189 results about "Reference Period" patented technology

An Energy and Cost Savings Calculation System is provided that automates the determination of energy and cost savings due to energy conservation measures. The system provides Multi-Variant, Non-Linear (MVNL) load forecasting techniques, energy and cost savings calculations, and Weather Ranking. The load forecasting technique may accept numerous external parameters as input. The technique may use multiple Baselines. It may also use multiple Basic Reference Periods to reduce the load forecasting error. The load forecasting technique may utilize external parameters that are updated on a daily basis, such as dry bulb temperature, dew point temperature, solar condition, and interval meter data. The technique may use Baseline Extensions to perform forecasts and Reference Period Modifications to enhance accuracy. The system may calculate energy and cost savings using Complex Rates and time-of-use (TOU) energy data. The system may rank a plurality of sources providing weather data to identify the most accurate weather data.

A phase to digital converter, all digital phase locked loop, and apparatus having an all digital phase locked loop are described herein. The phase to digital converter includes a phase to frequency converter driving a time to digital converter. The time to digital converter determines a magnitude and sign of the phase differences output by the phase to frequency converter. The time to digital converter utilizes tapped delay lines and looped feedback counters to enable measurement of small timing differences typical of a loop tracking process and large timing differences typical of an loop acquisition process. The tapped delay lines permit the measurement of fractions of a reference period and enable lower power operation of the phase to digital converter by reducing requirements on the speed of the reference clock.

An Energy and Cost Savings Calculation System is provided that automates the determination of energy and cost savings due to energy conservation measures. The system provides Multi-Variant, Non-Linear (MVNL) load forecasting techniques, energy and cost savings calculations, and Weather Ranking. The load forecasting technique may accept numerous external parameters as input. The technique may use multiple Baselines. It may also use multiple Basic Reference Periods to reduce the load forecasting error. The load forecasting technique may utilize external parameters that are updated on a daily basis, such as dry bulb temperature, dew point temperature, solar condition, and interval meter data. The technique may use Baseline Extensions to perform forecasts and Reference Period Modifications to enhance accuracy. The system may calculate energy and cost savings using Complex Rates and time-of-use (TOU) energy data. The system may rank a plurality of sources providing weather data to identify the most accurate weather data.

An impression degree extraction apparatus which precisely extracts an impression degree without imposing a strain on a user in particular. A content editing apparatus (100) comprises a measured emotion property acquiring section (341) which acquires measured emotion properties which show an emotion having occurred in the user in a measurement period, and an impression degree calculating part (340) which calculates the impression degree being a degree which shows how strong the user was impressed in the measurement period by comparing reference emotion properties which shows an emotion having occurred in the user in a reference period and the measured emotion properties. The impression degree calculating part (340) calculates the impression degree to be higher with the increase of the difference between the first emotion properties and the second emotion properties with the second emotion properties as the reference.

A laser annealing device (10) includes a laser oscillator (12), radiating a pulsed laser light beam of a preset period, and an illuminating optical system (15) for illuminating a pulsed laser light beam to an amorphous silicon film (1). The illuminating optical system (15) manages control for moving a laser spot so that a plural number of light pulses will be illuminated on the same location on the amorphous silicon film (1). The laser oscillator (12) radiates a laser light beam of a pulse generation period shorter than the reference period. The reference period is a time interval as from the radiation timing of illumination of a pulsed laser light beam on the surface of the film (1) until the timing of reversion of the substrate temperature raised due to the illumination of the laser light beam to the original substrate temperature.

A method for synthesizing frequencies with a low-jitter an all-digital fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) electronic circuit adapted to synthesize frequencies with low-jitter, wherein the electronic circuit comprises a digital phase-frequency detector (DPFD) operatively connected to a digital loop filter (DLF), wherein the DPFD adapted to receive a reference signal and a feedback signal; compare a phase and frequency of the reference and feedback signals to determine a phase and frequency error between the reference and feedback signals; and provide a DPFD output comprising a multi-bit output; wherein the DLF is adapted to receive and filter the DPFD output and provide a DLF output, and wherein the DLF output is updated at each reference period.

Phase error of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) within an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) is compensated by predicting possible phase error, which are predicted according to an estimated quantization error, a period of a digital-controlled oscillator (DCO), a gain of the TDC or a combination thereof. By appropriate inductions, the possible phase error may be further indicated by the quantization error, a code variance corresponding to a half of a reference period received by a TDC module having the TDC, a dividing ratio of a frequency divider of the ADPLL, a fractional number related to the quantization error o a combination thereof. A digital phase error cancellation module is also used for generating the possible phase error for compensating the phase error of the TDC.

