Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a trigger node for a measurement and control system for capturing comparatively precise timing when applying a stimulus and/or measuring a response without applying the special alteration of an analog signal function to the measurement and control system. SOLUTION: Concerning this trigger node for measurement and control system, this trigger node is provided with a synchronous clock 14 for managing time, a means for synchronizing the time managed by the synchronous clock 14 and a means for asserting a trigger signal 22 when the time from the synchronous clock 14 coincides with trigger time related to the trigger signal 22.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology of synchronizing time across networks. SOLUTION: By equipping receiving devices 13 in a network with synchronizable clocks it is possible to periodically send an "impulse" signal that is received by all of the clocks at the same (or relatively the same) instant of time. The impulse clock reaches all the clocks approximately at the same time. A transmitting device, upon receipt of the synchronizing impulse signal, sends a packet of data bearing the sending device's epoch time-stamp to a receiving device. The data packet makes its way through the network to the receiving device and the time-stamp is used by the receiving device to calculate the difference between the epoch time of the receiver and the epoch time of the sender. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a method of sampling an acoustic source, a method of determining the location of the acoustic source, a method of searching the acoustic source, and a method of intensifying the acoustic signal from the acoustic source, and to improve the accuracy of the acoustic source search. SOLUTION: The present invention includes the sampling of the acoustic source 210, in a plurality of acoustic receivers 205, 315 that differ in locations; the each acoustic receiver imparts a time stamp to an acoustic sample received in the each using a system time (320, 330); the each acoustic receiver transmits the acoustic sample imparted with the time stamp to a central controller (325); and the central controller 525 determines the location of the acoustic source (630), in response to the reception of the acoustic sample imparted with the time stamp, from each of the plurality of acoustic receivers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly check a background before each computation, without delaying a system in the measuring processing system. SOLUTION: This system for verifying a metadata in the measuring processing system is provided with a process means for correlating a unique string expressing a specified combination of the metadata with a measured data, at least one function block for receiving the measured data and the related unique string, and for executing the computation of the measured data, and at least one history cache for storing the unique string, and the function block investigates the unique string in the history cache to verify the effective computation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively use transmission bandwidth in a wireless probe measuring system. SOLUTION: A system and a method are disclosed for managing bandwidth in the wireless probe measuring system. The system and the method may include: a means for receiving an indicator at the wireless probe to begin taking measurements of one or more variables; a means for measuring the one or more variables; a means for calculating a set of statistical values at the wireless probe using the measured one or more variables; and a means for transmitting the set of statistical values to a central station. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A measurement device having a configurable measurement interface that enables the dynamic allocation of responsibilities among front-end and back-end subsystems of a measurement device. A measurement device according to the present teachings includes a front-end subsystem for performing an interaction with a physical environment and back-end subsystem having a set of resources for supporting the front-end subsystem. The front-end and back-end subsystems are coupled to and communicate through a measurement interface. The front-end subsystem transfers a set of bootstrap information via the measurement interface to the back-end subsystem and in response the back-end subsystem configures the resources to support the front-end subsystem.
Abstract:
A system includes at least two IEEE 1588 nodes. The nodes are connected by two paths: a low latency communication path and a high bandwidth path. The clocks within the nodes are synchronized to one another at a network interface. Data and timing are transmitted on the high bandwidth path while critical timing signals are passed on the low latency communication path thereby improving timing synchronization.
Abstract:
The system has a functional block (102) and a history cache (103), where a clear sequence of numbers is assigned to measuring data. The sequence of numbers represents a specific combination of meta data. The block receives the measuring data and the assigned sequence of numbers. The block calibrates the sequence of numbers in the history cache for checking valid operations. The block is implemented in a software and in a gate array. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for checking meta data (2) a system for checking operations on the basis of meta data.
Abstract:
A measurement device having a configurable measurement interface that enables the dynamic allocation of responsibilities among front-end and back-end subsystems of a measurement device. A measurement device according to the present teachings includes a front-end subsystem for performing an interaction with a physical environment and back-end subsystem having a set of resources for supporting the front-end subsystem. The front-end and back-end subsystems are coupled to and communicate through a measurement interface. The front-end subsystem transfers a set of bootstrap information via the measurement interface to the back-end subsystem and in response the back-end subsystem configures the resources to support the front-end subsystem.