3008 results about "State variable" patented technology

A method for processing a voice command using a statistical dialog model determines a belief state as a probability distribution over states organized in a hierarchy with a parent-child relationship of nodes representing the states. The belief state includes the hierarchy of state variables defining probabilities of each state to correspond to the voice command and a probability of a state of a child node in the hierarchy is conditioned on a probability of a state of a corresponding parent node. A system action is selected based on the belief state.

The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for converting an input signal v into an output signal p(r_a) by using an electro-mechanical transducer and for reducing nonlinear total distortion p_d in said output signal p(r_a), whereas the nonlinear total distortion p_d contains multi-modal distortion u_d which are generated by nonlinear partial vibration of mechanical transducer components. An identification system generates distributed parameters P_d of a nonlinear wave model (N_d) and lumped parameters P_l of a network model (N_l) based on electrical, mechanical or acoustical state variables of transducer measured by a sensor. The nonlinear wave model distinguishes between activation modes and transfer modes, whereas the activation modes affect the transfer modes, which transfer the input signal u into the output signal p. A control system synthesizes based on the physical modeling and identified parameters P_d and P_l nonlinear distortion signals v_d and v_l which are supplied with the input signal v to the transducer and compensate for the distortion signals u_l and u_d generated by the transducer nonlinearities.

A method is disclosed for defining tracks on a rotating magnetic disk medium of a disk drive. Reference tracks are followed using a servo control loop while writing servo patterns defining a first target servo track. The servo control loop includes a two-dimensional digital state compensator having a first input that receives timing error signals, a first output that generates control signals for a controlled oscillator, a second output that generates timing state variables, and a second input that receives stored timing state variables. The first target track is followed using the servo control loop while servo patterns are written, and while the stored timing state variables corresponding to the servo patterns defining the first target track are applied to the second input.

A method for the estimation of the state variables of nonlinear systems with exogenous inputs is based on improved extended Kalman filtering (EKF) type techniques. The method uses a discrete-time model, based on a set of nonlinear differential equations describing the system, that is linearized about the current operating point. The time update for the state estimates is performed using integration methods. Integration, which is accomplished through the use of matrix exponential techniques, avoids the inaccuracies of approximate numerical integration techniques. The updated state estimates and corresponding covariance estimates use a common time-varying system model for ensuring stability of both estimates. Other improvements include the use of QR factorization for both time and measurement updating of square-root covariance and Kalman gain matrices and the use of simulated annealing for ensuring that globally optimal estimates are produced.

A TCP Offload Engine (TOE) device includes a state machine that performs TCP/IP protocol processing operations in parallel. In a first aspect, the state machine includes a first memory, a second memory, and combinatorial logic. The first memory stores and simultaneously outputs multiple TCP state variables. The second memory stores and simultaneously outputs multiple header values. In contrast to a sequential processor technique, the combinatorial logic generates a flush detect signal from the TCP state variables and header values without performing sequential processor instructions or sequential memory accesses. In a second aspect, a TOE includes a state machine that performs an update of multiple TCP state variables in a TCB buffer all simultaneously, thereby avoiding multiple sequential writes to the TCB buffer memory. In a third aspect, a TOE involves a state machine that sets up a DMA move in a single state machine clock cycle.

Reset of one or more state variables of a User Equipment (UE) RLC layer is carried out by signaling reset from a radio link control layer of a source radio network controller (RNC) to a radio link control layer of the UE during a seamless control relocation procedure in which a possible loss of synchronization and consequent disruption in communication between the UE and a target RNC is avoided.

A method is disclosed for defining tracks on a rotating magnetic disk medium of a disk drive. Reference tracks are followed using a servo control loop while writing servo burst patterns defining a first target servo track. The servo control loop includes a two-dimensional digital state compensator having a first input that receives position error signals, a first output that generates control signals for positioning a transducer head, a second output that generates track-following state variables, and a second input that receives processed and stored track-following state variables. The first target track is followed using the servo control loop while servo burst patterns are written, and while the processed and stored track-following state variables corresponding to the servo burst patterns defining the first target track are applied to the second input.

A method, system and apparatus for real-time reservoir model updating using ensemble Kalman filters is described. The method includes a conforming step for bring bringing static and dynamic state variables into conformance with one another during a time step of the updating. Also, an iterative damping method is used in conjunction with the conformance step to account for nonGaussian and nonlinear features in a system. Also, a re-sampling method is described which reduces the ensemble size of reservoir models which are to be updated.

Systems and methods are disclosed for saving and restoring the search state of a pattern-recognition processor. Embodiments include a pattern-recognition processor having a state variable array and a state variable storage array stored in on-chip memory (on-silicon memory with the processor). State variable storage control logic of the pattern-recognition processor may control the saving of state variables from the state variable array to the state variable storage array. The state variable storage control logic may also control restoring of the state variables from the state variable storage array to restore a search state.