A distance measuring system and a distance measuring method which use a time-of-flight (TOF) method. The distance measuring system obtains a reference light quantity of reflected light which is a cumulative light quantity of the reflected light during a reference period, obtains a measured light quantity of the reflected light which is a cumulative light quantity of the reflected light during a measurement period, and calculates, on the basis of a ratio of the measured light quantity of the reflected light to the reference light quantity of the reflected light and a ratio of the reflected light incident period to the reference period, a reflected light incident period that is a period which is included in the measurement period and during which the reflected light is incident upon photoelectric conversion elements of a light-receiving device. Then, the distance measuring system calculates the distance between the distance measuring system and an object on the basis of the reflected light incident period.

A method for synthesizing frequencies with a low-jitter an all-digital fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) electronic circuit adapted to synthesize frequencies with low-jitter, wherein the electronic circuit comprises a digital phase-frequency detector (DPFD) operatively connected to a digital loop filter (DLF), wherein the DPFD adapted to receive a reference signal and a feedback signal; compare a phase and frequency of the reference and feedback signals to determine a phase and frequency error between the reference and feedback signals; and provide a DPFD output comprising a multi-bit output; wherein the DLF is adapted to receive and filter the DPFD output and provide a DLF output, and wherein the DLF output is updated at each reference period.

The anomaly diagnosis system includes the state measure calculator acquiring sensor data from sensors in a machine facility as time series data; an approximation formula calculator calculating a state measure being an index indicating a state of the machine facility, such as anomaly and a performance by a statistical method in which the time series data is used as learned data; and a state measure estimating unit estimating the state measures until future time using the approximation formula. Whenever the latest time series data is acquired, the reference period in which the time series data corresponding to the state measure referred to calculate the approximation formula by the reference period setting unit, is successively extended by addition of time when the latest time series data is acquired. The approximation formula calculator calculates the approximation formula using the state measure of the time series data acquired in the reference period.

A phase to digital converter, all digital phase locked loop, and apparatus having an all digital phase locked loop are described herein. The phase to digital converter includes a phase to frequency converter driving a time to digital converter. The time to digital converter determines a magnitude and sign of the phase differences output by the phase to frequency converter. The time to digital converter utilizes tapped delay lines and looped feedback counters to enable measurement of small timing differences typical of a loop tracking process and large timing differences typical of an loop acquisition process. The tapped delay lines permit the measurement of fractions of a reference period and enable lower power operation of the phase to digital converter by reducing requirements on the speed of the reference clock.

Disclosed herein is a dozing warning system. The dosing warning system includes an angle sensor unit, a control unit, and a warning unit. The angle sensor unit detects the angle of inclination of a user's head in a state level with a reference surface. The control unit compares the angle of inclination, detected by the angle sensor unit, with a previously stored reference angle. The warning unit outputs a warning signal if the control unit determines that the detected angle of inclination exceeds the reference angle. The control unit may output a warning signal only if the detected angle of inclination is maintained for a period equal to or longer than a reference period if the detected angle of inclination exceeds the reference angle.

A gait posture meter that evaluates a gait posture of a measurement subject includes an accelerometer affixed to a centerline of the measurement subject's waist area and a computation unit. The computation unit calculates a Z feature amount and an X feature amount indicating a degree of a difference between up-down and front-rear axis direction accelerations of the waist area in a left leg reference period and up-down and front-rear axis direction accelerations of the waist area in a right leg reference period using a timewise change waveform in three axis accelerations outputted by the accelerometer, and calculates a Y feature amount indicating a degree of a difference between a displacement of a left-right axis direction trajectory of the waist area in the left leg reference period and a displacement of the left-right axis direction trajectory of the waist area in the right leg reference period by finding a second-level integration of the left-right axis acceleration outputted by the accelerometer.

The optical data recording method comprising the steps of: modulating data to be recorded, to generate a plurality of recording modulation codes; and emitting a pulse-like light beam to an optical disc, so that a plurality of recording marks and spaces which have lengths corresponding to the plurality of recording modulation codes are formed on the optical disc. In the optical data recording method, at least two of the plurality of recording marks comprises: a first pulse which is disposed at a front and forms a leading edge of the recording mark, a last pulse which is disposed at a backend and forms a trailing edge of the recording mark, and a multi-pulse train which is disposed between the first pulse and the last pulse and forms a center of the recording mark. The multi-pulse train has a pulse period longer than T which represents a reference period of the recording modulation code.

