; calculating a color correction transform by using a non-linear adjustment that is independent of the digital images and which corrects an under-exposure condition as a function of the capture medium; and a linear functional relationship dependent upon the pixels of the basic colors, the linear functional relationship defining an exposure-level-dependent estimate of gray corresponding to the photographic response of the capture medium; and using the color correction transform to modify the pixels of the plurality of digital images wherein the pixels within a digital image are transformed with varying degrees of color modification as a function of exposure.

Novel tools and techniques for generating and/or implementing an applied semantic knowledgebase. Some tools allow for data integration into coherent, semantically connected networks and for generation of sets of query-based models describing complex functional relationships as sub-networks. In an aspect, an applied semantic knowledgebase may comprise collections of SPARQL network queries describing a specific set of sub-network relationships and their applicable ranges for each element in the query.

A method is disclosed for estimating clutch engagement characteristics of a friction clutch system in a vehicle powertrain. A dynamic model of the system is used under conditions that cause clutch slipping. Algebraic equations defining a functional relationship between clutch torque and an engagement angle have characteristic parameters that are estimated using a non-linear least squares technique. A non-linear least squares technique iteratively minimizes the difference between a measured output clutch disk speed and an output clutch disk speed from the system dynamic model for the same inputs until a small insignificant error is reached. Parameter estimates are used to compile an estimated clutch engagement characteristic.

The invention relates to an ant-pinch controlling method for the electric window of the automobile, which is characterized in that a sampling resistance and a magnifying filter circuit are adopted to obtain the armature current signal of a motor, and a divider resistance or an amplifier is adopted to obtain the armature voltage signal of the motor; a singlechip utilizes A/D to sample and filter to obtain the digital value of the armature voltage U and the electric current I, then a rotation speed n can be obtained according to the functional relationship between the motor speed n and the armature voltage U and the electric current I; the rotor position can be obtained by calculating the integral of the rotation speed, and thereby the position q of the electric window glass can be obtained; on the other hand, the singlechip can judge if the motion of the electric window glass is obstructed according to the current I; Whether the electric window glass reaches the top or nips foreign matter can be distinguished according to the motion condition and the glass position q, then the electric window glass can be lifted, lowered or stopped by comprehensively analyzing the external instruction. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that the method is simple and practical; an anti-pinch device for the electric window can be designed and manufactured without a sensor.

The power consumption of a switch-mode power converter can be determined based upon at least one of a converter drive signal pulse width or a converter drive signal frequency. Such power consumption can be determined using an algorithm providing a functional relationship between switch-mode power converter power consumption and at least converter drive signal pulse width or frequency. Such algorithms can be either calculated using known component values or empirically determined. Such power consumption may also be determined using store power consumption data in a data store that is indexed by at least one of the converter drive signal pulse width or frequency.

<heading lvl="0">Abstract of Disclosure</heading> The invention provides novel methods for characterizing the function of nucleic acids and polypeptides. The invention provides a novel method for identifying a nucleic acid or a polypeptide sequence that may be a target for a drug. The invention provides a novel method for identifying a nucleic acid or a polypeptide sequence that may be essential for the growth or viability of an organism. The characterization is based on use of methods of the invention comprising algorithms that can identify functional relationships between diverse sets of non-homologous nucleic acid and polypeptide sequences. The invention provides a computer program product, stored on a computer-readable medium, for identifying a nucleic acid or a polypeptide sequence that may be essential for the growth or viability of an organism. The invention provides a computer program product, stored on a computer-readable medium, for identifying a nucleic acid or a polypeptide sequence that may be a target for a drug. The invention provides a computer system, comprising a processor and a computer program product of the invention.

The invention relates to a geologic history period sandstone reservoir porosity evolution recovery method which comprises the following steps: (1) establishing a sandstone reservoir diagenesis evolution sequence and a corresponding paleoburial depth of the reservoir during diagenesis; (2) establishing a normal compaction layout; (3) establishing a functional relationship between porosity and surface porosity; (4) carrying out sandstone reservoir porosity backstripping inversion under the restriction of the diagenesis sequence; (5) correcting by mechanical compaction and hot compaction; and (6) on the basis of the steps above, determining the true porosities of the main diagenetic stages, and establishing the geologic history period sandstone reservoir porosity evolution curve. The invention intensively solves the key problems of the determination of diagenesis occurrence time and paleoburial depth, the relationship between porosity and surface porosity, compaction correction and the like in the existing geologic history period sandstone reservoir porosity evolution recovery method, can effectively predict the porosity of the sandstone reservoir in the oil gas forming period, and provides instructions for effective evaluation on the reservoir.

A discovery system (and corresponding method and computer program product) for automatically discovering assets and their roles and functional relationships in a network system is described. In one aspect, the discovery system interrogates known assets through protocol messages, normalizes response messages, and contextually analyzes the normalized response message to identify additional assets and their roles and functional relationships with the interrogated assets. The discovery system can recursively interrogate newly discovered assets to discover additional assets. In another aspect of the present invention, the discovery system is scheduled to periodically interrogate known assets for up-to-date information of the assets and their roles and functional relationships. Such information can be used to provide various services.

The invention relates to a method for providing haptic information to the driver of a motor vehicle, equipped with a brake-by-wire brake system, about the operating state of the brake system, in which method the brake pedal characteristic is generated by a pedal travel simulator, in the form of a functional relationship between the brake pedal opposing force and the brake pedal travel, and is modified as a function of an operating state. In order to provide the driver with the haptic information channel via which electronically controlled information can be communicated to the driver during braking, without the impression of a defect arising, the invention proposes that a basic brake pedal characteristic is generated by a passive simulator spring which assigns pedal travel, on which pedal return travel transporting the haptic information is superimposed, to a given pedal force in an unchanging, constant relationship.