An integrated circuit, e.g. an AC '97 conforming audio codec, includes a digital filter and gain module including multiple channels of gain control and multiple channels of digital filtering. A gain control module includes an overflow check of data samples requiring differing lengths of clamping. Each channel of the digital filter includes a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, and an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. The digital filtering is implemented largely in hardware independent of the number of channels required and/or independent of the required order of the filtering. Thus, filter channels can be added or additional filtering implemented merely by increasing the clock speed without changing the digital filter design. The FIR filter is capable of being reset each frame to prevent a DC buildup at internal nodes. The IIR filter performs a plurality of 2nd order biquadratic equations in an overall average of as few as four clock cycles per 2nd order biquad. A RAM is used to store the state variables for the 2nd order biquadratic equations. The state variable RAM is reset by controlling the clear input of latches at an input and/or the output of the state variable RAM, and the state variable RAM is addressed by a delta counter which is independent of the particular number of filter channels or filter orders implemented. Test patterns may be inserted between functional modules of an integrated circuit such as the disclosed audio codec by appropriate control of the preset and clear inputs to output latches of the functional modules.

The present invention provides an array of parallel programmable processing engines interconnected by a switching network. At least some of the processing engines execute a thread, and at least some threads communicate with each other through communication objects either internally within one processing engine or through the network. A scheduling step of the parallel programmable processing engines is initiated by one or more events, an event being defined by a change of a state variable of a communication object. The array comprises:

• • means for scheduling a scheduling step of the processing engines, the scheduling means comprising means for executing at least a first set of threads in parallel,
  • means for updating state values of communications objects in response to the parallel executing step, and
  • means for repeatedly and sequentially scheduling the executing means and the updating means until no more events occur.

The present invention also provides a deterministic method of operating such an array.

An integrated circuit, e.g. an Audio Codec (AC) '97 conforming audio codec, includes a digital filter and gain module including multiple channels of gain control and multiple channels of digital filtering. A gain control module includes an overflow check of data samples requiring differing lengths of clamping. Each channel of the digital filter includes a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, and an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. The digital filtering is implemented largely in hardware independent of the number of channels required and/or independent of the required order of the filtering. Thus, filter channels can be added or additional filtering implemented merely by increasing the clock speed without changing the digital filter design. The FIR filter is capable of being reset each frame to prevent a direct current (DC) buildup at internal nodes. The IIR filter performs a plurality of 2nd order biquadratic equations in an overall average of as few as four clock cycles per 2nd order biquad. A random access memory (RAM) is used to store the state variables for the 2nd order biquadratic equations. The state variable RAM is reset by controlling the clear input of latches at an input and/or the output of the state variable RAM, and the state variable RAM is addressed by a delta counter which is independent of the particular number of filter channels or filter orders implemented. Test patterns may be inserted between functional blocks of an integrated circuit such as the disclosed audio codec by appropriate control of the preset and clear inputs to output latches of the functional blocks.

A machine learning device that learns an operation of a robot for picking up, by a hand unit, any of a plurality of workpieces placed in a random fashion, including a bulk-loaded state, includes a state variable observation unit that observes a state variable representing a state of the robot, including data output from a three-dimensional measuring device that obtains a three-dimensional map for each workpiece, an operation result obtaining unit that obtains a result of a picking operation of the robot for picking up the workpiece by the hand unit, and a learning unit that learns a manipulated variable including command data for commanding the robot to perform the picking operation of the workpiece, in association with the state variable of the robot and the result of the picking operation, upon receiving output from the state variable observation unit and output from the operation result obtaining unit.

There is provided a method and article of manufacture for monitoring an electrical energy storage device for a system. The method comprises stabilizing the electrical energy storage device. Once the device is stabilized, a discrete electrical load is cyclically applied to the electrical energy storage device and state variables of the electrical energy storage device are monitored. A resistance of the electrical energy storage device is determined, and a remaining useful life parameter of the electrical energy storage device is determined based upon the determined resistance.

The invention provides a vehicle autonomous parking path programming method used for multiple parking scenes. The method is used for automatically parking a vehicle in a parking space through an autonomous parking system when the autonomous parking system detects the available parking space. The method includes the steps that target parking space information is detected, and a parking scene is determined; the initial state and target state of the to-be-parked vehicle are determined; a vehicle kinematics differential equation is established; state variables and control variables of the vehicle are segmented, equidistance sampling is performed on each segment according to certain time step, and to-be-optimized variables are obtained; an equality constraint, boundary constraints and inequality constraints of the to-be-optimized variables are formed; motion range constraints of the to-be-parked vehicle are formed according to the motion range limit in the parking process of the vehicle; an optimization objective is determined, and an objective function is established; and by means of a nonlinear programming solver, an optimal solution of a parking path is obtained. The vehicle autonomous parking path programming method is suitable for the multiple parking scenes, the design is reasonable, abundant information can be provided so as to control autonomous parking of the vehicle, and the security coefficient is high.