The present invention provides a pulsed arc welding method of carbon oxide. A peak period (Tp) of a peak current flow (Ip) and a reference period (Tb) of a reference current flow (Tp) are used as one pulse period (Tpb) for welding repeatedly. The peak current (Ip) is vibrated through an amplitude (Ws) and a vibration period (Ts) in a peak period (Tp) for forming a molten drop at a front end of a welding wire. In the reference period (Tb), the formed molten drop smoothly transits to a molten pool through short circuiting transfer. Therefore, short circuiting transfer is performed to the molten drop formed in the peak period (Tp) is performed in the reference period (Tb). Therefore one molten drop transition state in one pulse period can be realized. Therefore the welding with little splash can be performed. Therefore in the electrode fused pulsed arc welding of carbon oxide, the formation and release state of the molten drop are stabilized, and high-quality welding with little splash can be performed.

The present invention provides a method to adjustably sample a first digitized signal having a first data rate to produce a second digitized signal having a second data rate. This involves processing the second digitized signal to produce an output signal having a timing component contained therein. An error sensing module determines a timing error between the timing component and a digitized reference period. Then this timing error is used to produce a feedback signal that is applied to the sample timing of the first digitized signal. This allows the second digitized signal to be processed using a time domain associated with the second data rate.

The optical data recording method comprising the steps of: modulating data to be recorded, to generate a plurality of recording modulation codes; and emitting a pulse-like light beam to an optical disc, so that a plurality of recording marks and spaces which have lengths corresponding to the plurality of recording modulation codes are formed on the optical disc. In the optical data recording method, at least two of the plurality of recording marks comprises: a first pulse which is disposed at a front and forms a leading edge of the recording mark, a last pulse which is disposed at a backend and forms a trailing edge of the recording mark, and a multi-pulse train which is disposed between the first pulse and the last pulse and forms a center of the recording mark. The multi-pulse train has a pulse period longer than T which represents a reference period of the recording modulation code.

A laser annealing device (10) includes a laser oscillator (12), radiating a pulsed laser light beam of a preset period, and an illuminating optical system (15) for illuminating a pulsed laser light beam to an amorphous silicon film (1). The illuminating optical system (15) manages control for moving a laser spot so that a plural number of light pulses will be illuminated on the same location on the amorphous silicon film (1). The laser oscillator (12) radiates a laser light beam of a pulse generation period shorter than the reference period. The reference period is a time interval as from the radiation timing of illumination of a pulsed laser light beam on the surface of the film (1) until the timing of reversion of the substrate temperature raised due to the illumination of the laser light beam to the original substrate temperature.

An image processing apparatus includes: a base period extracting unit extracting a first target region period based on a first periodic change being a periodic change of a target region in a base moving image acquired by a base moving image acquiring unit; a reference period extracting unit extracting a second target region period based on a second periodic change being a periodic change of the target region in a reference moving image acquired by a reference moving image acquiring unit; a period adjusting unit performing period adjusting processing of synchronizing, for the first target region period or the second target region period, the first periodic change and the second periodic change with each other at a particular phase; and a display image generating unit generating a display image allowing for comparison between the base moving image and the reference moving image after the period adjusting processing is performed.

The invention discloses a method and a device for monitoring a bandwidth state, belonging to the technical field of network communication. The method comprises the following steps of: determining a monitoring reference period of bandwidth data of a target domain name every preset monitoring interval length; Acquiring a bandwidth data average value of the target domain name within the monitoring reference period in the current statistical period and a plurality of historical statistical periods; Determining a bandwidth dynamic interval corresponding to the monitoring reference period accordingto the bandwidth data average value and a preset confidence level; According to the current bandwidth data of the target domain name and the bandwidth dynamic interval, monitoring the bandwidth statusof the current target domain name. By adopting the invention, abnormal bandwidth state can be found in time, and the abnormal state can be repaired before the service party perceives the bandwidth abnormality, so as to ensure the overall service quality of the customer.

A type determination apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to chronologically acquire power consumption consumed by an electrical device; and a determination unit configured to determine that a type of the electrical device is a type to be determined in accordance with a reference pattern representing a predetermined pattern of a power fluctuation when a fluctuation pattern of the power consumption acquired for a duration equal to or more than a reference period of time is matched with the reference pattern.

The invention provides a method for quantifying influence on basin water resources by climate change and human activities. The method comprises the following steps: S1, dividing a long sequence reference period; S2, carrying out restore calculation on hydrologic features of rainfall and temperature; S3, establishing a foundation database; S4, carrying out large-scale basin distributed hydrologic simulation; S5, quantitatively representing influence sub-items of the climate change and the human activities. According to the method provided by the invention, a basin distributed hydrologic model, a hydrologic feature restore technology and a sub-item quantifying method are effectively coupled, the method for quantifying the influence on the basin water resources by the climate change and the human activities is established, and the method has important significance to decisions such as basin water resource evolution analysis and identification, water source project planning layout and water resource space allocation in a varying environment.

