http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-processing--generic-control-systems-or-specific-applications-dtnewntc700.php USPTO Class 700 - Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123943.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A control device includes an acquisition part acquiring a control module selected from a plurality of candidates for the control module in which processing procedures regarding control of a controlled apparatus are described, and a controller controlling operation of the controlled apparatus according to the processing procedures in the control... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123944.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automation control and monitoring system includes an operating system and a data model. The operating system is configured to receive a request for instantiation of an object representing an attribute of the automation control and monitoring system. The operating system is also configured to generate an object identifier when... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123945.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A machine vision system program editing environment includes near real time context generation. Rather than requiring execution of all preceding instructions of a part program in order to generate a realistic context for subsequent edits, surrogate data operations using previously saved data replace execution of certain sets of instructions. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123946.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A control and monitoring system is provided that includes an automation controller. The system includes a distributed model stored on the automation controller. Changes to the distributed model are provided via delta scripts that define only the changes to the model. Further, the control and monitoring system 24 includes distributed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123948.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automation control system is provided that includes a first component that stores state information of an object of the automation control system. Additionally, the first component generates one or more delta scripts that describe one or more changes of the stored state information. Further, the first component transmits the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123947.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Systems and methods are provided to facilitate receipt of tag requests from one or more interfaces, based upon which a single tagset is compiled at a controller comprising all the requested tags for a given update rate, whereupon the single compiled tagset is subsequently forwarded to the one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123949.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention provides managing component driver for an energy-management system that manages energy within a predominantly closed power system. The component driver includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive current status information for a component associated with the component driver, a model-construction mechanism configured to construct... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123950.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Embodiments of techniques and systems for managing performance of a computing system are described. In embodiments, parameters may be received describing control variables for a computing system, workloads that are performed on the computing system, and performance metrics for the computing system. An experimental plan may be generated for modifying... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123951.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A human machine interface (HMI) configured to provide visualizations of one or more device elements that correspond to one or more components in an industrial automation system on an HMI screen. The HMI includes computer-executable instructions stored on a tangible machine-readable medium configured to determine whether at least one of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123954.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automation control and monitoring system is provided that includes chainable plug-ins that may work in combination with one another to transform data or generate events. Resources of the automation control and monitoring system may be polymorphically defined based upon a generalized object model. The chainable plug-ins may be chained... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123952.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automation control system is provided that includes delta scripts that describe one or more changes of the stored state information. The delta scripts may be useful to enable one or more other components of the control system and the one or more other components apply the one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123953.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automation control system is provided that includes one or more components. The components include an embedded execution engine that is configured to execute one or more commands based upon data communicated to the one or more components from another component of the automation control system. The data is representative... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123957.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A technique to automatically provide assistance with the selection of an app for an electronic game is described. An apparatus may comprise an app rating application arranged to receive as input game performance information representing gameplay of an electronic game. The app rating application may process the game performance information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123959.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An exercise detection apparatus determines body movements based on data detected by a detection unit, judges movement states for each body movement based on data detected by the detection unit, corrects the movement states based on a predetermined rule, calculates an exercise state of a user based on a result... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123956.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A technique to automatically provide assistance with the selection of an app for an electronic game is described. An apparatus may comprise an app rating application arranged to receive as input game performance information representing gameplay of an electronic game. The app rating application may process the game performance information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123958.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A technique to automatically provide assistance with the selection of an app for an electronic game is described. An apparatus may comprise an app rating application arranged to receive as input game performance information representing gameplay of an electronic game. The app rating application may process the game performance information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123955.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Disclosed herein is a device which detects repetitive movement of a user's body part. The device has a sensor which detects G forces along at least two axes when the user repeatedly moves the body part; a memory, which stores reference data corresponding to ideal reference data; a processor/computing unit,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123960.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Embodiments for automatic audio track setup are disclosed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123962.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An example game device corrects a sound of a sound source located behind a virtual camera by applying a frequency filter to the sound. Specifically, an angle between an imaging direction of the virtual camera and a direction from the virtual camera toward the sound source is calculated. If the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123961.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A disc jockey controller for a handheld computing device is disclosed. The controller includes a body with a top surface. A cradle is configured and arranged to hold a handheld computing device in a desired orientation. A main output configured and arranged to be electrically connected to a handheld computing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123963.