U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Ohio (Sept. 19)

Targeted News Service;  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Develop Viewpoints Optimal Set Determining Method...developed a viewpoints optimal set determining system...method determines an optimal set of viewpoints to acquire...with a plurality of viewpoint cells. The face is at an...view-sphere. Selected viewpoint ...

Multi-objective scheduling problems: determination of pruned Pareto sets.

IIE Transactions;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......solutions, often referred to as a Pareto optimal set. For many scheduling and production...consider that the size of the Pareto optimal set increases with an increase in the number...preferred solutions from the large Pareto optimal set; and (ii) to evaluate and interpret...

Virginia, California Inventors Develop Household Level Segmentation System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 23, 2008 ;     238 words ......trees. The plurality of classification trees are searched for a classification tree resulting in an optimal set of clusters. The optimal set of clusters has clusters that are substantially homogeneous in demographic and behavioral characteristics...

Selective phenotyping to accurately map quantitative trait loci.(GENOMICS,...

Crop Science;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......recombinant progeny but retain only the optimal set for phenotyping. For this idea to be...DNA marker information to select an optimal set of progeny before phenotyping selective...different methods for selecting the optimal set of progeny. MATERIALS AND METHODS Selection...

New business unit aims to reduce construction waste.(NEW + NOTABLE)

Environmental Design & Construction;  July 1, 2006 ;     94 words ......to reduce wood waste amounts from new home construction by working more closely with its customers to design and develop an optimal set of specific materials--reducing the number of scrap pieces on the jobsite to making these sites more efficient. www.ilevel...

Toward a limited state.

The Cato Journal;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the possibility that some of the functions belonging to the optimal set of state activities may be transferred to external bodies...Optimal State The standard economies approach to delineating the optimal set of the state's functions is unsatisfactory. (2) In particular...

Trimming tools in exploratory data analysis.

Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the previous expression is attained will be a trimmed k-mean and an optimal set, respectively. Cuesta-Albertos et al. (1997) showed the important fact that the optimal set B can be always taken (essentially) as the union of k balls with equal...

Runner balancing by a direct genetic optimization of shrinkage.

Polymer Engineering and Science;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......superior in all objectives. Instead, an optimal set of solutions exists, termed the Pareto-optimal set (3), whereby each of the solutions is...when compared with other members of the optimal set. However, traditional optimization algorithms...

Central Point Software. (revenue report) (Market Watch)

Software Industry Report;  August 19, 1991 ;     113 words ......Anti-Virus package also contributed to the growth. Much of PC Tools 7.0's success is due to the fact that it is the optimal set of utilities for MS-DOS 5 as a result of a cross-licensing agreement between Microsoft and Central Point, says Smith...

Optimal Denominations for Coins and Bank Notes: In Defense of the...

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Telser argues that the problem is analogous to finding the optimal set of standard weights, the so-called problem of Bachet. Reasoning...to the problem by relating it to the problem of finding the optimal set of standard weights.(2) This so-called problem of Bachet seeks...

Canadian Inventor Develops Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform Algorithms...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 21, 2008 ;     205 words ......the compression of digital images. More specifically the present invention relates to the selection and utilization of an optimal set of two dimensional inverse Discrete Cosine Transform algorithms." The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,366,236 on April...

California Inventors Develop Optimal Contexts Set Determination Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 23, 2006 ;     358 words ......Calif., and Gadiel Seroussi of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a method and a system for determining an optimal or near optimal set of contexts by constructing a multi-directional context tree. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various...

Massachusetts Inventors Develop Digital Image Exposure Correction Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 18, 2007 ;     298 words ......An exposure predictor may be generated based on a set of images for which ground truth data are known. After identifying an optimal set of features, the exposure of the digital image may be corrected by extracting values of the selected optimal features from...

OPTIMAL SET TOP DESIGN FOR COMPELLING CONTENT; VESA OPEN SET TOP COMMITTEE...

PR Newswire;  March 13, 1995 ;     676 words ...BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- At a recent, VESA-hosted panel discussion, the Open Set Top standards committee heard what content providers had to say about requirements for set-top boxes to be used in the emerging interactive television (ITV) market. The message that content

Optimal Set to Benefit from Spain's HF Ruling

Daily News;  April 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ...GENEVA (HedgeWorld.com) - Spain is set to see rapid growth in its hedge fund industry thanks to recent legislation that has finally clarified how single-manager funds and funds of funds can be sold there, and to whom. Asset managers have been lining up to register their funds in Spain since the