A system, method, and computer program product allowing an information processing apparatus to function as a system for detecting an anomaly in an observation target on the basis of time series data. The system includes a first generation unit, a second generation unit, a singular vector computation unit, a matrix product computation unit, an element computation unit, an eigenvector computation unit and a change degree computation unit. The change degree computation unit computes the degree of change in the observation target from the reference periods to the target periods for anomaly detection, on the basis of a linear combination of the inner products between each of the eigenvectors and a singular vector, and then outputs the computed degree as a score indicating an anomaly in the observation target.

A method for controlling mobilizing and immobilizing a vehicle using a valid passive entry-passive start key includes detecting that a vehicle operator exits the vehicle, determining that the key is absent from the vehicle, automatically immobilizing the vehicle by preventing vehicle propulsion; if a power source of the vehicle is immobilized after the operator exits the vehicle, automatically mobilizing the vehicle to allow vehicle propulsion when a key authorized to operate the vehicle is detected in the vehicle after a vehicle door is opened and closed, and automatically placing the vehicle in a low energy consumption operating state, if a reference period expires after the operator exits the vehicle with the power source running.

A household electric user includes an electronic control system that contains an electronic microcontroller (MC), a read and write non volatile memory means (MNV), and means (MC,MS,A1-A5,MZ) for detecting and / or generating variables which relate to the operation status of the electric user. The control system automatically records, within the non volatile memory means (MNV), information of a first type that is indicative of the temporal trend of the status variables during successive predefined reference periods, with the last stored information of the first type causing the elimination of the oldest such information, i.e. with a backward shifting operation of the stored information of the first type. The control system further allows the stored information of the first type to be read outside of the electric user.

The invention discloses a technical method for dynamic monitoring of carbon storage in forest ecosystems. The steps are: firstly, obtain the forest ecosystem biomass according to the field survey data, and then calculate the forest ecosystem carbon storage from the forest ecosystem biomass; secondly, use the forest ecosystem carbon storage and remote sensing The relationship between the gray value of the image and the factors of the geographic information system, the carbon storage inversion model during the field survey period was established, and the carbon storage of the forest ecosystem during the field survey period was obtained from the inversion; finally, the image during the field survey period was used as a reference image , carry out relative atmospheric correction on regional historical remote sensing images and reference images, and use the carbon stock inversion model during the field survey period to calculate the carbon stock of the forest ecosystem in each historical period of the region, so as to achieve accurate , Rapid dynamic monitoring of forest ecosystem carbon storage.

A method for following a musical score in real time. At least one sound emitted by a performer is recorded. At least one chromatic vector is estimated. The chromatic vector is compared with theoretical chromatic vectors of the musical score. A transition between the chromatic vector and a previous chromatic vector with theoretical transitions of the musical score is compared. A work position of the performer depending on a previous work position is estimated from the comparison of the chromatic vector and the comparison of the transition. The recording is carried out for a suitable period depending on the ratio between a period of the transition and a reference period.

The invention discloses an agricultural irrigation water demand prediction method, which comprises the following steps: selecting a reference period, and selecting crops of which the seeding area is greater than a set proportion as typical crops; calculating the irrigation water quota of the typical crops in the growth period according to the meteorological information; obtaining the ten-day rainfall of each meteorological station in the water-saving area, and calculating the effective rainfall of the typical crops based on the ten-day rainfall; calculating irrigation water demand of typical crops in unit area; judging whether the irrigation water demand per unit area of at least one typical crop is greater than the average value of the actual irrigation water demand per unit area of a continuous actual measurement year or not, and if so, correcting the irrigation water demand per unit area of all typical crops; otherwise, calculating the total water demand of the next year by adoptingthe irrigation water demand per unit area of each typical crop and the planting area of the next year. According to the scheme, the calculated irrigation water demand is corrected through the actualirrigation water consumption, so that the accuracy of irrigation water demand prediction can be improved, and the water-saving effect can be scientifically evaluated.

Method for drying laundry and a machine able to implement such a method, which provides for the use of only one electric resistance for heating the air utilized for drying purposes.According to the invention, during the starting phase of the drying process, i.e. the initial stage of the air heating, said resistance is applied continuously for exploiting its maximum power and quickly reach a predetermined temperature of the drying air.Following the attainment of said predetermined temperature, a special control circuit causes said resistance to be applied in a shuttered or modulated way, i.e. by alternating application phases to non-application phases within repetitive reference periods, in order to manage the power of the resistance in its steady-state condition for obtaining a substantial constancy of the air temperature.