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is provided for execution of workflows in response to specified business objectives. The MES system can maintain a library of activity sets representing industry-specific workflows that can be selected and executed in order to satisfy business-driven goals. The activity sets can comprise both business-level and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123965.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is provided that leverages industry-specific workflows to process business requests. The MES system can maintain activity sets representing industry-specific workflows that can be selected and executed in order to satisfy business-driven goals. The activity sets can comprise both business-level and control-level operations, and can be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123964.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) gateway is provided for routing of ERP messages to Manufacturing Execution System (MES) applications. The gateway can receive a message from an ERP system via a manufacturing services bus specifying a business objective requiring action at a control level of an enterprise. The received message... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123966.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A spatial three-dimensional (3D) inline handling system comprises: a ceiling with guide rails; a plurality of cassettes disposed at a bottom surface of the ceiling to temporarily store substrates; a plurality of processing units disposed below the cassettes to process the substrates; and an overhead handling apparatus for handling the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123967.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A device for controlling the course of a process in the production of parts in a tool with or without subsequent reject separation, includes a sensor, which is fitted to the tool to detect measured values during a production process, which can mean an assembly process, a jointing process and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123968.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Disclosed is a numerical control apparatus including: a computing unit which calculates, based on a processing path, a moving distance of each support in a corresponding movement axis direction per set unit time; and a drive control unit which causes each driving device to transfer the support corresponding to that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123969.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method of sampling includes receiving, by a portable bio-fluid sampling apparatus, a bio-fluid sample on a sample collection receptacle. The bio-fluid sample is associated with a timestamp that is indicative of a time at which the bio-fluid sample is received. The bio-fluid sample is stored in a bio-fluid chamber... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123970.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 In a transfer system, a storage data and a specific equipment data indicating a specific equipment are generated. When a transfer command indicates the specific equipment as one of a previous location and a subsequent location, a priority level of the transfer command is increased. A transfer command having a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123971.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 During a carrying operation, the position, transportation origin, and transportation destination of a carrier or a boat can be easily checked. A carrying system is configured to carry a substrate, a manipulation unit is configured to display an operation state of the carrying system on a manipulation screen, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123972.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A drive load measuring system for a conveyor-type oven is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a drive load measuring system includes: a pair of mounting assemblies that support opposing end portions of a rotating drive shaft of an oven drive unit; and a PLC control unit operatively connected to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123973.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 In one embodiment there is provided a method for preparing a hair dye mixture. The method includes a scale and control system in communication with each other. The control system provides for a memory and a display, wherein the memory contains a formula that defines instructions for blending a hair... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123974.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A medication dispenser and organization assembly includes a cabinet housing having at least first and second openings and first and second storage units for selectively storing at least one of a prepackaged oral solid medication and a non-oral solid medication. The first and second storage units are removably received within... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123975.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Delivery unit for an application system for an industrial application of an adhesive and/or sealant comprising a line system for the adhesive and/or sealant and an input suitable for the connection of a storage container to the delivery unit and an output suitable for the connection of a dispensing means... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123976.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method and apparatus for fulfilling a product offer are described herein. An offer of a product sample is made in exchange for a shopper checking in at a vending machine on asocial networking site. Information associated with a check-in is passed to a vending machine which dispenses a product... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123977.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Systems and methods for managing canisters used to automatically dispense medication are provided. Canisters are configurable via a design process and a build process to accurately dispense a variety of medications. Design profiles are created and stored by a canister management system, and are federated to workstations used to build... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123978.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An automated retail system according to embodiments of the present invention includes a front and/or rear product rack, each rack having a plurality of bins, each of which has a product door, the system further including a basket moveable along an x-y plane on a rail system to selectively open... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123979.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A biological reaction apparatus for receiving at least one substrate having a sample located in a sample region, and a separate cover, such that a reaction chamber is formed between the cover and substrate over the sample region, wherein the apparatus includes a locating means to locate the substrate; a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123980.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method for controlling multiple small robots includes generating cooperation missions to be performed through cooperation with cooperation robots according to the manipulation of a main operator, generating an operator recruiting message including mission outline information for the cooperation missions, transmitting the operator recruiting message to neighboring robot mission units.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123981.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A swarm intelligence routing robot device includes wherein multiple swarm intelligence robot devices configure a cluster, and the swarm intelligence routing robot device configures and manages a wireless communication network to relay communication between the swarm intelligence robot devices which move in an atypical environment in the cluster, and selects... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123982.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A calibration method for calibration a tool center point for a robot manipulator includes the steps of: driving the tool to move above one of the inclined surfaces; defining a preset coordinate system TG; rotating the TCP relative to the UG-axis by about 180 degrees, calculating the value of Δw;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123983.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method and apparatus for calibration of a robot on a platform and a robot, in relation to an object using a measuring unit mounted on the robot including placing CAD models so that the robot reaches the object, manipulating the CAD models to move the measuring unit to a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123984.