The invention is related to methods and apparatus that advantageously improve picture quality in a video encoder, such as an MPEG video encoder. Scene changes typically occur relatively frequently in picture sequences, such as movies. One embodiment of the invention detects a scene change within a group of pictures and allocates bits within the group of pictures in response to the detected scene change without changing a predetermined structure for the group of pictures.

A system and method facilitating network diagnostics and self-healing is provided. The invention includes a data stream monitor component adapted to selectively copy protocol specific subset(s) of raw network data and provide the subset(s) of data to a diagnostics engine. The invention further includes a diagnostic engine adapted to facilitate network diagnostics and/or self-healing.

The invention further provides for protocol state compressor(s) to analyze the protocol specific subset(s) of data to abstract and/or analyze relevant information about the specific protocol without having to strictly process the protocol or preserve protocol state variable(s) in order to analyze the state of the specific protocol. Based upon this analysis, the protocol state compressor(s) can generate event(s) for undesirable state(s) (e.g., error(s) and/or failure(s)) and/or congested state(s) for use by the event correlator/inference engine. Additionally, the protocol state compressor(s) can provide information to the event correlator/inference engine regarding the state of the specific protocol (e.g., success(es)).

A gas flow rate measurement apparatus for obtaining a normalized flow rate of a gas having at least one liquid component. The gas travels from an upstream position and in a downstream direction. The gas flow rate measurement apparatus comprises a gas inlet conduit in the upstream position for receiving the gas; a gas flow conditioning section in fluid communication with the gas inlet conduit and in a first downstream position for conditioning the gas to vaporize substantially all of the at least one liquid component without adding any other gas; a flow rate measurement section in fluid communication with the gas flow conditioning section and in a second downstream position more distant from the upstream position than the first downstream position, the flow rate measurement section including at least one sensor for sensing at least one state variable for the gas and generating at least one gas state signal, and a flow rate sensor for measuring an actual flow rate of the gas and generating a flow rate signal, and a processing device operatively coupled to the flow rate measurement section for using the at least one gas state signal and the flow rate signal to obtain the normalized mass flow rate. A related method also is provided.

A signal processing system includes a jointly non-linear delta sigma modulator. In one embodiment, the jointly non-linear delta sigma modulator includes a non-linear quantization transfer function, and the output of the delta sigma modulator is defined, at least in part, by a non-linear interrelationship of multiple noise-shaping filter state variables. A look-ahead delta-sigma modulator can be implemented as a noise shaping filter and a function generator. State variables of the noise shaping filter provide the input data from which the function generator determines a quantizer output signal. Latter state variables are more dominant in determining the quantizer output signal. Accordingly, earlier state variables can be approximated to a greater degree than latter state variables without significant compromise in quantization accuracy.

A method of and system for digital rights management, in which access to a piece of content is granted in accordance with a license owned by a license owner to a client who is a member of a domain. This requires successfully verifying that a membership relation exists between the client and the domain as reflected in a first state variable, and that an association relation exists between the license owner and the domain as reflected in a second state variable. Both relationships are revoked by executing an online protocol between the parties in the relationship after which both remove the corresponding state variable. The domain controller propagates the state administration relating to the domain is propagated to the client so that the client can update its state administration.

A method of saving portions of a simulation or execution engine image at various points in a simulation or execution is disclosed. The saving of the simulation or execution context in addition to the more traditional saving of the system state information enables the restoration of a simulation or execution that is capable of producing, in a subsequent simulation or execution of a block diagram continuing from the point of the saved simulation or execution, results that are identical to those of the initial simulation or execution. The ability to restore more than just system state variables enables a user to run multiple variations of a simulation from a given point without having to replicate the simulation up until the point of the saved initial simulation, and the ability to run multiple iterations of a block diagram execution in a non-simulation execution from a given point without having to replicate the execution of the block diagram up until that point.

An apparatus and methods for ultra-fast charging one or more batteries, including, for example, lithium ion batteries. A charging current is determined by optimization of a model based on functions of a set of internal state variables associated with a battery, and a set of model parameters or nonparametric data characterizing the battery. Instantaneous internal state variables are determined, and an optimized charging current is applied to the battery subject to a set of battery-specific constraints. Internal state variables are updated recursively based on behavior of the battery under charge as well as the behavior, stored in a database, or acquired via a network, of cognate batteries.