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Radiation lenses including channels consisting of capillaries or fibres, polycapillaries or multilayer planar properly coupled, a central channel filled with refracting material for neutrons and an extraction channel. The channels can be bent with a graded curvature and filled with material with an increasing refracting index, such an increasing refracting... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123986.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A handheld tool is disclosed which may be used to transfer a plurality of plant tissue explants from a first container to a second container. The handheld tool may include a disposable tip member which couples the plurality of plant tissue explants through use of negative pressure. An automated system... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123987.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A robotic system includes: a detection unit that detects at least one of a voice, light and an image of a content outputted by a content output device; a decision unit that assesses information detected by the detection unit on the basis of reference data so as to assess the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123985.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A disclosed transparent body detection system includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a vertical polarization image and a horizontal polarization image by acquiring an image of a first region, the image including a transparent body having characteristics in which a polarization direction of transmission light changes; a placing table on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123988.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for fabricating parts from photopolymer resin. In one aspect, a method includes iteratively determining a deviation measurement based on a simulated cured geometry and adjusted target geometry data until the deviation measurement is at or less than... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123990.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method for measuring a density profile of a fluid in a process vessel is disclosed. The method includes emitting gamma rays into the fluid and acquiring a backscattered gamma ray counts distribution using at least one position sensitive gamma ray detector disposed proximate the vessel. The method further includes... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123989.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method and system for controlling power transfer includes the operations of receiving a power transfer value indicating a power level to be transferred either to or from an energy storage sub-system and receiving an input comprising a rotational speed of a rotating mass in the energy storage sub-system. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123991.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Improvements in a thermostat for HVAC control and an irrigation controller for sprinkler control are constructed each with a Base Unit and a removable User Interface Unit. The dual-function Base Unit is configurable for use as either a thermostat or an irrigation controller. The Base Unit has a connector for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123992.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An air-conditioning control device controls a plurality of air-conditioners (indoor devices) disposed at different locations within a predetermined living room space. A data manager stores location information for each air-conditioner (indoor device). A distance calculator calculates a distance between respective air-conditioners (indoor devices) based on the location information. A control... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123993.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. The system includes an upper-level energy-management module, at least one lower-level energy-management module coupled to the upper-level energy-management module, and at least one component coupled to the lower-level energy-management module. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123996.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A method and system for defining and optimizing demand response events is disclosed where at least one initial input parameter is received for selection of a demand response event, a power demand forecast is retrieved, a demand response event is automatically calculated based on the at least one initial input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123995.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A power management device includes a power demand predicting section, demand control section, demand issuing section, and acceptance receiving section. The power demand predicting section calculates a first predicted amount of power demand, representing a result of prediction of power demand of a power consumer on a date and time... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123994.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. The system includes an identifying mechanism configured to identify a number of components coupled to the energy-management system, a receiving mechanism configured to receive current status information of the components, an... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123998.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An electrical power distribution system having an electricity meter connected to power lines on one side and a load on the other side, the electricity meter enabling automatic disconnection and/or reconnection as determined by one or more thresholds stored in memory of the electricity meter. Electricity meters having an automatic... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123997.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 An electrical power system having an electricity meter connected to power lines on one side and a load on the other side, the electricity meter having a processor and memory, a communications module, a sensor, and a service disconnect switch. The system has a communications and control system adapted to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130123999.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to network device heating based on power classification and temperature. The network device may be configured to receive power via a network connector. The received power can be associated with a power classification. Temperature associated with the network device can be determined. Heat can be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124000.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 When power failure occurs at a power grid, a controller obtains information related to an operating state of a plurality of electrical appliances; restrict an operation of at least some of electrical appliances currently operating among the plurality of electrical appliances, such that power consumption of the plurality of electric... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124001.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Monitoring and optimizing a state of an electrical grid are provided. An approach for synchronizing state information and context information, associated with one or more electrical devices on an electrical grid, with time information is provided. The state information is from one or more phasor measurement units (PMUs) associated with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124002.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. During operation, the system obtains one or more control actions that control energy transitions of a plurality of components, receives transitional characteristics associated with the components, and schedules the energy transitions... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124003.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 Optimizing free cooling of data centers through weather-based intelligent control, including: receiving predictive weather information for the data center's location, wherein the predictive weather information includes information describing expected future weather conditions at the data center's location; receiving a predetermined target inlet air flow temperature for computing components in the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124004.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:23 -0700 A computing device is electronically connected to a plurality of electrical devices via a controller, and is connected to an elevator control system of a building via a network. The computing device sets associations between control commands triggered by pressing floor buttons of the elevator control system and switch statuses...